Memorizing Makes Your Brain Bigger.

September 6, 2011

I’m reading Moonwalking with Einstein, a book about memory and how the author made it better. Facinating stuff so far, but this little tidbit deserves a blog post. I’ll never think about cabbies – at least London cabbies – the same way again. “These studious cyclists are training to become cabdrivers. Before they can receive [...]

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A Comfort Zone Expander: Kilted to Kick Cancer

September 2, 2011

Three years ago (has it really been that long?) I studied Pick Up. One of the things many pickup gurus – and especially Neil Strauss would do is come up with exercises that pushed you out of your comfort zone. For the last 36 hours I’ve been living one of those. I’ve gone Kilted. Kilted [...]

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The Plan was….Part 1

September 1, 2011

If you are my friend on Facebook you probably know how crazy my life has been, but I wanted to recap for this woefully neglected blog. My wife accepted a position as a Assistant Professor of English at Abilene Christian University in Abilene Texas. I’m still in Paramedic school here in Houston, and I want [...]

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Changes

August 24, 2011

For the past 10 years I’ve worked for Alsoft, a Mac utility software company in Houston. On Friday I walked out of that office for the last time. It felt very very weird not to be going back. And I didn’t have anywhere I was going. Early in my career I switched jobs about every [...]

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Guns and Kids

June 27, 2011

I recently got the following as a comment from a new mother on my “What Happens After A Gun Fight” post. There’s just something about guns that don’t fit well with me these days. I guess it’s the mommy in me that’s talking here. My husband has owned a gun since I met him almost [...]

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Better Podcasts: Plugins I Use

April 11, 2011

Since a podcast is really just a blog with an audio file attached, I use WordPress to do my podcast management. I got an email from a friend who’s starting a new podcast and thought I’d make a list of the plugins for WordPress I find useful on my blogs and podcasts. PowerPress and BluBrry [...]

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Carry Ready To Fire

April 5, 2011

Dr Piazza has an interesting and disturbing gunfight video posted on his blog today. A few points I’d like to make after watching it. First a break down of the armed citizens actions. :07 – He gets shot. It appears he was hit as soon as the bad guys came in. :08 – He moves, [...]

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“Grown Up” What’s that mean really?

March 1, 2011

Yesterday I got a number of calls from my eldest who is 190 miles away in Austin. Seems his computer monitor got knocked over and broke. He was calling to ask if the warranty would cover that. (AppleCare spoiled him. They fixed everything on his MacBooks.) I could tell he was trying to get me [...]

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