Identity crisis
By Chris | June 28, 2008
You know that you’re having an identity crisis when you visit Banana Republic and Home Depot in the same day.
Come to think of it, I was at Home Depot to buy nails so that I could hang some art. Maybe that is pretty sissy. I probably shouldn’t have admitted that and probably should have just let it go.
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8 principles and 5.75 questions
By Chris | April 30, 2008
2 Flash movies. 1 set of questions. 1 set of principles.
Worth watching!
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Dodge Hearse?
By Chris | April 12, 2008
Notice any resemblance? This one has been bugging me for quite some time.
Photo credits: 2a - Antique 1951 Cadillac Hearse (E) by Kansas Sebastian, @Dodge-Magnum_004 by MATEUS_27:24&25. Some rights reserved.
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Stuck
By Chris | March 29, 2008
I’m having trouble these days knowing what to write about. What makes it worse is that I struggle with how much I want to share publicly on the Web to begin with. I’ve already written a few posts that would get me into trouble if the wrong people read it, particularly my superiors at work.
Since 1999, I’ve posted quite a few blog entries. I’ve considered posting up my massive archive, comments included. But I used to be quite a bit… immature. Yeah, I think that’s the nicest way of saying it.
The content proves how much I’ve grown since 1999, but I fear that it could have the potential of destroying people’s impressions of me, especially if some of it was read out of context.
What do you think? Am I taking myself too seriously? I want a conversation here, people!
Topics: Tech | 4 Comments »
Help fight local warming
By Chris | January 30, 2008
It starts out slow, but trust me, YOU MUST KEEP WATCHING!
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A new description of my “condition”
By Chris | January 16, 2008
My business idol Seth Godin just posted his take on the good and bad kind of workaholics.
I believe that I’m the positive version of workaholicism that he describes. Or at least I hope that I am.
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Getting a passport
By Chris | December 27, 2007
I finally got my ass to the post office today to get my passport. The people ahead of me in line were applying for 2, so I had to wait through double the pain of getting a passport, not including my own experience.
There was word that I am going to Europe for work sometime in January. I haven’t really heard much about it since then, but I guess I should still assume that I’m going.
I hope I end up going somewhere cool like Germany, England, or Italy. Hell, any country over there would be cool!
See more progress on: get a passport
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The loneliness of starting a business
By Chris | December 26, 2007
I made the decision a while ago to start my own business, and I’m still doing it. I’ve made quite a bit of progress and run across quite a few obstacles and speed bumps. But I’m still surviving. (And enjoying it at times!)
Probably the hardest thing for me to deal with is how lonely I feel. While a lot of people my age are out partying it up, I’m at home building up infrastructure, getting together financial documents, and drafting up contracts. I average about 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night now.
This diagram from indexed kind of depresses me. :)
But soon I’ll have something set up that I can say I’ve built from nothing. It feels really empowering. All of this is in anticipation of that moment where I can declare, “I have something worth marketing!” and mean it. All of this is in anticipation of that moment where I can tell everyone all about it on my own web site, to new customers.
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I am Legend is killer
By Chris | December 15, 2007
by Francis Lawrence (II)
The movie was over 45 minutes ago, and I am still on edge. It was that good.
Seriously, if you want to feel that true survival instinct (and possibly have cardiac arrest), go see this movie. If I don’t have nightmares tonight, there is something wrong with me. But trust me, that’s a good thing. :)
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Got rid of unnecessary possessions
By Chris | November 12, 2007
This goal took freakin’ forever. It seemed like when I thought I was done, there was something else that I should have gotten rid of. When I sold my old Ampeg bass cabinet, I drew the line and declared that I was finished getting rid of unnecessary possessions.
I used a combination of eBay and craigslist to get rid of everything.
One major thing that I learned was that when you’re selling this many different items on eBay, you’re going to end up running into problems. And you also get emailed by weird foreign scammers on craigslist pretty often if you’re selling a big-ticket item like a Marshall half stack. If it smells fishy, then don’t proceed.
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