Family guy - Snail

Haha, I love this line!

Favorite Commercial Ads

Some of my favorite commercial ads:








Says many towns I've been in!!

E-books costing more in the future?

1. E-book is weightless; you can't kill someone with e-book.

2. E-book can not be burned in the Town square - no carbon emissions!

3. E-book is searchable, and fast!

4. E-book is easy to transport, you don't have to ship boat load of e-books via USPS Media Mail when you move to another state.

 

5. E-book pages never fade and become oily from you eating greasy food. Your touch screen monitor does! ;-)

6. You can print e-book as many times as you wish. You have to buy a new paper book if you need extra copy.

7. Your children can never ruined e-book with their contemporary art drawings.

8. You can never wake up with e-book imprinted on your face after a late night reading.

9. You can't get allergies from e-book, it gathers no dust particles.

10. E-book can't be destroyed when your house floods after a hurricane.

 

RT @Forkaholic http://ow.ly/18Hzb

Changing dynamics or static?

What does your life have now?  What do you want changed?  Dynamic lifestyle is always good if your willing to adapt but what if you want to plan? Dynamic is just too hard.  To bad right now im a dynamic mindset...

Champions in Fortune

My company along with many others are distinguished in Fortune's Magazine for "World Most Admired"

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2010/champions/

Congrats Dad!

Creating so many "following" apps

Have you seen the vast amount of "social networking" sites there are?  People are switching to e-based following than rather having normal conversations.  Picture this:

(Old Way)
Person1: Oh Hey Mark, How are you?  How was your trip to the Bahamas?
Mark: Excellent!  You should see my pictures, here (shows pictures).

(New Way)
Me: @Mark went to the Bahamas
Me: @Mark is now home in California
Person1: @Mark Welcome back

With this new introduction of Google Buzz, "the twitter killer" hah now just another way for people to follow.  I just started to get Twitter. 

Life

Starting life in new places is always difficult.  You need to find new friends and new places to go.  It's great to explore, but you always wonder what its like to go back to somewhere you went to school or even your home town!  For me my life has always been on the go.  I'm always far away from people I love the most.  Now my parents are 3 hours ahead of me.  By the time I get back from work/gym they are getting ready for bed.  It's different!  Beth is far away too!  Now 2 hours ahead and starting her new busy life without me...it makes me quite sad.  *tear*

People back in the Midwest amaze me.  Granted I'm from the East Coast, I'm still amazed how stuck in a bubble people are.  "The Midwest is all that", well what about the rest of the US!  There is SO many things to explore!  The way of life out on the coast is way different than that in the midwest...people have got to see it.

I think the west coast is great.  Why? At least for me its where the technology is.  New innovation.  Don't you remember that I'm always the "nerdy" guy.  Hell, I was a president of a ELECTRICAL ENGR FRAT HAHA...how much more nerdier can you get =].  l33t

Hopefully this distance will bring us closer not farther.  Hopefully the future will be bright and full of opportunities.  Or maybe I'm just hoping too much.

~ West Coast Mark

Cell phones and such

With cell phones being used constantly these days here is a list as of Jan 1, 2010 laws.

In the enforcement category, "Primary" means that you may be pulled over and ticketed solely for a cellular device violation, while "Secondary" means that you may only be penalized for your offense if you were pulled over for an additional primary offense such as speeding or running a red light.  

*  If the state you live and/or work in is not listed, we have not received any information about changes to those state laws.

STATE	Violation	Enforcement
Alaska	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
Arkansas	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
California	Any use of a wireless device while driving	Primary
Colorado	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
Connecticut	Any use of a wireless device while driving	Primary
Illinois	All cell phone use in school and construction zones; Also composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
Louisiana	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Secondary
Maryland	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
Minnesota	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
New Hampshire	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
New Jersey	Any use of a wireless device while driving	Primary
New York	Any use of a wireless device while driving	Cell usage - Primary, Texting - Secondary
North Carolina	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
Oregon	Any use of a wireless device while driving	Primary
Tennessee	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
Utah	Composing, sending or reading e-mail or any electronic media while driving	Primary
Washington	Any use of a wireless device while driving	Secondary
Washington DC	Any use of a wireless device while driving	Primary