We all have rituals of sorts, one that I enjoy is my morning coffee and scanning through the headlines on cnn.com, digg.com, and maybe catch an hour of the NPR Morning Edition audio stream. This ritual of late has not been bringing me the satisfaction it once did. Lately it has been an entirely unpleasant …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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?
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 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 …
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 …
We re-launched obuweb today, have a look.