Big Bear

When I was a child, one of the first grocery stores that my mom used to take me to was Big Bear. I used to always bug her to get me one of the sugar cookies in the bakery. If I remember correctly, they were shaped like bears. Although Big Bear is no longer around, it still serves as a nostalgic memory for me, and little did I know the historical significance of this store and how it would continue to tie in to my life. Big Bear was the creation...

Hurricane Season

What Hurricane Season has meant to me over the course of my life is worrying about relatives who happen to live on the coast. Now that I live on the coast, Hurricane Season has taken on a new meaning. Even though I live much further north than most people living on the coast, the predictions that this Hurricane Season will be very active have gotten many who live in my area to believe that we may indeed see a full blown hurricane this year. I was...

One Year

The end of this month marks the one year anniversary of my workout routine. Of course, my workout routine has changed over the past year, but the important thing is that I've kept at it. Although I haven't seen all of the changes that I wanted to make of my body, my tone and athleticism has vastly improved. My next goal is to achieve a healthy weight. Unfortunately, I don't earn enough money to eat the way that I should and I am underweight as a...

Lipstick On A Pig

No matter how much you slap lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig, and that's exactly what Windows 8 is. Well, metaphorically speaking anyway. I'm not sure why this isn't common knowledge: Windows 8 is nothing more than a touch UI (in this case metro) slapped on to a severely crippled desktop UI. There's a reason why the start menu has held it's ground for so long: it is tweaked and optimized for a mouse. The desktop operating system is built for...

aolOS?

Something occurred to me when looking at iOS 7. The colors are reminiscent of AOL back in the day when AOL was so brightly colored that the colors burned in to your retinas and felt like salt, lighter fluid, and fire (all at the same time) in your eyeballs. What the HELL happened? Apple is supposed to have great design, right? Maybe they need to resurrect Steve Jobs. The reason that I love iOS is the software is so fine tuned and polished that...

I'm Not Game

Recently, I came to the sudden realization that I haven't been a true gamer since I owned a Nintendo 64 back in the day. I am what some would call a casual gamer. I play games to pass time in between productivity. I can't stand to be on break, so I play Uno as a mindless task to stave off boredom. It's not that I don't enjoy gaming, though. I'm just extremely picky. I enjoy innovation and a good story. I enjoy things that entertain my brain. I...

Hello Friends

After a long hiatus from what I would call true blogging, I think that I have a reason to blog again. I enjoy writing, but writing every day because I had to in college sort of burnt me out. When I tried to start again, I found that I had largely lost my "step" when it came to writing with personality, but I think that I have it back now. I don't plan to update this blog on a schedule. That seems to fall in to the territory of monotony and monotony...