Yesterday I had the sheer joy of having a “business meeting” with my co-workers back in Kansas City. At least, that is what I called it when our manager walked by. I was advised to install my webcam so that such a meeting could actually occur, and Adam Spriggs endured about 15 minutes [...]
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Watching and Listening
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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A New Air Filter and a Good Night’s Sleep
August 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment
This past week has brought with it two monumental events in my life: a new filter and a good night’s sleep.
Now, a new air filter would normally be trivial, but I had the joy of putting it in myself. Steve Beckerle advised me to get a K&N air filter (and it was actually him [...]
Tags: Daily Grind · Family · NPH
Mute Math, Mars, and Dunkin Donuts
April 13th, 2007 · 4 Comments
I have to begin with a hat-tip to Adam Spriggs.
h/t wvpv.
It was Adam that pointed out Mute Math’s new video on YouTube in a blog post, and watching it caught my attention in way Mute Math had failed to do before. Vocalist and keyboardist Paul Meany with bassist Roy Mitchell were formerly in Earthsuit, [...]
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The Cheat Pumpkin, LAN Party 2, and Godspell
October 29th, 2006 · No Comments
I don’t have any pictures to post of this yet, but I will update this post as soon as I take some! Last weekend a few of us gathered over to the Haney’s to do some pumpkin carving. I had printed off a stencil of “The Cheat” from homestarrunner.com, and proceeded to carve my pumpkin [...]
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Starfarers and Red Sox
August 13th, 2006 · 7 Comments
Thursday night, courtesy of Nazarene Publishing House, Julie and went to a Royals vs Red Sox game. The seats were really good, and it seemed that everyone else around us were Red Sox fans!! After spending 4 years in Boston for college, it is hard not to cheer them on. And cheer them [...]
Tags: Daily Grind · NPH · Southwood
Silicon Valley and The Nikon Returns
August 8th, 2006 · 6 Comments
It’s not every day I get a call from Palo Alto, California. Heck, most days I don’t get work-related phone calls from even within the company. But yesterday, my phone started ringing, and the caller id said “Palo Alto, CA.” It was just a salesperson regarding an email I had sent him, but it [...]
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NPH Picnic 2006
June 10th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Darren scales the Adrenaline Rush II
The annual NPH Picnic happened to fall on Wednesday of this past week, and as this is my first NPH picnic to attend, I was quite unsure of what to expect. The day itself began a little different from most, as we were prompted [...]
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Project Schedule and Bluetooth
April 25th, 2006 · No Comments
First of all, a round of applause for all who visited YouthQuiz.com from the link in my last post. Kindra is testing out web statistics on the nph.com family of sites (there’s like… 15 or so of them) and JoeDonahue.org, as of this afternoon, was the third highest ranked source that drew visitors to [...]
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Geek Anthropology
April 4th, 2006 · 4 Comments
Today, during Walking Cult, it was demanded of us to come up with some explanation of “Geekiness.” This was in response to the 48 points I accumulated on MSNBC’s Geek Quiz .
First, people are considered “geeky” for multiple reasons. Having an avid interest in computers is the normal association. However, those who are overly [...]
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NPH Christmas Party
March 31st, 2006 · No Comments
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