Chris: “Cmon man, you have to go snowboarding with us tomorrow!” Me: “I can’t, I just got too much work to do. Here’s an idea, lets have fun tonight!” Chris: “What do you have in mind?” Me: “Come over, bring your laptop, your thinking cap, and le...

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl I’ve always been drawn to this quote. When faced with hard times and uncertainty, I think it’s human nature to look around us and think: “If I could just change this [job, relati...

YES! CARDIO BOXING ON THE WII! FROM UBISOFT AND GOLD'S GYM, YEAAAHHHH! AWESOME! Sorry, we were just doing our best to get your heart rate up. Consider it a free cardio workout from Joystiq, because Joystiq Cares[TM] about your health! Ubisoft announced a partnership with Gold's Gym to market the new...

We all want to be good ballstrikers. They hit longer, straighter shots consistently. But being a good ballstriker requires good balance. That means keeping your lower bodystill while you swing, which stabilizes and supports the rotation of your trunk and the swinging of your arms. Bad shots occur wh...

One of the panels I attended at ISA was a roundtable on Stephen Brooks' and William Wohlforth's excellent new book, World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy . The participants did an outstanding job of discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the piece, b...

A global recession such as we are all suffering is not easy for anyone.  Some companies will not survive since sloppy business practices only work in good times.  The half-full glass can thus be seen as a time of opportunity for the survivors who apply high performance practices.  On ...

from to Program: Photoshop CS2 Translatable: Yes Difficulty: Easy Steps: 7 1) Prepare your base. I'm going to be using this screencap from SCP, Episode "Heaven and Hell." You can sharpen it if you want. If your picture is extra dark (like mine), duplicate it and set it to Screen 50-100%. 2...

N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2009 -- In a story picked up by U.S. news outlets, The Times of London reported autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands. The stark war...

I originally posted this to my corporate blog, however, it didn’t make it after the migration and was lost into the ether. I thought it was a good post, so I’m presenting it again in a place where it hopefully won’t evaporate When I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s and just ...

So you could say that I’ve really “embraced” Twitter…I was a very sporadic Twitter user until November.  I believe I had only updated a dozen times or so and then I saw and learned how to use Twitter to actually communicate with people not just as a little solo act. Fairy Go...