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49/365: Packing Packing Packing Up
February 18, 2011.
Packing up all of my belongings getting ready for my big move to Montrose close to downtown Houston. Loads of clothes, frames, desk items, & electronics.
Thankfully it’s Friday and I was still on a high from eating breakfast with the lovely Sarah in the morning at Minuti! Mmmm.
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48/365: And Who Said I Didn't Read?
February 17, 2011.
The Hardy Boys Series. I wrote many a book report in school on these intriguing, predictable mystery stories.
And who said I didn’t read? :P
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47/365: A Soapy Star Wars Tie Fighter
February 16, 2011.
Check out this neat Star Wars Tie Fighter that I carved out of soap when I was little. Still around!
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46/365: Packing. Sifting thru the VHS: Good...
February 15, 2011.
See any classics in the photo? What movies do you love that you still have on VHS?
Packing? Wait what?! Remember I’m moving(ed)!
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45/365: Mhmmm, Love Handles. Oooooh right!
February 14, 2011.
LOVE.
I’m not perfect. I’m broken. God has forgiven me. I am redeemed by His love & nothing of my own doing. God loves me! God loves you! Awesome.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
P.S. - God made coffee. I love coffee :-)
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44/365: Happy Birthday, Mama! Discount Time @...
February 13, 2011.
Happy Birthday, dearest Mama!!!
That’s right TJ Maxx, Ross, & Marshalls (nicknamed TJRosshalls), an experienced shopper will now be frequenting your stores more often. :)
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43/365: Mother's Birthday Eve Celebrations of Food
February 12, 2011.
We fried up copious amounts of chicken aka pohano (in Croatian) for the family. Rosemary Gluten Free crumbs & pecan crumbs meet. DELICIOUS. Seriously awesome.
Happy Birthday Eve, Mama!
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42/365: Fritellas in College Station. Boy Howdy!
February 11, 2011.
My first time stopping in Aggieland, College Station, Texas. Sarah took me to Fritella’s Italian Cafe where we ordered Fritellas which are essentially yummy calzones!
After having our fill, we joined the Valentines’ Dance Party hosted by the Christian fellowship Sarah was a part of while at Texas A&M. Think 80s & 90s proms meeting present day dance...
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41/365: A balanced manly portion lunch... Crazy...
February 10, 2011.
A massive meal! Mmmm. Salami & muenster cheese sandwich, PB&J sandwich, two hard-boiled eggs, strawberries, carrots, banana, V8 Splash, jalapeno chips, neiman marcus cake, and cheese crisps.
Oh and the parking garage at PROS was PACKED!
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40/365: 10 Ways To Love
February 9, 2011.
This basically wraps up my day. :)
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39/365: Surprise small group candlelight & worship...
February 8, 2011.
This Tuesday’s small group (Ecclesia bible study group led by Scott & Hannah Key) was a small night of prayer, worship, and reflection. Out of the norm, but necessary.
Calming. Thanks be to God!
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36/365: Houston Dynamo's New Stadium...
February 5, 2011.
On Saturday, February 5, the weather cleared up and the blistering cold subsided just a tad. However, there was no stopping the Houston Dynamo’s New Stadium Groundbreaking party & the fans & soccer enthusiasts who flocked in. Houston’s MLS soccer team, the Dynamo, will have their own stadium mid-2012.
I was impressed by the club & players’...
December 2011
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Context of Mobile Interaction
Mobile application developers must consider that their users will likely be in a high distraction and demanding environment. The interface and workflow must be simple and require only a short amount of time to accomplish a task.
November 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Hilarious Glance Into The Future Via Search -... →
Random & funny highlights:
2020 – Keyboards and mice become obsolete
2049 – Fishing industry collapses
2100 – Gillette introduces 14-bladed razor
… more
Check out more search predictions and the actual XKCD comic here…
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Bikes, Quit Racking! Let Them Hang Out -... →
It’s a beautiful day! A wonderful time for a bike ride. Arriving at your destination, you dismount only to find no extra room for your ride on the overcrowded bike racks. Yikes!!! Enter Manifesto’s solution… More
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Stream the Entire Foo Fighters Album Wasting Light... →
Check out the Foo Fighter’s new album “Wasting Light” through Rethink|Thought here.
