• Out of Office – A Neat Little Trick to Reduce Work From Home Friction

    Out of Office – A Neat Little Trick to Reduce Work From Home Friction

    Knowing when someone can be bothered when working from home is hard, so I created an automated way to clearly show those lovely housemates of yours that it’s fine to interrupt, or to please wait for a little while. I understand the problem. Show me the setup! Remember the video of the guy getting interviewed…

  • Give the Gift of 11 Herbs and Spices This Year

    Give the Gift of 11 Herbs and Spices This Year

    Fun fact: the First Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise opened in Utah in 1952. Not-so-fun fact: Colonel Sanders’ first name is apparently Harland which is the 2nd most Southern name. The first most Southern name is Bocephus. The most Southern name hierarchy as we know it is officially: The most popular name for girls living East…

  • The Local Citrus Scandal

    The Local Citrus Scandal

    I have a vice. Well, I have several but we’re going to focus on one today. I love soda. And right now in Utah there’s a fancy soda craze sweeping the region. These little soda shops are cropping up like black mold in a Louisiana swamp and the idea is that you take perfectly good…

  • The Little Curiosities

    The Little Curiosities

    It took me 38 years to recognize all the little things that I realize. Put another way, it wasn’t until very recently that I realized how differently I see the world than almost everyone else. Like the time I could see the slow-motion internal dilemma of a fellow middle-aged man reaching for a copy of…

  • Have you ever been roasted by a 7-year-old?

    Have you ever been roasted by a 7-year-old?

    We all know what a Roast is, right? They started back in the mid-century 1900s with Dean Martin, I believe, and the idea is that someone brings together a group of people they really like and trust and the collective then proceeds to take personal shots until the guest of honor is either crying because…

  • Welcome to Mooseport

    Welcome to Mooseport

    We were already married when I found out you had been paying 10 cents for every single text that we sent back and forth the entire time we were dating. I started to do the mental math and my brain overheated because I knew how many late nights we spent furiously finger-typing until 2 am.…

  • Glue

    Glue

    Brady would be mortified if he knew I were writing this so if you see him in the street, please keep this particular post on the down-low. He deserves all the attention that we could possibly ever give him, but the last thing he wants is the praise and limelight. I’m hoping he’ll appreciate this…

  • Apps That I Use Every Single Day

    Apps That I Use Every Single Day

    I keep my most-used apps on the lower half of my home screen so they’re easier to get to. Curating a list of apps that I use every single day was harder than I thought it was going to be. There are many many apps that I use almost every single day, but there are…

  • Death by 1,000 Little TV Subscriptions

    Death by 1,000 Little TV Subscriptions

    With the internet we would finally get rid of the monopolistic stronghold from our Cable and Satellite providers! We were going to be Julie Andrews in a Swiss meadow of endless DRM-free on-demand content, and our only cost would be the pipe that would bring it directly into our living room set top box. It…

  • The Problem With Trying to Eat an Elephant

    The Problem With Trying to Eat an Elephant

    I don’t want to oversell it but it’s the first thing I’ve picked up from a book that I’m still thinking about almost hourly even 3 months after completing the book. The secret I learned is being reflected in my everyday outcomes to the point where my marriage is improved, my employer is complimenting me…