Back in 2001 when Niki and I were having tons of fertility trouble -- before we had our three kids -- we did what fertility-challenged couples are not supposed to do. We got a puppy. Barkley was the…
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My dog died today
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Drinking with the stars
Thursday night while I was waiting for a meeting at the bar at the Four Seasons hotel in L.A. to begin, I had a beer and did some star watching. I wasn't planning on star watching and maybe it…
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Surprise!
Friday night I flew home from L.A. to make it back in time for the birthday my wife and I share. I landed just after midnight and was wondering if since I was in the air between time zones when…
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Jason Calacanis wants a contract
The one where Jason Calacaniswon't do a floating head podcastfrom the Santa Monica bowling alley and mention Obsessable (the ultimate guide to consumer electronics) unless he gets a blogger…
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Floating Head Video Blog #2
The one where Brian drives home and his face turns bright red so he listens to classical music in an attempt to keep his demons at bay.
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Floating Head Video Blog #1
I'm in L.A. for meetings right now and it's warm and sunny, but just a few days ago I was returning home from NYC on a cold and icy night and decided to share some thoughts with you all, floating…
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold
I had read some reviews of the new animated Batman team-up show, but I hadn't caught the show myself until last night. We were eating dinner and I turned it on in the middle of one with Green Arrow,…
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My new video podcast
I got a Flip Minofor CES-- one of Obsessable's Ten Best Gadgets of 2008. I didn't get the HD one, but if my fanbase cries out to see me in HD I will definitely upgrade. C.K. does a great job of…
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What happens in Vegas?
I spent today at the CES 2009 convention center, checking out hot new products and meeting with a bunch of companies that want to know more about what Obsessableand Crowd Fusionare doing.…
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Netbooks galore
When I read "Netbooks galore", I hear Sean Connery's voice in my head saying it. Do you? Anyway, I want to love netbooks, I really do. I own a Sony UMPC (the VAIO UX390N) that I don't use…
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"Mr. Clean" House Peters, Jr. dies
Over a decade ago, when my wife and I were first dating, I shaved my head and got an earring and some quality sunglasses. I loved the look. Without the glasses, I looked a little like Mr. Clean.…
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Talk Like a Pilot Day
After one twitter update about waking up way too early with my kids and my dogs, I decided to rebel against the whole Talk Like A Pirate thing. I started with the only phrases I could think of a…
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Chinese Democracy reviewed
Someone near me at a Starbucks was playing all of these "leaked" downloaded tracks today. Yeah, that's my story. Here is my take on what I heard, track by track: New Song #1 It sounded…
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Superman, I am so glad you're here!
After a doctor's appointment in the middle of the day today, I stopped at Starbuck's to get Niki the green iced tea she loves. I was wearing a black t-shirt with a silver Superman symbol on the…
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Twitterbirth
Niki and I both use Twitter, despite the fact that neither one of us is a teenage girl. When Niki went into labor 10 days ago, she kept her family and friends updated via Twitter. None of them…
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The three strikes rule
Before my new company Crowd Fusion adds too many employees I'm looking into an exciting new policy I first heard of from China. I read a Reuters story that said a woman was fired for talking back to…
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15 awesome uses for aluminum foil
I saw that headline for a DIY Life article and wondered if they had the Internet's favorite use on their top fifteen list. Sadly, they didn't. Fortunately, the Internet didn't let me down and Bill G…
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The 40 Year Old Sturgeon
We have had a couple of pet fish in the last few years and some last longer than others. I always looked at it as a lesson for kids about how life is unfair. You get a fish and you follow the feeding…
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Yankee squirrel
Last night I took my sons to a Yankee game without Niki. The people in front of me thought I was brave. Our seats were only a few rows away from right field, but the view was blocked by the foul pole…
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Heroes hype
TV Squad wondersif Heroes is trying to do too much too soon. They've added like forty new cast members -- most recently Kristen Bell-- and are marketing the nuts off of the show. Personally, I'm…
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Better than watching Geller bending silver spoons
Better than witnessing newborn nebulas in bloom. (Pardon me while I burst into song.) Niki and I saw Incubus two Thursdays ago at Jones Beach. I already loved the band and knew two of their albums…
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Madman across the water
Elton John is reported to have said that the Internet should be shut downbecause it's "destroying good music" and stopping people from "being with each other, creating stuff." Among his other quotes:…
