cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by The Rocketeer A number of things these days I find interesting are ones where you say “I can try and explain but you really had to be there” This includes they way people have described the Unplug’d conference (I’ve met like half on my […]
With the hundreds of tweets, emails, and thoughts I feel in the air regarding my Mom’s passing, I am more that “lifted” by my net. As Mom would say, “I am blown away”. I was asked to edit the audio part of her “Stories on ds106 radio” where she talks about butterflies. I’d heard her […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog One day after talking to my Mom on the day marking 10 years since my Dad passed away, I got that call you never want to receive. A friend found Mom dead on her kitchen floor. My quasi plan trip now includes a sooner-than-charted dash […]
Those photos are both early release versions of myself and my Dad. Today is the date ten years ago that he passed away; I had seen him a few weeks earlier. I did have my calendar reminder ping me earlier, but was reminded just ow as I was telling someone the story of Mickey, the […]
As a followup to the May 2011 version of Amazing Stories of Openness, I got an email a few weeks back from Wendy Farmer with a nice post script. Her story was about a blog she had created with her kids to write about dinosaurs and how they connected with a professional paleontologist (click through […]
Big wheels keep on rolling, and the leg of travel through the more populated parts of Ontario produced two more nights in a row of meeting people and bringing them kicking and screaming into ds106 radio (just kidding, no kicking, no screaming, they ask). On Monday I drove to the part of Canada that is […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog As promised, the scenery was epic along highway 17 tracing the north side of the Great Lakes in Ontario. Did I say it was long? I think it was over 2000km or maybe it was 20,000 or 200,000. I did 3 days in a row […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog On my current road odyssey, there us a continual growing list of people who have showered me with hospitality and generosity. One that deserves special mention is Donna Fry, someone I had not communicated with before, but when I tweeted something about planning the route […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 56 Miles Driven: 6462 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 11 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 1 Money spent on gas: $1412.45 Photos posted: 1411 (that is an average of 25.2 per day) Number of nights in hotels/B&B: 9 Number […]
There are lots of things that are “on” the web (doh) but let me ask if you think of the things you do as being “of” the web. Bear with this perhaps semantic nitpicking or old fogey wishing for the good ole days of the simple times when it was the wild wild web west. […]
