Decibel-Places
Status: I got a kick in the butt from my editor. I need to deliver chapters & finish my book. Less time for DS for a while.
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- NYC Camp (pronounced "nice camp") is an open source conference, with a focus on accelerated learning to help attendees contribute back to their projects and communities. This annual grassroots conference brings together enthusiastic beginners and...
- Last night I watched the Yankees/Orioles game. WTF 3 wild pitches in one inning? Yankees deserved to lose. Then the news came on. Then the Animation Domination cartoon show, sort of like kid-friendly Adult Swim (after all it's the family-friendly...
- My friend Aaron Myers II launched a Pandora station. He's a well known singer in Washington, DC, he was voted "best singer" in a local poll a couple of times. He sings a lot of familiar standards. I've been listening all day and it has been...
- My friend Aaron Myers II launched a Pandora station. He's a well known singer in Washington, DC, he was voted "best singer" in a local poll a couple of times. He sings a lot of familiar standards. Some of them might trigger memories & tears. I've...
- [reposted from my journal]As a technology professional, I monitor the pulse of new technologies, apps and services.I heard about Talkspace today, a service powered by IBM Watson (the super computer that beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings).I haven't...
- A link to an eloquent Facebook post by Sheryl Sandberg about her experiences 30 days after becoming a widow landed in my email today. Over 600,000 people have "liked" her post. In it, she says things very similar to what we say...
- I have been a member of the Bipolar Disorder group on DS for several years. I was diagnosed with Bipolar II when I was 30, but things were very wrong since I was at least 13. I lost jobs serially in my 20s, and then I was so sick I couldn't work for...
- I volunteered to become the webmaster for Faith The Dog several years ago, after my wife urgently called me into the living room to show me a remarkable dog with no front legs walking upright on Oprah.Faith overcame her disability, adapted to it and...
- A message with another member reminded me of this film. I first saw it a few months after Arlene died. Looks like it was posted in November 2014.It's funny, and it makes me cry. It gives one explanation for why we're all here, and why we die. And it...
- A chuckle for my military friends:A U.S. Marine Colonel was about to start the morning briefing to his staff. While waiting for the coffee machine to finish brewing, the Colonel decided to pose a question to all assembled.He explained that his wife...
- I asked my friend to keep an eye out for a good music show, and boy did he pick a great one, Tedeschi Trucks Band, free at SummerStage in Central Park, last night. Been a long time since I lined up two hours before hoping to get in, that was just...
- I didn't only lose my wife and my mother last year, I lost my best male friend.I met a man about my age at an Ivy Life networking event for Ivy League grads (like me). There's always smart interesting people at those.I sort of unloaded on him, but I...
- What do I call my/our daughter? When I say "our" her mother is not here with me. When I say "my" Arlene is also not here with me. I guess eventually I will get used to saying "my daughter" and use "our" in context when talking about her mother. So...
- When I was in high school once every week or two I would go see the nurse, and tell her I couldn't face my next class or gym period, I was tired, I just wanted to lie down.Sometimes she would find something wrong. I used to get strep throat all the...
- I realized this is the first Mothers Day without any mothers in my life.My mom died last March, and my wife & mother of our child died last July.Since my birthday is May 5 (Cinco de Mayo, and my dad was Mexican :) my mom always trumped my birthday...