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The way of the Samurai

Posted in Columns, Island Packet/McClatchy-Tribune, Page 3, tagged , , , , , on October 3, 2008 | No Comments »

From Island Packet staff reports, starring Tim, Other Tim and Jim
Finally, someone has discovered the elusive connection between the trials of daily living, and being a Samurai. An exercise class in Virginia teaches participants the tools and postures used by the Samurai warriors you probably learned about like we did, via G.I. Joe characters. And [...]

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An elegant weapon for a more civilized 4-year-old

Posted in Columns, Island Packet/McClatchy-Tribune, tagged , , , , , , on October 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Island Packet — Kids these days, they just don’t know how good they have it. They have the YouTubes, they have the orange and purple iPods, they have the Wii, with that little remote control you wave around to make that gelatinous snowman that’s supposed to be a tennis player on the TV do tennis-y [...]

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Video games didn’t make my kid angry, but they helped

Posted in Columns, Island Packet/McClatchy-Tribune, tagged , , , , on September 4, 2008 | No Comments »

Island Packet — I’ve never been one to equate childhood exposure to guns and video games with an eventual life of violence; I grew up splitting my time among G.I. Joe, pro wrestling and “Double Dragon II” on the NES, which is why I couldn’t talk to a girl without sweating like a horse until [...]

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Facebook By Numbers, or, Don’t you judge me, or my e-mails

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , on May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »

GateHouse - As the sixth-oldest person on Earth to participate in social networking sites, what bothers me most about sites like Facebook is not the level of access they offer to my personal information. Nor is it how they make it so I constantly and accidentally learn absurdly minor details about my Friends’ days (”Abby [...]

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If you are not a farmer, and you’re probably not, daylight-saving time is ridiculous

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , , , on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

GateHouse - This past weekend marked the beginning of daylight-saving time, meaning that you should have set your clocks forward an hour. You probably know this already, because if you haven’t by now, your co-workers are probably gossiping about you a lot.
Actually, let me take that back. I think you were supposed to set [...]

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