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This might be the blog you're looking for. Skepdad was this guy who tried really hard to be a good and rationally-minded parent, but often balked at the irrationalities of the world around him. I wrote a blog specifically devoted to that topic for about four years, but couldn't keep pace with the demands for new material while simultaneously living the values I was espousing in my writing. I opted to shutter it and focus on storytelling about my life and other interests in this blog alone. Sometimes skepdad peeks out from the curtain, and those posts -- and many of the old skepdad archives -- live here.
critters | featured | home & garden | skepdad
We shuttled Tommy the Froggy into a little jar and got on our grubbies for the walk over to the sure-to-be-muddy pond.
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fatherhood | running | skepdad
The gun will fire, the crowd will roar across the start line, and inside of forty, maybe fifty minutes, we’ll be posing for pictures with our medals and eating our post-race snacks.
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fatherhood | skepdad | travel & holidays
A few months ago we booked a cruise vacation leaving from Port Canaveral, Florida, a little chunk of land that is in booster-exhaust-sniffing range of one Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.
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scientist & skeptic | skepdad | weird & whimsical
Funny is more of an apt description for what our minds will convince us of when we need to find a pattern or an explanation for something.
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fatherhood | scientist & skeptic | skepdad
But “very cool” to a thirty-something year old science geek and “very cool” to a five year old girl are very different things, indeed.
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fatherhood | scientist & skeptic | skepdad
…all of it leading to me digging out my Sears-brand Junior Microscope Set from back when I was a young’un, dusting it off and seeing what happened.
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fatherhood | skepdad | travel & holidays
The doting, geeky father that I am, thought I would share some thoughts not only on how we\’ll be spending some of our father-daughter time over this particular break, but that I would do so in the form of a handy list.
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fatherhood | opinions & venting | scientist & skeptic | skepdad
About a month ago I wrote a short post about reading through some of my old Calvin and Hobbes comics. By some miracle of the unintended combination of the right words and the information reliability score of this blog, that page …
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scientist & skeptic | skepdad | weather
Ah, June… Summer is at our doorstep, the days are (almost all of them) seeming to get a little bit longer, and for the second year in a row I am partaking in my daily blogging exercise, marginally focused along a …
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