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Start Cooking (and make it healthy)
Over the past few months, I have made a habit of preparing breakfast for the family on Saturday mornings. This has always included pancakes and, more recently, eggs, turkey bacon, toast and coffee has been added to the fare.
When I first started making breakfast I used a boxed baking mix like Bisquick for the pancakes. [...]
TrueLemon: A Soda Alternative
Tonight I was going through some old starred items in Google Reader and came across an article at Lifehacker about alternatives to soda. I’ve gotten a little nuts with the Diet Dr. Pepper lately so I gave it a read. There is nothing groundbreaking in the article but it did remind me of something worth [...]
How to Enjoy a Parade
I’m ashamed to say that I have never been to a Fourth of July parade. In fact, I can count the number of parades that I have been to on one hand and none of them were related to celebrating freedom. This year I’m going to change that by taking my family to a Fourth [...]
Shaving Safely with my Merkur Safety Razor
This past Father’s Day was rad. Not only did my wife bring a rad omlet to feast on in bed, but the kids made Father’s Day cards and got me a very special gift, a Merkur 1904 Safety Razor complete with mug, sop, brush and bay rum aftershave.
After my recent trip to the barber for [...]
How Walmart and Nintendo Helped Me Get A Wii For Mother’s Day
Yesterday I bought a Wii for my wife. That’s right, she asked me to buy it for her. A few days before I made the purchase I gave Hannah a heads up about a series of purchases I was going to make to celebrate Mother’s Day and her birthday. Before I could get further, she [...]
Welcome Readers of Art of Manliness
If you’re visiting for the first time from the blog carnival (Manival) happening at Art of Manliness, then welcome to GetGeekStrong.com. There aren’t a whole lot of articles yet on this blog so take a quick look, you might find something interesting or enlightening.
I like to blog about entrepreneurship, parenting (from the perspective of a [...]
7 Ways to Avoid Adding Housework
A few weeks ago a study was released and featured in this article that says husbands can add up to seven hours of housework to his wife’s workload each week. Despite my temptation to become defensive at such a notion, I have decided to write a post giving some ideas on how I and other men can reduce the amount of work they dump on their wives. The notion that I, possibly one of the worst offenders, would have the audacity to write such a post entertains my wife. I’m sure she is looking forward to reading this and seeing if I actually put any of it into practice.
ericgranata.com
Since adopting, I’ve started to freelance again to help offset some of the new expenses. It’s been going well. I have no shortage of work to keep me busy. Unfortuneately work has come so quickly that I have not had time to update my portfolio site. Well, I’m happy to announce that tonight my new [...]
HBO Intro: Behind the Scenes
I stumbled upon this great video showing the making of HBO’s bumper from back in the day. I love the ingenuity that went into special effects back then. It was a simpler time.
StopForwarding.Us
I am happy to announce the latest addition of websites that I build to put food in my kids’ mouths, buy a private island for Hannah and maybe, someday, put an iPod touch in my pocket. The website is called StopForwarding.Us and it exists to let people politely and anonymously email their friends who forward meaningless and [...]
