Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Kim Peek — the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man — has passed away.
He was born in 1951 in Salt Lake City and doctors diagnosed him as severely mentally retarded and advised his parents to place him in an institution.
Yet he learned to read and could read ...
Posted in Movies, News |
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Congratulations to my friend Alex King and his wife Heather on the birth of their daughter.
Posted in Denver, News |
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
I would like to think that if I were ever in a plane crash, I would get clear of the burning wreckage and call my loved ones before reporting it on Twitter. Some people feel differently.
Posted in News, Social |
Friday, December 5th, 2008
Following up on the super hot rumor that Obama uses a Zune, MacUser shares news from the Wall Street Journal (seriously?) that our next President is, in fact, an iPod user.
Why was this ever a story? I mean, we already know he uses a MacBook Pro. How would he even sync ...
Posted in Apple, News |
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas has a fantastic idea: a moratorium on income tax for January and February.
"Think about how much you would have if you didn't have any social security or income tax withheld from your pay check, or if you didn't have to pay those taxes for January and ...
Posted in News, Politics, Social |
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
You may have noticed a lack of posts for the last week. Work, life, purchasing a home, and a secret project have kept me away. While I let things pile up even further over the long weekend, here's wishing you and yours a happy Thanksgiving.
Unless you're not in the US, ...
Posted in News, Social, Web |
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Seven years later, airport security theater is an inconvenient joke, international relations are disconcertingly poor, the dollar is dropping, we're engaged in an expensive and unjust war, and the site of this tragedy remains an empty and ignored hole in the ground. Worst of all, the man responsible continues to ...
Posted in News, Politics |
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
I bet nobody saw this coming.
Posted in Business, News |