Fred's Life and Beyond
After reading a blog post about charitable giving and how the money gets spent, I’m spending more time considering which organization is the best with regards to administration costs and overhead. There are so many charities that spend more on the company and executives than they do on the people they supposedly want to help. [...]
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Every spring we get some crazy weather here in North Texas. Large thunderstorms with hail, tornadoes, and flooding are common and part of living here. During the storm, our large tree in the front yard lost one of its limbs and now has to be cut down. These Bradford Pear trees only last about 15 [...]
After using Vitalist and some techniques from David Allen’s GTD book for 20 days, I’m happy to say, “I’m Getting Things Done”. Maybe not as fast as I would have liked or maybe not in the order everyone else wants me to. But, oh well, what can I say. These things are like anything in [...]
Just came across an interesting article online at Wired.com. It is a profile of David Allen and includes some of his thoughts on the GTD movement.
Today I was looking for a task list/manager for my iPhone and ran across www.vitalist.com. This web 2.0 app is cool and fast. It’s like Remember the Milk (they charge for the iPhone version) or some of the other to-do lists sites out there. VitaList is free for the basic to-do lists, but they charge [...]
Did you every think about where all of our stuff comes from and where it all goes? This short 20 minute video by Annie Leonard shows us how our stuff impacts how we live.
My friend, Dave, found these and I hadn’t seen them before. The first one shows 1 hour time slices for winds, isobars and temperate. It’s more for pilots since it allows you to pick an elevation. http://adds.aviationweather.gov/winds/ This one has several different views for windspeed, gusts, temperature, etc. and is divided into 3 hour windows [...]
I was driving home last night and saw this car on the freeway, so I had my buddy take a picture with my phone. I often would laugh to myself when I saw those cars with those small and wide tires that stick out past the fenders.
Watch out for the state troopers. While drive from Dallas to South Padre Island for my first windsurfing camp, I started to notice several state troopers with lots of cars pulled over on the side of the road.
