Just things in general
I’m an IT Line Manager in my real life. Some managers manage very loosely, some manage very tightly and there are others that fall in between. Regardless of a manager’s style, there is one important trait that I think all managers should have; being calm under pressure. Things go wrong. Nine times out of ten, […]
I just walked over from my office building to the train station. While walking in the station I saw a lady in her 50’s walking and toking away one one of her eCigarette contraptions. There is a guy on my train whom I see everyday sitting there puffing away on his vapor stick. Let me […]
I believe that New Years Eve is a great time of remorse and promise. It is the one time of the year where you can reflect on what you have done, what you hoped to do and what you will hope to do in the new year. Most of my resolutions in the past have […]
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! When I cook or bake I usually pull recipes from one of three places: Joy of Cooking Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Julia) Allrecipes.com The books are my staple go to books. But I seem to find a lot of great choices from All Recipes. I think, like Trip Advisor, […]
A neighborhood friend of mine posted an article link from Time on Facebook. The article is titled “The Secret Languages of Girls on Instagram”. You can find the article at: http://time.com/3559340/instagram-tween-girls/ This gist of this article is that teen girls are using Instagram as a ranking mechanism. As girls post things the responses and the […]
Yesterday Brittany Maynard chose to take her life as she faced a terminal form of brain cancer. Lot’s of controversy regarding this. She moved to Oregon because the state supports a person being able to take their own life in these situations. The state supports self-assisted suicide. My wife, rest her soul, fought through three […]
I’m in my early 40’s and my first memories of Halloween was picking out a costume. The costume consisted of that really stinky plastic mask and the plastic suit. Simple. Done… But now you can get so elaborate for kids and adult costumes. My daughter, who is seven, decided to pick a “Corpse Bride” costume. […]
It’s Halloween and even though it’s just 8am, it’s already crazy at our house. Last night my daughter, who is all of seven, was looking online for stencils for me to carve her pumpkin. She picked this one out call it the funny man. She has no idea who this is but I laughed out […]
I’m an avid eBayer and have been on there since 1997. I’ve now have a constant trickle of items for sale and was wondering if I could list a feed of my items on WordPress. I found a common plugin but it wanted an RSS feed from eBay. And of course they have taken that […]
So let’s get this out of the way; I’m a Mac / iOS guy. None of the Droid OS devices will beat out an Apple device from my point of view. But I don’t want to debate that, I simply want to talk about my experience with this Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 that I was […]