Donkey Kong Art

I have good friends. For example, Shayne. For Christmas he sent me the Donkey Kong wall art that I had mentioned I thought was really cool after seeing the wall art he put up in his kid’s room (Super Mario). It took me a couple weeks to get around to putting it up, but holy [...]

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Why I’m now a Bose customer for life

Bose AE2

When it comes to headphones, I usually stick to garden variety ear-buds. I’ve had several pair from Skull Candy and they do the trick nicely. Especially considering they cost under $20. But, I don’t always like to use ear-buds and would rather have a pair of over the ear headphones. A few years back, my [...]

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DIY Sangria

DIY Sangria

A couple months back I had the pleasure of going out to dinner with Chris Brogan at Texas de Brazil. When the waitress was asking us what we wanted to drink, Chris suggested a pitcher of sangria. I’m not a wine drinker, but agreed to split it with him. I am glad I did. It [...]

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Today, we work on us

I’m sure you’ve heard the proverb “The shoemaker’s children are often shoeless”, right? When you are running a service based business, it’s inevitable; you are going to wake up one day and realize that everything about your business is out of date. Your website has 6 month old pricing, your brochures have photos of products [...]

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WordPress United – Las Vegas

After WordCamp Las Vegas in January 2009 a group of us started up our own branch of Beer n Blog. It jumped out of the gate with some really solid numbers. For the first 4-6 weeks we were averaging somewhere near 40 attendees and there was some honest to goodness blogging going on along with [...]

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No new ideas Thursdays

I just finished watching this Ted talk given by Jason Fried (co-founder of 37signals) titled; Why work doesn’t happen at work. This talk really hit home. For the final couple of years at my previous job we had enough meetings to make sure that it would be virtually impossible for people to get much done. [...]

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