Why I Quit Smoking
I realized I was committing a slow, sad, drawn-out suicide, so in the second week of January of this year I quit. Cold turkey. Easiest thing I’ve ever done. Then three months later I quit my job at the cube farm and got to living. Whoever said quitters never win, never faced Big Tobacco. HT: […]
The Sun as Seen by the iPhone
So it was a very sunny day here in Boston and the sky was completely blue without any clouds. While playing with my dog outside I snapped this picture of the sun with my iPhone: Brilliant, eh? It’s amazing how that big bright exploding gob of gas fuels us, our planet and everything found on […]
eDropper: The Automated Entrecard Dropper
A few weeks ago, I joined the blogger community Entrecard. A few days later my blog set new records for highest traffic in a single day, according to both wordpress stats and awstats. WordPress stats: awstats: Clearly, this Entrecard site had tons of potential to be a huge source of quality traffic to my blog, […]
My Very Own Big Fat RSS Icon
Photoshop is ordinarily a big mystery to me. Not sure if it’s because of a lack of understanding of the program or my limitations as an artist (I can draw a mean stick figure, but that’s about it) but I just don’t find Photoshop very intuitive or easy to use. Well, thanks to darrenlondon’s video […]
Look Back at My Final Four Picks
Ten days ago I posted my picks for the teams to make it to the NCAA Final Four. Let’s take a look back at those picks and see how they worked out. My Final Four predictions: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) University of Southern California (USC) University of Memphis University of California […]
My New Banner / Logo
Remember my post about Jay from Scribbles and Words? Well he created a very slick 125 x 125 banner / logo for me. Check it out: Quite nice, eh? Jay also touched up my favicon (the little logo in the address bar of your browser) and made it a lot sharper. He’s really good at […]
The Environmentally Damaging City of Boston Recycling Program
Globalization is not a bad idea. In fact, free global trade (which the linked post argues does not currently exist) is a wonderful concept that would improve living conditions for the majority of earth’s inhabitants and is necessary for humans to survive. However, globalization creates oddities such as the below pictures. Everything looks good, right? […]
Going Down to South Park – Free Episodes Online Now!
Following in the footsteps of Hulu, the creators and copyright holders of the animated cartoon South Park have decided to release all South Park episodes online for free of cost but supported by advertisements. In a huge contrast to content interrupting Hulu ads, the advertisements on South Park Studios appear on the site itself, and […]
Casting Call for New Bruce Willis Film, The Surrogates
I just received an e-mail from a good friend about an open casting call for the film The Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis and Rhada Mitchell. The film is a science-fiction story about a futuristic world where humans interact with each other via surrogate robots while every human sits at home in isolation. The film appears […]
Awesome Services from Scribbles and Words
I just found an awesome blog called Scribbles and Words run by the polymathematical Jay. His blog’s design really sticks out for its simplicity and uniqueness. It’s apparent that Jay has tremendous design skills and an ability to write in a captivating yet easy to read way. Jay is offering up these artistic skills to […]