Absolutely Andrew

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Sex, Drugs & Infertility

    I sat in our living room during a power outage and listened to Tara tell her sister Becky the tale of our infertility.  I could see Becky’s concerned face on the other side of the sectional couch at the edge of the light thrown out from a small camp lantern on the coffee table, but…

  • Garin Skiing

  • 2013: A Facebook Perspective

    Here is how 2013 looked for Tara and me if you only go off of FB and blog updates.  I took the liberty of filling in the dots. I started working at Lockheed Martin as a technical sales and manufacturing lead in January. FB is misleading here.  I did start a new position at LM…

  • The Time I Didn’t Realize Kurt Cobain is Dead

    When I was 16, I discovered secular music.  I don’t mean to say that my childhood was devoid of The Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, InSync, and, of course, Smashmouth.  It just wasn’t until I was 16, driving in my car, feeling that euphoria that comes with the freedom of first operating one’s own automobile, when…

  • States I’ve Visited

    I saw people doing this on fb and thought it looked fun.  Looks like I need to spend some more time in the Northeast.   red for states where you’ve not spent much time or seen very much. amber for states where you’ve at least slept and seen some sights. blue for states you’ve spent a lot of…

  • The Death of Google Reader Ruined Blogging For Me

    When Google announced the imminent termination of their popular RSS reader app, I was indifferent.  Perhaps I’d taken the software for granted; forgotten how things were when it first came out and blogging was basically peaking.  I can remember the excitement of launching Reader every morning, a feed totally of my choosing there waiting for…

  • AbsolutelyAndrew Outgrows the www

    If you’ve been to this site in the past couple weeks, you may have noticed a very subtle change.  The www has been removed from the URL.  That’s because we’re big shots now here at AbsolutelyAndrew and we don’t want our readers to be bothered with repetitive entry of the letter ‘w’.  Actually, fearless host…

  • The Paper Route

    The summer after sophomore year my friend Scott got us all jobs at the advertising company responsible for the weekly ads supplement in the Omaha World Herald.  Our tasking was simple: Once a week, deliver the ad to everyone that doesn’t have a newspaper subscription.  In other words, deliver a publication that 98% of the…

  • 12 Years Ago Today

    The 12 year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America seems like a random time to post a memoir of that day, but it occurred to me that I’ve never written it down.  And, although the years have skewed the memory, there are parts of it that are still crystal clear.   I was a…

  • Solstice

    When I was young I had a 9:00 P.M. curfew, except for the first day of the summer, for which my mother graciously extended our play time one hour to 10:00 P.M. in honor of the longest day of the year.  For a few years, this was our tradition–exploring the neighborhood by bike or by…

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