February 2012
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2:55:38!
First marathon in the books! The Austin Marathon was great - hilly, but certainly not boring. I died pretty hard the last 4 miles but still put down a 2:55 after 4 months of 3-4 days a week of running. A long ways from where I used to be but I am so excited this went well! My buddy Brad ran 2:42 after 4 months of 6-7 days/week. He is super excited too, though I think this was his first and last...
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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ListenBlind Faith - Can’t Find My Way Home...
Feb 7th
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Semprius Sets New Solar Efficiency Record →
The guys at Semprius have set a new efficiency world record for a single solar module! I had a blast getting to work with them this past fall and couldn’t be happier for them.
Feb 4th
January 2012
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Jan 31st
Pretty Lights – We Must Go On →
Great new track from Pretty Lights on indieshuffle
Jan 30th
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ListenDick Gaughan - Tom Paine’s Bones Scottish...
Jan 30th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 23rd
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22 Miles Down! →
Brad and I got in our longest run of the season today, with one month to go until the Livestrong Austin Marathon. Pumped!
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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ListenLights (Bassnectar Remix) by Ellie Goulding Love...
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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18 miles today! →
A solid nearly 18 miles today. Things are slowly starting to come together for the marathon in 5 weeks. Couldn’t have been nicer weather either!
Jan 7th
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ListenDaughter - Youth There is some incredible...
Jan 5th
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December 2011
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Top 10 (12) Records of 2011
I’ve finally put together my year-end list for the best albums of 2011. It was a great year for a diverse array of genres as seen in the list below. Excellent hip-hop, trip-hop, shoegaze, rock, and folk albums dominated my listening for the year. My list is in descending order, with a tie for my favorite album of the year between Youth Lagoon and Atmosphere. Those two albums were far and...
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Your iPhone's Brain is from Austin, TX →
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ListenChris Bathgate - No Silver Excellent folky tune...
Dec 8th
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“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection...”
– Steve Jobs
Dec 5th
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ListenFlorence + the Machine - Take Care (Drake cover) ...
Dec 1st
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November 2011
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ListenYouth Lagoon - Cannons Can’t get enough of...
Nov 26th
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ListenYou Won’t - Realize Based off of...
Nov 19th
ListenAwesome song bijan: Who Knew by You...
Nov 19th
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October 2011
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Ben Howard - Black Flies I am in love with this whole album. Black Flies builds so well….
Oct 20th
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Could 3D Printing Change the World? →
Its taken a long time, but 3D Printing is finally getting to the point where the question below is not ridiculous. Research at MIT’s Media Lab, Mediated Matter Group involving much more complex material structures is one example of how 3D Printing could make the jump from rapid prototyping to replacing manufacturing. smarterplanet: Could 3D Printing Change the World? Technologies,...
Oct 20th
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Ryan Adams - Do I Wait Favorite track off the new album. Dig it.
Oct 13th
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Oct 6th
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Oct 6th
ListenWake Up (Arcade Fire cover) by John Legend &...
Oct 6th
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Steve Jobs Was Always Kind to Me (Or, Regrets of... →
Oct 6th
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“Steve devoted his professional life to giving us (you, me and a billion other...”
– Seth Godin I grew up using Apple products from a very young age. My grandpa got me started on an Apple IIe. Our good friends had a NeXT computer that felt like it was 20 years in the future (and it was - it is still the basis for OSX). I used it every chance I could. We had Power PC’s during...
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September 2011
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Sep 29th
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