March 2011
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38/365: UH InterVarsity Alumni Website
On Monday night Sarah, Jeremiah, Callina (yes, you helped), and I hammered out the finishing structural touches to the WordPress powered UH InterVarsity Alumni Website which can be found at http://alumni.uhintervarsity.org. Beautiful job everybody :)
Our dream is to reach the 32,000 college and university students at the University of Houston. By establishing witnessing communities of students...
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37/365: Superbowl Party @ Kate, Katie, & Kyle's
A wild & crazy :P superbowl party with Ecclesia small groupers at Kate, Katie, and Kyle’s apartment.
The ability to pause & replay the game has revolutionized the watching experience. Watching that hilarious commercial or reliving a cameraman getting creamed on the sidelines over and over again, brilliant!
Bleeeegh :P
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34/365: Struggles of Working from Home
Because of the ice on roads, sleet, and extreme temperatures outside (for Houston at least, come on northerners… :P), many of us worked from home on Thursday as well as Friday.
As you can see, it was a tough day. ;-) Turkish coffee, carrots, and sugary pecans.
Friday (day 35) was the great Houston Snowpocalypse.
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33/365: Hello, 20 degree temps! Rolling Power...
Welcome to a couple of the coldest days in Houston! Especially in February.
During this time, ERCOT (Electric Reliability Counsel of Texas) began initiating rolling electricity black outs throughout Houston (and Texas) to keep up with the high demand of electricity-intensive home heaters. An investigation has been launched into ERCOT’s decision reports the Wall Street Journal.
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32/365: Bitter Sweet Freedom, Jury Duty Summons
Postponed once because of our product’s December release date, my jury duty day was upon me. An odd time slot of 12:15pm loomed over my day putting a damper on any afternoon coding plans / meetings and possibly for the remainder of the week.
The day happened to coincide with Suit Up Day @ PROS so I decided to keep my suit on to let the judge know I meant business… I made my way to...
February 2011
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Suit Up Day @ PROS
Several of us at PROS Pricing decided that it would be fun to be classy & suit-up for a day. I felt professional, but I feel almost the same way in jeans or khakis or slacks.
Well done, ladies & gentlemen!
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31/365: Fog in Houston
Monday night, the last day of January, in Houston was a foggy foggy night. The beginning of a crazy odd week of weather in Houston. My street had an eerie stillness to it disturbed only by the occasional wandering cat.
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30/365: Phil Wickham Sings It Out
Sunday, Sarah invited me to a Phil Whickham concert at Friendswood Community Church. I met several more cool, Freebirds-loving Aggies there (Chris, Jamison, Ian…). An amazing night of praise & worship to our loving God followed!
A Divine Romance by Phil Whickham
The fullness of Your grace is here with me The richness of Your beauty’s all I see The brightness of Your glory has...
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29/365: Surreal Mozart's Opera, The Magic Flute
Saturday night (1/29/2011) was the second showing of a surreal & hilarious rendition of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” at the UH Moores Opera Center. I went with a couple of friends from church & snatched up 8 box seats on the left side. What an amazing & fun show!!! Imagine an opera taking place in outer-space with 3D projections popping up randomly. YES, part of...
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28/365 - FrznToastr & Terry Scholars @ Laser Quest
Friday night was upon us. Visions of laser tag were in the air & bouncing around our faces & in our eyes!
My amazing fellow UH Terry Scholars invited me to join them for an intense game of laser tag at Laser Quest (Westheimer close to Highway 6). How could I resist shooting LAZORRRS lasers at friends & whooping elementary & middle school kids?! Impossible.
During those ~10...
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27/365 - Checked Out Dunlavy Apartment. Lease...
January 27, 2011.
For the past several months I have been scouring Houston Craiglist’s apartment listings looking for a 1BR or 2BR apartment in the Montrose/Midtown area of Houston (my search). Well, I think I’ve found the place! Today, I swung by a quaint small ~15 unit apartment complex off of Dunlavy with a courtyard & gazebos to check out a soon to be available unit. It is 3...
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35/365 - Snowpocalypse in Houston! So much Snow
It’s a SNOWPOCALYPSE!!! There is just sooo much snow in Houston! Check out the video too.
…No Snow. To everyone driving right now (why?!), be careful because ALL of the roads have ice on them & expect light freezing rain.
Thanks @subdigital for the name.
