Category: Thoughts

Happy Hanukkah everyone.

The past few months have been something. I tried to think of a better word than “something” and Adventure, Strange, Unique and a couple others ran through my mind, but none, including “something” really hit the mark. This stretch of life has included international trips to Australia (Part 2 and Part 3), Chile (Part 2),…

I’m venting. I’ve documented testing pre-release versions of WordPress since prior to 3.1 being released in February 2011, coming in at either the Beta or Release Candidate (RC) phase depending the version of WordPress. This release cycle, for the upcoming version 4.1 of WordPress, has annoyed me to the point of reconsidering testing pre-release versions…

This week started with grilled salmon and wine, ended with a salad, and has an Usher concert in between. Monday night concerts are a terrible idea and Beale Street after is a worse idea, but I’m sure I’ll repeat this mistake next year.

Rolling Stone published then retracted A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA. The article was an account of Jackie being gang raped at a fraternity house and the response by those around her. Putting it mildly, it’s an ugly story, compounded by the retraction due to “discrepancies in Jackie’s…

Last week started with smoking a pork tenderloin and Thanksgiving at the Peabody. It finished with a great trip to Costa Rica and Tony popping the question to Chelsea. Congrats guys!

Clint Smith presented The Danger of Silence as a TED Talk.

I recently received 2 emails I’d classify as unprofessional, but for different reasons. The first was from a choreographer soliciting business. My first problem with the email is that it was a forwarded email. I could tell because it was indented with a blue line next to it, see the picture if you don’t know…

I don’t remember what I was listening to, but they described a perfect day exercise. Starting with how you wake up, describe the day in detail. What time is it when your day starts? Where are you? Who’s with you, your wife, girlfriend, a random supermodel? Do you have breakfast? What is it and where…

The week before Thanksgiving involved a trip to Texas to hangout with Kristi, Omar, Christian, and Jeremy, followed by a trip to Mississippi. There was also a cheerleading competition somewhere in the middle.

A couple weeks ago I went to the bank to get some cash before what was destined to be a long and festive day. When I pulled up to the ATM and stuck my card it, it got kicked out. Looking at the screen I saw a bunch of stuff in Spanish that I didn’t…

As we get close to the winter holidays and the time of year when very infrequent travelers take their only flights each year, it seemed appropriate to mention some air travel annoyances. First, checking in at the counter will require an ID. Please have it accessible instead of buried in your clutch, which is in…

Last week I saw snow in Memphis, went to Arizona and hung out with Keelie, then went to New Mexico and met another Keelie. When I got back I went to a Grizzlies game and watched Kentucky beat up Kansas.

Ze Frank presented Are You Human? as a TED Talk.

CNN published Project Brings More Than 900 Vintage Arcade Games to Web, about the Internet Arcade, where games from my childhood can be played online. The Internet Archive has released more than 900 video games spanning the 1970s through the 1990s, according to PC World. The site, which is a nonprofit founded to build an…

It usually takes an outlier, something out of the ordinary, to make someone change anything meaningful in their life. It could be something good, like meeting the girl of your dreams or having a baby, or something bad, like the death of someone close to you or experiencing a near death experience personally. I know…