Do you think your butt is too big? Go down this water slide couple of times, problem solved! Video Link: Ouch Water Sliding - Online Like Flea Market...

[This is Post 3 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.� This week I am blogging about 5 key levers that I think are necessary to move Iowa schools forward and help our graduates survive and thrive in this ne...

Just been a crazy hectic January and February, and blogging about the craziness just seems like it would have been another dollop of craziness atop a pile that was already half-sliding to the floor, so "sacrifices were made." I've been told (by many people, for many decades) that I am prone to whini...

There will be times where, no matter how you try, you simply can’t share your ideas with text alone. At the same time, you may not be willing to whip out your video recording software and go through the steps of editing a video, adding or editing sound, uploading it to a server and possibly co...

I wrote the original draft of this essay in a podunk motel in Nowheresville, Oklahoma—literally, I had no idea where it was, apart from it being two hours outside Oklahoma City. There were none of the amenities that we take for granted—no Wi-Fi, intermittent power, no working phone, no cell serv...

What if your carefully-prepared presentation contains bad information?  Answer: give your presentation with humility and curiosity.  And don't put unverifiable hard data on your slides. A reader writes: So what do you do when you collect critical information from a non-decision maker and the infor...

Would you rather read Running With Scissors or My Youth: a Memoir? How about Why Do Men Have Nipples or Dumb Questions We'll Answer For You? (OK, maybe that last one doesn't count - I'd totally read Dumb Questions We'll Answer For You.) What I'm trying to get at is that the art of the crazy title th...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Humor, Software, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone, App Store Felt a little bit of acid in my posts lately? Getting an icy vibe off of my writing for the past week? There's no hard feelings to Rose, Christina, or any of the other TUAWers at Macworld (they did an a...

We've thrown around the term "hoon" liberally. Now, thanks to this t-shirt, we've got an easy definition. References say that Hoon stood for "man living off immoral earnings (i.e. a pimp)" at the turn of the 20th century. The term has evolved to encompass drivers of either sex "who drives any vehicl...

It’s tough to look at the last year and imagine that 2008 was good by any standard. The war in Iraq continued (though it is finally, slowly, beginning to end). And the bombings in Gaza and Mumbai alike reminded us that there are many conflicts in the world that demand our attention and respons...