My Guitar Hero
Last night Sally and I went out to Tempe and sweltered through the heat to catch a show by our friend Sean Tierney. It was hot, and Sean brought the inferno. He is my new Guitar Hero. The guy can play.
Protectionism is stupid.
Have you ever noticed that when some paradigm shifting event happens people lash out against it. Their instinct is to resist it. They have gotten comfy in their little world and kick and scream against anything that threatens it: Our biggest enemy is the status quo.. Here is a classic example of defense of the …
Sleep.. I said sleeeeep….
After a few years of bitching about the sorry state of our mattress, we upgraded. We bought one of these from Tempur-pedic. So far so good.. It is a little firm, and everything I have read say the soften after a few weeks. But it is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo comfy once you get settled. This is just …
Paying for College
So I graduated a few years ago from NAU, and I guess I got off easy. 6 years of crazyiness cost me ~$24k in student loans while I was there. Yesterday I got a statement from the service that consolidated my student loans for me in 2003. Man I am a happy camper.. a clause …
Google Resume
I was goofing around and doing an ego search on my name. For kicks I did a typo to see what came up. Apparently I have a deep enough internet presence that Google knows if you mistyped my name. Is this good or bad?
A new tattoo
So I picked up a few “tats” in college and latly I have had the hankering to get another one. Let’s review. I have a blue flamed sun with a super nova (exploding star) in the center of it on my leg, pretty good size tribal and flamed out sun piece on my arm.. and …
May Day
May is a big month in the Strebel household. Today is our 4th Anniversary, Saturday is Sally’s Birthday, Sunday is Mothers Days, amd Finally the following Thursday is My birthday. I will be turning the big 29, one year left of my youth. May the coming year be good so I can fly by 30 …
Leverage your time in the library
Sean Tierney is writing a 32 part series on the book “Founders at Work” , so far the first 2 parts are available at grid7. I have not read the book yet, but intended to. Sean read for us, and is giving us his cliff notes, saving us time. Sure Sean will take different things …
New Site launched today
We re-launched obuweb today, have a look.
Why Golfing doesn’t suck.
A few weeks ago I met Sean Tierney down in Tempe for a networking thing. Peter Burns from Grand Canyon University had sponsored a few Golf teams in an upcoming Golf Event. Peter was looking for people to fill the spots and asked for volunteers. I have only been golfing once before, about 15 years …