Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jan 29, 2012, 12:51 pm
Before I was laid off in early 2011, I used to think, “Damn, what I wouldn’t give to not have to go to work every day!” Then I was laid off. At first, I have to admit, it was pretty cool. Got to sleep in, spend extra time with my wife and kids and as a bonus (though I think you could hardly c...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jan 21, 2012, 1:27 am
This week’s edition of Rolling Stone has a great interview with Julian Assange, if anyone’s interested in reading it. I particularly liked this bit: When people talk about your childhood, the two main words used to describe you are “nomadic” and “hacker.” You first got into trouble when...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Aug 31, 2010, 1:59 pm
Last month Thing 1 randomly asked us why we don’t pray before we eat meals. She had just recently returned from spending three weeks with my parents who are Christians and prayed before meals with her. It was like one of those Twix “Need A Moment?” commercials, at the dinner table....
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Aug 25, 2010, 1:28 pm
AMC is starting a new TV series this fall, beginning on Halloween night, with a 90-minute special pilot episode of “The Walking Dead”. Emerging from the ashes of our dearly-departed demons is The Walking Dead. The classic comic book series by Robert Kirkman has been adapted by Frank Dar...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Aug 21, 2010, 6:16 pm
Thing 1 has a friend, whom we’ll call “Sally.” The two girls were in the same class in 4th grade and spent a lot of time together outside of school, having playdates and sleepovers. They called each other best friends. Now, Sally’s parents were going through a rough time an...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Aug 17, 2010, 1:16 pm
Today was the start of the 2010-2011 school year for our kids. Thing 1 started 5th grade today, while Thing 2 started Kindergarten. Surprisingly, there were no tears from Thing 2 this morning. I think having spent a lot of his 5 years on this Earth at the school, for various school-related functio...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Aug 4, 2010, 1:03 pm
Last night, Thing 3 really got a handle on the whole crawling thing. Being the proud parents we are, we took a short video of her bee-bopping around the living room. Some things never lose their excitement, no matter how many times you’ve seen a baby’s first long-distance crawl (Nevermin...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Aug 2, 2010, 3:53 pm
I would just like to say, that this guy is a shining example of what I expect our elected officials to do: Get up there, get in each other’s faces and hold one another accountable when they see a fellow elected official playing political games to avoid having to actually take a stand. It sho...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jul 29, 2010, 2:41 pm
A few weeks ago, Keli and I watched “The Bucket List” and, while it was a pretty funny movie, it got me wondering, as I’m sure it did for everyone who watched it, what would I put on my own Bucket List. I mentioned this on Twitter, then @calandro5 and I started talking and decided ...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jul 24, 2010, 8:35 pm
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis When my wife and I got married a number of years ago, we made a big mistake by racking up a bunch of credit card debt. It’s quite sad to realize you’re still paying off a dinner at Chili’s ...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jul 21, 2010, 6:50 pm
Almost two years ago I wrote a post titled “The Shaving Conundrum,” which talked about my switch from regular Gillette Mach 3 razors to shaving with a double-edge safety razor. Recently, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article titled “Razor Burn: A Flood of Fancy Shavers Leaves So...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jul 12, 2010, 4:13 pm
YoungEntrepreneur.com has a great post today, on recent study findings relating to ways to keep employees motivated. The study results might surprise you! This video demonstrates something I learned years ago in school about motivation and the psychology of people in general. We’re not necessari...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jul 11, 2010, 8:49 pm
For some time now, Thing 2 has been wanting a mohawk. His hair is SUPER curly with very tight ringlets, as you can tell by the photo below, of him with Thing 3: We finally were convinced he wouldn’t let it go until he had it (we honestly thought he would be upset about getting one after it w...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jul 8, 2010, 12:32 pm
Hello, I’m Kevin (@TheDADvocate) and I’d like to start off this post by thanking Daniel for giving me the opportunity to guest post on his site and providing me the opportunity to tell you, the readers about The DADvocate Project. The DADvocate project is founded on the belief that as c...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jul 6, 2010, 6:26 pm
On Friday, we received a new fridge/freezer which was supposed to be more energy efficient. It turns out, it really was more efficient, in that it stopped keeping frozen items frozen, and cold items cold. After Keli removed all of the ruined food items from the freezer, this is what was left, when...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jul 1, 2010, 6:20 pm
