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Almost two years ago I wrote a post titled “The Shaving Conundrum,” which talked about my switch from regular Gillette Mach 3 razors to shaving with a double-edge safety razor. Recently, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article titled “Razor Burn: A Flood of Fancy Shavers Leaves Some Men Feeling Nicked” which also talks about [...]

For some time now, Thing 2 has been wanting a mohawk. His hair is SUPER curly with very tight ringlets, as you can tell by the photo below, of him with Thing 3: We finally were convinced he wouldn’t let it go until he had it (we honestly thought he would be upset about getting [...]

Hello, I’m Kevin (@TheDADvocate) and I’d like to start off this post by thanking Daniel for giving me the opportunity to guest post on his site and providing me the opportunity to tell you, the readers about The DADvocate Project. The DADvocate project is founded on the belief that as culture, business, and society has [...]

On Friday, we received a new fridge/freezer which was supposed to be more energy efficient. It turns out, it really was more efficient, in that it stopped keeping frozen items frozen, and cold items cold. After Keli removed all of the ruined food items from the freezer, this is what was left, when the new freezer/fridge [...]

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been making a bunch of big changes to my web site. I think most of these have been transparent to site visitors, with the exception of the updated RSS feed. WordPress I’ve updated my installation of WordPress to 3.0. I was quite pleased to find that the upgrade [...]

Recently, word has spread through Sonoma County that the City of Santa Rosa is proposing to charge people for parking at Howarth Park. On the surface, the proposed fees – $2 for two hours; $5 for the day – are not anything to get your feathers ruffled about. That is, until I began to really [...]

This is the latest song that has been stuck in my head for the past week.  The first video below is what I’m guessing is their “official” music video for “Animal,” that I watched on Fuse over the weekend. The second video is an accoustic version they did, which is also very good.

Check it out, everyone! Issue #5 of Muster Magazine is out, and it just so happens to have something written by yours truly! (Hint: It begins on page 14). Muster Magazine is the brainchild of The Well Fed Artists. You can scope out all the works published by them at either their Facebook or Scribd pages.

I have to admit that I had no clue “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy even existed until I watched the trailer for the movie adaptation online last fall. I’ve always been a fan of post-apocalyptic stories and catching a glimpse of the feeling and tone of the story, even in that minute-long trailor, I knew [...]