If you manage a team of 10 people, it’s quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that you’d be associated with that kind of incompetence. Seeing people fritter away money, waste each other’s time, and do sloppy work can make you feel bad. If you are the CEO, it may well make you sick.

And to rub salt into the wound and make matters worse, it’s your fault.

Kevin Devine – Splitting Up Christmas

Arrived at my parents’ summer house on Saturday evening.

Made some hot dogs and saw the sunset.

This is the view during the day time.

We went ziplining the next day at Hawksnest

The world’s tallest man being strapped in by the world’s shortest man.

Serious shit going on here.

The next day, we went on the Virginia Creeper trail. Yeah– it’s in Virginia. This is my version of trail mix.

I make this sport look good.

It would have been pretty serene if I wasn’t being swarmed with flies. Great.

The next day, we went kayaking on Watauga Lake. These legs went from pale to red in a matter of an hour or so.

Once you notice my dad in this photo, you’ll realize it doesn’t need a caption.

Epic final photo.

Just because some cute girl likes the same bizarro crap you do, doesn’t make her your soul mate.

But, it wasn’t your fate to BE with her.

You treat a hot girl like dirt and she’ll stick to you like mud.

You are so awesome, your room is so awesome, your phone is kick-ass, and you know what? I love you.

Sweetness can rot your teeth.

Yes, I am relieved to know I am not a golem.

Forget her? Other than numbers, she’s all I think about.

There there are many reasons, there are so many influences in my life, that are telling me, at times, quite literally, that I should come here and bring you these, but I’m doing this because I want you.

Download this song here: Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World

Come To Where I’m From

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As someone who spends a lot of my spare time surfing the internet for tattoo portfolios, I wanted to take some time to share the work of New York Adorned. They have locations in the city and in Brooklyn and their portfolio has a lot of really large, beautiful work. I particularly love the half-chest partial body suits they do, I LOVE THOSE.

I stumbled upon City And Colour randomly yesterday and really got into it. I recommend you do the same. City and Colour is Dallas Green (Alexisonfire).

Myspace – iTunes

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Brand New
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

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Bright Eyes
Fevers And Mirrors

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I had only a couple of his songs in my library before he began to dominate my Top 25 Most Played songs in iTunes. I’ve since downloaded his entire discography.

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Kind of Like Spitting

This is another artist discography I own. Unlike any artist I’ve ever been a fan of, I frequently listen through the entire discography in a work day. KOLS is no more, though he still makes music under another moniker.

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Nada Surf

Beyond their über hit in the nineties, I was turned onto their lesser-known music around the same time as Kind of Like Spitting (three or four years ago).  Their sound changes from record to record and it definitely took some getting used to each time, but I can’t stop listening to their CDs.

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After tinkering for a little longer, I saw I could rotate the canvas using two fingers on the trackpad. Still, I hate this feature and it annoyed the hell out of me.

A few weeks later, I googled around and found an Adobe-issued plugin that disables the feature for trackpad users. Here is a link to the Adobe download page:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4337

Once downloaded, move the plugin to your Adobe Photoshop CS4 install directory plugins folder and restart photoshop. Works like a charm.

Booya. Damn, I hated that feature.

If anyone else is experiencing this, please comment and let me know if Apple/AT&T can do anything about this. This is becoming extremely frustrating. I am right next to a window and I’ve receive three voicemails from people trying to reach me this morning! This seems to be an intermittent problem.

1.  Hard drive failure
2. Light to medium flickering backlight
3. Light flickering backlight
4. Cracked wrist support edge plastic

Each time I brought the computer in for these issues, the Genius (tech support) immediately smiled and admitted my machine for warranty-covered repair. Always renew your Apple Care. If you stumbled upon this blog and have not renewed it, consider it a lesson learned. Just go a few days before your computer’s one year birthday and spend the money to renew. Mine has paid for itself more than three times by now. 

After reading around online, I ended up attempting a restore, which lost a bunch of data the first time around.  It did fix the problem, so I didn’t really care that much.  The other day the same problem happened- so I pushed off restoring because I didn’t want to deal with it, let alone lose any data.

I had recently purchased software called MegaPhone for iPhone and iPod Touch which helps you retrieve photos and other content from an otherwise inaccessible iPhone or iPod touch.  Using this software, I was able to view all data files on my iPhone and navigate to the /DCIM folder and deleted all three folders within the directory.  This immediately fixed the poroblem and I was able to re-sync my old photos.

As you can see in my previous post, the software is relatively inexpensive and has saved my ass more than $20 worth since I purchased it.

I don’t know about anyone else, but Facebook, in and of itself, really helped me get in touch with people from high school, middle school and even elementary school who I never would have spoken to again.

Over the years, Facebook has not only allowed us all to reconnect with these people via messages and wall posts, but they even created a semi-creepy news feed feature for us to spy on our friends!

With the release of Facebook Chat, Facebook has turned our grade school and college acquaintances into real people, online RIGHT NOW. You’re not only looking at news feeds anymore, you’re looking at these people real-time!

Many of my Facebook friends aren’t my friends in real life or on AOL Instant Messenger, so seeing them online and being able to chat with them truly brings my online network to an entirely new level.

Before I get too into this, I’d like to make it clear that my iTunes was configured to sync the last 12 months of iPhoto pictures. Facing almost three months of missing photos, I was determined to find a way to access the missing photos on my iPhone.

I spent a while googling for solutions and it took me a few pages to find my solution:

MegaPhone for iPhone and iPod Touch lets you access photos, music, notes and other data from your iPhone and iPod Touch. You can not only easily drag and drop photos, galleries and notes, but you can recover your music quickly and easily.

For anyone who experiences the following related problems, I hope you can find this software useful if you want to:

• Restore photos from your iPhone or iPod Touch
• Restore music from your iPhone or iPod Touch
• Restore notes from your iPhone or iPod Touch
• View or export your call or SMS history from your iPhone
• Store files on your iPhone or iPod Touch

Click here to download MegaPhone for iPhone and iPod Touch