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Surfing, Aquarium, And Bye South Africa

bwb — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:54:57 +0000

Well today is the World Cup final and hopefully tomorrow I’m going on a hike/drive out to Cape Point and then flying to Ireland on Tuesday and then Denver a few days later. The games have been amazing and Cape Town very friendly. South Africa has a lot of possibilities and an amazing population, but also a lot of challenges, hopefully they are able to overcome them! I’ll be rooting for them!

I went surfing for the first time last week which was awesome, it was way easier then snow boarding and caught my first wave in the first 2.5 hours (good instructor too). I fell on the other 50 waves but falling is almost as fun when the bottom is sandy. The waves picked up the second half of the day and after getting hammered a few times and after my feet went numb I switched to a boogie board. Fun day and going to try to spend an entire week learning to surf at some point soon (some place with warmer water). They had a very nice shark warning flag system too, really makes you feel safe… Also, wet suits are awesome and make you feel like a ninja.

Yesterday we went to the Cape Town aquarium which was awesome, I love aquariums. Then ate all you can eat sushi with some friends and watched the third place game. Good night!

And, I’m so glad Uruguay lost again, Suarez tried his best to drive and cheat and ruin the spirit of the game further against the German, I hope Karma’s cold grip haunts him the rest of his life.

Awesome Independent Art? (Store)

bwb — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:51:32 +0000

I’m not really sure what independent art means? Isn’t all art independent or has it been taken over? But I do love this site and their work, check out Resist Today, it features the work of a small group of visual artist who sell prints, wallets, bags, shirts, pillows, etc. Just awesome awesome designs, here are a few:

Check out their products at Resist Today, I wish them luck!

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What Happens In Discos With No Shoes

bwb — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:22:15 +0000

I did not make a wise choice when I decided to dance barefoot in the disco as all I had were flip flops. Apparently what I thought were plastic cups under my drunken feet were shards of glass, luckily I couldn’t feel any of this. I left a trail of blood everywhere.

And this is around 5am when the pain feels a little more real.

And my fav pic from the trip:

Heath Care Passes! Finally!

bwb — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:40:32 +0000

Great news! The health care bill passes! Although trying to get a copy or real summary to see the changes.

Hopefully this brings some real change to the industry! One of our companies just got hit with 20% to 30% raises on rates this year, and they also had the audacity to tell us the insurance company says they are working hard to sell us on what they call “educating” consumers to buy plans with higher deductibles and so on (ie make more money). I don’t blame them as they are businesses, which is why the government needs to run their own health care, health care needs to be a right or it will continue to hurt our nation and our economic growth. My personal health care rates increased about 20% this year and I have a pretty low end plan meant for emergencies.

God Damn I Love These Guys

bwb — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:49:09 +0000

Man I want to hang out with these guys, they crack my shit up. Getting drunk and then teaching people some American history = awesome.

Watch them here, and I love this trailer.

Best Music Track I’ve Heard In 2010

bwb — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:38:57 +0000

This is the best music track I’ve heard this year! Just amazing! Read more about Nneka here.

Artist: Nneka
Track: Heartbeat (Chase & Status Remix)

Thoughts From January 2010

bwb — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:56:09 +0000

I feel this is going to be an interesting year. Vegas.

Vegas is crazy.

Staying In Denver Another Year.

bwb — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:40:53 +0000

I’ve decided to stay in Denver for another year, so I’ll be here through June 2011 it sounds like. We are going to find a new place to live in April/May, hopefully closer to a neighborhood we like a little better. Next week I’m heading to Vegas for a big ultimate frisbee tournament plus it is going to be Dmarsh, BBustin, and my brother’s birthday. Should be fun. And then when I get back from that Rose and Steve will be here and going to spend a lot of that week skiing with them! And hopefully I’ll be going skiing during the week a few times after that, and working on cross country skiing as I would like to be good at that.

Work is going well, and just got really busy as we took on some additional business which is quite fun!

Travel wise the year is looking awesome. In a few months I’m taking a few weeks vacation to explore Japan! Then in April I’m going to Italy for a short weekend trip as Iris got a bid to Paganello (massive ultimate beach tournament), and I’m going to play with her mixed team. Extra fun as it should be a lot of Arkansas people and hopefully Daniel and Joel go. And then me and a friend scored tickets to the World Cup in South Africa which I will be going too in early July. South Africa is being nuts on airfare pricing but its a once in a life time opportunity, so worth it.

Oh, and I’m trying to complete the 100 Book Challenge for 2010, which means I’m trying to read 100 books in 2010. So roughly 9 books a month, so far I’m almost done with my 4th and almost on track. I’m posting mini reviews as I go too.

Also, here is an interview we did a few months ago for Work, I’m pretty proud of it as we don’t sound like idiots. Although I did repeat a lot of words over and over and over, oh well, she was really nice and it was fun!

Generation Kill…

bwb — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:10:00 +0000

Watch it, it is amazing mini series on HBO. Probably the best show out there if you want to understand the frustration and pride of our modern military.