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26/365: Cougars Fly Like An Eagle, Nasty Owl Taste
Wednesday, the University of Houston Cougars played basketball against our cross-town rivals the Rice Owls. I met up with die-hard fans & buddies, Zuhair & Scott. GO COOGS! In a grueling match of flight & scratch & fowl foul, the UH Cougars, hunting those elusive 3s, almost slashed out a win against Rice as they were tied in the last 10 seconds… only needed A point…...
January 2011
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25/365 - Maple Leaf Happy Hour
Tuesday night before small group, I joined a small crowd of coworkers a couple of blocks from PROS at the Maple Leaf Pub for an unofficial happy hour celebrating several promotions & team restructuring. Congrats to Jeff, Anita, Jian, & Scott!!! You all deserve it & PROS is greater because of you.
Cheers!!! (clinks Sprite)
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24/365 - Starbucks @ Kroger
Monday, I worked from home to look after my mother. At one point in the afternoon, I cruised on over to Kroger to fill a prescription for her. I’d always seen the little Starbucks embedded in the store, but never craved it… until today. I decided well why not grab an Americano while I wait. Americano with cinnamon & a little half-&-half.
WONDERFUL! They even had a couch...
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23/365: The ER Stretcher, Mama!
Sunday evening after a delicious fajita lunch & nap, we packed up for church to welcome Croatian missionaries & sweet friends Mladen & Dragica Jovanovic. As my dad & I carried things out to the car and Heidi dressed Sammy, mama went out to the car to wait. Next thing we heard was a crash in the garage & mama letting out a blood curdling scream. My mom had slipped on the...
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22/365 - UH Cougar Adam Smith's Priceless...
Saturday night, the UH Cougars men’s basketball team played UTEP Miners at our home in Hofheinz Pavilion. It was an exciting game with a relatively great turnout! Great friends to cheer & yell with, even an Aggie helped ;) Thanks Sarah! However, we fell to UTEP 57-52 almost collapsing the mines on UTEP (too soon?).
Next time, Cougars! GO COOGS!!!
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21/365 - Brrr, An Icy Car!
Friday night, I walked out to my car to find an ice on my windows! SO COLD! Lows around ~29 degrees. Brrr. Time to snuggle & bundle up.
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Tell Them You Love Them!
Just a little reminder to let the people that you care about in your life know that you love them! :)
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20/365 - Eastern European Missions, Hungary &...
Thursday night at Ecclesia Houston, worship leaders Matt & Cameron Hammon debriefed us on their recent trip to two of Europe’s poorest countries, Hungary and Moldova. I was encouraged by the several tables full of people who were interested in God’s work in Eastern Europe. Matt & Cameron shared pictures & stories from their mission work (their blog) and ways that God is...
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Dear Tumblr!
oatmeal:
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:
Please use it.
Please oh please.
-The Oatmeal
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19/365 - The Beautiful & Crisp Downtown Houston
Today, most of the clouds cleared out & the sun shown vibrantly. Stellar weather. For lunch, I took a stroll down the block & ate outside in the sun. Mmmm, warming the bones. I love my view from our 10th floor office perch. If I sit up in my chair, this is what I can see. Blessed. Thank you, God!
Check out my little quick panorama too, here.
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18/365 - Small Group Baby Shower. Come on, Baby!
Tuesday, our small group threw a little baby shower for Michael & Lauren who are expecting any day, hour, minute now to have their little baby girl. A beautiful new area of life is unfolding for them. Congrats Michael & Lauren!!! We are all so excited for yall. May our loving God bless your family & keep you all healthy & strong!
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17/365 - Julie & Julia Child, Food Temptress
Call it a cruel punishment if you will, but I watched Julie & Julia Monday night. Tempting. All the wonderful dishes & desserts, cheeses & breads, meats & sauces!!! Mmmm. So I just ate more ice cream :)
Julie Powell started a food blog… Hmmm, I’ve written a couple of food blog posts & taken plenty of photos of delicious dishes. Interesting
It’s a stellar...
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16/365 - All The President's Men
Today, I rested & rested. Taking it easy, eating slowly, & watching movies. I watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl! I can’t believe it came out in 2003. That seems so long ago. By the way, the DVD digital label is misspelled, “…_CARRIBEAN”. Hahaha.
We ended the day watching “All The President’s Men” (1976)...