There’s a lot of tips and tricks on how to bear writer’s block. Ultimately, as we all know, the only way to beat writer’s block is to simply write. Still, there’s something to be said for kickstarting your creative thought process. Ideas come from the strangest places. Most of us nowadays write on our computers, […]
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10 Things I Saw at the 2014 Pittsburgh Gay Pride Parade
June 15, 2014 
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Today marks my second week as a permanent resident of Pittsburgh. I have thrown myself right into the mix of life up here in the ‘Burgh. Last week I ran in the Run or Dye 5k. This week I participated in the 2014 Pittsburgh Gay Pride parade. I’m off to a great start in my new […]
Continue reading Pittsburgh Run or Dye 5k
June 7, 2014 1 Comment
Today marks exactly one week since I’ve moved to Pittsburgh, PA. About a month before I moved up here, the Binary Princess committed me to a 5k race, the Run or Dye 5k. She’s been wanting to do a color run for a long time and was so excited this finally came to Pittsburgh. So […]
Continue reading Why this Liberal is Not Offended by the Duck Commander’s Opinion On Homosexuality
December 20, 2013 1 Comment
Phil Robertson from the popular A&E show Duck Dynasty set the world ablaze this week because of his statements about homosexuals, promiscuity, and black people. His remarks concerned A&E significantly enough for them to pull him from the show indefinitely. This is what Phil Robertson said on homosexuality: Start with homosexual behavior and just morph […]
Continue reading Boston Just Proved That The Terrorists Have Won
April 19, 2013 3 Comments
(EDIT: lively Facebook discussion on this blog here. Feel free to join in) On the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 I blogged about how the terrorists had succeeded in changing the very fabric of our culture and had thus won. Now, in the wake of the horrific events surrounding the bombing of the Boston Marathon, I say again […]
Continue reading I have a daughter and her name is Ashlee Sparks
March 16, 2013 1 Comment
She didn’t want me in her life. Not at first, anyway. I was mommy’s new boyfriend and I was a nuisance because I kept getting in the way of how things were supposed to be. Sure, she liked me. I was funny, considerate, and I actually talked to her and was interested in who she was. But […]
Continue reading More TSA Tomfoolery
March 10, 2013 0 Comments
This question isn’t whether or not the TSA should allow knives on planes. The question is why is the TSA even involved in private travel in the first place? (why is there even such a thing as the TSA?) Security is the job of the airlines and the airports; not the federal government. When a […]
Continue reading Review of the Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
December 7, 2012 0 Comments
As Program Manager at myList, part of my job is to evaluate all new devices that may support my application, see how it works, and determine what, if any, changes need to be made to my platform to support the new device. To that end, I was excited and had high expectations when I walked into the […]
Continue reading My Publishing Strategy for NASA #Atlantis Social
October 31, 2012 0 Comments
This Thursday I get to participate in a NASA social event, celebrating the final journey of the Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy to the KSC Visitor’s Complex. Only 45 of NASA’s social media followers have been selected to participate in the event, and I am fortunate enough to be a follower so selected. As many of you know, I am an amateur astronomer […]
Continue reading How to be a Jerk
October 30, 2012 2 Comments
Sometimes I can be a real jerk. I am not proud of myself right now. I did something I find personally despicable and I can’t, for the life of me, understand why I did it. In a thoughtless moment, I responded to a situation in a callous manner. I treated another human being poorly. Here’s […]
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