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Portaphile: Portable Audio Enthusiast Those who know me know about this disorder that I have. I not only love music but also how I listen to music, and portable audio is a bit of an obsession of mine. I suppose it had it’s roots in my early days. I don’t recall just how old I…

I always thought that seagulls bombed cars while flying. While that’s indeed the impression they give us, I’m not longer certain that it always works that way. On Monday (the 31st of May) while I was sitting in my car waiting for some friends to show up at Jordan Landing, I saw these seagulls. They…

From atop the Utah One building, downtown Salt Lake City Dreamhost is my current web host. I love dreamhost. Almost a year ago I moved sloanie.com to dreamhost because a) I couldn’t set up Movable Type on my other host, Yahoo Geocities web hosting, which was b) Over-priced and under-powered feature-wise (unless you want silly…

Funny how not long ago I was interested in blogging about a certain topic and now it seems as boring as ever to me to write directly about. It was based on this thought: at the wedding Friday the newly-weds were counseled that “you can run into debt but you will crawl out of it”–…

I love transcendence and transcendent experiences. Yet again a situation in which I cannot put words to thoughts or feelings. Uplifting. Edifying. Music is one of my favorite ways to find transcendence. Some experiences take me higher than others… Today was one I hadn’t really anticipated. I attended my cousin Spencer’s wedding this morning in…

You can see that they shaved his bum to do surgery on his leg, and look at how huge that cast is! Completely unrelated to the previous post, but since I posted a picture of the dog I thought I’d give a puppy update. Back in January I posted some pictures of some really cute…

On his blog recently, Joel wrote a post about how carrying a camera with you helps you recognize beauty in the world around you, sentiments I very much share with Joel (I probably wouldn’t be wrong if I said that it’s the reason both of us started blogs. I can’t believe I’ve been blogging over…

I guess this is an entry I’ve been meaning to do. Joel has asked me a couple times what camera it is I use on my new blog, since I got a new one in March (since then I have been shooting many more pictures than I used to). Here’s why I bought the SD10:…

Beautiful spring day today– clear blue skies, green grass, a light breeze and a perfect temperature in the low 70s / high 60s. These are actually some pics I took a few weeks ago (May 1st). Remember that my camera does not have a zoom– I was literally inches away from those bees, hehe. I…

It’s been almost a month since I’ve gone to Sam Hawk (mainly because school has been out and I avoid going to Provo if I can help it). I mentioned this in the Cafe Rio post, but there’s just something so damn good about some of the dishes there– like the spicy dalk-kalbi (a spicy…

In true sloanie fashion I’ve taken a few pics of food recently. Today was my brother Shawn’s last Lacrosse game of the season– bittersweet because although they won the game and ended the season as the #1 JV team in their division by winning, the coach was a jerk and only let the second string…

Woohoo, I’ve officially started a new web site. This will be a learning experience and hopefully it will be expressive. It’s been a bit gloomy today as it’s been rainy and overcast all day long, really gray. As the sun set you could see the sky clearing in the distance. It is perhaps also gloomy…