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I don’t know about the rest of you, but if you’re a blogger, you’re likely getting spammed by PR agencies. I know I am…
And so, in celebration of that fact, and hopefully, so I can make some money off the spam I receive, while also letting everyone know what the latest stupid Press Release [...]

My wife was trying to print something the other night, and she was complaining that the printer was broken. I figured out what the problem was for me, so I’m posting this in case others have the same sort of problem (the answers I found on the web weren’t all that readable, and I spent [...]

This is a powerful video:

If I haven’t said it before:
“HDTV rocks”
totally. Izzy Stevens on Grey’s Anatomy is so hot in HDTV. Heck, Callie Torres is hot in HD too.
If you don’t have an HDTV yet, get one. Seriously.

Only Apple can make sleet look fun:

It’s cold outside, rain/ice and sleet is coming down, and it’s been coming down for a good 36 hours now, and is forecast to keep coming down for another 36 hours.
I realize that for those of you that live north of Texas this isn’t a big deal, [...]

I gotta figure out how to use this word spotted in a recent Daring Fireball ‘Jackass of the Week’ article:
frigtard - as in “socially maladjusted frigtards”.
Love it.

Over Labr Day weekend, I went to Tahoe with a buddy to shoot a wedding. It was my first real paid photography gig. Mind you we weren’t getting paid in cash, but we were getting a free 4 day trip to Lake Tahoe over a long weekend. Regardless, the experience was awesome, [...]

It’s funny how many people I know in this situation today:

Courtesy of Hugh McLeod.

Ugh. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of sitting in an airport at 6:05 am, after getting up at 5, so you can get on a plane at 7. I didn’t have any problems going through security this morning with my laptop, digital SLR or iPod, but I don’t have any deodorant or hair gel [...]

I read Michael Bartosh Passes by TUAW today, and I though “man, that sucks.” Back when I helped run MacNN I used to call Michael every month or so, to learn what was new with Apple. At least that’s what I was trying to learn… typically, Michael would tell me he didn’t know, [...]

So life has been keeping me busier than shit lately. Sorry folks, that’s just the truth of it.
I’ve actually got about 4 or 5 good posts about half written, but none ready to post.
Long story short, I’m running a company now, and it’s in an industry that’s new to me, even though I’ve been [...]

Just a note to say I quit my job on Monday. Or at least I gave them two weeks notice.
I start my new job on May 22nd, and will post more then.
I’ll also say that my former company is enforcing my non-compete, which limited the offers I could accept (I had three on the [...]

After spending greater than 5 hours on a plane today, I gotta say this:
I LOVE ROCKETBOOM!
Yes. I do.
I started watching Rocketboom very infrequently about a year ago, then I bought an iPod Video (after losing my iPod nano) and that made it easy to watch videos when I was on the road traveling.
Right now, [...]

I haven’t written a movie review in ages, but since I’m on a plane heading home from Columbus, Ohio (where it was frickin’ cold today, btw) and I just finished watching it… I feel I have to.
This movie kicks ass! Seriously.
I was in the Corps at A&M in college, then spent a few years [...]

Just a note to say that the wife and I are taking a much needed vacation this week. We’ll think of all of you freezing your asses off here in the States, while we’re enjoying ourselves somewhere in the Caribbean (we’ll be on a cruise). If you email me, I won’t reply for [...]

A few weeks ago, I spotted a Rocking Duck from Playsam in Skandinavia (oh the wonders of the internet) and it was on sale (never mind that the shipping cost as much as the duck).
I ordered one on impulse, because it was so damned cute. It arrived today, so I put it [...]

1500 is a great number.
1500 is a number that means a lot to lots of people.
1500 is the designation of Chevy’s standard 1/2 ton pickup truck. A Chevy 1500 is a good truck.
1500 is 3:00 p.m. in the Army. 1500 is a good time to have a meeting in the summer time (it [...]

This story comes from my Father-in-law, and since I’m really short on time to write up content, I’m posting this here. Hope you enjoy, and that you learn something:
The best advice I can give is shop around. Not just for lowest price but also for highest quality. Normally you wont find both [...]

