Tim, Author at Insurmountable Opportunities

Everything You Ever Needed To Know About Me…

Music, Personal, Video / Tim / September 5, 2008

…you will now learn from Harvey Sid Fisher.

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Late Summer Not The Best Time For Blogging

Friends / Tim / August 15, 2008

Not that I’m any sort of model of consistency, but I can’t help but notice that my friends have been barely blogging lately.? Go get with it Dan, Diane, Don, Bill, and Curt!? Following blogs seems to be pretty much the only way I keep in touch with people these days.

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It’s Survey Time Again

Work / Tim / August 5, 2008

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Do Schools Kill Creativity (TED Talk)

Education, Video / Tim / July 7, 2008

This is a brilliant talk by Ken Robinson about the nature of intelligence, creativity, and what our educational system is doing to kill it.? Do schools kill creativity?? Only if you go to class.

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And In Every Home…

Art / Tim / June 13, 2008

I’ve been keeping a sketchbook handy lately and though I’d post some drawings. This one is a bit of a repeating theme that came out better than usual. The first version is felt-tip marker. The second is all shined up in Photoshop.? Special thanks to my close personal friend Elvis Costello for the lyric.

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Don’t Forget to Vote!!

Politics / Tim / June 12, 2008

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Our New ADHD Blog

ADHD / Tim / June 4, 2008

J and I have decided to start a new blog about our family and our experiences getting through life (or just the day) as four card-carrying members of the ADHD club. We’re not all medicated and all have different challenges that arise, at least in part, from the ADHD. Also, given that Julie is a super-powered hero of organizational strategies (organizational strategies – mind you – are quite different from actually being organized) it seemed like we might be able to give folks in similar situations some tips.

Check it out, if’n yer interested.

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I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer/My Favorite Game

Music, Video / Tim / May 30, 2008

I’ve liked the Cardigans ever since “Lovefool” (which I really didn’t like much) was popular. Since then, they have gotten older and darker and I’ve loved each album they’ve done in the past ten years or so. This first one is off of their latest album “Super Extra Heavy Gravity (2005),” and the second one is from “Gran Tourismo (1998)”. I suppose that’s all there is to say. What do you think?

Loosing My Favorite Game

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Book Autopsies

Art, Books / Tim / May 28, 2008

Having cut out the centers of two thick hardbacks to make secret compartment books for the kids this past xmas, I can really appreciate the sheer effort it must take Brian Dettmer to create these works of art. The aesthetic value is obvious. I think I’m going to give this a try. I love any excuse to wear through dozens of x-acto blades and even think I’ve a few books that would be well suited to a project like this.