Year: 2008
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Hmm, no questions about what it’s like to raise a child prodigy?
My dad was interviewed recently about innovation. Enjoy.
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I Know Everything There is to Know About Fatherhood
I don’t want to be too blunt here but after a month of being a father, I know everything there is to know about fatherhood. Look, it’s quite simple. People will tell you all these things, and the so-called experts will write books and articles, but here it is in 250 words: 1) Getting peace…
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An Open Letter to my Soon-to-be-Daughter
“Your Time has Come” by Andrew Ishak Dear soon-to-be-daughter, I am so excited to meet you! Mommy and I have been thinking about you for nine months, and we just can’t wait to hold you and kiss you and love you! 🙂 Today is Mommy’s due date, which means that you were supposed to come…
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Text Message from my Pregnant Wife
Heather (9:02 am): On the bus, a girl got on and she looked at me then opened her purse and took out her ortho evra birth control pill. Haha.
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Robot singing in the dead of night
I don’t want to scare anyone, but computers are taking over the world. It frightens me to say this, but pretty soon all music will be written by computers. Yes, even something so sonically beautiful as the natural human interpretations of love, sorrow, joy, and mating preferences are now entering the realm of machines. The…
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The Olympics
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Friday Friday Friday
This Friday, come watch the “Out of Egypt”, the documentary about being Coptic American that I’ve been working on for the last three years. Details for Out of Egypt and Tickets. And here is an eight minute preview of the movie:
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Matt Chat
10:16:47 AM Andrew Ishak: let’s play word association 10:16:54 AM Andrew Ishak: i’ll go first 10:16:56 AM Matt Isbell: k 10:16:56 AM Andrew Ishak: tilapia 10:16:59 AM Matt Isbell: fish 10:17:05 AM Andrew Ishak: whales 10:17:13 AM Matt Isbell: kickball champs 10:17:19 AM Andrew Ishak: i’m surprised we didn’t get there earlier 10:17:25 AM Andrew…
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For Coach Price
My friend Brian wrote me an e-mail this morning to say that our JV football coach, Gary Price, had passed on from this world. Coach Price was very active with students at Monta Vista in other capacities as well; he worked in food service at the school, coached the women’s basketball team, even coached baseball…
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I Am KItten, Hear Me MEOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Our childhood cat, Fritz, is pretty much amazing. I don’t really get near her, as I have pretty bad allergies, but she has outlasted two other cats, one bird, and to some extent, me and my brother. We found her hanging 8 feet in the air on one of our window screens during a storm…