Outside the Rat Race

Sometimes it's fun to change things up and these last two weeks have definitely been different for me. You see, for these last two weeks...

So we've been making progress on our Eiffel Tower. The Lego set comes in three parts so that, I'm guessing, it can be easily stored....

Jessi and I got a new toy. We're going to be going to Paris for our honeymoon, so we thought it would be fun to build the Eiffel Tower o...

This week Jessi and I saw the movie Horton Hears a Who and let me tell you, it is a good movie. This movie is an absolute must see film. Ev...

Sunday was a good day. I woke up early and headed out to my local Fred Meyers. It seems that the only place to buy anything electronic, that...

Here comes the list: 4 Things I'm excited about!!! I just purchased a new monitor from HP - ah... the employee discount is nice... It...

I found a new program the other day and so far it's earned my seal of approval. It's called ObjectDock, by Statdock. You know that b...

I've recently been doing a lot of research on making a web crawler and it's fairly interesting. Basically, a web crawler is a progra...

I'm not intending to write a spoiler, but if you're like me where watching a trailer can be too much info, just stop reading. It...

I've began dabbling in a new project. A friend at work, who's stated 2008 goal is to "own a patent", approached me with a ...

I have many things to be thankful for, and today, in the wee hours of the morning, I am thankful for Chloraseptic Soar Throat Spray. Yep, I ...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of watching the OSU Beavers take on the Maryland Terrapins at AT&T Park in San Francisco (where the SF Gia...

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you had a great time and were able to relax a little bit. Jessi and I were able to spend Christmas in the B...

So, there's kind of big news in my life. Not only am I getting a promotion at work, but Jessi is now my fiancee! I proposed to her last ...

In my line of work, we show a lot of data. Furthermore, all of that data is displayed within PowerPoint. Over time, we have become experts i...

I like corny jokes. I think it's funny how stupid, yet creative they can be. I once got into a discussion about how measure the "fu...

On February 23, 2003 I put together a goals list as encouraged by a book I read. From what I read, having goals gives you direction in life ...

OK, I sit at my computer A LOT - probably more than I should. No, I know it's more than I should. A person, on average, walks 5,000 step...

When Gmail first came out, I jumped on that bandwagon pretty fast. Though, when I did there were a couple features missing that I really wa...

It's not about how much you make, but how much you keep. Who would you rather be: A professional athlete who makes $500K a year and spen...