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  • What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part IV – The First Lesson

    What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part IV A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… I worked on a little TV show called Blue’s Clues. If you’re just learning this now, go back and start with Part I: Before Blue’s Clues. Part IV: The First Lesson Since this series…

  • What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part III

    What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part III A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… I worked on a little TV show called Blue’s Clues. If you’re just learning this now, go back and start with Part I: Before Blue’s Clues. Part III: Okay, I’m here. Now what? Imposter…

  • What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part II

    What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part II A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… I worked on a little TV show called Blue’s Clues. If you’re just learning this now, go back and Read Part I: Before Blue’s Clues. Part II: I Got the Job! Getting in: The…

  • What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part I

    What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part I A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… I worked on a little TV show called Blue’s Clues. Maybe you’ve heard of it. If you haven’t, that’s okay. You can catch up on the show’s Wikipedia page. It was an immensely popular…

  • You’re going to die anyway.

    You’re going to die anyway.

    You’re going to die anyway. “You know you’re going to die anyway, right?” It was 1999 and I had just temporarily moved into my Uncle John’s studio apartment in New York City. He very generously let me stay with him while I found an apartment for my family. After several years of trying to break…

  • Now is so… now

    I’m going to be starting dinner soon, but I wanted to get something down here because I’ve been neglecting the blog lately. I’m making vegan burgers and fries. Not quite a gourmet meal, but we all love some comfort food. Anyone else could make it, and I can make lots of other things, but like…

  • 50

    Today I turned 50. Fifty years old. Half a century. Roman numeral L.  They say that age is just a number and mathematically they are right. Aside: Over the next 50 years, I’d like to devote my life to finding who the people are behind the mysterious “they.” Okay, so not the whole 50, maybe…

  • Smoke

    cough. cough. cough. ahem. I am feeling super lazy, so for this post I decided to illustrate the sky above Los Angeles right now. It’s filled with smoke, even though the fires are miles away. It’s like living inside a campfire, except there are no marshmallows coming. The CDC says that being outside right now…

  • Labor Day Los Angeles, 2020

    A Haiku what do we watch now wrong week to stop drinking hey, let’s wash some masks

Air Force Apple baseball be yourself Blue's Clues books career Chicago code coffee computers driving drought education geekery groupthink home HP kids LGBTQ+ life Linux living differently Macintosh me mindfulness money moving music nerd Opportunity parenting philosophy politics programming questioning reading restoration retro saving money Southern California tech TRS-80 vintage yard