Oct
30
2011
This weekend I ran the Monster Dash 5K. It is a costumed race around Lake Harriet starting at the Bandshell. I ran it with my sister and her husband. It was my sister’s first race. She did great. I ran with an injured ankle, but I was still able to finish without furthering my injury. I will be taking this week off from running. I did not run my best time, but I did significantly better than my first race. I’m considering running the Turkey Day 5K again next month. I took a few photos from the day. Check them out on my Flickr.
By the way, I dressed up as Bruce Lee from Game of Death. If I had another two weeks to grow out my hair, I would have got the look down better. I got a few compliments. I guess that is good enough for me.
Oct
14
2011
I decided to create some higher resolution wallpapers of my Code Panda drawing since the old ones were a bit small for newer devices like the iPhone’s retina display, the iPad and the recent Android phones. I created one for each of those mentioned. I’m leaving the old ones available for download too.
Oct
09
2011
This was taken outside of Salut in Saint Paul. I was there to celebrate my mom’s birthday. There are more photos on my Flickr.
Oct
05
2011
Where can I start? Steve Jobs just passed away tonight and most of us, including myself, can probably claim we saw this coming. I for one am still in shock and a little shaken by the news. I am not really qualified to summarize his life and how he affected the world. I can just say how he affected my world. I grew up with Apple computers, as did many people my age. All the school computers were Apple II’s and later Macintoshes . The first time I learned to program was on my Apple IIc, albeit only simple scripting. I loved it. Who would have thought a little grade school boy would enjoy typing some lines of text and making things out of nothing. Well, I made a career out of it and it all started with a little beige box and some green text. That is one of the things that Steve Jobs was incredible at, making technology accessible to everyone and I love that. It comes across in everything that Apple has done with Steve at the helm. They make products that are driven by their passion to create and not by profit. The thing that I admire most about Steve is that he always had a vision of what he wanted and went after it with everything he had. You have to respect the man for that.
I think I have said what I needed to say here and I will leave you with one of many great quotes by Steve Jobs. This is one we should all listen to.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Oct
01
2011
This is the first time I’ve attempted to bake brownies. It turned out amazing. I’ll need to make more. This is a simplified version of a recipe I found on the Chocolate & Zucchini site, which I love and highly recommend you check out regularly. The recipe is super simple and it doesn’t take a lot of time.
