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    posted a new blog entry:

    On Sentimentality

    (From a letter to Kim.) I have this theory that creepy sentimentality -- what's that word for it? Is it schmaltz? Or maudlin...

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Interests

  • General

    stuff I make (cheatsheets, posters, mousepads for web designers)
    blog (quips, tips, mental flop-flips)
    flickr (pics)
    imdb (flick picks)
    youtube (vid picks)
    twitter (tactical nits)
    linkedin (e-resume)
    kiva (micro-loans)
  • Music

    1. See playlist dot com slash visibone.
    2. Click the first playlist.
    3. Click play.
    .. No artist appears twice in this list. I thought I was too wordy a guy to love a song that didn't have great lyrics, but there are about 18 languages here I don't understand. I just know they're saying something good.
  • Heroes

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Churchill, Lincoln, Darwin, Chief Si'ahl (Seattle), Garrison Keillor, Richard Feynman, Joni Mitchell, Mary Haskell, Kahlil Gibran, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Robert Wright, Torey Hayden, Earl Nightengale, Zana Briski, Dr. Palumbo (knee surgeon), Mrs. Newman (geography teacher), April Smith (the renowned reclusive entomologist), Douglas Adams, Theodore Geisel, Harpo Marx, W. N. P. Barbellion, Andy Goldsworthy, Adam Smith, Jim Henson, Joseph Shabalala, Henri Dunant, Bill W., Anne Lamott, Anu Garg, Ira Glass, Malcolm Gladwell, Emmy Noether, Jill Bolte Taylor, Charles & Ray Eames, John Gottman, my mom, my dad, and the long-forgotten inventors of the wheel, paper, smelting, sesame domestication, the pentatonic scale, CPR, and hot indoor running water.

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About me:

Favorite quotes:

"Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:—
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in our own."
—Adam Lindsay Gordon of Australia

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!"
—William Hutchinson Murray of Scotland

Who I'd like to meet:

a long attention span for focused conversation (haha yeah I'd wish me luck too)

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  • Children: Proud parent

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