Author: sloanie

In answer to a question in my last post, here’s the new camera I’m using as of last week: Yes, red. Rockstar Red, as Canon calls it, though I don’t thinkthat name does the color justice. Except this is the European version– so the text on mine says “Powershot SD30 Digital Elph” instead of “Digital…

This semester I’ve learned more about “unwinding”. Not how to do it, per se, but that it seems to be necessary to a healthy night’s sleep sometimes. I remember when I lived in Provo with Schmidy, I’d frequently find him sitting in front of the TV around midnight or so. You have to keep in…

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Apple fanboys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. When I bought my MacBook Pro, my brother Steven had once question for me. “Can you play Counter Strike: Source on it?” Because without that ability, it was worthless in his eyes.…

In recent years I’ve become a much lighter sleeper than I used to be. I often wake up a number of times during the night, resulting in much poorer sleep / less rest. I snore like a champ (those who know me can attest), so the thought occurred to me that maybe I had sleep-apnea…

A little over a year ago I became aware of a web site called Myspace. It was apparently some sort of social networking site. Within a matter of months it seems that everyone began to have a myspace page there (kind of like how blogs are a dime a billion these days). This place can’t…

An ad for Sam Hawk that I designed a year ago for a non-design class in school. Mouth watering? gus·to   (gst) n. 1. Enjoyment or vigor in doing something; zest. A number of weeks ago my mom commented that my brother Dan “eats with gusto”. Think of the movie “What About Bob?”. Similar enjoyment factor,…

I had a different title for this post, but without a picture to make the quote effective, I scrapped it in favor of just posting this ramble sans pic. Yes, my Canon SD10 does not seem to have survived our recent trip to Moab, it no longer functions, and on top of that it ate…

So when I answered all those questions for that game of tag, I actually had a bit of fun reminiscing, so here’s another old-times post. Remember being a little kid and going to elementary school? I almost NEVER had “hot lunch” or the lunch the cafeteria provided. I always had “cold lunch”– which means mom…

If I needed a reason to one day be rich, it would be so that I could build a home theater like this.

This thought occurred to me last night: I don’t take life seriously. I really don’t. A couple days ago I turned 27 (thanks to those who wished me a happy birthday 😉 and when I got to work I found what I expected— my cube decorated Star Wars fashion (yeah, bring a light saber with…

Having been tagged TWICE for this little game (by both Joel and Llew), I’ve finally taken the time to respond. If only it were like The Ring and once you were tagged you had 7 days to live unless you passed on the curse… Nevermind. I’d have dismissed it if there’d been any stipulations of…

For years I’ve been one of the people in the office who complains whenever someone makes popcorn. Why? Because it smells so dang good. I think popcorn is engineered to emit that aroma– so that other people will want some. How the crap do you think movie theaters sell it when it’s so expensive? So…