Archive for the 'Thoughts' Category

Musics!

Friday, November 14th, 2008

I recently got into three albums which are all surprisingly good, so I thought you should know:

Rise Against - Appeal to Reason Somehow these guys keep getting better. It’s hard to argue whether this album sells out more or less than Siren Song… did, but both are effective and I think this album returns them [...]

Observation

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

After the umpteenth time spilling water on my wireless keyboard, I think it finally died.

My new Apple USB keyboard doesn’t have a Help key. Man, I hated that key. No other key always makes an annoying window pop up when you accidentally tap it. An awful window that, in MS Word at [...]

and a Sense of Wonder

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Two experiences from the past year really struck me, and I’m grateful to have this transition to give me time to think about them. One was playing with my 5-year-old cousin in her parents’ backyard. She had a T-ball stand (just a hollow plastic tube) in her kiddie pool and was submerging it [...]

“Salt Lake City (1)”

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

I moved to Park City, UT almost exactly 18 months ago. I’d been here for three weeks before — enough to know that it’s the ideal combination of small mountain town and cosmopolitan interest. We beat the socks off of Aspen or Jackson for limiting our yuppieness (thank you Church of Latter-Day Saints [...]

No Floor, No Ceiling

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

I was talking to a friend in college who will likely go straight to a PhD after he graduates the other night about life outside of academia, given my 1 year of experience.

It made me realize how great business is. For a liberal arts grad it can be scary that there are no guarantees [...]

Price Transparency

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

My web host* just started plugging third-party tools and products to their customers. So is this more spam to sort through or helpful advice about cool new things that I might not have known about? As always, a question of opinion.

Here’s the so-simple-it’s-revolutionary kicker — they completely disclose their agreements with the third-party [...]

Life with iPhone

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Today I went to see Live Free or Die Hard. It was everything I hoped for (explosions).

On the drive to the theater, Ben asked if I had seen the trailer for it. I hadn’t. I handed him my iPhone and he downloaded the trailer through iPhone’s YouTube support as we were driving. [...]

OOO

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

So nobody ever told you, baby how it was going to be So what’ll happen to you, baby guess we’ll have to wait and see…

I was amused when my roommate, friend, and co-worker Ben Dilts decided upon being [...]