Pretty cool dog trick

This is really amazing to me

Just one more thing I need

The only problem is that it doesn't crunch on the gravel with the big plastic wheel.

I don't know why I think this is so funny

Suggestion

Go use the bathroom before watching this video, so that you don't wet yourself from laughing so hard.

A couple things I probably need

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Wow! The Howe Brothers are amazing

The Doghouse

The Future of the Book

The Future of the Book _ IDEO from uxd on Vimeo.

Reorganizing the bookshelf

Alternative French Press technique

I have been using a French press as my primary coffee brewing method for years.  I saw this video by coffeegeek.com, and thought that it was ludicrous...why go to all the trouble?  But, I decided to try it, and really liked the result: a stronger flavored, but cleaner tasting coffee.  I've been using it since I tried it.  

2005 Mens basketball championship

6 years ago today, UNC-Chapel Hill won the Men's Basketball Championship.  By a very strange confluence of events, ending in my son's 9 week NICU hospital stay, we ended up living in Chapel Hill during March Madness.  It was an eye-opening experience.  Previously, I had been almost completely unaware of college basketball, but during our stay in the NICU, we couldn't miss the fact that most people wore light blue and white, and were constantly talking about "the game" from the night before.

My wife and I got caught up in it.  Watching the games was a way to momentarily escape from the dreadful realities of what was happening to our little tiny son.

As it happened, I didn't watch the final game.  Andrew had died only hours before, and I wasn't up to it, to put it mildly.

But, over the last four years, the Tarheels basketball team has been a delightful way of remembering our time in Chapel Hill, and remembering our son.

I was hoping for a repeat of their win with Sean May, and later, Tyler Hansborough, but sadly their March Madness 2011 career only carried them to the Elite Eight.

So here is a short video playing the highlights of the 2005 game, from that memorable day of days in my life:

Drinking coffee in space

No matter where you go...

Turbotax

It's probably time to get started on your taxes...here is some motivation for you from Rhett and Link

The pleasure of making a latte

joke police

Let this be a warning to those of you who make bad jokes...especially puns (Patrick!) I'm thinking of joining the Joke Police - Pun Suppression Division!

Eric Metaxas

How have I missed this guy?  Eric Metaxas recently published a biography on Bonhoeffer.  I have only read one chapter (my friend Mike told me to read a few paragraphs, and I got sucked into the story, thought about "borrowing" the book "accidentally" but thought better of it...)

I came home and Googled "Eric Metaxas", and then wondered to myself, "How can anyone actually do everything that he has done in one lifetime?" I would think that it was impossible, except I am friends with Austin Boyd, who is startling productive himself: husband, father, author, CEO of a company, teacher, ...so I assume that Mr. Metaxas has a similar personality or capacity to focus.

This video is long...but at least listen to the first part...probably the cleverest introduction of a speaker that I have ever heard:

Eric Metaxas on "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy" from Socrates in the City on Vimeo.

Where do we go from here?

I guess I have to admit that this is kind of cool.  But I also think that walking is pretty cool, more healthy and...kind of a natural alternative to this.

I don't have this kind of coffee brewer

Yet...

This is beautiful