Aaron Pearson got this photo of me during one of my two sessions at the 2011 Minnesota Bloggers Conference. Aaron posted the picture with his thorough post about my sessions.

I was honored to recap my recent Silicon Valley trip (with memorable stops at Apple, Google and TWiT) on an episode of the Minnov8 Gang Podcast. As usual, those guys Photoshop-ed up something wacky to go with the post.

Recently, when my wife and son left home for a month on urgent family business, I had a couple of choices.

I could: 1) Panic at this vast expanse of enforced solitude, and curl into a fetal position; 2) Seize this as an opportunity to organize my life, and better myself as a human being.

What followed over about 30 days was an unprecedented personal adventure, a journey of discovery like no other in my adult life. More …

What I’m reading: “Robopocalypse”

If the word “Skynet” makes you salivate, you have to read this science-fiction novel about how machines rise up against their human masters.

I am halfway through it as I write this…and I am hooked.

It’s part “I, Robot” (minus the Three Laws of Robotics), part “World War Z” (in the sense of being structured as an oral history) and part “Terminator” (with machines of all shapes and sizes slaughtering humans, and the humans forming a resistance). More …

Behold, my lunch today. I made it, which makes it all the more delicious (though pro sushi chefs would probably be rolling on the floor in laughter).

I recently tweeted:

After a lifetime of ambivalence if not outright loathing, I suddenly…like beer. I have NO idea what brought that on.