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April 8, 2010 in Blog with 0 Comments

I really love photography.  I know everyone with a decent camera thinks they’re a photographer, but I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m not.  I just think it’s fun.  The main thing that I love about it is that there’s so much to learn, but at the same time there is so much room for creative decisions.  Between aperture, shutter speed, ISO setting, flash/no flash, angles, rule of thirds, then everything you can do in your editing software (for me, it’s Lightroom), there are endless possibilities!  Even the pros that know everything there is to know about photography can still experiment.  It’s, like music, an intersection of creativity and technology, which is exactly where I love to be.

Check out my work on Flickr and Mountainographers!

-Ryan

links and things: 4 Tumblr SEO Tips

April 6, 2010 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Link: links and things: 4 Tumblr SEO Tips

One of the first things I noticed about Tumblr is that SEO sucked.  I mean really.  Coming from WordPress, which has awesome plugins to optimize your site for search engines, this was really tough to get used to.  Luckily, I found a post on this site that gives some quick tips on getting your Tumblr blog a little more visibility.

April 5, 2010 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

This is absolutely true.  After carrying my own equipment from show to show and hosting our own with other guest bands, I’ve come to realize the sheer amount of work that goes into every show that we saw and played.  Next time you go to show, find someone from the stage crew and say, “Hey man, it was an awesome show tonight.  Thanks.”

Little Foot Wasn’t A Real Dinosaur!! WHAAA??

April 2, 2010 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Littlefoot Wasn't Really A Brontosaurus!

One of my favorite movies growing up was The Land Before Time. It’s about the adventures of a group of young dinosaur friends who are trying to get to Ever Green Valley so they never have to worry about volcanoes or asteroids or T-Rexes or rush hour traffic ever again. The main character though, was a brave little brontosaurus named Little Foot…or so we thought! It seems that “Brontosaurus” is incorrect. See, the story goes that back in the 1800s, this guy was putting together dinosaur bones, which is kinda like a jigsaw puzzle but with more awesome. He successfully put together the body of an apatosaurus, but put the wrong head on top! When he stepped back to admire the Apatosaurus, he realized it looked like a new species!! “I’ll call this thing a brontosaurus!”, he probably said! Of course, it wasn’t a new species, just misplaced bones, but the lovable, cuddly brontosauruses continue to steal our hearts to this day. Personally, I’ll probably always call them brontosauruses, because I’ll always believe Little Foot was real, just like the Ninja Turtles…

April 1, 2010 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Bill Gates

Dream Home Requirement #1: Secret Passageway

April 1, 2010 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

A lot of times growing up, there comes a point when you want to design the house you’ll live in when you’re older. So you pull out a sheet of paper and start drawing…and drawing…and drawing. 

Secret Room!

By the time you’re done you end up with a 3 story house complete with a swimming pool, lazer fence, a guest room for each of your best friends, a movie theater, 10 car garage, helicopter pad, and war-room to keep all of your Batman gear. No matter what my dream home looked like at the time, one thing always was a requirement – a secret passageway.

You’ve seen them before in the movies, you tilt a candlestick and the fireplace spins around, taking you to a room only known to you and a select few. It could be a fireplace, or a bookcase with your favorite book as the trigger, or a rug covering a secret staircase requiring you to sing the chorus of a Rod Stewart song in order for the door to unlock.  No matter how elaborate, you have to admit, secret passages and hidden rooms in general are just plain awesome.

I was talking to one of my friends a few months ago about how realistic it would be to put one of these bad boys in a house. Is it feasible to put a secret doorway in a home that’s already built? Is it something you plan for? Luckily, there are plenty of companies to help you sort it all out and even build and install your own custom or pre-made hideout portal.  What are your wildest hidden room dreams?

Hidden Passageways

Hide A Door

Secret Doorways

Top 10 April Fools Day Pranks For Geeks

March 31, 2010 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Link: Top 10 April Fools Day Pranks For Geeks

What's My Motivation? OR Resuming Old Projects

March 30, 2010 in Blog with 0 Comments

Writing software can be both a job and a hobby for many of us, and we all have projects sitting out there that we start and never finish.  Some of them, however, are farther along or more useful than others.  When we remember that we need to finish a project, whether at work or at home, you can use these tips for getting things done immediately to get back to your life!: Continue Reading…

Lifehacker – Efficiency Tools and Tips

March 30, 2010 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Link: Lifehacker – Efficiency Tools and Tips

I can’t say enough good things about this blog.  I’ve learned about so many great tools from them to help me get around my computer and write software faster that I should seriously consider giving them a hefty donation.

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