I really love completely rocking out in the car while going down the interestate. Especially good when you’re in the passenger seat. There are two advantages to it: 1. you get to rock out and 2. everyone you pass gets a good laugh.
Apr
13
I just wanted to alert everyone of a great resource out there for iPhone development. If you have an idea for an application that you would like to make into a reality, this book is for you. Carla Kay White (she has that many sites, so I have to user her entire name 
) has written a book that is targeted towards every day average people that want to create an iPhone app, but don’t have vast amount of resources and/or are not developers themselves.
However, I think it can relate to everyone! Even if you are going to do your own development, there is information in this book for you. I started reading this, not knowing what to expect, but after getting about 5 pages in, I couldn’t put it down. Finally, at about 11:30 with an early morning ahead of me I figured I should get some sleep, but I was easily able to finish up all of the books after the next night. That is what made the books so valuable. The information was compacted into a short amount of writing interlaced with interesting experiences of the author, which kept your attention and made you wanting to finish the current page, just so you could read the next.
Everything is covered, from the basics of what you need to release an app to the iTunes store to ideas on how to market your application. The information is light, but also contains facts along with personal experiences to back up any ideas that are put out there. Finally, the $13.99 price tag is tiny compared to the amount that you will save and potentially earn just from reading this book.
So grab your pick axe and your favorite gold pan and jump into this modern day gold rush!
Dec
2
Granted I haven’t written for what is it now….2.5 months, but I’m alive…I think. I’ve been crazy busy…and just not feeling like blogging, but I figured I’d get back on it.
As a quick update as to what has happened in the last 2.5 months….Works been crazy, still loving living in Rochester, we actually got to hang out in Rochester 1 weekend in that amount of time, hunted for a week in November (killed a deer a piece between my dad and I) and some more crazy work.
Jul
23
So as I posted the other day, Lisa and I went to Valley Fair for a fun afternoon. We had a blast on all the rides and also had a great time people watching and of course making small talk with the random strangers and not so stranger people (guys we know from here at IBM). But there was one part of the day that kind of bummed me out
I didn’t really notice the guy in front of us on the log flume until we started to get to the front of the HUGE line (longest line of the day) and I could see that everyone was all paired or tripled up with their group…except for him. He looked like he was in his late 20’s or early 30’s and possibly had some very slight mental/physical defects. He didn’t make eye contact with anyone and didn’t seem to be overly happy but just got in and rode the ride. Afterwards he got out ahead of us and I didn’t see him meet up with anyone at the end of the ride but didn’t see him walk off.
I’d like to think that maybe he was with a friend or group of friends who maybe didn’t want to wait in that huge line just for the log flume, but I can’t help to stop thinking that he was really just at Valley Fair…alone. No friends or family to enjoy the ride with him.
I don’t really have any deep thoughts to go with this, it just bummed me out and I couldn’t really get it out of my head. I just have a hard time looking past that stuff or getting it out of my head.