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  • 4Ocean

    I’m trying to find some charitable cause that sparks interest in the Fellas. Ford is crazy for the ocean these days with his obsession of Percy Jackson, so the three of us have started to wear some bracelets from an organization called 4Ocean. For $20 they pull a pound of plastic out of the water […]

  • The Meaning of Scouts

    I think I’ve been watching too much The Newsroom. We recently had a promotion ceremony and The Fellas advanced to their next Scouting rank. As part of the event, they asked Dads who had been Scouts to talk a little about their scouting experience in their youth. Their hustling me to get involved on the […]

  • Newsroom is my new Shawshank

    For a long time, if I were to catch even 20 seconds of The Shawshank Redemption I knew I was sitting down for the distance. Now it’s The Newsroom. I love me some Sorkin and this is a lovely tilt on the “we can do better” magic of The West Wing. Beyond the crazy great […]

  • risk vs. uncertainty

    I’ve had the thrill of a combination of successful and less-than-successful startup experiences. The first ended in a 9/11 accelerated total collapse in 2001. The 30 seconds on it are “we had a little piece of software that got downloaded about 25,000 times, and if you were on, let’s say Amazon, looking at the latest […]

  • Give Props to The ROTH

    I’ve had the great joy of a closed-knit association with a couple of spectacular groups. The Fellas of Fiji, the Booz Allen Media Crew, myNYC poker/skiing fellas and my Founder’s Nest compatriots. Among the best is a group we called the “ROTH”, or the “Row of Total Hilarity”. This was a stellar group of humans […]

  • 50 for 50

    I’ve been great friends with Michael Hubly since 1994 when on a last minute dash I went with a co-worker I barely knew to five transformative days at Club Med. Eventually I would become his Best Man and Hunter would take his Michael for his middle name. Hubs turned Fifty (pronounced “Hyuebs”) and is committed […]

  • Wizardly

    Me and The Fellas are working to make painting a habit. We had so much fun around the Opus Memoriae MMXVII that we decided that each month we were going to pick the “theme of the month” or some thing we really enjoyed and make a picture out of it. For January, I am the […]

  • we are Star Fleet

    Star Trek over Star Wars. There, I said it. The nerd debate is unresolvable. It’s science fiction versus science fantasy, it’s space wagon train versus space opera. They are both magnificent, but I want to live in the universe of Star Trek. I cast a disapproving eye on any dude of my generation that I […]

  • The Police #1 of 2

    Drift with me back to the early days of 1984. You couldn’t get away from Orwellian puff pieces, Reagan’s re-election campaign was in full swing and The Police Synchronicity tour was en fuego. Synchronicity had spent much of 1983 trading the #1 spot with Thriller and did not realize they were both about to lose […]

  • The Police #2 of 2

    It had been 23 years since the Great Injustice. Chris had selected girlfriend and sister over his boys and Brad and I had missed out on an experience that would have been the highlight of our High School experience to date (we were still ‘pure’). Chris had won the front row for the Police Synchronicity […]