• Doing One Thing Great

    Yesterday my grandpa asked me if I could set him up to do some online banking transfers. After working with it for a while, I was not able to do it. However, it was not due to anything on our side. The bank had made some mistakes in the last month that made it impossible.…


  • Dashboard Submissions Complete

    Thank you to all that helped by sending in screenshots. There was really good support. We ended up with 1160 individual screenshots. Wow. I thought that I had a pretty good idea of the widgets available to Tiger users, but there were alot that I had never seen. The most screenshots came from Mike Libby.…


  • Dashboard Contest (updated)

    I have been requesting help from the online Mac community, and most have been coming here for further clarification. I thought that I would write a quick post for those coming here on account of the competition: For those who are using Macs running Tiger, I am looking to collect as many different dashboard variations…


  • Stringed Instrument Gems

    I just didn’t like the idea of a ear wax post being my most recent post, so I thought that I would add a couple more musical gems that I have been listening to lately. I like these songs because they are modern acoustic guitar music, but have both been peppered with violins and cellos.…


  • How to clean your ears out using candles!?!

    In the past, I have been accused of living the life of an old man. it could be my 9 o’clock bedtime. Or maybe my like for artists like Willie Nelson, Frank Sinatra, and especially James Taylor. Or possibly it is because the mini fridge in my office has yogurt, string cheese and Tums as…


  • Ogling Googling

    I’ve written before at how much I prefer Google Maps over other services like Mapquest. And now it seems that Google maps are the talk of the town. (Because of my mention,no doubt.) But there are some other really neat things that Google can do. SMS Google is a really neat way to find things…


  • Battery Spencer

    I’ve made another change to this blog, this one a bit more obvious than the last. I changed the layout and look of the site. I did this for a couple reasons. I just wanted a more advanced look than it was before. I’m still fine tuning this to work in all browsers, but it’s…


  • To Give You A Laugh When You Need It

    I have added a feature to the blog that I hope will be enjoyable. If you look at the top of the sidebar on the right, you will see “Mitch Hedberg Quote”, followed by a quote. Those quotes are from the acts of my favorite comedian, Mitch Hedberg. (Well, I guess I can’t say favorite…


  • Over the Rivers and thru the Woods

    Well, as you can tell, I didn’t do as well as I thought I would with blogging from Europe. It was very much a whirlwind trip. We didn’t slow down long enough to even write. We would wake up in one country, and be four countries away by the time we went to sleep. It…


  • Las Vegas to London

    I am in the South Kensington area of London. Jamie has been living here for school and we are in a hotel on the same block. This is a very nice part of London, and probably the favorite area that I’ve seen in both times I’ve been here. We have seen alot in the last…


  • Out With The Old

    It’s obvious that cell phones have changed the way that the world operates quite a bit. In business and personal lives, people are more reachable and more productive in places and times that they would not have been before. But coming into the new, usually means changing or losing the old. The other day I…


  • Wiggle Baby (updated)

    I know that alot of you aren’t familiar with my family, but forgive me for a personal beginning. It’s about a cute baby doing cute things. (If you don’t like that, make sure you have a heart.) You can skip to the end for a couple gems. My sister had a baby about 7 months…


  • Old Gems Re-polished

    It has been a while since I posted some gems so I thought that I’d share a couple. How about a couple remixes that i have found recently? I’ve written before about how much I enjoy Jack Johnson’s music. He’s got a clean voice and great guitar. Well, I was listening to an advance copy…


  • Manly Things

    Yesterday morning, a buddy and I boarded a boat and went deep sea fishing in the Pacific Ocean. It was a good time. The fun thing about fishing in the ocean is that there is no boundaries. You can catch just about anything, any size anywhere. Some of the fish we brought up were so…


  • Girls like Guys with skills

    Especially dancing skills. Since I have posted a few times about Napolean Dynamite on this site, I thought that I would add this one too. Here is a nice little tutorial about how to dance like Napolean. And if the dancing doesn’t work to get the girls, money and gifts will. So make some sweet…


  • Lucky Duck

    I have posted before about the lake behind my house. Well, a few weeks ago I walked out my front door to a very agressive duck sitting there. I thought that was kind of strange, but definitely understandable considering the lake. A week later, I pull up to the house in my truck, and watch…


  • One More thing I want

    A while back, I came across some really cool pictures on flickr.com. They are pictures taken with a high speed camera as a bullet passes thru different items. I want a high speed camera. I NEED a high speed camera. You can see them here


  • A Time Killer

    Next time you are sitting in the DMV, and you want something to do. You can try making one of these little fellas. There is only one step that is a little tough, but overall it’s not too bad. You can find the instructions here If you know of more dollar bill origamis somewhere online,…


  • Two Sides of Every Story

    I read the local, national, and world news every morning. Maybe that is an old guy thing to do, but I like to keep informed and enjoy taking part in intelligent conversation. Like everyone, I form opinions while I read. Any man who will marry the runaway bride deserves what is coming to him. Las…


  • My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

    Last night I checked off an item in my “Things to do before I die” list. I went to watch Willie Nelson in concert. I was really excited to go to this concert. In fact, I grew out a mustache just for the occasion so that I could fit in with the crowd a little…