Remember when I mentioned Mike Rayburn?
He has a website that you might be interested in: mikerayburn.com. Notice how he has mastered the harmonics method of guitar playing along the fretboard. Fun times, and aloha, dude!
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From the monthly archives:
July 2008
I was attending a morning lecture here at the APMA annual conference: it was something that I rarely get a chance to hear about, but it was associated with a vendor booth in the exhibit hall– marketing research data collection for home IV infusion therapy.
Yes, I know a lot of you have already voiced (and [...]
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The Setup
The last you heard from me, I was struggling mightily with a moblogging session to Javamancy, with mixed success. It has been several days since I managed to acquire public terminal access back to Javamancy, and geez, it’s been quite an ordeal.
The Premise
Maybe I’m too jaded, but in the past, whenever I traveled to [...]
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As many of you already know, I am headed to the APMA Annual Conference, held this year in Hawaii.
It has been over two (2) years since I last flew on business… in fact, flew for any reason. And when I did it that time, my return flight was tragically the second day of the newly-imposed [...]
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It has been approximately one (1) month since the release of Blizzard’s Diablo II Patch 1.12a back on June 17, 2008, along with the reset of the Diablo II Ladder.
For Mac gamers, the biggest news was the attempt to correct the lack of OpenGL support on Intel-based Macs for the game, thus forcing the software [...]
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Earlier, I had reported that Starbucks [SBUX] plans to close about 600 stores, in addition to a significant amount of layoffs. Now we have more definitive information about which stores are closing: Starbucks has revealed the list of stores that it intends to close, with a PDF listing available on its site.
As of 7/17/2008, here’s the [...]
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While watching an episode of Ace of Cakes several days ago, there was a scene in which the bakers received a shipment of what they called “potato guns”, but which are actually the delightfully wicked (or merely irritating) toy spud guns.
Can you imagine running around, shooting little potato bits at your friends after an all-nighter? [...]
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It has been announced today that Donald Trump’s fixer-upper in Palm Beach, FL was sold for $100M to a Russian fertilizer entrepreneur, Dmitry Rybolovlev (yes, he’s a billionaire).
The twist in the story is that Kendra Todd, the hottie winner of Donald’s The Apprentice Season 3, was given the job of renovating the property (acquired by Donald [...]
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Remember what I was saying about “killer tomatoes vs. killer peppers“?
Today, in breaking news, the FDA has declared that tomatoes are now (relatively) safe to eat, citing that the chances that the tomatoes grown earlier in April and May 2008 are most likely no longer in circulation.
On the flip side, the FDA warns against consuming [...]
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There were a lot of hiccups early in the history of this year’s CNBC $1M Challenge game, but perhaps the biggest news was the massive stock market collapsing behavior, due to the oil speculating, financial company shenanigans, mortgage market malfeasance, and lack of confidence from investors.
Today is the penultimate day of the CNBC stock trading [...]
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