February 2009
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This One's Mostly for Me
This morning my son and I were quietly sitting on the floor playing together. He was sitting in my lap, the hair of the back of his head brushing lightly against my lips, as we searched out and fit the pieces of a puzzle together. He stopped of a sudden, twisted around in place, put his arms around my neck, kissed my cheek and said, “I love you.”
It wasn’t the first time....
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Resolution #7,153
Never—and I mean ever—play Scrabble against Mills.
“We are programmed to be interrupted. We get an adrenalin jolt when orienting to...”
– Maggie Jackson in an interview with Wired. (via)
This is one of a number of terrific observations about interruptions
and their debilitating effects on thinking, relating, and creativity.
I would hang this on the outside of my door…if I had an office. With
a door. That closed.
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Six Degrees of Warren Ellis
I noticed an pop in site traffic today, all from Google searches for a quote from The Wire that I posted months ago after the final episode. It mystified me until I came across Warren Ellis’ tweet.