Real Life Adventures Category

Making It Up As I Go

I haven’t posted in three weeks, which I apologize for. I’m working at a social media job that has me writing 5,000 words a week in blog posts alone. That isn’t really an excuse, but the blog format does lose some of its mystery when you’re up to your elbows in it everyday. I just […]

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Something we can all enjoy

You know what I love? My Hulk Hands. I know. It’s a weird, mysterious love for something that’s a toy. Something dumb and ridiculous, but still amazing. So, let me tell you a story. Hulk Hands came out with the first (not quite excellent) Hulk movie.  Massive foam-rubber fists that went up to about mid-forearm […]

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Nerds vs. Hipsters – Why it’s a thing

If you’re looking for the social media stuff, it has moved over to Social Media for the Common Man. I will be updating that with both basic and advanced techniques for interacting on the web with your fellow man. You’re free to take or not take my advice. I will also take suggests in comments, […]

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Bringing About the Apocalypse – or – Google’s Plan to Make Zombies

I’m convinced. Google is going to bring about the zombie apocalypse. Either that or they’re trying to make the geek inherit the Earth. If you haven’t been paying attention, Google has released several press releases talking about Google Glass. While they didn’t take my suggestion for their slogan (It’s a Computer…for Your Face!), Glass is […]

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I Live Here Now

All right, enough with the boring writer stuff. Here’s a post about something entirely different. I live in Los Angeles now. In an apartment.   …with ROOMMATES. The last weekend was a test of strength and endurance. I had everything delivered from Ikea and set to work building it. I hate Ikea. If I wasn’t […]

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A matter of fact – Los Angeles

I didn’t really start freaking out until Dad asked me to drive. It’s interesting how it’s easier to not be behind the wheel. “Can you drive for a couple hundred miles?” “Yeah, sure.” For about the first hundred, I white-knuckled the steering wheel as all the implications of what I was doing roared up in […]

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