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Sufficient Quality Pt 1
January 21, 2012Technological advances in the last few years have allowed non-professionals to create video, photo, and web content just short of professional grade, but short enough for no one to notice. The latest Inc magazine headlines ...
Evernote
January 14, 2012Inc magazine named Evernote the company of the year in their December issue. When you consider the span of this software’s reach, it’s not difficult to imagine why they were selected. The write-up is a ...
Based on a True Story
January 13, 2012This week I watched Moneyball again for the first time since seeing it in the theater. If you haven’t seen it yet and you love baseball I definitely recommend it. It’s an excellently crafted story ...
Whistling Wells Farm
January 7, 2012There’s a great local farm in Afton that we visited with Lois and the Jolly family this past October. They have an apple orchard, pumpkin patch, small farm animals, and a quaint little store with ...
Noisetrade.com
January 5, 2012I’ve known about noisetrade.com for a while, but haven’t really explored it much until tonight. If you’d like to discover new music as well as some hidden well known gems, you have to check out ...
The Inception’s on You
January 3, 2012If Inception was thirty seconds longer, you would have seen the top topple. When I first saw the movie last summer, the collective gasp of all of us in the theater foretold the endless debate ...
Sun Country Wing It
May 24, 2011Every Tuesday night I swing over to suncountry.com to check out their wing-it fares in the hope that the dates and price will line up perfectly for a spontaneous trip somewhere in the US. They ...
Obi-Wan Kenobi is Dead
May 13, 2011I know I shouldn’t like this because this parodies the US as the Galactic Empire, but it is one of the most creative web pages I’ve seen in a while. I especially love Yoda’s comment ...
Primal
January 7, 2011Mark Batterson is the lead pastor at a church in Washington DC. He is best known for one of his other books, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. The heart of ...
NanoStudio
January 2, 2011Ever since I got my iPod touch a couple years ago, I’ve always wanted a decent music creation app. The best ones tend to get lost in the thousands of similar junky ones and at ...
A World Undone
December 29, 2010A World Undone is a detailed account of World War 1 and the events surrounding. The author, G.J. Meyer, creates a historical retelling set apart from other author attempts by adding “Background” chapters in between ...
Shrek Forever After
May 25, 2010We saw the new Shrek this past weekend in 3D at the IMAX theater in Roseville. It was a decent movie in the same vein as the last 3… worth a visit to the theater. ...
Composting Concepts
May 18, 2010As you know, we’ve been tearing out a bunch of shrubs and trees around our house. The landscaping was neglected for years and we’ve found it’s easier to just start over on some things rather ...
RE3D METER – Your 3D Value Guide
April 3, 2010How do we know whether or not a movie is worth the 3D surcharge? Now that more and more movie studios are producing 3D films, I’d like to present my own little 3D Value Guide ...
Today’s Top Online Pranks
April 1, 2010Looking for some laughs? Check out some of the best online pranks happening today. I especially like ABC’s show lineup tonight.. Empty House! Uncle Jesse still lives in the attic… priceless. Here are some more ...
Fox News Blues
December 11, 2009Ok, first the disclaimer – This is NOT political commentary. I’m not entering a left/right debate here. This is an observation based simply on the content of foxnews.com and why it turns me off. I ...
2×2×…×2=2n
November 28, 2009Unless you’ve been living in the Hadron Collider, I’m sure that you’ve noticed the recent obsession with vampires overtaking pop culture. Twilight, Vampire Diaries, Cirque Du Freak,and so on and so forth. There’s no need ...
Fruit Flies
September 22, 2009We sorta forgot about a garbage bag upstairs this past weekend and came to a house full of fruit flies. So for the past couple days, we’ve set up these traps. We wrapped saran wrap ...
Bandslam
August 25, 2009Bandslam is a suprisingly good summer movie. It’s clean and fun and manages to avoid numerous plot cliches most movies in the teen genre fall into. While the marketing of the movie would make you ...
Empire Strikes Back
April 18, 2009I’ve always thought Empire Strikes Back is the best of all the Star Wars. It’s the one that makes you feel like the Star Wars Galaxy is a real place. They presented places like Dagoba, ...
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