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Helping her with homework before bed

Kenneth Bowen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:59:05 +0000

Sophia: I don’t think that’s how to do that problem, Dad.
Me: Ok, do it yourself smarty pants.
Sophia: (shaking head) I already got ready for bed; you mean smarty pyjamas.

I’m Back

Kenneth Bowen — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:21:04 +0000

I’ve tidied up my blog and hope to post more personal stuff here in the near future. My plan is to start a technical blog to separate work related topics from my other interests. WordPress has some new image handling features I wanted to test out too.

They get big fast, don’t they?

Practical Notebook

Kenneth Bowen — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:25:21 +0000

Michael Bierut wrote a wonderful blog entry sharing his 26 years of practical notebook use. What’s so impressive is his consistent use of simple, inexpensive notebooks, his lack of rigid adherence to a methodology, and the randomness of his note taking – even including photographs and drawings made by his children.

notebook covers 1982-2008

This is such a refreshing inspiration, and a strong antidote to the time wasting, office supply fetishism that dominates most online productivity conversations. If I let go of the (silly) notion that each notebook/journal entry needs to be a work of art, I’m much more likely to actually use a notebook to get things done – maybe even something nice.

reference

Beruit, Michael. “26 Years, 85 Notebooks.” http://designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38831.

Wreck This Journal. http://www.wreckthisjournal.com/?page_id=2.