Posted in Life, tagged Quotes on March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master” –Ben Johnson
It is a strange facet of the Western culture to value self-reliance so much. With the age of the internet comes the anonymous [...]
Posted in Life, Quotes, tagged Quotes on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.
–Frank Crane
How true this is! How many times have I been prevented from doing something simply because of a [...]
Posted in Life, Programming, Uncategorized, tagged Apple, Computers, Support on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, it has been a really long time since I last posted on this blog. Surprisingly, I’m still getting quite a few hits on a number of blog posts, though.
Here’s a quick update on what’s going on with me:
My wife and I have a new addition to our family! Woohoo! That’s probably one of the [...]
Posted in Life, Quotes, tagged bradbury, literature, Quotes on March 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you [...]
Posted in Life, Quotes, tagged Quotes, scripture on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Proverbs 30:8-9
Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, ‘Who is the LORD ?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God.
Posted in Life on May 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hi! I don’t know if anyone is even checking this blog anymore since it’s been so long since I last wrote something here. Anyways, here’s a synopsis of the last month:
We lived with Adriane’s brother, Alex for about a month. We really enjoyed spending time with him (watching the tv show Lost). [...]
Posted in Life, tagged classical music, david bell, Life, rush on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While checking the Signals vs. Noise blog today, I read a very interesting article about a world-class violenist who played a ‘gig’ in a D.C. subway. You can decide whether or not to read the Washington Post article, but I found it insightful. A synoposis is this: a world-class musician dressed in plain clothes plays [...]
Posted in Life on April 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been waiting to write this post for a while; I’ve had to hold off until we got all our ducks in a row… not that we have ducks. We’re moving back to Cleveland in about two weeks. We feel like it’s the best place for us considering the stage of life we’re in and [...]
Posted in Life, Music, Spirituality, tagged Life, lyrics, Quotes, Spirituality on March 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A while ago, my friend, Brian C., gave me a CD by The Waiting. Truthfully, I didn’t really like it at first; the lead singer had a strange twang to his voice and I kept hearing oboes along with electric guitars, which I didn’t think mixed well. It traveled to the back of my CD [...]
