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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 † ben § Challenges ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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 † ben § Challenges ‡ Comments (0) °

Overheard Today…

On the radio: 1 in 5 teenagers have done “sexting” (the sending of sexually explicit text messages) teen preganacy is on the rise for the first time in 15 years my thoughts: is there a correlation between the two? At the gym: Is water good for you? my thoughts: no, vodka is better for you [...]

Posted 31 March 2009 † ben § Crazy § Random Silliness § Stupidity ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Unhappy Fresh and Easy Customer: An Open Letter

Some of you may or may not be familiar with the grocery store Fresh and Easy.  They’ve been sprouting up all over southern California like weeds.  They are taking a different approach to grocery shopping.   Rather than being a big box grocery store like Vons, Ralphs, Albertsons, etc… they are taking a smaller more [...]

Posted 03 February 2009 † ben § Random Silliness ‡ Comments (20) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Apparently I’m Racist

Thanks to the Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT) a friend of mine sent me to take I have learned that I’m racist.  Harvard doesn’t directly call me a racist, but say that my results “suggest a moderate automatic preference for European American compared to African American.”    If European American = white and African American = [...]

Posted 30 January 2009 † ben § Crazy § Politics § Random Silliness § Stupidity ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

MacBook Not Booting (The Conclusion)

If you haven’t been following, my hard drive failed on me a week ago.  I’ve been trying to get that data off the disk.  Last we left off with me waiting to hear back from Jason, a tech support guy for Disk Warrior, a program I had purchased to try to rebuild my hard drive [...]

Posted 14 January 2009 † ben § Stupidity § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

The Ugly Side of Ego

Letting go of my ego/pride is one of the most difficult things I’ve been learning to deal with.  This is especially more difficult when you feel like you are being attacked (either someone attacking your character or an idea you have) even though part of you know that you are in the wrong.  My natural [...]

Posted 28 August 2007 † ben § Sober Challenge ‡ Comments (0) °