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The master linkbaiter
Jasonrecently turned off comments on his blog, linking to a Joel on Software postabout Dave Winer's opinion that comments are not so important for blogs. In fact, he argues they can bring the…
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The Netscape saga
I saw a post this weekend called "4 Years Ago Today - Netscape Corporation Killed, Mozilla Foundation Born" over on Read/Write Web, which is a great source for web technology news. It recapped one of…
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Tappan Zee bridge accident
On Sunday we watched the Yankees get clobbered -- giving up seven runs in the second inning on their way to an 11 to 5 loss. After that we returned home to walk the dogs and headed upstate to meet…
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Catch the mist, catch the myth, catch the mystery, catch the drift
Last night Niki and I saw Rush at Jones Beach. We met up with Craig and his friends and family and we had a blast. I've seen the Canadian trio at least twice in the past, with Tommy Shaw opening for…
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Reactrix are for kids
I mentioned that last weekend we saw the Fantastic Four movieand we loved it. I liked Colin Ferguson's riff on it the other day, even though he said he hadn't seen it yet or the "The Fantastic Three"…
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Things I heard from Jack
We were driving along in our car and Jack said, "I wish there was a jump button in our car for if someone was going to hit us." So do I, little man! One of Jack's two betta fish is dying. He has swim…
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What's going on with me?
In my post about Jason taking a break from blogging, I joked about Valleywag asking me what I was up to. Chris Finke, talented Netscape developerand connoisseur of fine resume services, picked up on…
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Force equals the gravitational constant times Boston mass
The Boston Marathontakes place today and one of the official participants will be running the marathon from space, astronaut Suni Williams. I'm sure it's a lot of work to run a marathon even when…
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Meeting comics legends
This weekend I got to meet a bunch of my comic creator heroes at the New York Comic Con. It all started with me saying a quick hi to Stan Lee in the hallway where he was heading to audition a dozen…
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Walks of life
One of the great things about a wedding or birthday party is that you get to do a crowd mashup, taking people from all the different areas of your life -- work, school, families and beyond -- and…
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I Love Wiki
We have some balloons floating around the house from some kids thing we went to recently. They are the metallized nylon or foil kind that you see in hospitals (often wrongly called Mylar balloons),…
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Tubing or not tubing?
Yep, that is the question. We're on a family vacation in Colorado where Jack is going to learn to ski. He'll be four in a few weeks and we felt we were running out of time to get him started on his…
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You know all the answers must come from within
If you asked me a few days ago what my favorite Edgar Winter Group song was, I would have said their instrumental classic rock epic Frankenstein . But after hearing Jack play his Xbox 360 Cars video…
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Four calling birds, three freedom hens
Ah, the holidays. We'll be heading upstate to my mom's apartment where a bunch of family members are gathering. Everybody knows some turkey and some mistletoe help to make the season bright. I am so…
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Willie on Cake
I planned to download the new Gwen Stefani album for my trip to NYC today, but Yahoo had a little ad for Willie Nelson's new Songbird and I love Willieso I tried that one out instead. It's not among…
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I know you're not supposed to do this where you eat
I took the boys shoppinglast night while Niki made dinner. As we turned a corner by the vegetables, I glanced over into the flowers section in the front corner of the store. The floor was a different…
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San Francisco, here I come
I have a four-year unbroken streak of Fall San Francisco trips that was in danger of not making it to year five, but AOL came through with a Web 2.0 Conferenceticket for me. In 2002, I did one of my…
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Daddy-time
I liked this post from Mark Cubanabout making time for a radio show that never happened. It's all good since he'd rather spend time with his daughter. Good for him. It probably hit home for me since…
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Stormbringer
Celly and I are fighting with some DNS servers and trying to get some things to load that work for a few minutes and then fail. I'm already banging my head on the desk and starting to doubt how the…
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Fight clever with clever
Jack and I were heading off somewhere and I asked him to go give Niki a kiss. So he blew her a kiss. I wanted to make him actually go over to her to say goodbye so I told him he needed to give her a…
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The science of Superman
I read two stories about the physics of superheroes last week. One was in National Geographicand it covered some opinions by James Kakalios, professor and author of "The Physics of Superheroes". One…
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Bob Parsons on domain kiting
