http://www.escapefrompianosa.com Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:04:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First off, let me say, I really like StumbleUpon, and I have no problem promoting the site to my friends. So last night, after stumbling for a few days, I decided to see if any of my friends were using the service too... I entered my Gmail information and then ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2008/03/05/stumbleupon-just-violated-my-address-book/ I'm disappointed in this season of the Wire (spoilers coming--you've been warned). I think the Baltimore Sun storyline sucks. I don't know if it's David Simon's enmity towards the Sun interfering with his creative judgment. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt since the first four seasons ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2008/01/22/ive-lost-my-faith-in-the-wire/ I have to say that my blogging hiatus has felt good! Still, the urge hits me every once in a while and I'm thinking of ways to go about personal blogging in the future. For now, I'm starting my own search engine optimization company, and the website has a blog as ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2008/01/07/new-seo-marketing-blog/ Well I've been running this blog for about a little over a year now. It started as a real estate blog called Carter's Adventure and then moved to its present domain. I'm shutting it down. I'll leave the site up, but no more posting for the foreseeable future. I've been thinking ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/21/experiment-over/ So Dwight has overcome his struggles with the self-aware computer and focused his energies on 'agrotourism'? Really, agrotourism? Ok. Tell me more Dwight.. Agrotourism is a lot more than you think... "it consists of tourist coming to a farm, showing them around, giving them a bed, ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/18/the-office-schrutes-beet-farm/ I had dinner tonight with my friend from college, Dave Ford. He's got a really amazing travel story going, not to mention a powerful message: you can quit your job, travel the world for a year, and change your life forever if you put your mind to it. In his ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/17/my-new-project-daveforddoesearthcom/ I agree with Jackie. Meetings with agendas and objectives suck. I'm very thankful that my current work situation doesn't involve endless meetings. It does involve a lot of creative collaboration and ad hoc discussions, but nothing of the "sit in the conference room with 15 other people and watch PowerPoint" variety. When ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/12/why-not-unmeetings/ I love these Seinfeld commercials. I don't understand why advertisers don't use these story commercials more often... stories that are three short episodes shown during a TV show. People love stories. Maybe they're worried about channel-flipping? I don't know who could tune in to The Office and turn off the ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/11/the-office-dwight-vs-the-computer/ Good news and bad. The good news is that I won my fantasy baseball league (finally!) and there are sweet sweet prizes involved. Congratulations! Your outstanding performance in this season's Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball PLUS competition has made you the potential recipient of one of our League Winner Prizes -- ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/10/in-maryland-its-illegal-to-win-a-bobblehead/ Being in a high-paying but miserable job is a nasty combination. Really really nasty. It's easy to leave a bad job that pays poorly. What do you have to lose? Worst-case scenario, you're back in another miserable job. But being in a miserable job that pays well; that's really tough. Because ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/09/if-you-hate-your-job-but-love-the-money/