If there is only one article you read this year on investments, read this one from Mark Cuban. It’s the one article I took time to read today…

I’m reminded of the old Dinah Shore and Johnny Mercer tune tonight:

Yes, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside“.
And the funny thing is it’s a lot colder in other parts of the country… like in the single digits in Denver and Chicago… brrrrrr.

If you’re a Queen fan, you should probably check out The Darkness, a Rock and Roll band from Britain that definitely sounds like modern day Queen.
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The iTMS has an exclusive EP for sale, but it’s not available for US iTMS shoppers… the other albums and singles are though.
Totally cool, and a great [...]

I bought a new Rainbird sprinkler system controller a few weeks ago, and I blew the fuse that came with it during installation… but luckily, it came with a spare. So, I used the spare after I got it installed.
Now, two-three weeks later, I came home after a weekend trip out of town, and [...]

My friend, Drew Moynihan launched a new website this week: Loftywords.com. Loftywords.com is a website that’ll follow the loft industry and the loft lifestyle as it progresses across the country…
Congrts to Drew in his new endeavor… pretty cool that he’s hanging his own shingle out there again, and I wish him the best [...]

For those of you that know me… you know that I was in the Army and National Guard in the past, so you might hear me say the word “Hooah,” but you might not know what it means… so here’s a definition for you (you won’t find it in the Dictionary):

Hooah (whoı-a) part. {slang, Army [...]

‘The following song is sung to the tune of the Baylor Fight Song by Aggies everywhere:
That good ol’ Baylor line
We’re 40 points behind
We’re gonna lose another game
Our team’s a waste of time
The coach sends in the play
To hear the church bells chime
We’re gonna lose another game
That good old Baylor line.
Just wanted to share that with [...]

I sat in the Admiral’s Club at O’hare airport for 4+ hours today… rediculous how a little rain can totally screw up the air traffic to Texas for that long, but anyways…
I was quite impressed by the paper quality of the New York Times here in Chicago… Amazing paper quality, and I used to [...]

Just taking the opportunity to point out one of my favorite italian restaurants in Houston, Texas (I’m going to eat lunch there next week) to the good folks out there on the internet.
Birraporetti’s used to be a place my dad took my kid brother and I when we were really young to have Shirley Temple [...]

I was reading Iceberg by Clive Cussler last night, and came across a new word, so I looked it up today:
bon vivant means “A person with refined taste, especially one who enjoys superb food and drink.”
Good word that I’ll have to use more often in the future:
“My best friend Josh could be considered a bon [...]

I own a blue sportcoat. This sportcoat is a pretty simple, blue sportcoat that I bought at Men’s Warehouse a year ago or two. It’s not flashy… the buttons on the sleeve are blue, not gold. It doesn’t have an embedded MP3 player built into it. It also doesn’t sing or [...]

I needed to buy some rechargeable batteries today. I thought about stopping into a store to buy them, but then I realized, I didn’t really know where to buy them. Radio Shack? Best Buy? CompUSA? Circuit City? Fry’s?
So, I came home from lunch and started with Amazon.com, mainly because I [...]

Happy New Year folks.
Wondering where I’ve been?
Easy answer: Spending my leisure time with the 6 week old kid. It’s that simple.
I haven’t fallen out of love with blogging by any means, I just have fallen in love with my son, and thus, I’ve been holding him, playing with him, getting him [...]

So, the kid is two weeks old as of yesterday. The day after we brought the kid home, I headed up to Fry’s for the after Thanksgiving sales.
I was in the market for a new digital camera. You see, the one we had was an old PowerShot S100 DIGITAL ELPH that we bought [...]

“Life is tough…..it’s tougher if you’re stupid.” - John Wayne
’nuff said.

I upgraded the photo gallery software that I use to power the photo galleries for englers.org this weekend to the latest beta version of Photostack.
The new gallery is a little more classy, and should be easier to navigate through. Noel Jackson has done a truly wonderful job with this latest version of Photostack.
In the [...]