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been making a bunch of big changes to my web site. I think most of these have been transparent to site visitors, with the exception of the updated RSS feed. WordPress I’ve updated my installation of WordPress to 3.0. I was quite pleased to find that...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jul 1, 2010, 5:47 pm
It’s been a while since I wrote one of these posts, so I thought I’d do it again. Here’s some of the things I’ve been into lately. Books A friend of ours got me hooked on the Dresden Files books written by Jim Butcher. They’re about Harry Dresden, a wizard, who lives ...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jun 30, 2010, 3:21 pm
Keli and I saw the first “Paranormal Activity” flick and it freaked the bejeebus out of us. We ended up staying up later than we wanted, watching some Scrubs episodes, just to avoid going right to bed after watching it late at night. The teaser trailor for part two hit the web today: W...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jun 22, 2010, 2:40 pm
Recently, word has spread through Sonoma County that the City of Santa Rosa is proposing to charge people for parking at Howarth Park. On the surface, the proposed fees – $2 for two hours; $5 for the day – are not anything to get your feathers ruffled about. That is, until I began to rea...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jun 22, 2010, 12:37 pm
This is the latest song that has been stuck in my head for the past week.  The first video below is what I’m guessing is their “official” music video for “Animal,” that I watched on Fuse over the weekend. The second video is an accoustic version they did, which is also...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jun 2, 2010, 4:31 pm

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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Jun 2, 2010, 4:29 pm
Didn’t Monty Python do a skit like this? The Supreme Court has ruled that in order to invoke your right to remain silent during an arrest and interrogation, you have to SAY that you are invoking your right to remain silent. Otherwise, remaining silent without SAYING you are remaining silent m...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - May 24, 2010, 7:45 pm
Earlier today, the body of bassist Paul Gray (a.k.a.: #2, “The Pig”) was found in his Iowa hotel room. Gray is best known as the bassist for the Grammy Award winning band Slipknot. A cause of death is not being announced until after authorities perform an autopsy. Slipknot is a “l...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - May 21, 2010, 4:18 pm
Last night, at 10:06pm, my sister (blog | @myfourboys2009) gave birth to our newest nephew, Owen. He’s a small little guy; 5 pounds, 13 ounces and 19 inches long. If his bigger brother, Brandon, is any indication, tiny at birth in no way means tiny in heart, energy or pure kick-ass-itude. Owe...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - May 17, 2010, 4:43 pm
Today, the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Government has the authority to keep sex offenders in prison, even when they have served their time: The Supreme Court ruled Monday the federal government has the power to indefinitely keep some sex offenders behind bars after they have served their s...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - May 15, 2010, 11:25 pm
Check it out, everyone! Issue #5 of Muster Magazine is out, and it just so happens to have something written by yours truly! (Hint: It begins on page 14) Muster Magazine #5 Muster Magazine is the brainchild of The Well Fed Artists. You can scope out all the works published by them at either their...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - May 10, 2010, 1:41 pm
Last night we were sitting around eating a nice gourmet Mother’s Day dinner of take-n-bake pizza, when I hiccuped and wound up choking on a bite of cheesy pizza. This was a really bad time to find out that in a house full of people, not one of them was able to react quickly and perform the He...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - May 2, 2010, 7:00 am
Hot weather is back! That means one thing to me: Time for Vodka Tonics with the "Gin and Titonic" ice cube tray: http://is.gd/bHOmS # Finally got the Zen Coding plugin for NotePad++ working. w00t! #coding #geekery #zencoding # Morning everybody! # Holy crazy day, Batman! # Want to see what Facebook ...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - May 2, 2010, 12:00 am
Hot weather is back! That means one thing to me: Time for Vodka Tonics with the "Gin and Titonic" ice cube tray: http://is.gd/bHOmS # Finally got the Zen Coding plugin for NotePad++ working. w00t! #coding #geekery #zencoding # Morning everybody! # Holy crazy day, Batman! # Want to see what Facebook ...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 29, 2010, 3:35 pm
I have to admit that I had no clue “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy even existed until I watched the trailer for the movie adaptation online last fall. I’ve always been a fan of post-apocalyptic stories and catching a glimpse of the feeling and tone of the story, even in that minute-...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 29, 2010, 2:40 pm
This is what happens when you ask your husband to remember to “update” the Netflix queue. I’m sure Keli will be pleased that I’ve subjected her to Sci-Fi for long enough that she actually enjoys it, let alone starting a new series but this time, it’s anime.
