A little over six months ago I went to Dubai, UAE on a recruiting trip for work. It was an incredibly interesting place largely because of the amount of construction going on and how over the top some of it is. I just ran into this site that has a lot of photos of examples [...]

It’s been a rough few days for me on the computer front. Over three years ago now I built my primary desktop for home (see this post). It’s worked really well over time except that’s it was extremely loud which led to me (just recently) deciding to try to address the situation. I bought and replaced [...]

Starting maybe five years ago, our group of close friends started doing a Secret Santa gift exchange every year for Christmas. Our first thought was to draw out of a hat which was feasible back then as we were all still single in the group and exclusions (people you can’t ‘get’ as your secret santa [...]

My last post led me to youtube.com (always hard to get out of quickly) which landed me on this video. Amazing guitar playing and as innovative as I’ve seen in a long time. The fascinating part is he’s clearly technically amazing but also manages to create really great music at the same time which isn’t [...]

If you haven’t seen this little game, you’ve been missing out on some seriously creative but simplistic game design that’s actually pretty fun to spend some time playing with. It’s called Line Rider. Try it here first and then watch this video to get a taste of just how much one can do with it [...]

Being from Miami and having been through several significant hurricanes in the past I totally underestimated the storm we just experienced up in the pacific northwest a couple of days ago. The winds on their own weren’t that bad for the most part but the crazy amount of trees we have up here makes it [...]