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Monday, September 16, 2013
A great article - How to Get Flat Abs, Have Amazing Sex and Rule the World in 8 Easy Steps.
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Best Android/iPhone Phone Manager
Snappea
One of the best free programs I've used to-date. This program allows you to tap into your phone from your Win/OSx system and backup contacts, SMS, pictures, and Apps. The best thing about this program in my book is that it allows you to type SMS messages from your computer and send them like you're having a Skype conversation. Make sure to test it out.
iFunBox
A good program to use if you've taken the time to Jailbreak your iPhone, this program lets you access your phones system to change or update files inside the phone. Great for cydia theme designers. This program is not as user friendly as Snappea, you have to install iTunes 1st (personally hate iTunes), and you have to have a jailbroken iPhone before use. Still a great way to tap in if you need to edit files.
One of the best free programs I've used to-date. This program allows you to tap into your phone from your Win/OSx system and backup contacts, SMS, pictures, and Apps. The best thing about this program in my book is that it allows you to type SMS messages from your computer and send them like you're having a Skype conversation. Make sure to test it out.
iFunBox
A good program to use if you've taken the time to Jailbreak your iPhone, this program lets you access your phones system to change or update files inside the phone. Great for cydia theme designers. This program is not as user friendly as Snappea, you have to install iTunes 1st (personally hate iTunes), and you have to have a jailbroken iPhone before use. Still a great way to tap in if you need to edit files.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Great Books to Read
Divergent - Veronica Roth (2 part book series)
Back in Japan I was blown away with The Hunger Games series, the setting in the post-apocalyptic world, stories of rebellions, the area, uprisings, factions, etc etc. Amazing book that later went on to become a movie, which as always fell short by the books standard vs. what movie producers could do to appease the eyes. Another great series that I haven't heard as many people talking about is the Divergent series, another book that follows a young girl living in a post apocalyptic world divided into factions.
This book rapidly became my favorite Stephen King novel. Its a story about a man who has a head injury as a small boy, who later gets into a car wreck and goes into a 5 year coma. When he awakes he has a special gift to see into the future and can unknowingly predict people's deaths. Stephen King pulls out all his skills to make you get those chills down your spine while making sure to keep this book full of emotion for the characters. I was near tears at the ending. Amazing book, I would highly suggest.
Back in Japan I was blown away with The Hunger Games series, the setting in the post-apocalyptic world, stories of rebellions, the area, uprisings, factions, etc etc. Amazing book that later went on to become a movie, which as always fell short by the books standard vs. what movie producers could do to appease the eyes. Another great series that I haven't heard as many people talking about is the Divergent series, another book that follows a young girl living in a post apocalyptic world divided into factions.
This book manages to capture your attention in a matter of pages and does a great job making you emphasize with the main characters. If you never read the Hunger Games series and are too focused waiting for the movie series at this point, try reading this book to feed your "young girl battling the odds in a post-apocalyptic world thats divided into factions" interests.
Infected - Scott Sigler
Takes place in modern US, a new series of infection is spreading. It starts as a triangle like fungus somewhere on your body, then as time passes it grows into a bone like structure that starts to root and learn from you. As it grows, it spreads and forms more triangles and eventually forms a system linked to your own that has a mind of its own.
Personally I thought this book was awesome, it had a creepy medical reason for everything and was very well researched to create a great reader if you want something more creepy. Personally I love a good horror novel, pulls you back into reading so you don't want to put the book down.
The Dead Zone - Stephen King
This book rapidly became my favorite Stephen King novel. Its a story about a man who has a head injury as a small boy, who later gets into a car wreck and goes into a 5 year coma. When he awakes he has a special gift to see into the future and can unknowingly predict people's deaths. Stephen King pulls out all his skills to make you get those chills down your spine while making sure to keep this book full of emotion for the characters. I was near tears at the ending. Amazing book, I would highly suggest.
Thats all I will suggest for now, if you happen to stumble upon these books I'd love to hear what you thought.
