I was glad both my daughters saw this powerful ad. youtu.be/b0Ezn5pZE7o?...

It's good to spend a night out every now and again. Raising kids and the daily grind makes me so serious sometimes and I forget to loosen up until I go to the arcade with my best friend. I'll ALWAYS go back to my 20 when I first started playing Buck Hunter at the local dive as irony. Now I love it!

Some of my LA friends have told me that the problem is climate change, and it is. It’s January for fucks sake. But that doesn’t mean we have to solve climate change to better control fire. If we wait for that, cities will keep burning. There are ways to mitigate risk. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I've been listening to the Inheritance series (Eragon) and it's such good writing. So rarely am I deeply inspired to think or act like a character, but Roran and Eragon have so many qualities I admire, it's hard not to think about them as role models.

Public libraries are one of humankind's greatest inventions

Two very different takeaways from the same story. I think CNN (per usual) is missing the larger point (which makes sense for them).

So which did you see first in American Healthcare News today? United Healthcare CEO or Blue Cross Blue Shield deciding to limit how long they pay for anesthesia based on a predetermined length they believe the surgery should be done in. No payment for anesthesia beyond that moment...

This app feels like it has endless potential, but also like I need some time with the tutorial!

It's been long known that high intelligence has its costs. Maybe this explains so much depression and suicide among truly brilliant minds before they had a chance to swing things away from hopelessness.