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Jam

June 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Step 1 – drive to your local u-pick strawberry patch. Step 2 – bring home 13 lbs of strawberries (picked by you, your lovely wife and children).  10 lbs for jam and 3 lbs because you couldn’t figure out how much 10 lbs was when you were picking and you can’t put them back on [...]

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Summer reading

May 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments

So what are you reading, and most importantly what are you reading with your kids this summer? My daughter has been studying American history during the revolutionary war, but is stopping short before they get to all the really good stuff, oh, like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. So it hit me on [...]

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Kendall’s film

May 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Kendall participated in a program called families create and one of the films that she wrote, directed and made all the models for is below. The next Spielberg? Kendall’s Claymation on Youtube

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Rhythm blogging

October 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I seem to have fallen out of my blogging rhythm again.  This happens to me now and again and I really don’t know why.  Sure, I have been busy, but in some ways that give me more to talk about.  Since my last post there have been countless volley ball games, practices and tryouts.  There [...]

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Can social media work for large companies?

September 14th, 2009 · 5 Comments

This is one of those half baked ideas that I hope gets more fully baked by writing about it. In the past few weeks I have been involved in a few discussions about strategies for rolling out social media inside large companies. I am starting to think that its not possible to do well. Its [...]

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My newest ride: a classic 50s convertible

September 7th, 2009 · 7 Comments

On Friday I pulled the trigger on my newest ride: a classic yellow convertible from the 50′s: Yep, you’re looking at a 1956 (sort of) CJ3a (sort of) Willy’s Overland Jeep (completely!).  Its sort of a 56 since that’s what the tub plate says.  Its also only sort of a CJ3A since the tub plate [...]

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A garden results pictorial (AKA Massive taters!)

September 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Need I say more: (That’s a penny in the foreground for scale…for those of you that still can’t get it, that tater weighs about 6 lbs! I feel like a flash back to Gilligans Island).

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Past performance may not be an indication of…

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Future results.  Yes, it’s something we’ve all read on our (dwindling) finacial statements.  The firms we trust our savings to put that out there as a big disclaimer to get them out of any trouble for showing, 1, 3 and 5 year averages of return.  They show you past performance to make you feel good [...]

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Moving most of my PLM content over to Siemens PLM Blog

April 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Probably not news for any regular readers in the last few months, but I am going to finalize the split of my personality and from here on out put of all of my PLM related content on my company blog.  Here’s my most recent entry.  I’ll still share things out of broad interest on my [...]

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Next generation media…what is that?

April 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Check out this video project one of my friends is working on for his degree in ‘net generation media” (sounds cool eh?):

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