Bob Parsonsis a fun guy. In 2003 when I was done with my live Meet The Makers shows I did a bunch of online interviews which included the GoDaddyowner, but they're no longer available online. I…
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Netscape intelligence
I got some feedback from someone who was trying to post a story to Netscapethat was already in the system. The system rejected the URL and it turned out she was trying to add a story that was eight…
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CodeJam quotes
There were no good quotesfrom our CodeJam in White Plains in early June. We were working on Netscape and we got too much done. Our L.A. CodeJam in March that was mentioned in The New York Timeswas…
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Chinese dissidents and hookers beware
I saw a disturbing ad on Yahoo the other day that showed a travel search form on the right side and on the left it had a photo of a dead hooker floating in a pool at a hotel in Las Vegas. The…
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Stern warning
The last two days there have been no NBA games on TV. None. Thisseems to be the result of some really poor scheduling. Fortunatelyfor me -- and everyone else who follows basketball as closely as Ido…
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There are no holidays in the fight against evil
When Jason and I were at SxSW prepping Blog Maverick and fresh off the launch of Engadget more than two years ago I made a list of April Fools blogs that I wanted to add. My plan was that we'd…
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CodeJam 5
Eight of us flew from the east coast to work in Santa Monica for the week. It's not really warm here, but somehow I got a sunburn on my face walking to breakfast yesterday. Neat. Everyone refers to…
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Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
We went to Florida for Thanksgiving and Niki visited relatives with the boys while I worked with Gavin on Blogsmith, getting it ready for Weblogs, Inc. It was a pretty good trip at the beginning. I…
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Growing Pains
It's a great problem to have...it's a great problem to have...it's a great problem to have...just pull your headphones tighter and crank up the Foo Fighters, Ben Folds and Francis Dunnery. So every…
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Who doesn't love Justin?
No, not Justin Timberlake, Justin Biamonte. He was headed down to Mississippi to help out one of his company's offices and offered to be a mule for anything we needed to get to our relatives in…
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Adding the Red Cross
A few days ago we began our internal drive to raise a group donation for the Red Cross to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. This afternoon we took another step and added those Red Cross corner…
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Back from Live8
I'm back from Live8. What an amazing trip. My face is sun burnt and my legs are sore from all the walking we did. Niki and I zipped through our TiVoed 8 hours of Live8 and it was just about as bad…
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Cruise trades red-headed league for Holmes
(Okay, it was either that or something about The Hound of the Baskervilles. ) Tom Cruise popped the question to Katie Holmes early Friday morning atop the Eiffel Tower and she said yes. The Eiffel…
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Utah vs. Arizona
I was on an airport shuttle bus today and a guy in a Cisco Systems polo shirt was asking another guy where he and his kids were headed. He answered "To Utah vs. Arizona", meaning to say Utah via…
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Desktop Detective
I saw a hot ad for the Batman Begins movie on Yahoo. The ads and the site are stunning and high-quality like the ones for Sin City. I haven't paid much attention to the television ads yet, so I…
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You can pick your friends and you can pick your apples...
Last weekend we needed a break from work and medical misfortunes, so Niki, Jack and I headed to Connecticut for some apple picking. I could have sworn she said we were going to the "Apple Store",…
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Celebrity baby names
I heard that Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin had named their new daughter "Apple Blythe Alison Martin" and I figured it was because they were big fans of the apple martini. Having a girl named…
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"Hit the road, Jack"
I say that to my son all the time when we get in the car. Then the song plays in my head for a line or two. It's the same thing that happens when I tell my dogs we're going for a walk. "Let's go,…
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Periodic table usage
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Tony Randall, father of two
Last night I posted an entry about Norwegian Independence Dayand referenced the opening lines from the Odd Couple tv show. I had the theme song running through my head the rest of the night. I even…
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He is in the music business — he is calling you "dude"
Two of my mornings last week included hour-long commutes in a rental car. I listened to a few minutes of Howard Stern griping about having to give up his job and I bounced from station to station in…
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Hey junior, where you been so long?
Jackis one year old today. Once I was crazy and my ace in the hole was that I knew that I was crazy so I never lost my self-control. I just walked in the middle of the road. I'd sleep in the middle…
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