Ken Martin’s Blog

That’s what Anna told me about my new haircut. Not “nice hair.” “Nice hairs.” And one of my co-workers put this plant on my windowsill thinking it might inspire something. Think my life is easy? :)

Had to post this. :)

I’ve declared 2007 The Year of No for myself. It’s going to be a year of finishing, not starting. I like too much. I’m interested in too much. I empathize too much. And so I say “sure I can do that” or “I should try this…” No more. No. I need to hit reset. To clear projects - [...]

Local weekly newspaper City Pages has an article about the Maplewood City Council happenings. It’s a nice summary of the view of some. It’s not terribly balanced, but that doesn’t make for as easily interesting writing. It’s good to have the topic brought up, though. And I hope concerned Maplewood citizens study up on what’s [...]

The hideous news coverage of the snow storm swirling outside right now. Reporters strewn across the cities showing us video of their foot - heavens, yes, their whole foot - being covered when stepping into snow. Oh my goodness, has Minnesota become this pathetic? Coming out of super busy time. Will be posting more this week.

Helen and I laughed and laughed over You Bet Your Life announcer George Fenneman’s expression delivering the above line to Groucho Marx in this video. This one is good, too. “Nola Contendere… I knew her well…” Dozens of free You Bet Your Life radio programs are available here. It’s really pretty fun stuff. The kids love it, [...]

I worked with Digital Cyclone from 2000 to 2002 as Internet Programmer. We built My-Cast.com, a popular website providing free, very localized weather forecasts. The business model relied heavily on web advertising revenues. As the dot-com bust drew near, we had a number of layoffs until, finally, they had to pare the company down from [...]

We had strep sweep through the family a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t get it. So far, I’m crediting gargling. 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. baking soda, about a half cup warm water. A few times a day. I’m going out on a limb, since it looks like another round of something is going to [...]

I’ve always liked using the comma before the “and” in a list in a sentence. Turns out my rebellion against the AP Stylebook isn’t entirely unwarranted. According to this fellow, anyway.

Now that’s original, isn’t it? Well, December brought an end to a whirlwind of projects at work. All were successfully finished up, and then came some welcome time off. Convalescence. Ahhh, wonderful. We had a really nice Christmas enjoying family, friends and church. The rest brought recovery from illness; everyone but Kenny and I had come down [...]