Month: August 2018
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Volunteering at the Kid’s Art Center
This past weekend, for the second year in a row, my wife, my mom, and I (along with a few other members of our family) helped out at the kid’s art activity center at our local Art Fair. We had 5 or 6 different activities set up for kids to do with our help, starting…
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Assassin’s Creed Syndicate: Best of an era
I really, really, really, really, like the Assassin’s Creed video game series! I love that each one is set in a unique historical era and setting, I love that you get to climb all over famous monuments from that location, I love the combat that encourages combos against mobs of enemies, and I love the…
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You know what I just watched: America’s Got Talent
This past weekend, my wife had me watch America’s Got Talent, after a friend and she had started watching it this past week and really got into it. I’ve never been a huge fan of performance/competition-based reality shows, but I’ve seen some American Idol and the Voice before (and I love GBBO, but that’s a…
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#HealthHype: Bikes, beer, and bread
Before our wedding two years ago, my wife and I decided that we both wanted to lose some weight and started a ketogenic diet. Keto diets are super low-carb (basically, you eat zero carbs if you can), and are a bit controversial because it’s actually a medical treatment first, and can have some problematic side…
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iPad ProTection
I’ve been using an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil for digital art for about the past two years, first a 9.7″ one and then the slightly bigger and slightly newer 10.5″. Combined with the right app, the iPad+Pencil feels great for drawing and is a wonderfully mobile option for being able to create digital…
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