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My Wikipedia dream

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:April 8, 2012
Post category:Web/Tech
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It’s my dream that someday I will click on the Wikipedia app on my phone, and the featured article of the day will be the same article that brought me…

Gratitude journal: Peanut free Easter candy

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:April 8, 2012
Post category:Family Food and Drink Gratitude Journal
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Tonight I am grateful to Tootsie Roll Industries, the makers of Andes Candies and Junior Mints, for specifically stating on their packaging that these products are manufactured in facilities that…

Instagram Budo

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:April 7, 2012
Post category:MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND items
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Someone posted this to Instagram yesterday. It’s a photograph of the back cover of the UK edition of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, enhanced by one of Instagram’s filters. I…

Waiting for Daddy

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:April 7, 2012
Post category:Family
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My daughter spent the night with friends last week while we attended a 90th birthday celebration for my wife’s grandmother in the city. It was Clara’s first overnight stay with…

Gratitude journal: WordPress

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:April 6, 2012
Post category:Gratitude Journal
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Tonight I am grateful to WordPress, the website and blogging platform that I now use. Thanks to the good folks at Foliovision, I recently migrated my blog from TypePad to…

Say it ain’t so.

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:April 6, 2012
Post category:Science
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As a kid who grew up as a dinosaur nerd (and who remains one to a degree even today), I find this news incredibly depressing.

Unusual, inexplicable, tragic and occasionally victorious

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:April 6, 2012
Post category:Autobiography Sports
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Following the recent reappearance of my brother after a five year disappearance and the presumption that he was dead, one of my friends asked, “Why does stuff like this happen…

Gratitude journal: Four square

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:April 5, 2012
Post category:Gratitude Journal Teaching
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Tonight I am grateful for four square, a game that my principal introduced to the school several years ago that has grown in popularity ever since. Requiring only a rubber…

What do you think of the blog’s new design?

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:April 4, 2012
Post category:Quandry
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If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed a change this week. Over the last month, I have been working with a company in Uzbekistan to…