• 09:12 Hangover cures: 1. Greasy breakfast 2. energy drinks 3. more sleep 4. not caring because every drink was worth the Sunday night out. #
• 11:14 Meeting over phone with Microsoft about Office 2010. Can't get LiveMeeting to launch in IE. Classic. #
• 14:23 The difference between being a writer and an editor? Drudge work. #
• 16:02 breaker, breaker one-nine! Hey good-buddy! (Momentary break out of CB radio talk. It's what growing up in the 70's did to many of us...) #
• 16:34 My washer/dryer are going on the auction block. After 1.5 decades as a grownup, as of Thursday I will have to pay for laundry by the load. #

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• 09:29 Cleaning binge! #

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• 11:37 rt @kmonson New PCMag After Hours podcast is up. We speak with Wolfram Alpha, Google, and the EFF: is.gd/1empb [I'm in-studio!] #
• 11:48 By the way, I'm NOT leaving PCMag.com. New job is managing editor of PCMag Business channel. PR flacks with SOHO/SMB, email me. NOT HERE. #
• 11:51 For PR: figure out my work email. If you send work pitches to my home emails or via Twitter or FB, I will ignore. I'm a jerk that way. #

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• 11:13 Managed to get an iPhone porn gag into the morning staff meeting. My work here is done. #
• 11:55 rt @PCMag You can use instant messaging to boost productivity! Check out our 8 tips to make IMs work for you. bit.ly/ipKNT #
• 12:09 rt @pcmagafterhours PCMag After Hours is streaming live! (ustre.am/2EGU) #fb #
• 20:13 RT @dancosta Our new Biz guy gives Google Voice an Editor's Choice award. I need an invite! bit.ly/ECc0X [Biz guy = me] #
• 21:41 Extra-sooper-speshul advanced sneak-peak: My review of Google Voice. is.gd/1dG5X [Spoiler: I love it.] #

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• 14:15 Dear NYC. I am coming to visit for 2 days. Please do what you usually do and make me like other places again. Kthnxbai. #

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• 12:50 Realizing: I put more care into proofing my tweets and Facebook status than I do into emails. (and that ain't sayin' much, is it?) #fb #
• 21:53 RT @steve_sutton PCMag Digital Edition, now available on Kindle: tinyurl.com/pcmagkindle [Doubt I know anyone outside work w/ Kindle] #

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• 08:59 rt @themediaisdying Online jounalism now and ten years ago. True? imgur.com/gQouk.jpg [me: So very, very true.] #
• 09:43 My iPhone is no longer aesthetically pleasing--too many home page icons are blue and green. May add red "InsultOmatic" icon for balance. #
• 13:07 RT @JasonCross00: Want to hire me? Know someone who might want to hire me? Resume and such are here: www.jasoncross.org/?p=13 #
• 15:18 RT @MichaelSinger: Obama Signs Anti-Smoking Bill Into Law - CBS News bit.ly/6Op1S #
• 15:20 How I have not lost a loved one to cancer caused by smoking is beyond me. But just a matter of time. Maybe this law will help. #

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• 10:22 That mention of "sealing wax" in Puff the Magic Dragon? Until a few years ago, I thought it was a compound for fixing ceilings. #
• 11:22 My dog did not wake me up with home-made pancakes. Nor even toast. You call this Father's Day, Caper? And I thought you were well trained. #
• 13:42 RT @underpope: Daikaijuzine 4.5 is now live! www.daikaijuzine.com Check it out! it's for King Ghidorah! #
• 16:35 Passed 200 followers on Twitter without realizing. Still can't understand why about 175 of you care what I say, but I'll keep saying it. #
• 17:14 rt @DanAmrich After upgrades, here's my netbook report. bit.ly/1Eci5 [Dan gives good upgrade.] #
• 17:44 Have spent $9.99 on an iPhone app. Which is not even iPhone 3.0 OS ready quite yet. I feel dirty. #
• 20:55 If Woody had gone to the police... this would never have happened. #

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1) My dad is so nice, he doesn't understand road rage. Which is weird because you could say he spent most of his professional life as a driver. In fact, as a kid, I never referred to his job as Emergency Medical Technician, I always said "My dad is an ambulance driver." And despite logging thousands of hours behind the wheel, arguable most of them transporting patients from Hornell to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, he apparently never got angry at another driver. He could never understand why anyone would bother.

