Digital Wilderness http://kyblogger.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:49:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Destination: Congaree Recently, I met with my friend Nick to help him plan his road trip to the Northeast, given I traveled there last year. Of course, this just led to the travel bug biting me…

Two days later, my next trip is planned.

Needless to say, when I get bitten, the Planner/Organizer in me wastes no time taking over. Planning for a vacation this year is in sharp contrast to my trip last year, when I did very little planning. I basically had a list of destinations/points of interest and just drove. As nice as it [...] Continue Reading → Related posts:

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]]> http://kyblogger.com/2010/03/13/destination-congaree/ Something Beautiful Love this new song from Needtobreathe – Something Beautiful

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In your ocean I’m ankle deep I feel the waves crashing on my feet It’s like I know where I need to be I can’t figure out No, I can’t figure out Just how much air I will need to breathe When your wave crashes over me There’s only one way to figure out Will you let me drown Will you let me drown

Hey now, this is my desire Consume me like a fire Cause I just want Something beautiful to touch me I know that I’m in reach I am down on my knees And waiting for Something beautiful

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]]> http://kyblogger.com/2010/03/13/something-beautiful/ OK Go’s Rube Goldberg Machine I’ve seen some pretty elaborate and cool Rube Goldberg machines, but OK Go takes the cake with this massive, two story machine done in time with their song This Too Shall Pass! I don’t even want to begin thinking how long it took to build this and how many takes it took to get it right…

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]]> http://kyblogger.com/2010/03/03/ok-gos-rube-goldberg-machine/ 2010 Goals – Checkup Two months into the year, time for a check up on my 2010 goals (since I can’t think of anything else to write about at the moment…)

Goal: Increase emergency fund to 3 months of expenses Category: Financial Time Frame: End of the year Status: Right on target! Grade: A+

Goal: Get to work on time Category: Personal Time Frame: Daily Status: No where close… Grade: F-

Goal: Perform a Random Act of Kindness at least once a month Category: Charity/Community Time Frame: Monthly Status: So far, so good. RAoKs performed include: cleaning snow off a co-worker’s car anonymously, letting [...] Continue Reading → Related posts:

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]]> http://kyblogger.com/2010/03/01/2010-goals-checkup/ Beaker’s Ballad So great to see new videos featuring the Muppets!

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]]> http://kyblogger.com/2010/02/09/beakers-ballad/ Thoughts on the LOST Season Premiere Some quick thoughts on the first episode of the final season of LOST…

Great first episode of the final season! Didn’t get many questions answered, and many more were introduced, but still an action-packed and intense episode! I really like the dual threads/alternate reality, a.k.a. flash sideways. Brilliant! I wonder if, at the end of the show, the two storylines will collide and each person will have to choose which one they want to stay in. No Shannon on the plane. Boone says she said stayed behind in Australia. Turns out that in real life, her busy schedule didn’t allow [...] Continue Reading → Related posts:
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]]> http://kyblogger.com/2010/02/03/thoughts-on-the-lost-season-premiere/ Mmmvelopes J&D, the creators of Bacon Salt and Baconnaise, now bring us…

Mmmvelopes, bacon-flavored envelopes!

And something else I missed is…

BaconPOP, bacon-flavored popcorn!

Bacon, FTW!

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]]> http://kyblogger.com/2010/01/28/mmmvelopes/ Fear the Boom and Bust My fellow economics geeks out there might enjoy this – EconStories.tv brings us Fear the Boom and Bust.

In Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century, come back to life to attend an economics conference on the economic crisis. Before the conference begins, and at the insistence of Lord Keynes, they go out for a night on the town and sing about why there’s a “boom and bust” cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it.

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]]> http://kyblogger.com/2010/01/27/fear-the-boom-and-bust/ 2010 Goals For the past 5 years (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and (2009), at the beginning of each year, I’ve set goals for the upcoming year. These have been met with varying degrees of success, but regardless of the past (lack of) results, I still feel this is an important exercise for me (and everyone!) to do. This provides a roadmap, a direction for my future, showing what I deem important and on which areas of my life I want to work and improve.

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]]> http://kyblogger.com/2010/01/07/2010-goals/ Follow You Love this new song by Leeland – Follow You (with Brandon Heath)

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You lived among the least of these The weary and the weak And it would be a tragedy for me to turn away

All my needs you have supplied When I was dead you gave me life How could I not give it away so freely?

And I’ll follow you into the homes that are broken Follow you into the world Meet the needs for the poor and the needy God Follow you into the world

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