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Brushing up on keeping it simple
Chip's Quips | October 9th 2008 by Sterling Camden
As the bristles penetrated the layer of toothpaste and touched my teeth, I suddenly jerked the toothbrush out of my mouth. “I grabbed the wrong toothbrush!” I thought. But in an instant I was reassured by sight and touch. read more
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The California Sound's Blog | October 4th 2008
A pesar de ser conocidos como “Los chicos malos de Boston“, lo cierto es que las raíces de la banda no se encuentran en el estado de Massachusetts, sino en el vecino New Hampshire, concretamente en el pueblo de Sunapee. Allí fue, a oril read more
Ever Been to Bean Station, Tennessee?
Functional Hand Strength | September 26th 2008 by John Wood
If you know your gripper history you know where this email is going, otherwise, let me tell you a little bit about my next adventure...You see, about 12 years ago a man got a crazy idea in his head that he wanted to be the first man in the world to c read more
Happy autumn, here comes winter
Chip's Quips | September 23rd 2008 by Sterling Camden
The equinox slid past without my even noticing. I’m still waiting for summer to arrive. Oh, we had a few days here and there where it got up into the 80s midday, but on my morning walks I almost always wore a jacket and boots. Not that th read more
Frying pan out of the…
Chip's Quips | September 14th 2008 by Sterling Camden
I like to try new things. But for the majority of my daily activities, I’m an extreme creature of habit. I go through my automatic motions while I think about other things. You might call me absent-minded, but it frees up a lot of CPU tim read more
Get A Grip (On Yourself)
White In Bay RIdge | July 25th 2008 by White In Bay Ridge
Didn't have the money 'round to buy a Morry ThouBeen around and seen a lot to shake me anyhowBegged and borrowed sometimes I admit I even stoleThe worse crime that I ever did was play some rock 'n roll.But the money's no goodJust get a grip on yourse read more
Scrambled eggs
Chip's Quips | July 13th 2008 by Sterling Camden
Yesterday was the first anniversary of my first post on TechRepublic’s IT Consultant blog. While they pay me enough to make it as worthy of my attention as any of my other clients, the real value for me has been demonstrated in the more g read more
Making contact survivable
Chip's Quips | July 2nd 2008 by Sterling Camden
For years, I bravely posted my email addresses on the web with a “mailto:” link — trusting my email spam filters to keep the annoyance within manageable limits. And that worked, for many years. I’ve had my address read more
Mirro Get a Grip Pans
Reviews by Cole | June 13th 2008
When I first moved to Japan, we had to purchase everything new for our household as I couldn't bring anything I already had. Previously, Ryan was living in a dorm with a common room/kitchen. Needless to say, he didn't do a whole lot of cooking for hi read more
The mud pattern
Chip's Quips | April 9th 2008 by Sterling Camden
“How did you do this?” my wife asked, holding a pair of mud-stained sweatpants I had thrown in the hamper. “There’s a story behind that,” I replied. The road where I walk the dogs forms a loop surrounding a central high read more
Autism benefit returns - give ‘em some green
Chip's Quips | February 14th 2008 by Sterling Camden
After taking last year off, the PAR 4 Kids’ Sake Annual Golf Tournament and Banquet is coming back on June 9th at the Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton, CA. This event benefits autism research, special education, and other special needs. read more
Out of control
Chip's Quips | February 6th 2008 by Sterling Camden
26,964 spam messages in my Postini filter this morning — and I just cleaned it out yesterday. There’s no way that I’m even going to scan through all of these looking for familiar addresses. Heck, at 250 per page I’m not even read more
Something wrong
Chip's Quips | January 22nd 2008 by Sterling Camden
When you have an autistic child you have to pick your battles, because there are so many to choose from. Most of the time you’re just glad to survive public outings without injury. Yesterday we had an episode in the galley of the Seattle ferry read more
Oh, Christmas tree!
Chip's Quips | December 10th 2007 by Sterling Camden
Now that we’re far enough past Thanksgiving that all the leftover turkey is gone, I think it’s time for yet another heart-warming Christmas story here on ye olde blogge. This time nobody shoots Santa, but another regular feature of Christ read more
What I learned from high school football
Chip's Quips | December 5th 2007 by Sterling Camden
I’ve been meaning to participate in one of Robert Hruzek’s “What I Learned From…” series of group writing projects for some time, but usually I run out of time before the deadline. This time I may actually make it. As read more
Backup — what’s that?
Chip's Quips | November 26th 2007 by Sterling Camden
It’s an old, sad song that’s heard many times a day all around the world, yet its pathos never fails to bring a tear — especially when you’re close to the subject. Perhaps you’ve heard it before, or even sung it yoursel read more
Remotely difficult
Chip's Quips | November 11th 2007 by Sterling Camden
For some inexplicable reason, my wife often gets confused by the controls for our TVs. I can’t understand the problem — it’s all pretty simple, really. The simplest case is the TV in the exercise room. We have one remote for the read more
It’s not Mike again
Chip's Quips | November 7th 2007 by Sterling Camden
Walking the dogs this morning, I ran into one of my neighbors whose name I can never seem to remember. I keep wanting to call him Mike, but the one thing I do know about his name is that it’s not Mike — because I called him that one time read more
Three things I can’t let go
Chip's Quips | November 3rd 2007 by Sterling Camden
Last week, Mark Dykeman tagged me with the Three Things You Can’t Let Go meme. Hmm… did you ever notice that most bloggers capitalize every word in a meme title, even if they don’t capitalize their post titles? Or is it just me? M read more
Hello out there!
Chip's Quips | October 19th 2007 by Sterling Camden
We were hit by a big wind storm yesterday, which blew down a lot of big branches and brought down power and telephone lines all over Bainbridge Island. A large part of the road we live on is closed to traffic due to low-hanging power lines. read more
Bainbridge Island mourns one of its own
Chip's Quips | October 17th 2007 by Sterling Camden
Living on Bainbridge Island, it’s easy to forget about violent crime — nobody’s been murdered here since the last millenium. But a recent killing might as well have happened here, since it touched the lives of so ma read more
Island time
Chip's Quips | October 12th 2007 by Sterling Camden
Living on an island has its advantages, but also its hindrances. Like when your return flight into Seattle gets delayed because of an electrical problem and everyone’s forced to deplane and board another jet and arrive in Seattle at that read more
O2 MAX breathes some life into teen fitness
Chip's Quips | September 27th 2007 by Sterling Camden
In many ways I was fortunate as a child. My family farmed, which presented opportunities for regular physical exertion from Spring to Autumn. When I was 12, I took on a paper route that eventually covered over four miles, and I ran read more
Aerosmith - Get It Up
Melodic Dreams - Your Music Blog | September 14th 2007 by onur
Get It Up Take me on your rocking whores.(yes…not rocking horse) Hit the lights and shut your doors. Grab your ankles ev’ryone. Ain’t my way of having fun. Can’t give it up gotta give it up give it up c’mon N read more
Crayfish craziness
Chip's Quips | September 7th 2007 by Sterling Camden
When I was about ten years old, we moved across US Highway 29 and into the house that had belonged to my great-grandparents. My father and his brothers had built that house for their grandparents back in the late 50’s. It clung tent read more
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