Archive: 2006

January 2006

25: Why I Don't Own a Hatchet or a Gun
26: Ask a 7th Grader

February 2006

March 2006

04: A Day at the Art Museum with a 7th Grader
16: Building a Boat
20: First Tennis Lesson

April 2006

May 2006

June 2006

01: The Disenchanted Forest
04: People I Thought Were Dead
06: The Difference Between Golfers and Tennis Players
08: Zarqawi Killed: "A Good Day's Work"
08: Why I Don't Own a Cadillac Escalade
10: California Adventure
12: My New Dream Girl
12: Homework Follies
15: What Makes Women Happy?
15: The Captain Explains His Strategy
17: Father's Day Poems
18: Father's Day Secrets
19: iCasey
20: Cut and Jog
20: This Just In
22: What is Life?
22: Glass Houses, Stones, Etc.
25: Thomas Mann: Patron Saint of Bloggers
25: Why You're Not Losing Weight
26: Nobody Likes Us
27: 15 People Who Make America Great
28: Is Soccer a True Sport? Discuss.
28: Respect the Classics, Man: No Silver Bullet
29: Conversations With My Wife
30: You Remind Me of Superman
30: People I Thought Were Dead

July 2006

02: Whatever Happened to Love?
03: Shibboleths
03: Why Asian Girls Like White Guys
04: Sweet Land of Liberty
05: A Modern Stone Age Family
05: No Solicitators
06: I Am 90 Percent Confident!
08: Why 12-Year-Olds Are Not Allowed to Drive
08: The Weaker Sex?
09: Pug Puppy with Beer
09: Hot Diggety Dog
09: Administrivia
09: Safe is Risky, Risky is Safe
10: How Extortionists Get Their Start
13: What Does Merriam Webster Know?
16: Mulholland Drive
16: Why Good Projects Fail Anyway
18: Orange County Fair
19: Conversations with a 7th Grader
19: Yin and Yang
20: Boring in a Good Way
21: Ambidextrous
22: Everything at EppsNet is the Best
23: A Blind Woman Was Driving the Car
27: You Don't Know Enough
27: Racial Sensitivity at the Office
28: Advice for the Feng Shui Entrepreneur
29: Cannot Measure Productivity
30: But Can U Do This...
30: I Guess You'll Do

August 2006

02: It's All My Fault
04: We're No Geniuses
05: The Semi-Gifted Students Academy
05: They Call Me The Hammah
05: A Rule of Thumb on Documentation
06: Put 'er There!
06: Names for Your Band
07: The Legacy of Waterfall
08: Girls Talk
10: There is No Road
10: Fidel Castro Needs to Die Right Now
13: At the Dog Park
13: Our Competitors are Still Sucking Their Thumbs
15: Beware Metrics
18: Grandma Died Yesterday
19: Massive Accountability
19: Drowning in Chocolate
22: Hate Crime in Irvine
31: CatsThatLookLikeHitler.com

September 2006

01: Lightning on the Bed
01: My Kid Got a New Drum Set
01: Two-Minute Drill (With Your Mom)
02: Madden NFL 07 Racist?
04: Failing to Prepare
04: The Grandeur of the American Southwest
04: Route 66 Road Trip
04: How Big Was That Elk?
04: Self-Portrait With Pug
05: A Ready Answer on Diversity
06: Dishonest Estimation
10: Tom Peters Sucks
10: Controlling the Wealth
10: A Lesson in Procrastination
11: The Favor of Ending
20: The Age of Cynicism
21: Barbie Speaks
21: Two People Sorry They Bet on Baseball
22: Systematic Suppression of Creative Genius
22: Never Give In
22: Boo Hoo! The President Made My Income Go Down
23: Tequila!
23: The Greatest Golf Photo Ever
23: The Overachiever
23: Unrequited Love
23: Nelson Algren Goes to Hollywood
25: Timeouts Considered Harmful
28: How NOT to Do a PowerPoint Presentation
28: The Poster Boy for Self-Aggrandizement
28: Lucasfilm Donates $175 Million to USC
29: Mozart for Muslims
29: How Did Peopleware Become a Best-Seller?
29: Four Questions to Ask a Hiring Manager
30: A Pug Above, a Pug Below
30: Cooper, Benson and Rudy (rescued)

October 2006

04: The Dog Clairvoyant
04: ALOHA!
04: Tyler's Puppy Face
07: In Praise of Invective
08: "Yesterday" by W.S. Merwin
08: Which Way is the Finish?
08: Leaders Who Don't Care About People
08: "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
08: Homework Follies
09: People I Thought Were Dead
12: Cory Lidle: 1972-2006
12: God as Pete Carroll
15: The Seven Wastes of Software Development
15: Lightning Goes to the Beach
16: Goofus on Software
19: A Methodology Question
20: The Intellect of "Ordinary" Employees
21: Another Argument Against Day Care
23: Whatever Happened Five Minutes Ago
24: PowerPoint Tips from the Pros
28: Tennis Parents Can Blow Me
28: Pug Photos from Flickr
28: What Has Steve Jobs Done With His Money?
28: Hockey Families I Have Known
28: What I'd Say to My Son in My Angriest Moment
28: A Forceful Dose of Reality
30: Three Reasons for Software Project Failure

November 2006

December 2006

02: Criticisms of the Standard Waterfall Model
03: UCLA 13, USC 9
05: Another Reason I Let My Wife Handle the Holiday Decorations
05: Grab a Shovel
05: Snuggled
06: Choosing the Right Breed
08: Why Craigslist Doesn't Have Text Ads
11: You Can Have My Job
14: Waiting for the End of the World
20: The Years Have Been Kind to Me
22: Oregon Nancy Boys
23: Practices vs. Accomplishments
23: Useless Junk
24: Christmas in Australia
26: A Family Secret
27: Almost Famous
28: How Could We Lose to These Idiots?
31: Call Me Kreskin
31: A Venn Diagram of My Holiday Get-Togethers
31: College Pick 'Em
31: Pug Photos from Flickr