Finding Hope

This is a long post. I hope you’ll read it all, but if you want to skim, please start here. The last 24 hours have been hard. Like so many of our friends, Al and I started the night full of hope. Of course, we knew the margins. What seemed guaranteed only a few weeks ago, now looked […]

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Some Merchants are Intentionally Crippling Apple Pay

I’ve been as excited about Apple Pay as the next guy. I’m also keenly aware that it doesn’t work everywhere. I just hope that the credits can be converted so that I can use it on 666 casino to play casino games. And when you live in a small city like Grand Junction, CO, your […]

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What is Zero

  • Category: Life

What is Zero? What does that mean for me? And how do I get there? There’s a quote from John Mayer where he talks about people thinking they know you because you’re famous. That’s the thing about people knowing anything about you before you meet them … you have to work just to get people back to […]

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Getting to Zero

  • Category: Life

I had a pretty fantastic childhood. My parents were and are incredibly loving and supportive. My sister and I get along great, though I know we both wish we were closer and could spend more time together. I had wonderful friends and I grew up middle to upper middle class. Life wasn’t all too hard, […]

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World Vision

After I wrote this I realized that many of the posts on my blog are angry. I’m not mad all of the time. I think I just am driven to write more by anger than by other emotions. Two days ago, World Vision took an extraordinary step, opening employment to gay Christians who were either […]

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Don’t Like the Game? Change the Rules

  • Category: Opinion

Not only have congressional republicans forced a government shutdown and then launched a massive campaign to deny it’s their fault. They’ve also changed the rules so that only they can bring forth the vote that will reopen the government. Of course the only reason for this is to prevent democrats or moderate (read reasonable) republicans […]

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Fire (Taken with the iPhone 5S)

The sensor on the 5S is incredible. It’s no dSLR and it’s not film. But it’s without a doubt the best camera-phone sensor I’ve ever seen. The detail and color space is so far ahead of what was available on the 5 that it is in a category of its own.

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Persevere: There is a Time to Learn

  • Category: Opinion

Simple vs. Complex Recently I’ve been thinking about learning new things. A good portion of my life is spent learning things I didn’t know before. I’m a developer so this usually means learning new facets of programming languages I use, finding better techniques to accomplish tasks, discovering other ways of looking at problems and adding […]

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Why I’m No Longer Interested in Less than Amazing

  • Category: Opinion

Nothing I’m about to write is groundbreaking. If you’re looking to have your mind blown, move along. Actually, please still read. For me. :) As a self-employed mobile app developer, I spend a lot of my time building quotes for potential and existing clients. There’s a special tension between trying to make as much money […]

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The Scarecrow

  • Category: Opinion

This video is haunting and beautiful. Chipotle leads the way in bringing fresh, natural ingredients to the mass market. A few years back I watched Food, Inc. I don’t know if I could call it life changing—at least not in the sense that we normally use the term—but it did affect my outlook on what […]

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