Michael’s Two Cents

Julia (mommy) made a little video with captions, sound effects, and everything on iMovie last night. It stars our daughter Katie and nephew Akash. Atashi, my sister-in-law had a big fund-raising event to host in San Francisco for Narkia the non-profit she runs and needed an overnight baby sitter. So… Akash came to play and [...]

A few months ago I started a blog on my growing obsession with tiny houses called Tiny House Design which has quickly become my busiest website. I think I’ve stumbled on some little little discussed secrets to successful blog marketing. But first let me show you the traffic evidence because it will help explain how [...]

I came across this video on TED.com. It’s a talk by Dr Irwin Redlener on the ever present possibility of nuclear attack. When I was a kid I remember hearing a lot about the threat of nuclear war and what we needed to to survive. Ironically back during the cold war surviving a nuclear war [...]

Yesterday was our 12th wedding anniversary and we took a trip with Katie, Grammie, and Pop to the pumpkin patch. Katie got her first pony ride and Mommy did a cool video.

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Ok it’s a little tasteless too but still pretty funny. In terms of compelling those voting yes to vote no, it fails terribly though. It basically laughs at those pro 8 and makes them look like arrogant asses, not exactly what you want to say if you’re trying to win their hearts, minds, and votes.

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Julia put Katie in her Halloween costume today for fun and photos. At first she was kind of upset. I guess it didn’t feel very comfortable but then she got into showing off a little. Cute huh?

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Like I need to be medicated… heh. I’m cutting back on coffee but not for the reasons you might think. Peet’s Coffee it just to %$#$% expensive so I’m limiting myself to a cup of home brew Peet’s in the morning and to keep moving through what should be my nap time I’m switching to [...]

I found this interesting map on the Christian Science Monitor website this morning. They are using it to illustrate how the presidential race unfolds. I think the map is interesting because it places a general label on each county in America. In general I think labels are for boneheads but being a bonehead myself from [...]

Just kidding… but this video is really funny. Pretty much everything joked about in the video is true. The Canadian government makes it really easy for professionals to move to Canada. It is cold but not too bad in parts of British Columbia. I’m not sure right now is a good time to move though, [...]

This is funny, tasteless and completely politically incorrect (except for the Obama part of course), but definitely funny.

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