Archive for the 'Amalgam of Me' Category

Project Paradox, Now in Five New Flavors

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

I’m a multi-faceted guy. Professionally, I do SEO and web development, but I also have a personal life. In my free time, I like to play RPGs. I also enjoy talking about movies and music that I like. Until now, Project Paradox has featured all of these interests in the same [...]

8 Random Things You May Not Know About Me

Friday, July 20th, 2007

In the mood for a meme? My friend Adam was kind enough to tag me with the classic, “8 random things you may not know about me,” chain, so here’s my contribution:

I’ve always been a genius with math. Remember that guy in calculus who spent the entire class playing card games on his [...]

Debunking Space Colonization

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Here’s a quick survey. Please determine whether you agree or disagree with the following statement: space colonization is feasible with today’s current and emerging technologies.
If you said “agree,” you probably haven’t read The High Frontier, Redux by Charles Stross. If you did and you still think you’ll be sipping margaritas on an alien [...]

Primrose School at the Park

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

If you’re considering Primrose School at the Park for your child care needs, you might want to think twice. My wife and I recently had a very bad experience with them. Sure, they make a great show of their quality ratings and teacher-to-child ratios, but that’s not the whole story. Here are [...]

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Having a toddler can be frustrating (okay, very frustrating), but it can also be amusing as talking comes into the picture. I got to spend a lot of quality time with my son last weekend, and I’ll be darned if I didn’t almost fall over laughing at some of the things he said. [...]

More Fine Print Frustration

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

I hate contracts. All too often, they bind you into financial obligation for more service than you need or intend. If there’s a line in the fine print that calls for more charges or longer terms, you can bet they’ll squeeze you for every drop they can. They’ll give you a way [...]

Good Riddance to Jerry Falwell

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Jerry Falwell’s death is an inescapable headline today. It’s even on several of the blogs I read, few of which comment on mainstream news. I don’t much care how he died or why, to be honest, but I felt compelled to weigh in on it nonetheless.
As I mentioned to Simon Owens over on [...]

Top 5 Strangest Facts About Me

Monday, May 7th, 2007

I’m a regular reader of ProBlogger, so I couldn’t help but catch Darren’s “Top 5″ group writing project. I was pondering what to write about all morning until it finally hit me at lunch. As I was pouring hot sauce onto my hot dogs, I decided it would be fun to list the [...]

Making Time for Each Other

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

My wife and I have been dealing with a lot lately, what with new jobs and daycare and such. It’s been frustrating juggling all of our priorities. Little things like, say, the laundry have occasionally been neglected as we’ve adjusted. Despite the hectic nature of it all, we’re still quite happy with [...]

Pros and Cons of Daycare

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

It’s been a little over a month and my wife and I are seriously revisiting our decision to put our son in daycare. It’s still a difficult choice, even with a month’s worth of reality under our belts. Do we continue as we have been, with our son in daycare and the two [...]