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Some Mixes…

bwb — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:55:50 +0000

Here are some awesome mixes I’ve been listening too lately: Pogo – Expialidocious and Pogo – Alice. All of Pogos stuff is great too!

Fuck 2009, Hello 2010!

bwb — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:10:52 +0000

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and is ready for the new year! I certainly am!

I strongly recommend if you are in Denver to check out the Genghis Khan exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It was really well done and their expedition health was really cool too. You got to take your heart rate, exercise heart rate, width and height, and a lot of other tests on this little card and print it out at the end. Really good for kids to understand how everything works. It was also sponsored by Kaiser Health (who is probably collecting all this info). They also let you take a snap shot of your face and they would age it and you could flip between different ages and see how UV exposure would affect you. I think it scared the shit out of some kids and they will be wearing heaps of sun block this summer.

My Predictions For 2010

1. I will switch to 100% Apple… Very likely, I do 90% of my work in FireFox and Firefox drags in Windows (even a fresh install of Windows 7) when you have tons of tabs open (10+). I don’t have this problem on my MacBook. Funny enough this is the reason I dumped Apple about 3 years ago.

2. I will buy an Apple Tablet. If the Apple Table actually exists.

3. Apple will make LCD playing cards and I will buy those as well.

Night.

People…

bwb — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:49:26 +0000

I increasingly believe that people fundamentally never change, and if they do its very rare or they just mellow a little. I find this kinda tragic.

Hella Long Summer Finally Fading Away!

And This Is Why I’m Starting To Hate Craigslist…

bwb — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:05:25 +0000

Just read this story over at TechCrunch, here is a quick summary:

Developers take note: if you’ve got a mashup built off of Craigslist’s data, don’t even think about showing it to anyone who works there. At least, that’s the lesson learned by developer Romy Maxwell, who says that Craigslist has blocked both his mashup and every single project built on Yahoo Pipes a few days after a friendly Email exchange he had with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark.

Hopefully this is all a big misunderstanding but I doubt it. Craigslist is a great idea that was made, has been a huge success, and has been left foundering for the last few years with zero new innovation. So much more could be done, alerts for when new items are posted, better searching, official support for mashups of housing on google maps, requiring people enter an address so the above works. All this would make it a much easier to use website.

I hope someone comes along and crushes them who has better features and an API.

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One Reason Why I love The Internet…

bwb — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:25:38 +0000

I love the internet because a book on Amazon entitled “WHAT ARE THESE STRAWBERRIES DOING ON MY NIPPLES?: I NEED THEM FOR THE FRUIT SALAD!” is receiving hilarious reviews about the book. Which btw is listed as an import and not for sale.

Just read the 11 reviews left so far and you get such awesome lines such as:

“First of all, a warning. This book is packed with such useful and POWERFUL information, it should be approached with caution. Amazon has not provided a synopsis, and rightly so. I attempted to download a summary to my computer and my monitor EXPLODED. Normally, I would complain to the author and demand a refund, but the mere opportunity to witness this miracle of written word is payment for my loss ten times over. ”

“This book changed my life. Period. Colon: I have long had strawberries on my nipples. I also have had blueberries in my eye sockets and celery in my urethra. The celery remains, but I await the next book with eager expectations.”

“Not as good as the sequel “What are those bananas doing in my vagina I need them for my fruit salad” or the prequel “Popped Cherry Pie – where have all the fresh cherries gone”. But this serves its purpose of telling you where the strawberries go when they are missing from your fruit salad. With the color and shape of strawberries it is easy to see that you can misplace them on your nipples. Vanessa Feltz is truly the girl next door. She is just a woman trying to have a dinner party with strawberries on her nipples. Once she actually gets them off of her nipples she makes a great fruit salad and all the guest love her nipple salad “oops a nip slip”, I mean fruit salad.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don’t” – Robert Benchley (American Humorist). This book, while laced with divine comedic interludes, divides the world into two difinitive subsections of society. This divide tears at my frail emotions when realizing that I myself am in a group of people who have been repressed and belittled; those of us with megaareolasis, also known as BNS, or Big Nipple Syndrome. I am disquieted to finally come to the stark realization that there is a class system in this country. Those with nipples that can at least be fully covered by a mulberry or rainier cherry are considered acceptable, those enveloped by a blueberry are hailed, and those the size of a mere red currant are revered as Gods. And to the title of this book, there are those that nessecitate the coverage of a fully developed conventionally grown strawberry from Costco, who are shunned as lepers. They are routinely humiliated and asked to hold objects, such as coins, leaves, and wide mouth bottle caps up to their bare bossoms to display the montrosity of their genetic freakdom. What little comfort if any I draw from this piece of literature is knowing that there are others like me out there who share the pain of suffering from the cruelty of our large nipple defaming culture. It has inspired me to write a new book – “What is this pomegranate doing on my nipple, I need it for my Hors D’Ouevres” that will urge congress to add nipple size as a new protected class under Title VII of the civil rights act.”

