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Timothy Q. Mouse told Dumbo he could fly because of a magic feather. Tim Tebow is the Denver Broncos’ magic feather or least he was, until the Patriots proved otherwise. Ronnie Brown and the Wildcat formation also had success for a short time. That was until the following year when NFL coaches had time to [...]

This onetime at Barcamp, I learned some things. When blogging, use a dotted line and put the good stuff above the fold, and the half-baked notions below. Eliminate 10% from your writing. The Pomodoro Method Great designing online requires talking in a voice that doesn’t sound like HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Really good [...]

Today is the day that will be remembered in infamy.  It it the launch of the term ‘uncut’ as the new go-to buzz word to add to the lexicon of dope, rad, bananas, boss, et. al. Use liberally and with abandon.  

It is idea whose time has come … a pin wall made into a door.  What kid wouldn’t love to be able to stand on the inside of their room and make faces at their little sister on the other side? Check out the video below: If you have any ideas about how I could [...]

One of my favorite D.I.Y. sites online is Instructables.  Instructables sends me projects every week that somehow it knows I am going to love, so I can fool my kids into thinking I am handy and know how do stuff.   One of my recent favorites came from a contributor from our great state of Iowa [...]

If Don Curry has anything to say about it then it will be soon. First, I need to frame this discussion.  I have spent the last 9 years in Des Moines renovating, building and restoring homes.  We even were fortunate enough to win an award for Des Moines’ Best Historical Restoration in 2007.   Historical restorations [...]

Denver Bronco’s head coach, John Fox is currently revisiting the Emilio Estevez roll of Gordon Bombay.  After some early successes taking the Carolina Panthers to the Superbowl in 2003 and the NFC Championship in 2005, Fox has had a slow decline, finishing .500 or less in in 4 of the last 5 seasons including a [...]

“Hey, buddy…you know what?  We should have a dudes night! Go grab us some Zombie burgers! “Chuck E. Cheese!” “What?  You said  you wanted to go to Zombie Burgers…I am pretty sure they are made by real Zombies!” “Chuck E. Cheese has games though!” “Zombie Burger has Bells ‘Two-Hearted’ on tap!” ….he had a blast [...]

There are certain ideas that get stuck in your head in a manner that there will be this cognitive dissonance until you make that idea a reality. The plan that I had the day I saw the $650 gorilla at Toad Valley Golf Course in Pleasant Hill was one of those ideas We were sitting [...]

Messing with your kids is almost a good enough reason to bring them into this world. It is the circle of life.   When I was younger, my grandfather would sit me on his knee and he would take his finger and push the screw where the rear view mirror was attached to the car, and [...]