Category Archives: Friends

Tweeku Launches

March 9, 2010 – 9:34 am

Congratulations to my friend Greg Pierce, who launched Tweeku today, a super-nifty iPhone app he wrote for composing Twitter messages and other short-form texts (including haiku)! I’ve been testing it off and on for a few weeks, and am really impressed with what he’s done with it. Here’s the company line:
Tweeku is a twitter writing [...]

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My Favorite 40th Birthday Party Ever

March 8, 2010 – 3:03 pm

Over the weekend I celebrated my 40th birthday along with a pile of family and friends. The party was terrific — everything I had hoped that it would be and more. Thanks to all who attended and helped to make it such a delightful, memorable time!
I had a magnificent surprise shortly after the party got [...]

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Honor Roll

September 15, 2009 – 2:36 pm

Kathy and I are just back from a 10 day trip to Switzerland which was alternately the most amazing and the most harrowing experience of our recent lives. I’ll write more on the trip itself later, but wanted to post immediately about the extraordinary kindness and care we were shown by a variety of people [...]

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Facebook and the Coming Zombie Apocalypse

May 12, 2009 – 8:31 am

My good friend Daniel Priest recently posted the following to his Facebook profile:
Daniel Priest is a tree climbing fool
I thought that it was important that the conversation that ensued be available for posterity outside of Facebook’s domain, so here it is. When the undead rise up, you’ll thank me.
Matthew Christopher Davidson, May 8
Fanny, apparently [...]

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The Man Who Makes Sing…Awesome

February 28, 2009 – 8:01 am

A couple weeks ago, Kathy and I went up to Baylor University in Waco for their annual Sing event, a four-hour long song and dance revue. The show was, as always, terrific. The best part for me, however, is the post-performance debrief with my friends Jason Young and Barry Brake, who are integral parts of [...]

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Mistletoe Furlough Redux

January 7, 2009 – 11:34 am

We’ve made it home safely from our grand Christmas roadtrip, and are enjoying the comfort of sleeping in our own beds once more. I don’t have the time or skill to do the trip justice, but here are a few of the highlights that stick out in my memory:

A wonderful extended time of visiting with [...]

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SuperNerd!

December 4, 2008 – 11:33 am

Last night I posted to Twitter:
Watching a Nova show on string theory. (It was a requirement to maintain my supernerd certification this month.)
This morning, my friend Jeff presented me this, created in cooperation with his wife Fazia:

This of course immediately became one of my new favorite things. Be sure to appreciate the seal and the [...]

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Of Teddy Bears and Farting Dogs

August 29, 2008 – 12:27 pm

My friend Amy Boyd has, over the time that she has worked at Texas State University, acquired a fairly impressive collection of stuffed animals. This was not because she bought them herself, or even because she’s particularly fond of them, but because someone gave her the first one as a joke. Other people got it [...]

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What My Friends Are Up To

August 15, 2008 – 7:13 am

One of the best things about being me is that I’m blessed with some amazing, creative, interesting friends. Here are a few things that they’ve been up to lately:

David Barnard has started an iPhone software company called AppCubby, and has just released their first product, TripCubby, the sine qua non of mileage tracking for the [...]

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Blasted Nonsense From The Past

June 27, 2008 – 10:20 am

Back when dinosaurs roamed the Internet and you could get a cup of coffee and a shoeshine for a nickel, before the kids all had their newfangled “Mybook” and “Facespaces” and the blink tag still seemed a pretty nifty idea, there was Brain Sausage.
Brain Sausage was an early proto-weblog, created before such things actually existed. [...]

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