Category Archives: Personal

Why Facebook is Robbing You!

I had an epiphany this morning. Facebook is really stealing from us. Not in the normal sense of “Oh, I’m taking your purse and running down the street with it”, but more in the sense, “hey, you own this music, I’m taking it.” Back up…. How did I get here? I was reading Merlin Mann’s [...]

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Handspringman.com

For those of you who have known me for more than, say, five years, you know that one of my original web properties was handspringman.com. Unfortunately, due to issues with the way domain registration works, it slipped out of my control. At the time it was prohibitively expensive to reposes (somewhere in the several hundred [...]

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New Years 2010

Part of the reason I haven’t been writing is because I have been reading more and more Merlin Mann these days. And while I’m not a writer, some of what he says resonates with me. I want to stop writing just for the sake of writing or putting more content out there. I want what [...]

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Father Thomas Martin

I found out the other week that one of my many mentors throughout school has passed away. Father Thomas Martin O.S.A. was one of my college professors, who in my senior year, severely (in a positive way) changed my appreciation of the Catholic church. I chose to go to Villanova because of their strong academic [...]

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CheerGyms.com Open Team Expenses and Review

I thought it would be worthwhile to publish my expenses for my college team last year. This is useful for anyone who is interested in calculating whether or not you can afford to an open cheerleading team. I cheered for CheerGyms.com. They were a good team and I will talk about my pros and cons [...]

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Small World and My Random Cousin

Last night a friend invited me over to her place for a get together to celebrate the ending of passover and the ability to eat leaven bread. I, being only quasi Jewish, have been eating leaven bread for the entire passover period, but my religion is a story for another day. I end up in [...]

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Daring Fireball Linked List: Spokane to Detonate Squirrels Tearing Up Parks

This is ridiculously funny, yet potentially also cruel. Either way, I agree with Jon Gruber, this is totally what happened in Caddy Shack. Daring Fireball Linked List: Spokane to Detonate Squirrels Tearing Up Parks.

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The Climber: Clif Branded Wine

We went up to Napa this past Saturday. On the way back, after the majority of the car had consumed a significant amount of wine, we stopped off at Taylor’s Refresher for a burger before the drive home. One member of our crew decided that we should get a full bottle of wine. Just so [...]

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Merlin Mann on Creativity Patterns

A lot of my posts recently have just been posts about interesting things I have read on other people’s websites. This is another one of those posts. I’ve been catching up on 43Folders.com recently and quite captured by Merlin Mann. Today I say his video on Creativity Patterns. This video changed my entire personal perspective, [...]

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Credit Crisis Explained

Found this video through Daring Fireball. It’s a great explanation of what is going on in the financial world.

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