This is Minnesota’s Most Endangered Place – the Upper Post of Fort Snelling. It was abandoned years ago. And today, in the shadow of the Minneapolis International Airport control tower, it stands as a monument to waste and neglect. Several weeks ago, me and my brother Paul E. Olson took these pictures. Check ‘em out. [...]
Turn Your Weaknesses Into Strengths – Do you find your weaknesses difficult to overcome? The way we think about weakness fuels procrastination and fear. It keeps us from acting in our own best interest. In this post, Leo describes how you can turn your weaknesses into strengths by re-framing them. The first time I saw [...]
Violent Acres has been one of my favorites for a couple of years. But in her rant Personal Branding is a Load of Garbage, she writes… Apparently, Dan Schawbel is a self described ‘personal branding expert.’ Less hip members of society might be wondering now what, exactly, is ‘personal branding.’ Lucky for us all, douche [...]
I’ve seen some new faces around here and some of you may wonder what this blog is about. After reading Mark Dykeman’s latest post, I printed How to Be Creative by Hugh McLeod of gapingvoid.com and read it for the umpteenth time. If you haven’t, I suggest you read it too, it’s fantastic. Six of [...]
I haven’t done an internet round up in a while, so here is some of the best stuff: Leo Babauta posted The Dirty Little Secrets of Productivity Bloggers. Everything he wrote is true. It deserves some diggs. I had a huge sense of relief when I read it. hmmm, why? Tina Su quit her day [...]
More OG (Original Geek) stuff today. I love this Radio Shack advertisement for the TRS-80 Pocket Computer with Isaac Asimov from 1982 (click for a larger version): How about these Arcade clones Defense Command (Missile Defense), Scarfman (Pac-Man), Super Nova (Asteroids), Cosmic FIghter (Galaxians) for the TRS-80 sold on cassette tape for $20.00. I had [...]
A lot of you are geeks like me, so I am going to start posting some tech related stuff. From a March 1984 copy of Basic Computing: I’m a geek from waaay back! Here is the table in my room in 1978. The child in the picture is my nephew who is 6 years younger [...]
Tonight I tried to teach my son a lesson about life, but again, he taught me the lesson. Stick with me, you’re going to like the payoff. My son has been in MMA (Blended Kenpo) for 8 months and he still hasn’t earned his first belt. His instructor is tough and expects a lot. My [...]
Scoble just published a post (Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you), which sums up how a lot of people feel about blogging in general. Like Scoble, we should question why we are blogging and if it is taking us where we want to go. Before I read Scoble’s latest post I was contemplating this question:What [...]
You guys out in the blogosphere spend a ton of time on your computers and you need to take care of your neck and your eyes and your back and your wrists and well… yourself, because hours in front of a computer can wreak havoc on your body. We have some cool things going on [...]
