Looks like that one is going to leave a mark. Smoke from fires always appears closer than it really is, opposite of the side view mirrors on your car. This one looked like it was across the street and turned out to be 2 blocks away at 4th and Harrison.

Hey, random header images! If you consider one of two “random”. The BMW was my first racecar. The Miata is my current and second racecar which is for sale.

A couple of years ago, the town where I grew up opened a bridge designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava. Today it was mentioned on CNet.com by one of their authors making a pacific northwest roadtrip.

My dad helped participated in the execution on the management side and I find it interesting the exposure that [...]

This link came across on a mailing list I read this morning. Seems like you can get just about any magazine out there for $5.95/year. From Maxim to Catholic Digest. I would read the fine print; at this rate they are probably selling your information to other advertisers.

Since reading David Allen’s “Getting Things Done“, I’ve been occasionally browsing some of the life hack sites that give you tips and ideas for implementing GTD. Lifehack.org fills my RSS reader up daily and I have saved about 50 of their posts for my own use. I had to post this one because [...]

The GuysThe “normal” picture before Bugna tried to grab some assThis weekend was our second Memorial day houseboating trip. 17 of us boarded two Monarch houseboats and a Ski Natique courtesy of Holiday Harbor to set sail on giant Lake Shasta for some cruisin’ and boozin’. 2005 was our first time houseboating [...]

I’m transitioning to a real content management system because I can’t take hand-editing things anymore. What is this, 1996?
Because I ridiculously believe that my old content is somehow valuable, I will be migrating it into wordpress here shortly as I get things together. With a ratio of 18 real minutes to 1 “Brian [...]

Crikey, someone actually reads this.
Last night was my high school reunion in beautiful Redding, California and a very long time friend of mine mentioned something she had read on my website. I actually asked her, “what website?”
Clearly this blog is not my top priority.
The high school reunion is worth talking about in its own [...]

I’ve just returned from a brutal weekend of little sleep, smoky casinos and pricey limo rides in Las Vegas celebrating an upcoming marriage in the form of a bachelor party. Even as I slow down, sweet, precious Red Bull keeps me awake until 5:30 in the morning.
This weekend was something of a personal celebration [...]

Is anyone else sick of the Google IPO hype? It’s been about 48 hours since Google filed their S-1 with the SEC and already Yahoo and Ask Jeeves have shed about 10-12% of their stock price. Can anyone tell me what’s changed? Did Google’s $1 billion in revenue double last night? [...]