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 25, 2010, 12:00 am
A tall, cold Newcastle while I write a quick post, then it's time for me to take over the kitchen to make some burgers! # Twitter parents, care to weigh in? "Are Books a Necessity?" http://is.gd/byF0s # Looking for an expert in forensics/investigation for brief Q&A for a story I'm working o...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 23, 2010, 1:30 am
For the past 9 years, I’ve had a dirty little secret, which only a fair few have known about. Brace yourselves… I’m a big ‘ol role playing game nerd. Yes, that even means – GASP! – Dungeons & Dragons. Let me make something perfectly clear, though: I’m not ...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 18, 2010, 8:43 pm
Thing 1, our nine-year-old daughter, loves to read. She’s read nearly all of her books one time through and some of those she’s read a second or even a third time. Her school also wants the kids to get in 25 minutes of reading each day. We’re also trying to teach our kids about ba...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 18, 2010, 12:00 am
This morning calls for Dredg's "Catch Without Arms" cranked up to 11. # RT @mrlady: Honest and brave post from @calandro5 I hope this will help others. The Club No One Wants to Join http://bit.ly/d0vMQh # Watched the new "Sherlock" movie over the weekend. I felt cheated and used. Loved the ton...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 16, 2010, 12:56 pm
“I’ll Be” By Edwin McCain The strands in your eyes that color them wonderful Stop me and steal my breath. And emeralds from mountains thrust toward the sky Never revealing their depth. Tell me that we belong together, Dress it up with the trappings of love. I’ll be ca...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 14, 2010, 5:21 pm
Nothing like a 37-page study1 telling you that “meatless” food manufacturers often soak their products in “poisonous chemicals,” you know, because eating meat is bad for you. “To make conventional soy protein ingredients, food manufacturers start the process by litera...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 12, 2010, 4:45 pm
Eileen, over at Calandro Clan wrote a post (”The Club No One Wants to Join”) which is a must read for anyone who has in any way dealt with depression or a suicide. I drafted this post dozens of times in my mind as I went for my morning run. I thought about it as I showered in the morni...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 11, 2010, 1:00 am
Happy Easter everyone! # Allergies took me down like a slow gazelle today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better! # Hello, Twitter. Nice to see you again after being kept apart for 3 days. Did you miss me? # Any product described as "Devastatingly Effective!" makes me scared. Especially when it's a ...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Apr 4, 2010, 1:00 am
I don't get it when kids are given two good choices, they choose one and then get pissy because they "got" the on they picked. # Tried using Foursquare; no fun when the most visited place is "Home" & you don't want to spam folks on FB or Twitter. #nottargetdemographic # Early start today. Th...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Mar 30, 2010, 5:40 pm
Growing up I remember being a constantly curious kid. While my parents encouraged it, they didn’t exactly appreciate it when I questioned our faith. I remember wondering why we believed in something, just because it’s in a book. Why can’t there be life in the universe aside from us...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Mar 29, 2010, 5:20 pm
Ever since first playing the Battlestar Galactica board game last year at Logtar’s place, I’ve been kicking around the idea of plunking down the cash to get a copy of our own. About a month ago, I talked myself into it (Yay, tax return!). I could have easily saved $10-$15 by ordering onl...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Mar 29, 2010, 2:57 am
Crazy, strange dreams last night, involving the band AFI inviting me to parties where they plotted my death since I didn’t really like their last two albums. Luckily I was able to avoid dying due to my Mr. Magoo-like skills. Here’s to whatever my brain has in store for me tonight…...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Mar 28, 2010, 1:00 am
Part two of my story "Package Man" is up! http://www.deguia.net/2010/03/21/writing-package-man-part-2/ # RT @mrlady: For we are truly our brother's keeper and finders of lost children. #hcr # RT @chrispugh: Conservative Blogger Calls For Obama's Assassination On Twitter (Updated) – Sol...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Mar 25, 2010, 6:36 pm
In their latest demonstration of “Lead by Example,” Senate Republicans are refusing to do the job they were elected to do and refusing to work past 2pm to get back at the rest of us for the health care bill that was passed. Too bad, homeless Vets, because Republican tactics don’t s...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Mar 22, 2010, 12:56 pm
As always happen with politics, I’ll be unundated with emails and text messages from folks claiming that the Health Care bill that passed through the House last night is a part of Obama’s master plan to turn America into a Communist state. There are just a few things I’d like to s...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Mar 21, 2010, 4:16 pm
If you missed part one of “Package Man” you can read it by clicking here. He could always tell when a stranger was somehow connected to the people he worked for. Jacob knew full well that there was no establishment called “The Covenant” in this city. “The Covenant̶...
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Daniel D. posted an article on Why Can't You All Just OBEY Me?! - Feb 10, 2010, 12:00 am
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