I’m going to be heading down to South By Southwest in a couple of weeks, and I am stoked … I’m even going to be taking the Startup Bus! Unfortunately, I’m going to have to miss one of my son’s gymnastics meets. He has ten this year, so making 90% is a decent percentage, but [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gus’
How geeky
Posted in Other, tagged Gus, Money, Skype, Startup Bus, Streaming, SXSW on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Autosave
Posted in Other, Work, tagged autosave, Gus, NFSMW, Xbox on January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My 8-year-old son Gus just had a nice day recovering from a great gymnastics meet by staying in his pajamas all day and alternating make-up homework (he was sick most of last week) with lengthy rounds of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, his new game for the XBox. Gus takes his racing games very seriously [...]
Less than 100 percent
Posted in Other, tagged Gus, sick, Tiger Woods on January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I read an article on ESPN recently where another pro golfer thought that Tiger Woods was going to have an awesome year this year because of how good his bad shots were looking. If his bad shots are not too bad, then his good shots must be amazing. It made me think about my “bad [...]
Teamwork
Posted in Other, tagged Gus, gymnastics on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My son’s gymnastics team (boys level 4) finished second overall at a very competitive meet today, even though the highest individual place any individual boy achieved was a third. Go figure. The boys learn from each other, push each other, and genuinely like each other. It’s pretty awesome to see 7-, 8-, and 9-year-olds bond [...]
Learning from kids
Posted in Other, tagged Gus, gymnastics on January 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
My 8-year-old son Gus had his second competitive gymnastics meet this morning. As we were leaving the venue to head home, I asked him if he had fun, and he gave me an emphatic “Oh yeah!” Gus knows what’s important – he’s doing gymnastics because he absolutely loves it. Because he has some natural ability [...]
