General Interest
Review: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
In Donald Miller‘s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life the author takes the topic of how to live a meaningful life. Miller wrote a popular autobiographical book called Blue Like Jazz a number of years ago and was approached by a producer to turn the book into [...]
Kids Riding Sheep
I was at the Rio Grande Valley Stock Show in Mercedes, TX and saw what was one of the funniest things I can recall…kids riding sheep! Since this was my first rodeo experience I certainly had a memory I won’t soon forget and look forward to going back next year. Technorati Tags: funny, kids, RGV, Rio [...]
Review: Super Freakonomics
I recently completed Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner. This is the follow-up to their best-selling Freakonomics. Super Freakonomics is a little out of the normal productivity and business genera that I normally review on this site but it was a [...]
Choosing the Right Lighting Options to Save Money
In a recent article called “The Light Bulb Showdown” on The Simple Dollar blog there was an analysis of the best deal between LED, CFL, and incandescent light bulbs. While this may not be the most exciting discussion it is noteworthy because it happens to be one of the easiest ways for consumers to [...]
Why I Don’t Make New Year Resolutions
As the calendar flips from 2008 to 2009 and I am reading numerous blog posts on New Year’s Resolutions I am reminded why I don’t make them. You will notice most people make resolutions like: Lose weight Save more money/spend less money Read more books Connect with more people As the clock ticks from 11:59 [...]
Choosing Between Point-and-Shoot and DSLR Cameras
Image via Wikipedia A couple months ago my wife was in the market for a new DSLR camera and at that time I asked some of my “turn-to experts” about the trade off that I was making between megapixels in a point and shoot in my price range and the DSLR. They were able to [...]
Beau Sia – Asian Invasion
Technorati Tags: poetry, slam, spoken word
Donna’s Corn Maze
This past weekend a friend told me about Donna’s Corn Maze located in Donna, TX. While this may not be of interest to all my readers I thought I would pass it along to my friends in the Rio Grande Valley. This appears as if it may be a fun place to take the childern [...]
Jason Carney – Southern Heritage
This is one of the most moving performances and is worth sharing with my readers. Technorati Tags: poetry, slam, spoken word
Alternative Energy in the Future for the Rio Grande Valley
Image by andreaweckerle via Flickr A recent Brownsville Herald article provides some hope that for alternative energy with the first home in a planned development that has a wind turbine. The development will encourage home owners to install wind generators, solar panels, and other alternative fuel sources. All homes will be grid connected with “reverse [...]
