Category: Family
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Best Things This Year (2023)
I spent the first 4 days of 2023 stuck in bed. I threw my back out on New Year’s Eve after days of painting my old apartment / new house. I thought it would get better on its own but after four days I finally went to urgent care. They put a giant needle in…
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Best Things This Year (2021)
Well, we’re still in year 2 of this pandemic. I feel lucky my family is vaccinated, boosted and able to fend off one covid case. But it’s still sad we haven’t returned to the world we had in 2019. I’m still hopeful we can in some ways, but things will always be different. 2021 was…
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Introducing Kids Morning Adventure!
So excited for this! After a year of work, I’m finally releasing my gamfication system for getting kids ready for school, called Kids Morning Adventure. It ended up being very similar to my RPG for kids, Kids Dungeon Adventure, but refined for the busy morning schedule.
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Announcing Lineage: A Family Tree Data Expression Engine
Last week at the Philly JS Dev meetup, I demoed a new project I’ve been working on called Lineage. It all started as a way to try and visualize all the research my Aunt Peggy has done over the last 50 years. Using D3, I was able to build a way to search, filter and…
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Best Things This Year (2013)
Anecdotally, it seems like a lot of people shook up their lives in 2013. I certainly did. Here are the best things that happened to me in 2013. 1. RJMetrics – In March I started working at RJMetrics, an e-commerce data analytics firm in center city Philadelphia. Leaving Garvey Corp was a difficult decision, but…
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iOS 6 Panoramas from Longwood Gardens
Last weekend we took a trip to Longwood Gardens and what better place to try out the new panorama feature in iOS 6?
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Family Mystery: Solved!
In every family tree there are squirrelly branches. There are stories, legends, secrets, and it’s hard to tell what is real and what was exaggerated for the sake of a better story. For me, one of those stories was the reputed last name of my great grandfather. My father’s, mother’s father’s last name was Delpino,…
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Rock the Animals Theme Song
Sasha and I recorded a theme song for Rock the Animals today. Enjoy! Ben and Sasha Garvey – Rock the Animals
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Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there, especially my Dad who was crushing it in the early 90’s. Mark Garvey – Fool Such as I UpdateAnd just a few days later we meet the new Mark Garvey.
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Sasha and the Phillie Phanatic
This is one of my all time favorite photos now. The Phillie Phanatic came by during the Collingswood Christmas parade.
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Log Contest Theme Song
Here’s a video of me playing the theme song at our annual family reunion log contest.
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Santa’s Lap 2009
I’m too lazy to scan this in, so this is what they’re talking about when they talked about the good enough revolution. I just took a picture of a picture with my phone.?The picture itself is super cute, though. Kristin also made a super cute robot quilt for Owen. Check it out.
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Owen Ryker Garvey
I’m a dad. Again! Owen Ryker Garvey was born on September 18th, 2009 at 2:39PM. He was 7lbs, 12oz, 20″ long, and a great addition to our family. He’s named after a character in the John Irving novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany. It’s Jeanne’s favorite book and I liked it a lot as well.…
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HOWTO: Give a Best Man Toast
So your brother / best friend / college buddy asked you to be his best man and you’ve planned the bachelor party, got measured for your tux, held on to the rings, and watched the groom get married. Now it’s your turn to give the toast. It’s by far the most nerve racking part of…
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Cutie Theater: Episode V
The long awaited episode of Cutie Theater is here! We pick up where Episode IV left off. The Robots have been defeated and things are looking good in Cutie Land… or are they? If you haven’t watched Cutie Theater before, get caught up before watching Episode V. Michaela, McKenzie, Jeanne and I worked really hard…
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New Job
Garvey Corporation was started long ago as a gas station in 1926 by an Irish immigrant named Gordon Garvey. He chose a location on Route 73 directly between Philadelphia and Atlantic City, since it would be an ideal place for people to stop for gas coming from either direction. The company moved away from being…
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Into the Black
I took this great picture of Sasha a few weeks ago.? She loves to sit and look out the window to find squirrels.
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Haley’s Comment
My cousin Christa has a blog, which I believe she’s had for a while, but she’s been updating a lot so check it out!? She’s a self described board game geek and taught me how to play chess when I was a kid.
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Hooters Table
Jeanne has been knocking it out of the park on her new blog, MustSeeLikeNew!? I have five words for you: New Jersey Shaped Hooters Table