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i have random thoughts throughout my days so i figure i’d jot them down here.

Techstars Reality Show: Tech Startups Simplified

Day 4 of 30 of Writing Challenge I finished watching the Techstars reality show by Bloomberg television. I have mixed feelings with the show. On the one hand I think it’s awesome that tech startups have their own medium to showcase what it’s like to build and launch a company. However, how the show turned out leaves [...]

Posted 23 October 2011 § Challenges § Personal growth § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Do Penguins Who Steal Go to Hell?

Day 3 of 30 of Writing Challenge Today’s post is inspired by a YouTube video I found today. The video is a clip about male penguin nest building habits. In the video clip you learn that in order for male penguins to attract mates they have to build nests made out of rocks. It’s pretty [...]

Posted 22 October 2011 § Challenges § Personal growth ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Software Patent Law Sucks: I Hate Companies Like Intellectual Ventures

Day 2 of 30 of Writing Challenge I finished listening to NPR’s This American Life episode about patent trolling today. You would think it’d be boring, but This American Life always manages to draw me into what you’d think be boring shows. The premise of this episode was the examination of how software patents and [...]

Posted 21 October 2011 § Challenges § Personal growth § Stupidity ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

30 Days of Writing Challenge…Starts Now

Day 1: I suck at writing want to get bettr I know writing is good for me. There are a “plethora” of blog posts and articles that speak to writing’s benefits. The main benefit of learning to write well is being able to express yourself clearly. I want to be a better communicator as I [...]

Posted 20 October 2011 § Challenges § Personal growth ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Why I Hate Food Trucks

This was an old post I had wrote in January. I still hate food trucks, but since I hear less about them my hate as dissipated some what. Enjoy! Along with my hate for Twitter I’m gonna add Food Trucks which seem to be all the rage these days to my hate list. “Buy why? They are [...]

Posted 19 October 2011 § Random Silliness § Stupidity ‡ Comments (0) °

The Saga of Faster and Faster Rapping Pale People

Right now the hot thing going around the internet is white people rapping fast. It all started with one white person showing us how fast he could rap. This lead to more white people showing that they were faster rappers. When will the madness end? Who’s the fastest? I don’t know. Chances there is no [...]

Posted 25 January 2011 § Random Silliness ‡ Comments (0) °

The Twitter Challenge for People Who Truly Hate Twitter

Even though I’m still hater of Twitter my friend and business partner has convinced me to try it for a month before I make my final judgement on the super hot and awesome-platform-that-will-save-mankind. Bookmark It Hide Sites

Posted 19 January 2011 § Challenges § Personal growth ‡ Comments (0) °

Future Checkin Makes Foursquare Future Pointless

I love it how Techcrunch sometimes misses the bigger picture story on the tech news they cover. Actually, scratch that, I don’t love it, I think it’s annoying.  But maybe that’s their strategy totally miss something so other people (like me) will write something in response to it.  Well it worked… Bookmark It Hide Sites

Posted 03 August 2010 § Crazy § Stupidity § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

iPad Not so iHot

I don’t consider myself an Apple “Fanboy,” but I do happen to like quite a few Apple Products.  For me it’s not about just being blindly loyal to a company for the sake of being loyal (ie Fanboy-ish), but really just choosing to purchase products that I think are better and do what I want [...]

Posted 05 March 2010 § Stupidity § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

I’ll Get Him Hard, Show Him What I Got!

I’m pretty bad at listening to lyrics.  Often times I’ll hear one thing only to be shocked to find out it was something totally different (ie Rihanna’s “Disturbia” I heard is “The Story Life”).  For my amusement I like to listen to lyrics and then on purpose twist them up to make it sound more [...]

Posted 18 February 2010 § Random Silliness ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: