Lessons I’m learning on Craigslist

July 14, 2009

I’ve been using Craigslist for several months in different ways – most of the time monitoring for job openings. But this week I’ve been using it to sell a bunch of stuff and it’s been interesting.  Here’s a few things I’ve learned so far…
First off, there are a lot of people out there trying to [...]

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Rob’s Place Relaunched

July 12, 2009

I took my personal blog offline last week to take care of some hosting and design changes. It’s back up and better than ever! Stop by and check it out. It’s built on the great Thesis Theme with minimal customizations.
One feature you may not notice for a while is that the photo on [...]

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Fireworks Stories

July 3, 2009

YouTube – Fireworks Song (High Quality Version)
If you think this video is a joke, well, it is mostly. But I’ve got similar stories (not all from July 4th – many come from New Years also)…

We rarely used a bottle for bottle rockets. My favorite was a 5-foot piece of round bamboo I used like a [...]

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Get your website hosted cheap and good

July 2, 2009

I’m a fan and user of BlueHost as a website host and have set up several people up on them. Great support. Great product. I’m also an affiliate.
Today I found out (while setting up a friend with a website) they dropped their 3-year host plan, but right now the 12 and 24-month hosting packages are [...]

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Where the Heebie-Jeebies come from

June 27, 2009

Billy DeBeck coined the term in his hugely popular 1920s comic strip, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, about a community of backwoods hillbillies and moonshiners. It first appeared in a 1923 strip where Barney tells someone to “get that stupid look offa your pan. You gimme the heeby jeebys!” It meant “a feeling of discomfort.”
Other phrases [...]

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re: Michael Jackson

June 26, 2009

The death of Michael Jackson is moving. I’ve loved his music for as long as I can remember knowing about him. Like most, that attention span happened during Thriller. But going back to Off The Wall and the stuff the Jackson 5 put out – it’s rare I find something I don’t like (except the [...]

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Conan O’Brien, Billy Mays & Anthony Sullivan Infomercial Interview

June 25, 2009

I’ve always loved the crazy setup scenarios for infomercials…

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Hurricanes Have a Dusty Butterfly Effect

June 20, 2009

Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Perhaps. But did you know the rainfall in a section of an African desert can effect the chance of a hurricane?
The Sahara Desert in Africa is the major source for African dust (or Mineral Dust) floating across the Atlantic to [...]

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Fermented Things

June 19, 2009

One day a while back I was bored and curious and on Wikipedia. You never know where that’s going to lead.
For some reason I ended up learning about fermentation. There’s some complexity to fermentation, but I think I got it boiled down to this formula/process:
Carbohydrates + Yeast + Time = Alcohol

I found it interesting that [...]

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My Current Desktop Wallpaper

June 17, 2009

Public Beach in Key West on Flickr – Photo Sharing.

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Our trip to the Florida Keys

June 14, 2009

I’ve had a running list for a long time of things I want to do I call “local to me” before I move to another place.  One that has been lingering for almost 10 years of living here was finally accomplished last week when Patricia and I took off for the Florida Keys.
We needed the [...]

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Why we need hurricanes

June 14, 2009

Interesting…
During the summer months, the Earth heats up very unevenly. Down toward the equator becomes much hotter than the poles creating a huge heat imbalance.  The Earth does everything it can to keep in balance, and hurricanes are natures way of creating a balancing act. Without getting to technical, The atmosphere attempts to remove this [...]

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