8 Great Frozen Entrees
Sometimes it’s hard to get lunch packed in the morning. Yahoo Food offers a solution in the form of 8 Great Frozen Entrees. The only one of tehse that I have had is Amy’s Black Bean and Vegetable Enchiladas which are wicked good. I didn’t realize that they were a smart choice until now.
New Blog from J.D. of GetRichSlowly.com
Recently J.D. over at GetRichSlowly.com announced that his new blog, GetFitSlowly.com will officially launch on January 1st. This excites me because J.D.’s financial blog is great. He’s a good writer and a very successful blogger who just recently decided to make blogging his full time gig.
Content at the new blog is sparse but then, it doesn not really launch for another month and a half. Good luck J.D.
Gifts Under $30
Today I started sorting through over 1100 starred items in Google Reader. I’ll be un-starring, tumbling and just leaving some of these items starred in an effort to dump and organize all the crap I’ve read or saved to read later.
One nugget of awesomeness that I found was an article at Get Rich Slowly that suggests giving your favorite (not always expensive) things as gifts to others for Christmas. I like this idea so I am going to list some of my favorite things that cost under $30 here. If you know me then you might get one of these for Christmas. You’ve been warned:
- Domain Names
Cost: $10. Does anybody I know really want a vanity domain name? - Netflix
Cost: $26.97 or less. You can give up to three months of service for less than $30 bucks. Sweet! Netflix, for the uninformed, is a great way to rent DVDs without late fees. - Cafe Press
Cost: $6.95 or less per month. A premium store at Cafe Press would make a great gift for the designer/entrepreneur you love. I’ve been using Cafe Press to supliment my income for a few years and it’s a great outlet for creativity. - iTunes
Cost: $30 or less. Music, movies, television, audio books and games are all available through iTunes. You can give a certificate or gift a special mix of your own songs! - Books
Cost: $30 or less. If someone on your list reads. Consider giving them a book that has meant a lot to you. Write something in it. That’s special. - AmeriBag
- Cost: $15 or more. I carry a man purse. It’s awesome and I love it. The one I’ve been carrying was a gift from my friends at Bramlett Multimedia a couple of years ago. While my particular bag was not $30, AmeriBag has a handful of bags between the $15-$30 range.
I’ll ad to this list as I discover new things I love throughout the week. What do you love that costs under $30?
Am I a Serial Entrepreneur?
There is a great article with the above title over at trizle.com. In particular, the part about “serial entrepreneurs” struck a chord in me. From the article:
Contrast serial entrepreneurs with those ‘long-term’ ones.
Who’s thriving like a mofo?
The ones who built on top of their experiences, then exploited those advantages every-single-frickin’-day.
Oh snap! Could I be one of these guys who starts something new every six months, sees little to no success and then spends blood, sweat and tears building another failure instead of building on top of the hard lessons I’ve already learned?
Take a project of mine for example, drinkshirt.com. This project is all but a wash at this point. My tendency is to throw a wake for it, say some unclean things about why it did not work out and then move on to something else. But what if I looked back at this and gleaned from the wreckage some much needed education? I might learn stuff like:
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket (or API in beta)
- Outsourcing development can be affordable and fast
- Your intended audience is not always who you will attract (Japanese coffee drinkers in this case)
- Quality links are way more effective than advertising
These ideas and more would be applied to my next project. Having learned these lessons already, I can focus more time on innovation and less time on the nuts and bolts of the above issues.
This article has also got me thinking about how quick I am to shelve projects. Sure, some are ideas that just never got off the ground, but in cases like drinkshirt.com, have I done everything I can to make this project a success? Is there any way I can adjust even the model of this project in such a way that makes it profitable to me and the community? These, friends, are the questions that plague me. Now go read that article.
My First Moleskine
Over the last year I have heard references made to Moleskine and their life altering variety of notebooks. Last week I got one, not knowing exactly how I would use it. My first model is the ruled Moleskine of the pocket sized persuasion. So far I have used it to jot a couple of notes related to changes that I want to make to my vocabulary and from a staff meeting. There is a large movement of people on the web who are using their Moleskines as productivity aids varying from simple to-do list management to GTD hacks. I am trying out these hacks at a leisurely pace and you will only read more Moleskine adventures from me if I deem this pretty little book blogworthy.
Here are a couple of useful links from 43folders.
Moleskine Hacks
Back in the saddle.
Yesterday I returned from a week long trip to Granger, IL for a work related conference. I went with the best intentions. Every place I stayed had a fitness center, I brought along shakes and bars to stay consistent with my eating habits and I intended to eat as well as possible while there.
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Inspiration: John Stone
From time to time I come across someone’s personal story of fat to fit that just blows my mind and is a source of encouragement that reminds me that this can be done. One such person is John Stone. At his website you’ll read and see the results of his decision to be fit (rocked up solid). He also offers detailed information about diet and training. Because I am sticking to Body For Life right now, I can’t personally speak about his training and diet information, but the pictures on his sight lend plenty of credibility.
Lumosity Upgrades
One of my favorite brain strengthening website has upgraded with some great new features. I’ve blogged about my affection for Lumosity.com before and they are wooing me even more with
- Two new games
- Word Bubbles – a verbal fluency task
- Chalkboard Challenge – a numerical reasoning task
- Brain Performance Index
- From the site: Check your BPI Lumosity calculates a BPI (Brain Performance Index) based on your game results. Your BPI reflects your skill in each exercise, and is based on data from over 500,000 results. You can measure and track your improvement in each cognitive area using BPI.
- Speed Boost Module
- Designed to improve processing speed, our newest 10 session training course focuses on games exercises that help you think faster.
- Designed to improve processing speed, our newest 10 session training course focuses on games exercises that help you think faster.
A compelling upgrade for sure. They even offered me a deep discount again as a thank you for beta testing. If you have not yet tried out Lumosity, give it a go today. They offer a free 30 day trial.
Pizza, oh for shame!
Last night I had pizza. It was not my free day but boy, was it good. This particular pizza had lots of meat, onions and cheese. The crust reminded me of a crunchy soft pretzel. It had that kind of flavor. It was freak nasty good and if you are ever in South Bend, IN then visit Barnaby’s. I’d also recommend dining in. The atmosphere is very pub like and I noticed Newcastle on tap.
10 Math Tips For Your Head
I’ve always had a hard time with math in my head. I just have so much trouble keeping track of all the numbers floating around in my head. listverse.com comes to my rescue with 10 great tips for calculating in your head. Until now, I never understood how my friends were multiplying by nines with their hands…seriously. Go forth and learn.
