Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Favorite Apps: iVideoCamera
18, Jan 2010So, I’m sitting here at work with nil to do today so I thought I’d share one of my favorite new apps on my iPhone. It’s called iVideoCamera. I bought my iPhone a little over a year ago in October 2008. I replaced an aging Palm Treo 700p that did all the things that the [...]
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Car Knowledge: B-
30, Nov 2009I thought that I would do a little better on this quiz. AND PASSED WITH AN ABOVE AVERAGE SCORE. B- Quiz Created By Auto Insurance.org
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C25K Podcasts
8, Oct 2009As part of my latest endeavor going from the couch to running a 5k race I’m using one of the many podcasts that are available on the subject. Most of these podcasts are based on the Couch to 5K running program from Coolrunning.com. I think the first one that I heard of, and still extremely [...]
Be Safe on Facebook
5, Oct 2009Do you know when something just isn’t quite right? You’re walking in a parking lot and feel like someone’s following you? You’re jogging in the park and think someone is about to jump out and mug you? How about online? You hop on your favorite social network and someone you know starts a weird chat [...]
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- Tags: 419, facebook, scam, western union
Running Again
29, Sep 2009I’m going to try running again. A few months ago I started a Couch to 5K program. I ended up hurting my knee. Part of it was definitely my weight. But, the other part, and I’m thinking the more important contributing factor, was my technique. I was listening to the 4 Feet Running podcast and [...]
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- Tags: 4 feet running, C25K, couch to 5k, podcast, running
Survey Hints at New Digg Features
29, Sep 2009I found myself with a few minutes of downtime. I checked out Digg, as one tends to do, to see the latest in tech news there. I was offered and decided to take a survey. It started out pretty generic, but soon turned to Digg related questions. A few of the questions were about possible [...]
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Grown Up Things
29, Jul 2009This comic really summed up the way I feel a lot of the time when doing “grown up” things. The even bigger one is sending me home with a freakin’ baby. Don’t they know I’m a huge goof? The SPCA checks you out more intensely when you want to adopt a dog at the [...]
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Picasa SafeDelete, Not So Safe
29, May 2009Here’s the situation. It’s roughly 12am on a Thursday night. The wife, Laurie, reminds me that she wants to send in some photographs to Walmart for pick-up the next day. Seems like a simple enough task, so I fire up Picasa to download the photos. Here’s where things go terribly wrong. There are three options [...]
Chicken No. 4 – Souvenir Hat
22, Apr 2009So, yesterday Matt & Nate turned 5 years old. We decided to abuse them, and the rest of the family, by taking the happiest place on Earth. Great time. Everyone was extremely exhausted. I wonder if they’ll kill anyone at school today.
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- Tags: birthdays, chicken, Disneyland, facebook, Mickey Mouse
Enter the Chicken
1, Apr 2009Over on Facebok today, a friend from high school that I just reconnected with, reminded me of a great character from my past. I had this great math teacher, Mr. Coleman, that would use a small representation of a chicken for examples during class. “Say a chicken is standing at the origin, in which quadrant [...]
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