Friday, May 1, 2009

iPhone Apps

It's too cool not to share...I was able to stream live TV to my phone to watch the Master's Tournament last month, and now I have an MLB app that allows me to listen to every baseball game of the regular season (+ playoffs). I can also watch a live pitch-by-pitch animation for the entire game. Life is good. 


Top inventions of all time: 

Light bulb
Centralized A/C
Internet
iPhone 

Predictably Irrational

Pick up a copy or let me know and you can borrow mine. Here's an excerpt from a Time Magazine review. 









"Ask people if they’d like a 15-cent Lindt truffle or a one-cent Hershey’s Kiss, and 73% buy the truffle. Drop a penny off the price of each - a 14 cent truffle or a free Hershey’s Kiss - and only 31% choose the Lindt. Is eating the chocolate you don’t really want worth saving a penny? Probably not. But in the economics of life, we often show bad judgment, like allotting too much value to things that are free. In Predictably Irrational, behavioral economist Dan Ariely goes for a fascinating romp through the science of decision-making that unmasks the ways that emotions, social norms, expectations and context lead us astray. Mixing anecdote and social-science experiment, he illustrates common problems, like the tendency to keep our options open, even when one is demonstrably better. Understanding these irrationalities, Ariely writes, is the first step in overcoming them."

Fascinating stuff, and given our current economic climate, there's no better time to get to the bottom of why we spend the way we do. 

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Sunset Style Fajitas






If you're ever in the Dallas area and are looking for heaven wrapped in a flour tortilla, look no further than the Sunset Style fajitas at Mi Cocina. Chicken or beef fajitas on a bed of cilantro queso and rice and topped with finely cut fried onion strings. They have a little kick to them, but it's well worth the sweat beads on your head. Here's their site so you can find a location close to you. Enjoy.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Banff, Canada

I took these while in Banff on a photo shoot we did for an ad we were working on earlier in the year (see the final shot used for the ad here). 

If you ever have an opportunity to check out Canada, go. It's beautiful. 






















Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Genius

This guy is brilliant. That's all that needs to be said. Go buy all of his albums.