Just hilarious!

What Keep’s Ben Awake At Night? Terrorism? Zombies? Nuclear Apocalypse?

bwb — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:38:55 +0000

Fuck no, this is what scares the living shit out of me!

Delilah, an 18-foot-long, 400-plus-pound Burmese python who had enjoyed a swell existence in an Apopka-area backyard feeding on rabbits, has a new home — for now.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials removed the giant snake from a home on Section Drive on Friday because of concerns about Delilah’s size and the security of her chain-link cage.

A complaint prompted wildlife officials to visit the home and check out the snake, which some officials called the largest python they had ever seen.

Holy fucking shit, Jesus himself couldn’t kill this snake, followed by:

“I fed her this morning, gave her seven rabbits,” Cheever said soon after the snake was placed in a container and prepared to move Friday from the small community alongside Lake Apopka. “She is as docile as can be. She’s as happy as can be.” But he acknowledged the snake, which is 30 inches around, had escaped its enclosure before.

I will never sleep again.

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Obama Is A What Now?

bwb — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:22:52 +0000

The functionally retarded people of the USA have joined together and decided that Obama is a number of things, and as always I am amazed at how awesome Obama is to have mastered so many ideologues. Truly the man, nah the second son of Christ is a genius! I hope the liberal third reich arrives soon so that I can sacrifice small children to my new overlords.

What is wrong with these people? When did Republican start meaning Retard? When will the normal republican people start distancing themselves from these crazies? I would never want to be called a democrat, and that is like 10x better than what the republican party has become. Where are the logical people who want smaller government, to balance our budget, and who can focus on real issues? Instead we get retards who think Obama is not a citizen, disrespect him during his speeches, and think that he is a secret muslim/socialist/nazi. This shit weakens our country and makes Canada look like a good place to live (just kidding Canada).

My Daily Reads…

bwb — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:55:40 +0000

So when I’m not working I have become addicted to the following sites and check them very often:

TextsFromLastNight.com – Hilarious, hilarious, hilarious.

Altas Obscura – Just some very weird stuff, I love it. Here is a good example.

Curious Expeditions – Another good one with weird places to visit.

Dark Roasted Blend – This is a new one and I’m still not sure if I love it.

And then I have like 250 sites I watch via RSS but most of those are tech and not cool stuff like this.

Did Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Young Girl in 1990?

bwb — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:05:38 +0000

Why won’t Glenn Beck deny the obviously made up charges that he raped a girl in 1990? Read all about it here! Glenn Beck we don’t think you raped a young girl in 1990, we would never say that, we are merely asking why have you not denied these allegations?

There’s a whole section of links to evidence on your left there, in the navigation section titled “Evidence”. We await evidence that he *didn’t* rape and murder a young girl in 1990!

Learn more here…

SC Rep. Joe Wilson Should Resign!

bwb — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:56:31 +0000

Joe Wilson is a disgrace to his state and America! Plus a total retard who believes the crap fox news puts out. People like this give republicans a bad name and why I wince every time someone says the word, your party is full of stupid people, good luck with that plan.

Step 1: Fill Party With Idiots and Religious Zealouts
Step 2: ?
Step 3: World Domination / Return of Jesus?

If you would like to see something that explains death panels
please watch this movie. No really they are totally real! Cause everyone loves killing old people, especially liberals. Really?

Hella Long Summer Finally Fading Away!

bwb — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:45:20 +0000

It has been a mind numbing exhausting summer for me, just absolutely fucking mind numbing, and it is finally over which feels just awesome, thank you jebus! I am looking forward to the apartment not being a oven so I can be a bit more productive at work! And the increased energy I’ll have since the apartment won’t be roasting me at 95 degrees daily.

And looking forward to a few trips! Heading to TechCrunch50 in San Fran which I have been wanting to go too since it started. I love seeing what other people are building and just the passion behind what they are doing. Plus goes along with my job which is providing them the hosting tools they need! And going to spend a few days looking around San Francisco and specifically the Asian Art Museum and seeing the Lords Of The Samurai. And going to the Defrag conference in Denver in November to see how that is.

In ultimate frisbee and travel news I’m going to be playing in sectionals/regionals/harvest over the coming months on a local Denver coed team and our alumni team. Might try to do a tournament in hawaii or mexico on the beach early next year too. And I’m hoping to visit Ireland and Steve/Rose early next year!

What am I listening too right now? A lot of trashy euro pop which I enjoy but I really love La Roux, just amazing and can’t wait for her next album. I’m also liking the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album.

And I just discovered the new Killers album as I’m often slow to find music, but I really really love the song “Human“:

I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind
And sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes
Clear your heart…
Cut the cord

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I’m on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance,
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye
Wish me well..
You’ve gotta let me go

I’ve been in Fayetteville for a few days visiting family and friends. Came down for my dad’s 60th birthday which was today and so far has been a great trip, although wish I could squeeze in a tad more time to catch up with everyone in between work and family.

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