How would you live the last 6 months of YOUR life?

I was just thinking about work, family, obligations, tasks and what not. And the thought crossed my mind that, if I only had 6 months left to live, how would that change my priorities? Would I be as easily irritated by  myson pushing my button? Would I look at my home life with a greater appreciation and less of a sense of complexity? Would my iPhone draw my interests less, perhaps, then my children do?

What would knowing the limitations of my time do to alter the way i spend it?

And of course, how do I even know right now that I have as much as 6 months and not 6 weeks or even 6 days?

Perhaps not knowing should be enough to affect a change.

My Record Weight Loss

As of today, Total lbs lost: "33 & 1/3". Record weight loss. Get it? ;-)

Those Who Can't Teach, Teach Gym

I watched the teacher today at our kids summer school class tell one of the students that the picture of a parrot that they were drawing colors on had five colors, when it only had four. The fifth was the color of the stand, which was brown, which is not one the parrot colors being counted per the exercise. I had to correct her. The 6-year old student was correct. The teacher, who I understand teaches gym during the regular school year, learned something new today too.

iPhone 4 : An Investment In My Children's Future

I've taken more video of my kids over the past two days than I have in the past year. Including time as a "Flip" owner. Beyond the usual milestone moments, much of their lives have failed to have been captured for posterity, because one does not typically have a video camera with them all the time. Until now. This is not a "phone". This is the swiss army knife of technological convergence. An HD video recorder. Digital camera. GPS navigator. Video conference device. Not to mention movie and TV show streamer, music jukebox, and blog entry publisher. It's as functional as a frickin' laptop in almost every way.

Christ, this thing even makes phone calls. And not just Skype, but those old school soon-to-be-obsolete cellular type.

Bacon Tastes Good..., Chocolate Tastes Good...

Yeah, I know, disgusting right? But it is SO good. This is definitely a unique taste. If you were the goof at grade school lunch stuffing potato chips into your peanut-butter sandwiches, you're gonna love this. (And no, at $8/bar, I definitely did NOT buy this on my own accord, it was just something we had at the office and I got a taste of.) Chocolate covered pig. Yum.

Now I'm waiting for the commercial where the guy eating a chocolate bar bumps into a guy with a plate of bacon...

Hello My Name is Geoff and I'm A Data Junkie

Well stated, yet something I've yet to master...
"For a data junkie, the Internet is irresistible. It offers innumerable incoming streams, and with tools like Web browsers, RSS, Twitter and so on, I can soak them all up. The by-product, of course, is distraction. I flip from one to the other like a manic hummingbird, never satisfied. What else is going on, and how quickly can I find out about it?" ...read more

Get Out Of My Facebook... I Just Did...