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I hadn't planned to go trick-or-treating that year. Then a friend showed up at the door with a paper grocery bag and a mask on.
October 28, 2026
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I gave 7-Eleven a billion-dollar idea. They gave me a free Slurpee.
September 27, 2026
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I watched WarGames with my son on a Friday night. He had never seen it. I hadn't seen it in probably twenty years. The movie was the same. The world wasn't.
August 29, 2026
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Chunky knobs, rabbit ears, Taxi with the sound turned low.
May 16, 2026
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No high score. No particular game. Just the sound.
January 21, 2026
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Cross-legged on the living-room floor for Sesame Street, Newton’s Apple and James Burke’s Connections. Now it’s YouTube.
January 8, 2025
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A year-end note on 2024 (more responsibility at work, website and YouTube plans, a run of creative projects) and three goals for 2025.
January 1, 2025
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Mudcrutch was Tom Petty's first serious band, formed in Gainesville in the early 1970s and reunited by him in 2007, more than thirty years later.
December 17, 2024
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A Star Trek convention in San Jose in the 1990s. James Doohan signed a photo and said, 'You're the first Emmanuel I've ever signed an autograph for.'
December 12, 2024
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A Thanksgiving thank-you: to my team at AWS, to my family, and to readers, with a note on the old hobbies and new projects I want to pick up next year.
November 25, 2024
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Seeing Matchbox 20 at the Washington State Fair in 2024, then finding the 1998 tour poster with Paula Cole listed as their special guest.
September 14, 2024
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Places
The record is easy. Getting a thousand people to do that easy thing at the same moment is not.
September 10, 2014
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