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Swamp Buggy

// April 30th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Design, Environment, Family, Hunting, Outdoors, Parenting, Travel

When mom and dad were over here in West Palm Beach a few weeks back, we went out to the South Florida Shooting Sports gun club where I am a member for some shooting. We took the whole family because Lily just loves to go out and watch me shoot. An incredible storm came up out of nowhere, so the shooting didn’t last long. We even were hailed on.

Fully Automatic Rifle

// March 15th, 2008 // No Comments » // Design, Hunting, Outdoors, Personal

So I am writing about something a little bit different tonight. As you know I am primarily a gun owner because I am a hunter. But with my move to Florida I have become more serious about personal protection. I want to be prepared if God forbid the day ever comes when I need to defend the life of my family or myself. In addition to this, I have an entrepreneurial interest in the shooting sports industry because it is a niche I understand and can relate to. Owning only two shotguns and a pistol doesn’t make me a “gun nut”, but I do generally like everything about guns except their misuse. As with all things, balance is needed.

Praise God My Daughter is Fine

// June 27th, 2007 // 8 Comments » // Christianity, Design, Health, Miscellaneous, Parenting, Personal, Prayer, Theology

As you may remember from our hospital stay and the update, one of “my little-darlin’s” had an airway event week before last that threatened her life. This morning we went in for the procedure to scope her airway with the anticipation of finding something structurally wrong or possibly some other kind of odd obstruction. After a 10 minute procedure and a short 1 hour recovery, praise God my daughter is fine.

Do I Look Like Michael Jackson?

// April 7th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Miscellaneous, Personal

Last September the Communications Director where I work helped me look stupid and drunk (no, that isn’t my normal look). He has done it again with some crazy photo doctoring of a pic he took for me early this Winter for yet another bio. This was before I shaved the beard after a no-kill season of hunting.

From Bubble Graphs to Mind Maps

// April 6th, 2007 // 3 Comments » // Business, Career, Design, Learning, Management, Personal, Programming, Venture Capital, Writing

Bubble Graphs

I can honestly say there are almost no learning techniques from Jr. High that I have carried forward through my short academic life into business. However, there is one gift that a now nameless, faceless teacher once gave me. That gift was the ability to put my thoughts on paper first, and then dork with them and refine them. She (I think it was a “she”) called them “Bubble Graphs”, but the point was to brainstorm about a topic for a speech, a paper, or an argument and document things. Then go back and do the organization and structuring of those thoughts, with a final output being an outline.