Archive for the 'life' Category

List of Links: 001 – Human-powered Dogma

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

What are all these links for? Find out here.
Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It) by Lifehacker
This is a great overall post for anybody. It takes many aspects of daily human (middle class) life and explains how our brain is attempting to sabotage potential good decisions. Most of the [...]

720p is the bare minimum

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

I’ve been pondering this thought for a long time, but the iPhone 4 announcement finally confirmed it for me:
The only reason you wouldn’t record video in HD 720p from 2011 onwards is if you’re doing it for artistic purposes.
The iPhone 4 is the first iPhone to record HD video. It’s definitely NOT the first mobile [...]

Cleaning out all the “stuff”

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

This is not a step-by-step guide on how to unclutter your life. These are just my experiences and thoughts about peoples’ stuff/possessions. Helpful resources will be listed at the bottom.
Over the past eight months I have truly realised how much stuff people hoard. I moved to America in February and in order to [...]

Dream: Unraveling Spiders

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Last night (1st August, 2010) I had a dream about tiny spiders that looked dead, but unraveled when I got close to them.
One, larger spider (like the black one in “Salt“) was also present, but I seemed to be focused on all the smaller spiders.
Most of the small spiders were pastel yellow, but there were [...]

Silent Screams

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Last night I was finishing some work on my computer while Rachel and her parents went to sleep.
After I finished my work I brushed my teeth and changed in to my pajamas. That last part was the kicker. It was completely dark, but I knew that there was a table next to the bed.
As I [...]

Wash your car regularly

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Preface: I don’t condone the use of cars. They are a convenient weapon and those who operate them are careless as a collective. That said, I do drive cars because there isn’t an alternative method of travel (from point A to B in a small town) within the grasp of the middle class citizen. I [...]

TPAN featured on Mevio

Friday, June 18th, 2010

I started my audio podcast, The Podshow About Nothing (a.k.a. TPAN), in 2006. I listened to lots of other audio podcasts back then, and they inspired me to start my own. Back then I didn’t have any niche topics to discuss, so the show is basically just an audio blog with fairly high production value [...]