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January 26, 2007
Snoreboardin’ My Life Away
Oh boy... it’s “that” time again! In two days, I head to the annual dudes-only snoreboard trip! In the past three years, we’ve hit Colorado pretty hard – Breckenridge, Copper Mountain and Winter Park. The dream has always been to head back to the place where Todd first started... Park City, Utah – more specifically, The Canyons. This is the year, my friends.... this is the year. Luckily for us, we’re not driving this year. We’re flying. How enjoyable will that be? Answer: very.
Leading up to each year’s trip, we usually buy new things. Whether it was a jacket or boots, something new was purchased – either before, or during, the trip. This year has been no different, except for the fact that we now have new tools at our disposal for buying such items... and planning such trips.
The first is an incredible site called SteepAndCheap.com. Think W00T for outdoor-winter enthusiasts. You can find snowboards, skis, jackets, socks, toques, hydration systems, carabiners, etc... all for extremely low prices. Bruno and I scored some nice goggles for $12.50 a piece one day (they retailed at $80). Keep an eye on the stuff there, they sell out pretty quick.
The next service (one that we didn’t get to use, unfortunately) is a new site called Liftopia. As Webware.com put it, “think Expedia, but for lift tickets.” Yes, if you can find the mountain that you want to go to on this list, give it a shot... you might find you some cheap tix.
Then, by far the coolest thing I’ve seen since Google Earth, in terms of 3D rendering-ness, is Ski.com’s new 3D maps of resorts. Check out the one for The Canyons, this is where we’ll be from Monday through Thursday.
I’m not making any promises, but there may be something worth checking out eventually on some of The Canyon’s web cams.
Anyway, it should be a fun trip. I’ll have more to report when I’m back.
Posted by Seth at 09:59 PM | Comments (1)
January 17, 2007
The New Digs
Ahhhhhhh. It's nice to finally have a change on the site. I grew very tired of the previous design, which featured a photo from my previous loft. Yeah, it was time for a new design. As you can see, this is very Web 2.0 flavored – vibrant colors, heavy use of gradients, simple and toned type (not black on white, or vice-versa).
On the home page, if you didn't notice, I've narrowed the center column and I'm only listing brief synopses of my posts – which finally makes my home page an actual home page. I like that.
Soon I'll be adding in more and more features, such as Search, RSS feeds for all of the comments on the site, my DIGG RSS feed and a smattering of other things. So stay tuned. Or... don't.
Posted by Seth at 07:19 PM | Comments (3)
January 12, 2007
Red Swingline
The other day at work, I was preparing for a meeting and needed to collate some print outs. I headed into the production room to sort the pages and then staple them together. I reach over and grab the stapler and then “tried” to staple the stack together. As I suspected would happen, the staple doubled over on itself and died. I grumbled, grabbed the staple remover (which should really be called an “f’ed up staple remover”), removed the stapler and then proceeded to look for another stapler.
I was happily surprised to see another one right next to me. And another one. And another one. And, well, when I was done counting, there were nine (9) staplers in the production room. They were all the same model as the crappy plastic stapler that messed up the first time I tried it. All of them the same, except one – a nicer, solider, metal stapler.
I didn’t even bother messing with the other ones, I went right for the metal goodness and finished the job of assembling my pages. It gave me the nice “ka-chunk,” that a good stapler does.
It was that last statement that made me wonder, why does there need to be such a thing as a good stapler and a bad stapler? All I need is something that will consistently staple papers together.
Take a look at Swingline’s stapler section – it lists 74 different staplers for sale. 74!?! That’s outrageous. In my opinion, there really only needs to be four staplers:
- Regular everyday stapler
- High capacity stapler
- Electric stapler
- Mini-stapler
But back to the point, why bother buying a case of crappy plastic staplers when you can buy nicer metal ones that won’t break. It was obvious that the eight staplers left in the production room all lost out to the metal one, so why not toss them? These things aren’t light bulbs, it’s not convenient to use them until they die and then get a new one.
Ah well, until they invent the perfect stapler, you can hear what staplers should sound like at VirtualStapler.com.
Posted by Seth at 08:16 PM | Comments (4)
January 01, 2007
So This is the New Year
Ahhhh, we made it. We effectively stripped out of our 2006 clothes last night and into our 2007 digs this morning. It was a fun night of partying (only one block from my place, so we partied smart) and now I’m sitting here waiting for the Capital One bowl to start (where I’ll hopefully see one last Arkansas football win until the fall).
As with last year’s post about new year’s resolutions, I’m going to post my resolutions here – so you all can mock me when I fail to abide by them. By the way, I only failed to come through on two of last year’s resolutions (financial advisor and monthly budget). Not bad. I had 10 sodas total, paid off one credit card and found a cheaper place to live (among other things).
So what’s on tap for 2007? I’m going to carry over several from last year, just to track progress, but here’s what I got:
- Set up a meeting with a financial planner. (Priority number one)
- Limit fried potato intake to once a month. (This includes french fries, fast food hash browns, tater tots, etc.)
- Visit Kansas City’s museums. (I haven’t been to any of them and I’ve lived here for 7 years now)
- Pay off other credit card.
- Walk to work at least twice a week. (It’s only 10 minutes away, and it’s nice to get outside)
- Use all of my vacation days. (I lost out on 1.5 days in 2006)
- Go through storage items and purge. (Seriously, how much crap do we need?)
- Boycott shopping at Wal-Mart. (from last year)
- Limit my soda intake to one a month. (from last year)
There you have it, the nine resolutions for 2007. What do your resolutions entail?
Posted by Seth at 11:31 AM | Comments (1)