Weekly Reading
The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head - Lately in my reading I have been looking for a book that could help me answer some of the more complex questions in my life. A friend of mine pointed me on to a series and this is one of many books suggested. This book follows the career of an Ivy League M.D. who is entering the psychology field. Having briefly worked on a psych ward myself, this book peaked my interests. Dr. Gary Small does a brilliant job taking what could be very dry material and turns it into a book that has you laughing, questioning, and looking deeper into your own connections with the people around you. A must read if you are interested in books that make you want to research more into other topics. A few of my favorite quotes from the book:"In any given year, an estimated one in four adults -nearly sixty million people- in the United States suffer from a mental disorder. Despite the public's misconceptions, psychiatric interventions have been shown to diminish and often eradicate the symptoms of psychosis, depression, and anxiety; yet many people do not have access to care, and often those who could improve with treatment never seek out a specialist"
"It has always amazed me that people feel such a stigma about the psychiatric conditions. Most people wouldn't feel embarrassed if they had a broken leg and needed help. Despite the remarkable advances in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, many still believe that mental illness is a sign of personal weakness and something to be embarrased about. The effects of these attitudes can be devastating. Patients feel self-doubt and shame, so they isolate themselves. Many who would likely respond to treatment pretend that nothing is wrong and refuse help. They are often rejected by family and friends and discriminated against at work."
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Parenting and Electronics - 2013 edition
While reading through some of my favorite tech sites I found a site that uses Question and Answer for a lot of today's challenging questions about your children and technology.
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http://quib.ly/
Check it out if you have kids and are curious or if you simply want to brush up on your "soon to be a parent" skills.
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http://quib.ly/Check it out if you have kids and are curious or if you simply want to brush up on your "soon to be a parent" skills.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
"Raised amid bounty and freedom, the American soldier seems a poor candidate to learn ex nihilo the craft of killing. How can a suburban teenager suddenly be asked to face and defeat the likes of zealots, whether on Okinawa's Shuri Line or at Fallujah in the Sunni Triangle?" - With the Old Breed - E. B. Sledge
Monday, May 21, 2012
Digital Society Challenge
Over the years I have been focused on the growing popular demand - computers and electronics. The world has changed due to the invention of amazing devices that keep us up to date with our friends at all times. People everywhere are constantly facebooking, texting, and skyping friends around the world or in their neighborhood. I even went so far as develope my own project for helping turn your house into an online device, complete connectability. This link to the wide world web has driven people to become dependant on computers to get their social experience. Where we once lived in a society where people wanted to go out in groups and travel to find new experiences, we now see a generation of people who would rather "share/tweet" than go out and find it themselves. Reading levels are droping, schools are finding less focus, and relationships are driven by the NEED to feel constantly loved by "likes" and posts. I should know, being overseas I can say that I was one of them.
Due to my job I had to exit my very close personal life that I had before the military. I used to be driven by listening to people and try to talk about things that mattered to different groups of people. Very recently I have started watching people again and have started to listen to relationship issues and problems. The more I listened, the more I realized the game has changed for my generation. Who in their right mind would have ever dreamed that so much jealousy and anger could be built up by such a simple things as text messages. Before this age people could exit their schools and go home to close friends to hang out with or daily activities; however, it would seem the new standard is to leave school and enter into a different social world until they goto sleep. This social world is not driven by the desire to learn or find something new, but to laugh at dumb stuff, like peoples mirror pictures, and post a link about how upset they are about the government or some movement they know very little about. The human relationship and dynamic has created a base around a popularity contest on facebook.
The other day I was reading the book "World War Z", a pretty shock-n-awe book about another zombie apocalypse. The difference between most zombie books and this one is they talk about rebuilding after 90% of the population has been killed. It broke down how most jobs these days require a computer to complete and that the average person barely knows how to change a tire, fix a window, and more importantly to their story restructure a government. Now, while I don't believe a zombie apocalypse is in our near future, I do feel that people must always be prepared for a collapse from the norm. Too many people are comfortable these days, buying equipment/electronics DESIGNED to die after 2 years, and then buying another after that one dies. Unless you want to be the guy on the losing end without the skills to survive you may want to take the time to develop at LEAST 1 skill. Common tasks that most people consider as too basic to mess with are skills that everyone should have down. Cooking, survival technics, basic medicine knowledge, how to fix a car, how to build from stratch, etc etc. Most people are going to argue one thing - Money. You can make a larger amount of money with a skill than you can waiting for the world to teach you something you have to apply in a cubical.
