Browsing Life
The Headlines
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
I just feel like doing some writing today so I thought I’d would chime in on some current events: The Oil Spill The Economy Baseball in 2010 Lebron James I don’t like complaining about stuff unless I can offer a solution, so I’ll try and offer some lame solution to anything that merits one. The [...]
I don’t know your name, but…
Monday, July 12th, 2010
…you make my days better. Security guard in the mornings This guy is great, I see him maybe once a week. I come into work around 7am and every morning he’s working he looks at me and proclaims “Hey man! What’s up?”. And I respond with a “Nothing man, how’s it goin’?”. This the extent [...]
Speaking to the Masses
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
In a few weeks (July 20th) I’ll be flying back east again to speak at the University of Pennsylvania’s User Interface Conference. It’s been in the works now for about 6 or 7 months and as the date approaches I find myself closely examining every detail of my presentation. Initially I was slated to speak [...]
Extract
Monday, April 19th, 2010
As promised, my post-surgery blog post… Alright, well… I just got 3 wisdom teeth removed. I apparently don’t have a 4th one, so that’s good. I feel fine, not loopy, no pain (yet). Hoping to be back working tomorrow, but time will tell. Let’s see… what else… the doctor was cool, funny guy. He said [...]
Years of Wisdom
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Every 6 months or so I get a throbbing pain in my jaw for about a week. This is that week. It makes it very difficult to eat, talk, and basically move my jaw much at all. Fortunately I know what the problem is, unfortunately I’m well aware that it’s my wisdom teeth. I haven’t [...]
Worse than a Punch in the Face
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Here’s a short list of things that I think are worse than a punch in the face. In no particular order: Ice chips in milk because the fridge is too cold Lettuce on a day old sandwich Red light cameras Inaccurate DVR stopping during a fast forward People who stop in the middle of a [...]
Upcoming Travel
Friday, November 13th, 2009
I have a lot of traveling in the coming months, lots of flying around and I just wanted to stop by and list out me stuff I’ll be doing so when I don’t reply to e-mail no one gets mad. Nov. 26-Nov. 30 – Mrytle Beach, SC Dec. 8 – Dec. 12 – New Orleans [...]
States in Touble
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
I was reading this article on Yahoo! today. I don’t know about everyone else but when I see an article title like “10 Most blah blah blah” I’m really just interested in seeing a list of 10 things, not a paragraph with the 10 things buried in there somewhere for me to search out. It [...]
A Day in the Life
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
6am – Wake up 6:30am – Watch Married with Children on TBS 6:45am – Leave for work 7:15am – Arrive at work 12:00pm – Lunch 4:15pm – Leave work 4:45pm – Arrive back my my apartment 5:00pm – Watch PTI recorded [ The rest of the day is mixed with freelance work, writing, TV, eating [...]
Cute Dog Pictures I Found Today
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Check out this little guy, he doesn’t even know what’s up: And this fella too:
My West Coast Blacklist
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Being in LA for a little over a year now I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of the area and the roads, not all the highways but I can usually get from point A to point B. I’m generally pretty vocal about the traffic in this area and last weekend’s trip to [...]
International Travel
Monday, September 14th, 2009
I got this in an e-mail forward and thought it was funny enough to share: A school bus in Japan The outside The inside A school bus in India
My All-time Favorite Terrible Movies
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
I’m a big fan of the movie that’s so bad it’s brilliant. Here’s a short list of my favorites: Blood Sport Kickboxer Lionheart Ghost Rider Snakes on a Plane Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift Crank: High Voltage Death Warrant Obviously I’m not a fan of Jean Claude Van Damme, a brilliant terrible actor. Posted on [...]
Sincerely, Sprint
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Over 2 months ago I got my Palm Pre. Pretty much love it so far, very few complaints. Anyway, when you get a Pre they fill out your $100 mail–in rebate form for you and you just have to mail it out. 2 months after that I get this e-mail from sprint Dear TIMOTHY WRIGHT: [...]
10 Things that Irritate me
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
People who say “rubbish” when they mean “trash” Too much mayonnaise Changing lanes without signaling Table-based web site layouts Use of the word "Guesstimate" Reality TV Lame Advertising Cartoon avatars People who wear knit hats in 70+ degree weather Top 10 Lists function reverse_lists() { var olists = document.getElementsByTagName(‘ol’); for (var i = 0; i [...]
