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Doing What You Love

Blogable Matt — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:03:38 +0000

I could philosophize a bit with this post and come up with a really powerful challenge to seek out what makes you come alive and to pursue it with all your heart. I could, and you should probably do that to the extent that you can still provide for your family, eat, & have a place to sleep. Instead, I'm simply going to highlight someone who seems to be doing that. He's single, so that helps with the number of mouths to feed (at least for now … ladies?!). However, Jason Harrod has been travelling around the country for at least the past ten years playing guitar for small to medium-sized groups. In the 10 or so times I've seen him perform the largest crowd had 200 people. The average crowd has been about 30. Honestly, I don't know how he does it year after year, but I'm glad he does. He puts out an album every five years, which means a new one should come out this year. My innermost prayer is that it isn't overproduced like his last album and is more like his first solo album Living in Skin, which you should buy at this moment. In any regard, check out Jason, and help him live the dream.

Oh, he has is own Wikipedia page, so you know he's legit.

Happy Birthday America

Blogable Matt — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:24:46 +0000

I won a medal to celebrate America. Think I'll relax the rest of the weekend.

Glass is 1/6 Full

Blogable Matt — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:40:29 +0000

Optimist

God or Rick Astley?

Blogable Matt — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:28:48 +0000

A Note to People Who Think Windows 7 Was Their Idea

Blogable Matt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:07:30 +0000

Windows 7 was not your idea. Please shut up. All of you. You are lying to us. I'll agree that advertising is often times misleading, manipulative, and borderline lying. But seriously, you're actually lying to us. You had no such ideas. Even if you did, you did not communicate them. You sat on your butt and complained that your previous computer worked poorly. You maybe hit the "Send Error Report to Microsoft" button when an application crashed. That does not count as passing your ideas along. It counts as telling Microsoft your stuff was broken. I appreciate optimism in general, but this is self-delusion. Please be quiet.

Sincerely, Me.

Note: This does not apply to the nice people in Redmond and Mumbai that did have ideas that went into Windows 7. Hats off to you. I'm glad you enjoyed OS X 10.4 enough to remake it for Microsoft.

A Long Boat to Tokyo

Blogable Matt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:08:02 +0000

A boat of sushi? God bless America! Happy Birthday Angela! Additional exclamation point!

Don’t Forget

Blogable Matt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:57:01 +0000

Thursday Depth

Blogable Matt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:21:18 +0000

Some might say the glass is mostly empty. I would say it's time for a another pint. I and some are both correct.

Three Viewings … Blessed

Blogable Matt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:20:48 +0000

Only in Seattle …

Blogable Matt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:51:09 +0000