earlier in the week, i posted a response from jason calacanis to an employee resigning that may have cast him a in less than flattering light.

here is a quote from his most recent “jasons-list” post which he reflects on the finding/theft of the next version of the iphone.

Bottom line: What is wrong with the world that we’re obsessed with the lame features in the next iPhone–”OMG!!! it’s got a camera on the front and the back!!!”–when we’re still occupying two countries in the Middle East, unemployment is cresting at known civil unrest levels and Goldman Sachs raped and pillaged our Union, then GOT BAILED OUT for doing so with the help of dopey President Obama whose trusted advisors are–wait for it–Goldman alumni!

and while he may not always be the nicest guy, i find he’s seldom wrong.

on a recent trip through the airport i had a tube of toothpaste confiscated for national security purposes and when i tried to buy a snack, my credit card company froze my card for fear of fraud because i wasn’t in my home city.

then the guy in front of me boarding the plane, of obvious middle eastern descent, was “randomly” selected for additional screening.

what wonderful progress we are making as a society…

i stamped and mailed a letter yesterday. it felt oddly more nostalgic than it seems it should have…

last week after coaching ethan’s tennis i was a bit down on his behavior.

then i chaperoned his kindergarten class on a four hour field trip – now i think he’s a model citizen…

a week and a half ago i submitted resignation to my employer for the past three years, all considered it went well, especially if this is any kind of standard (read from the bottom up):

sourced from: Don’t Even Think About Trying to Resign From This Tech Company

the following paragraph appeared at the end of an email from a friend recently.

This morning, as I was driving, I was playing the CD of Apollo 13. And I was thinking about this guy who was the mission director for Apollo 13. The guy provided incredible leadership in the moment of crisis, had to be incredibly smart, and I cannot recall his name. I also thought about what this guy must have made in terms of financial compensation. These days, my gripe is with the athletes (besides the Wall Streeters) who make incredible amount of money, and cheat on their wives or run dog fighting rings. Just recently, Cardinals hired someone for $120 Million. That is more money than I’ll earn in my lifetime, even if I include [my spouse's] income into it. So, I have decided to not watch any sports for now. Someone offered me a free ticket (worth $100) to Cardinals game this last Sunday and I turned it down.

a shout out to my friend for living his boycott!

the argument that goldman sachs, and many other wall street companies provide about having to pay exorbitant bonuses on top of exorbitant pay to retain the top staff has always struck me as pretty week.

in light of only the most recent fraud charges against goldman sachs its pretty obvious their bonuses to retain “top staff” is really amounts to hush money.

i’m having my first experience coaching one of my kids athletic teams and its going pretty well except for the part about my kid being on the team.

we have heard all about how click-ish and catty little girls can be but we didn’t expect it to start in preschool.

for the past few months logan has been coming home saying [redacted] wasn’t my friend today or [redacted] isn’t [redacted] friend.

since [redacted]‘s name was always in the equation we didn’t know if she were really the friendship politicking or if logan was just throwing her name around.

yesterday as i entered the school to pick up logan, [redacted] walked straight up to me and declared “logan isn’t my friend anymore” in front of the whole class and the teacher.

it was more difficult to check my response to this petulant, snarky child than i would have suspected, but thrity-some-odd five-year old eyes have a funny way of bringing out the responsible in a person…

almost two full weeks after returning from our holiday out west, we’ve unpacked. there were a number of other achievements but this one seems to stand out at the moment.

the deer in our city are so thick that some neighborhoods have approved for men to climb in to trees with bow and arrow to shoot the deer. these hunters are not in the woods adjacent to neighborhoods, they are in folks back yards.

a friend drove 540 miles to visit and in the last mile before our house ran in to a deer with his car. he didn’t see the deer he hit because he was looking at a bunch more across the street.

fortunately, we haven’t had any close calls with the car yet, but it seems inevitable. however, biking in the forest behind our house i have had two very close calls where i thought i would crash in to them.

yesterday, i scattered the largest collection of deer i have seen yet. there must have been a dozen that all took off in different directions when i came upon them.

again, luckily there was no collision but i wondered as i rode off if they had a prearranged meeting place to hook up in the case that they were separated. i know if a dozen people were separated in the woods they’d never all find each other, i wonder if/how the deer pull it off.

for our kids one tiny brown spot on an apple is enough to condemn the entire piece of fruit.

however, months old, teeth shattering stale marshmallows, all good.