David B. Thomas — enterprise social media marketing, plus being a dad who loves tech, cooking and music

It’s good to have a plan.

11.12.2011

The Boy: “You do it.” Me: “No, you do it.” The Boy: “You do it.” Me: “No, you do it.” The Boy: “Wait, I have a plan.” Me: “What’s the plan?” The Boy: “You do it.”

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Everything you need to know about the mind of a 3-year old, explained in one sentence

11.08.2011

The Boy, hopping from foot to foot and observing how the moon seems to move: “I’m controlling the moon!”

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Adding punctuation with Siri speech-to-text on the iPhone 4S

10.16.2011

I picked up my iPhone 4 yesterday and one of the coolest new features is the Siri personal assistant. A lot has been written about this already, but I discovered something cool about the speech to text feature last night that I thought I would share. Siri lets you compose Twitter updates, Facebook updates, notes, [...]

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No wonder they’re so stroppy and irritable

10.14.2011

(While playing with Lego Star Wars figures) “That’s his lunchbox.” “Oh, yeah? What would a storm trooper eat for lunch?” “Jalapeños.”

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The lying begins

10.14.2011

“Is this juice?” “It’s water.” “I want juice.” “Okay, it’s juice.” “What kind of juice?” “Cloud juice.”

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A day in the life, via Twitter

10.14.2011

Last week, Jamie Sandford began the day with what I’ll call a “metatweet.” I responded. It took off. Here’s how our conversation evolved throughout the course of the day: @jsandford: <something about coffee> @davidbthomas: <something about Mondays> @jsandford: <inspirational way-too-much vim and vigor tackling-the-week tweet> @davidbthomas: <excessive use of motivational hashtags> @jsandford: <ending of day [...]

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