I want to present a challenge - exit your facebook/twitter life. I challenge you to track how many hours you spend on facebook/twitter a week. Once you add up how much time you either access a social network online either by phone or computer, try the next week to substitute that time with an activity - reading, skateboarding, running, lifting weights, watching lectures, etc etc. If you are one of the many I know who spend well over 8 hours a day talking or somehow connected to facebook/twitter, try the following - You don't have to delete facebook, simply delete all links to it when you get online (homepage, bookmarks, etc). Try steping away from facebook for a couple of weeks, read a new book and then get online and write about what you thought about it, or simply jump in your car and drive around to find a place to meet ANYONE new.
Life is too short for the amount of emotion people are placing themselves in by thinking you need to be an image online. Please share any new experiences you have, I want to talk about books you've read, ideas you've had, goals you want to accomplish, or simply things you'd love to learn. I'll do my best to do the same.
My hobbies/skills: Photography, all things computer related, graphics design, reading (check my favorite's section for book ideas), and travel.
Due to my job I had to exit my very close personal life that I had before the military. I used to be driven by listening to people and try to talk about things that mattered to different groups of people. Very recently I have started watching people again and have started to listen to relationship issues and problems. The more I listened, the more I realized the game has changed for my generation. Who in their right mind would have ever dreamed that so much jealousy and anger could be built up by such a simple things as text messages. Before this age people could exit their schools and go home to close friends to hang out with or daily activities; however, it would seem the new standard is to leave school and enter into a different social world until they goto sleep. This social world is not driven by the desire to learn or find something new, but to laugh at dumb stuff, like peoples mirror pictures, and post a link about how upset they are about the government or some movement they know very little about. The human relationship and dynamic has created a base around a popularity contest on facebook.
The other day I was reading the book "World War Z", a pretty shock-n-awe book about another zombie apocalypse. The difference between most zombie books and this one is they talk about rebuilding after 90% of the population has been killed. It broke down how most jobs these days require a computer to complete and that the average person barely knows how to change a tire, fix a window, and more importantly to their story restructure a government. Now, while I don't believe a zombie apocalypse is in our near future, I do feel that people must always be prepared for a collapse from the norm. Too many people are comfortable these days, buying equipment/electronics DESIGNED to die after 2 years, and then buying another after that one dies. Unless you want to be the guy on the losing end without the skills to survive you may want to take the time to develop at LEAST 1 skill. Common tasks that most people consider as too basic to mess with are skills that everyone should have down. Cooking, survival technics, basic medicine knowledge, how to fix a car, how to build from stratch, etc etc. Most people are going to argue one thing - Money. You can make a larger amount of money with a skill than you can waiting for the world to teach you something you have to apply in a cubical.
I want to present a challenge - exit your facebook/twitter life. I challenge you to track how many hours you spend on facebook/twitter a week. Once you add up how much time you either access a social network online either by phone or computer, try the next week to substitute that time with an activity - reading, skateboarding, running, lifting weights, watching lectures, etc etc. If you are one of the many I know who spend well over 8 hours a day talking or somehow connected to facebook/twitter, try the following - You don't have to delete facebook, simply delete all links to it when you get online (homepage, bookmarks, etc). Try steping away from facebook for a couple of weeks, read a new book and then get online and write about what you thought about it, or simply jump in your car and drive around to find a place to meet ANYONE new.
Life is too short for the amount of emotion people are placing themselves in by thinking you need to be an image online. Please share any new experiences you have, I want to talk about books you've read, ideas you've had, goals you want to accomplish, or simply things you'd love to learn. I'll do my best to do the same.
My hobbies/skills: Photography, all things computer related, graphics design, reading (check my favorite's section for book ideas), and travel.
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