I’ve been thinking a lot about my mom lately; she passed away in November, 2010. This is for her. when I was five and life was a song of excitement and innocence the world was full of mystery and I had never felt the pain of hurt or loss of any kind and then one day a playmate pushed me right off the swing you picked me up brushed me off told me not to cry ‘mommy,’ I said, ‘it hurts’ when I was sixteen and in love for the first time to a young Cuban girl I felt like an adult doing adult things dates and kissing and groping and late-night phone calls with the cord stretched and twisted through the house and under my door and then one day she left me for another teenage crush and I felt world-ending anguish burning, hot, consuming as only a teenager can feel them you held me close told me I’d be ok ‘but mom,’ said I, ‘it hurts.’ when I was thirty-five at the end of my marriage holding on to it with desperate and futile hands trying to be a good father to my sons who put me on a pedestal high enough to rival the gods I fought depression […]
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Pittsburgh Run or Dye 5k
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 […]
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The Binary Biker is Moving to Pittsburgh
The time has come for me to join my wife in Pittsburgh. A year ago, I blogged that my wife was moving to Pittsburgh because she got a job with Google. We made the difficult decision that I would stay in Florida for two reasons: My job was pretty awesome and I wanted to take […]
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I took a lot of photos on my journey from Orlando, Florida to Sturgis, South Dakota. Enjoy. Click on any thumbnail to see the full picture.
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My Google Gal is Moving to Pittsburgh
Yep; the Binary Biker is moving to Pittsburgh. Actually, it’s the Binary Princess that is moving. My lovely wife is now employed by Google and is relocating to work in their Pittsburgh office on the Google Shopping product. It all started about six months ago when my wife’s company, for which she has been working […]
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My Publishing Strategy for NASA #Atlantis Social
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 […]
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How to be a Jerk
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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You’re Lucky To Be Alive
You’re lucky to be alive. Sometimes you take it for granted, even with the constant reminder that greets you every morning in the mirror. A jagged 10-inch scar running from your left ear all the way down your neck is the most visible, and yet the least significant, scar you have. You can’t feel the […]
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Rest in Peace, Grandpa
Ronald C. Sparks was my grandfather. He passed away last Thursday. Born in Portsmouth, Ohio on October 14, 1925, he was 86-years-old. These are the words I wrote, and spoke, today at his funeral service. I worked on this with my brother and sister, and I am honored to have given his eulogy. My sister […]
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STS-135: End of an Era
As I type this, Atlantis is travelling over 15,000 miles an hour at the 8-minute mark of the historic last flight of the Space Shuttle program. The space shuttle engine just cut off – and will never fire again. I view this launch with mixed feelings, as I am sure most of America and the […]
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