It all started in the third grade when I learned to play the trumpet. Throughout school and even shortly after I graduated high school I played that trumpet. Although I wasn’t “the best”, I really enjoyed making music.
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Summer Vacation 2015
For our 2015 summer vacation, we reserved a campsite at Harrison Bay State Park near Chattanooga, Tennessee. My folks drove from Green Bay and we drove from Enterprise to “meet in the middle”. I wanted to record each day in the event that we wanted to “relive” the fun.
I mean’t no offense, ma’am
Today I learned that people take offense to being called “ma’am”. Like, serious offense.
7 steps for gainful, long-lasting employment
Over the years I’ve learned some things “the hard way” – and here are my steps for gainful, long-lasting employment.
Nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act
I have Individual Blue from Blue Cross Blue Shield. It’s a health insurance plan for the self-employed and is a no-frills, high deductible, catastrophic, “oh fuck I just lost my left leg” kind of thing.
Hello Chloe Grace
It happened so fast. One minute we’re watching contractions on the monitor, the next we’re prepping for a c-section. In just 40 weeks and 31 minutes, Tara and I went from expecting to holding our precious little girl.
WordCamp Birmingham was…awesome
This was my second WordCamp (of any kind), the first being WordCamp San Francisco just a few weeks ago. I wanted to list out the key differences between camps:
Yup, I think it’s time to ditch cable. Buh Bye Time Warner.
Most of you know we just moved. I was very happy with Charter in Montgomery. We had 3 brand-new HD-DVRs each with 1TB drives, 30/4Mbps un-throttled Internet that would burst to over 60Mbps, plus over 100 HD channels (all with excellent picture quality). Best of all, I didn’t pay any silly fees. I paid for theContinue reading “Yup, I think it’s time to ditch cable. Buh Bye Time Warner.”
Microphone Shootout: Behringer B-1 vs Neumann TLM 103
I’m a 15-year radio veteran. I’ve seen the debate between high-end and low-end microphones both in-person and on internet message boards. Usually, the argument ends with a snide remark like: “The Behringer is crap because it’s only $100 bucks!”… That’s not very scientific, so I wanted to study this on a technical level.
Living Next Door To The Ex-Wife
In January 2010, I started as Chief Engineer at Bluewater Broadcasting. The new job required me to move to Montgomery, Alabama (about 2 hours from my son Chase). It’s been a very difficult 3 years, 5 months, and 19 days – not only for me but Chase as well.
I blew up my site. Deal with it.
Since August 27, 2007, I’ve been chained to my very “How To” centric blog. For 5 years, 8 months, and 21 days 90% of my content has been about how to help others “do things” with code. The other 10% have been rants or raves about geeky-web-designer stuff. That ends today. I have completely wiped the databaseContinue reading “I blew up my site. Deal with it.”