A Place For Things I Think About
I am currently reading Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants“. I use the word reading, but I am actually listening to the audiobook version. In part 2 of the book, Malcolm poses the question “You wouldn’t wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you?” It is…
Amazon just released a new subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, which gives Amazon Kindle customers all-you-can-read access to 600,000 e-books and a few thousand audiobooks for $9.99 per month. My wife and I share a single Amazon account, so we are taking advantage of the free for 30-days offer in order to see if the selection…
Despite my dislike of the name Bing for Microsoft’s search engine service (I hear Janice from Friends say “Chandler Bing” every time in that nasally voice), I’m going to give it a try for a while over Google’s search. The main reason: Bing Rewards. These companies are making money, a lot of money, from our search…
“Seize the time… – live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” Captain Jean-Luc Picard Top 3 ideas for being more present this holiday season and in the new year Live outside the viewfinder – capture your moments with your technology but use a small tripod to prevent yourself from…
Tonight’s challenge: produce the mirror image of a document for my wife from a Word document she created. The first step was to save the document as a PDF. Next, I opened the PDF with Gimp, a free, open source alternative to Photoshop available for Mac, PC, and Linux. This allowed me to flip the…
3 Good Things Doing some studying (and a little work) from my backyard. Discovering Slogger to use with the @dayoneapp Creating an IFTTT recipe to send articles from Pocket to SoundGecko. My office today
3 Good Things Florescent Band-Aids – after my initial knee injections today, the doctor rewarded me with florescent Band-Aids (one orange, one green) for not crying. Two more treatments to go, let’s see if I can keep this ‘not crying’ thing going. Back to Work Podcast – Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin host one of…
3 Good Things: Despite a few things I dislike about my truck, today’s warmer weather allowed me to open my windows and the sliding rear window to enjoy the wind for my drive home. I love that about the truck. Bring on summer! My son received the first of 3 stripes towards earning his next…
A Huge Loss We were notified late yesterday that a member of our unit family was among the casualties of yesterday’s plane crash in Afghanistan. Captain Brandon Cyr was a very talented Air Force pilot. His calm, pleasant demeanor along with his brilliant analytical skills made him a very valuable member of our team. We…
Yahoo Weather app – gorgeous design for the iPhone, good info Lauren is ready to enjoy her Senior Prom Family Movie Night: Life of Pi