Category Archives: Random

Netflix for Books

The tweet that spawned this post Net­flix in case you haven’t heard of it is sys­tem whereby you give them money and they send you movies by mail that you can keep for as long as you want. No late fees, no extra charges on your account. Mail back the movie in their pre-paid enve­lope and

Moving Forward and Upward: 2009 Edition

Start­ing Mon­day I will have a new job work­ing as a Web Devel­oper at Smart­field. I have enjoyed my time work­ing for Accade and I wish all the best for the com­pany. Smart­field sells sen­sors to farm­ers that build a sta­tis­ti­cal model for how the plants in the field will per­form. My job will be

Yes I’ve Been Memed

Yep, I’ve been memmed, so stand back and watch me talk about myself for a few min­utes and learn some­thing. I despise bananas I enjoy banana nut bread and Post Banana Nut Cereal, crazy I know I got my first set of con­tacts around Thanks­giv­ing and, I absolutely love them. The optometrist asked me if I

Transitions

I’m a lit­tle late in writ­ing this, but ear­lier this week coin­cid­ing with the tran­si­tion in our gov­ern­ment, I made a per­sonal tran­si­tion. I accepted a posi­tion with Sim­ple Web Works, a Web Design and Devel­op­ment firm located here in Lub­bock. I will be work­ing with them as a part-time Web Devel­oper (PHP, SQL, JavaScript,

links for 2008-12-17

Lessons From the Chicago Sit-In — Economix Blog — NYTimes.com Does a low help that isn’t enforced? (tags: crime law usa pol­i­tics eco­nom­ics) BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China ‘bans BBC Chi­nese web­site’ Sites that were unblocked dur­ing the Olympics are being re-blocked. (tags: china pol­i­tics free­dom inter­net cen­sor­ship media) Obama’s $10 Bil­lion Promise Stirs

Travel Day

Today I’m in DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) for work, and I have a bunch of thoughts run­ning through my head about dif­fer­ent things, so this is a post with­out any real clear topic, but more of a ram­ble of what’s going on in my head tonight. I need to do a post about the elec­tion and

Is It Wrong To Be Enthusiastic Over A Politician

A recent McCain polit­i­cal ad, emded here from John McCain’s YouTube chan­nel. The ad com­pares Obama to Paris Hilton (I learned writ­ing this post, that Paris Hilton has a web­site.) and Brit­ney Spears and asks that just because some­one has a lot of enthu­si­as­tic fol­low­ers doesn’t make him ready to lead. This ad just doesn’t make sense to me.