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And so begin’s another year

Another day, a new year. I don't officially stop referring to the year as the mathematical formula n - 1 where n=the current year (nerd talk) until I get the final notice to renew my Flickr account. That email came today, and so it is officially 2011. I should go out and shoot some fireworks to celebrate (shoot as in with a lens and a digital SLR, not the firecrackers I can no longer buy anywhere in Orange County legally). 2010 brought its ups and downs, rekindled friendships and sparked new one...

September’s Past

So it's already September, and my inbox is filling up with school emails. Where did the summer go? I've been busy, hence the lack of attention to the blog. I'm hoping for a resign and site overhaul by the end of the year, just have to think up the designs.In my absence from the intertubes of the world wide webs, I've been to San Francisco and back, seen the Dodgers lose far too many games, and watched them lose even more. My new haircut has been dubbed the Brian Wilson, and I just ordered my fir...

A New Journey

A new day, and a new journey. Day One.This post is a little late, but I've thrown in the towel at big ol' Ma'Bell and took a job at Apple. Here's to the future.Think Different.[image courtesy Stephane]

A Crisis Emerging

"There’s been a lot of talk about the recall." Jim Lentz has his hands full lately thanks to his title of President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Inc. If you've watched or read the news via any credible media outlet the past couple of weeks, it's been hard to ignore the catastrophic Quality Assurance (QA) falters of Toyota Motors. To date, 11, yes, 11 Toyota vehicles have been issued recalls, and the Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood even has gone as far as t...

A Journey to Seattle and Back

New Text Message Update Delivery System

Thanks to the creative mind juices flowing around the Wordpress offices, a recent update to the brain that makes this site work has finally activated a text messaging update service plug-in I use. Sign up to receive text message alerts whenever I post a new article or blog by entering your cell phone number in the sign-up widget on the right side of the homepage (middle-ish). Standard text message rates apply, but who doesn't have an unlimited plan nowadays right?[Thanks to the crew at Semper Fi...

Team Coco

'nuff said.  There's slander being thrown left and right, between exec's and comedians, but in the end, this is all that really matters... [image used with free permission from Mike, Creator of Team Conan]

Sherlock Holmes, Private I

Film has the capacity to reveal, entertain, and question certain practices. Long has the battle been raged between religion and science, one fighting for centuries-old theological beliefs, the other for mathematical and formulaic answers to man’s existence. And long has the battle between religion and science been discussed amongst scholars, and common folk. But it was in film that I came across an unexpected plot that drew uncanny parallels to this very battle. Sherlock Holmes, Detective ...

Material Life

Dodger Fans, Run it Off

While the front office hallways might be filled with more suits and legal personnel nowadays, what with certain former female CEO's sleeping around the office and all, and amidst an increasingly ugly divorce battle turned custody battle for the organization, why not go for a run?  Let off some steam.  First off, let me make this clear, I am not going to be running the 26 miles from the depths of Chavez Ravine to the seas of Santa Monica.  I just ain't in the shape for that. But I did go to ab...