2) The one time he told me a story about a driver that did annoy him was a person followed the ambulance to Rochester on Interstate 390. a family member of the patient. The family member tailgated the ambulance for a long while, putting both vehicles at risk. Dad simply got on the radio, called a cop, and a state trooper pulled the family member over until the ambulance could get a decent head start.

3) Dad was into gadgets of any kind when I was growing up. He had a nice little collection of electronics like the first micro-cassette recorder I ever saw (and don't get me started on the tools), but he decided with the advent of the personal computer he couldn't handle technology. I think he's just psyched himself out. Still not sure he wasn't kidding the two times I've explained to him what the Enter key does. ("It's just like the return key on the typewriter.") Despite that, we video chat on Skype all the time now. Go figure.

4) When he drove my brother and I around when we were kids (first in the VW bus, later in a series of pickup trucks) Dad would sing. A lot. We always screamed for him to stop, like it hurt our ears. But had a great, deep voice.

His favorite bit to sing was one stanza from a folksong about the railroad -- a fact I did not know until this morning when I looked it up on the Internet. The song is called "The Wreck of the old '97" and the verse he sang over and over again until it stuck in my head for my entire life was:

We were going down hill doing ninety miles an hour
When the whistle broke into a scream;
We were found in the wreck with our hands on the throttle,
And scalded to death by the steam.

That's not exactly how it goes in the original song, but he personalized it for the three of us, a father and his two boys, to be all scalded to death together.

5) Dad made up a story for my brother and me to tell at bed time about a motorcycle rider named Zoomer Boomer, probably because there were some toys out with that name in the early 70s, though the toys were cars. Anyway, I wish that story was still in my head like the death-by-steam song.

6) The only time my grandfather, his dad, ever swore in front of me was to say my dad drank "too much damn Coke!" Ah, the 70s, when Coca-Cola was bad, but cigarettes were okay.

7) Few people outside of Saint Nick himself are as obsessed with gift giving as my dad. I've inherited that gene too. Trying to break it, but it's hard; I find that I want to show someone means something to me, the first place my mind goes is to narrowing down the perfect gift to buy them. While that works great in my family, it's been a learning curve to find not every family is like that. Some families actually only give ONE gift to a person at Xmas, for example. (My dad could probably understand this mindset even less than road rage.)

Here's a picture of him with his two favorite things, his grandsons:

There's a thousand more things I can say about Mr. Gerald Kay Griffith, but I'll end with this: he's great. My dad probably couldn't beat up your dad... but my dad is still better.

Happy Father's Day.

• 07:31 I'm going now to pick up my dog. She will be substantially smaller and lighter than when i dropped her off a week ago. #fb #
• 08:41 Girl with cancer dies 7 hours after seeing private screening at home of UP; Pixar brought the DVD to her. Awesome & sad. is.gd/16fhD #
• 10:05 RT @kmonson: This week's @PCMagAfterHours podcast just posted: is.gd/16iom. Roll around in it and see how you feel afterward. #
• 10:28 I'm on @PCMagAfterHours podcast this week, so really, it's sooo much more awesomer than usual. is.gd/16iom #
• 10:56 This #followfriday is for the funniest tweeters, cause this week needs laughs: @bheater @southworth @TheAuthorGuy @rstevens #

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• 13:00 Sweet French Fried Jesus! Five Gusy Burgers and Fries coming to ITHACA. I repeat: FIVE GUYS. BAGS o' FRIES. So long, diet! You can suck it. #
• 16:27 thanks to yappie brother, I've already used 200 of my 450 AT&T Anytime Minutes this period. Which started THREE days ago. Gotta Skype more. #

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• 09:19 RT @LanceUlanoff: 2009 Utility Guide: A HUGE collection of utilities for Win XP, Vista and even Win 7 tr.im/oEQF [Very huge.] #
• 10:47 Tuesdays are for commiseratin'. #
• 13:49 Today is the 1st time I've had both yellow Labs at my apartment. I'm proud they didn't bark or slurp water during any of my calls so far. #
• 15:02 RT @JasonCross00: New Weird Al video! bit.ly/3K0exk #

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