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Month: February, 2009

I’m back…

Beautiful people*,
Fear not. I’ve arrived safely back in the Lone Star State with many lost hours of sleep, several stories to tell, and heaps of photos to process. This post will provide you with nothing more than a promise of something to come, and a moderately confusing photo from my first day in California. Hopefully [...]

giant black airplane on a map

I’m happy to report that effective today, I’m spending an entire week on the West coast with some dear brothers (and a sis).
This trip is bound to be nothing short of amazing, so there will be at least one decent post to come out of it on the other end. Beyond exciting, isn’t it?
And just [...]

Austin, I think I love you.

I clocked out promptly at 3:30 on Friday afternoon knowing that the sooner I got on the road the better, and that Austin, Texas was awaiting my arrival with open arms. Skylar was all packed up, iPod was fully charged, All Thing Considered was soon to be on the air, and I was more than [...]

Week 6: Photo-a-day

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This week offered two separate sets of skies that were absolutely unreal, and fortunately I had my camera relatively handy on both occasions.
Unrelated, yesterday’s problem was solved by a single text message from Steve which read, “We found your [...]

the problem:

autoreply: out of office

The entire odfm staff is leaving today and driving south to Austin, TX for the annual Austin Marathon and Half Marathon. I (D.O.) will attempt the longest run of my life to date on Sunday morning as I participate in the Half under the pseudonym “Scott Nance,” which just happens to also be the name [...]

Muto, by Blu

If at any point you need a break from your day, watching this video would be an appropriate way to spend it. It’s called Muto and it’s an “ambiguous animation painted on public walls” by street artist Blu. Oh, and… it’s incredible. For more, see his website… thoughts?
And for the record, my inability to center [...]

Week V: Photo-a-day

With one month down and eleven to go, I’m realizing that committing to taking a photograph every day (and attempting to make it “good”) is quite the undertaking. Some days just don’t seem to provide the aesthetics or excitement necessary for photos that are worth sharing. Then again, I think that’s why I’m doing this, [...]

3-in-1 post on D.O. and CEOs

Thrice in my lifetime have I met standing CEOs of relatively large (if not just plain large) companies. What follows are the stories I’ve taken with me from each of these experiences.
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My junior year in college, I met Bob Nardelli — then CEO of Home Depot — after a lecture he’d given to me and [...]

twenty five

In recent weeks facebook.com has become inundated with the “25 Random Things” Note phenomenon. I’ve had double digits worth of friends tag me in such notes, which I figure they’ve chosen to do because they know I spend uncanny amounts of time at my computer and that I’ll likely follow suit, since as the rule [...]