Catch a Tail by the Tiger
February 21st, 2009
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Lavatory Engineering
February 20th, 2009
Last weekend while at the San Diego Wild Animal Park I had the unfortunate experience of visiting the front entrance restroom. Being near the front gates of park this particular restroom must see 10’s of thousands of visitors each year.
This was one of the most disgusting public restrooms I’ve visited in a long time, and that’s really saying something coming from me.
Read more…
Oh We’re Screwed False Alarm
February 9th, 2009
I found out today that on this Friday at 3:31:30 PM pacific standard time (Friday February 13th, 2009) the unix time will be exactly 1234567890. This means that its been 1,234,567,890 seconds since the Unix Epoch which was January 1st, 1970.
Update February 16th
As far as I can tell, we’re all still here. The 1234567890 timestamp didn’t destroy the earth. Good news.
Cool Flash Toy
November 11th, 2008
Hi everybody. I had a friend pass me over a url of a fun site today, and though I should share it with all of you…
CAUTION DO NOT GO HERE UNLESS YOU HAVE TIME TO WASTE
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THisIsSand.com
To use it press the letter “c” on your keyboard, pick a color and start clicking or holding down your left mouse button.
OnlineGURU Makes Inc. 5000!
August 25th, 2008
This week Inc. Magazine announced the annual Inc. 500, which lists the top Private Companies in the U.S. It’s always a good place to watch for that next “big thing”.
Along with the annual top 500, Inc. also publishes an extension called “the Inc. 5000″. I’m proud to announce that OnlineGURU made it as #932, which means, we only missed the main list by 433!
Other Cool Rankings we Made
TOP 50 Businesses in San Diego (Yes, we made #19 in San Diego)
Congrats fellow GURU’s!
A Few of my Favorite Sites
July 23rd, 2008
I haven’t been pushed out a blog post in a while. Getting the momentum moving after a break is always tough, so I thought I would start back up with an easy post. A list of some of my favorite websites; news, resources, and humor.
- Some Ecards - not your typical ecards. They seem to have one for every occasion. Hillarious.
- Tech Crunch - great site to keep up on the latest and greatest tech news, specifically Start Ups. This is the first site I open each day. I enjoy the un-apologetic writing style.
- Tahoe Daily Tribune - home town news is important to follow. Its just too bad that the Tahoe Daily Tribune website sucks. Their new site is hard to use. the Mountain News needs to step up and embrace the web!
- Google yep, that google. I spend so much time on this site, thought I should include it.
Everything we See Hides Another
June 15th, 2008
The painting, The Son of Man, by the french artist René Magritte, intrigues me.
The artist had this to say about the painting…
At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It’s something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.
To me there is another layer to this painting, I think that not only does everything we see hide something else; but we also choose what we see… does that mean we choose what we hide? Not sure. But the thought is cool.
Musings of Life
June 5th, 2008
Cab drivers are always on the phone, and so are convenience store clerks… Do you think they are talking to each other? If they are, what are they talking about.
Are you happy? If not, why? If so, why? I’ve been thinking lately about what I need to be happy. I’ve gotten as far as knowing that I need fulfillment.
I saw the following list on a friends MySpace Profile, and it makes alot of sense to me, plus it kind of completes this blog post.
Obedience to Authority
May 13th, 2008
For some reason lately I’ve been fascinated with psychological studies. I’ve been specifically tripping out on a certain study conducted by Stanely Milgram at Yale University in 1963. The study looked focused on obedience to authority. This has always been a fascination of mine, probably cause I have issues with authority. But after being within the corporate world for a few years now, the study is coming back to me with totally different implications.
Why do we obey authority? Probably to keep order and structure in our otherwise chaotic life’s. Thinking that authority exists for our best interest is probably true, but also very sad. How far do we obey? The Milgram experiment demonstrated that people will obey authority to an astonishing level, even causing harm to somebody else. terrible. Crushing human will and creativity, or even containing it into authoritative blocks is a bad thing (my opinion).
How did the Woz get into my dream…
April 11th, 2008
This may sound odd, but last night I had a very vivid and comprehensive dream about Steve Wozniak.
the plot goes something like this…
I’m on vacation in a cabin somewhere in the middle of the woods, hunting/fishing type of scenario. My Dad is there and he brought a drinking buddy of his, the Woz. If you don’t know who Steve Wozniak is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak. In the late to mid 70’s, two Steves started a little company called Apple Computers. Steve Jobs was on of the Steves, and the other,,,, the Woz.
The rest of the plot was akin to some sort of Design peptalk/englightment/coaching. The lucid chats I had with Steve Wozniak woke me up to some new found excitement. Innovation.