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Yesterday we went to Mount Rainier National Park which is just south of Seattle. The weather was perfect.

Mount Rainier National Park

Everywhere I turn there is another place that serves amazing espresso. I really need to slow down. If only my teeth would stop chattering.

Even made it to the original *$ (shorthand for Starbucks). Unlike the rest of the country, they still have real baristas tamping espresso and pulling shots by hand. No monkey machines here.

The [...]

My guess is most people probably aren’t devoting sufficient time to planning and saving for retirement. I read somewhere that the average Baby Boomer has less than $50,000 in savings heading into retirement. On the surface this means that workers won’t be able to retire, so they will continue working.
In the book Bull’s Eye Investing: [...]

According to the article Are You Strong? Find out right now with these strength standards! by Tim Henriques, a decent bench press for a male is 225 or 1.25 times bodyweight.
My average weight is 210 pounds. This means I should be able to bench press 262.5 pounds. Sadly, I can’t bench near that much. Prior [...]

I’ve started my next major web project: Coffee Hero. It will be the sequel to INeedCoffee. Below is a sneak preview of the Coffee Hero logo.

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Shawn
 Really like the Coffee Hero logo. Kind of reminds me of the “Buddy Christ” logo from Dogma.
MAS
When I first saw it I thought of the Raisin Bran [...]

I was able to receive free passes to the 2007 SCAA Conference in Long Beach yesterday. Endless rows of coffee gadgets and as many espressos as you could drink. And boy did I drink a lot of espresso. The companies that setup booths at trade shows tend not to be slackers. These are some of [...]

Yesterday Lura and I went to the Carlsbad Flower Fields. You can read about it on her site.

Lura’s 2007 Carlsbad Flower Fields Gallery
Carl Melville’s 2004 Carlsbad Flower Fields Gallery
UPDATE: Carl Melville’s 2007 Carlsbad Flower Fields Gallery

It was exactly one year ago that a bullhorn woke me up. San Diego has the Race for Literacy, which blocks off some streets and has an 8K race for runners. This year I got up before the bullhorn. This year I got to hear numerous car alarms go off as a platform tow [...]

It’s time to finally see another top metro area. From May 16th - 21st, I’ll be visiting Seattle. Before I went to South America, I spent a few weeks reducing my coffee intake because I knew the coffee would suck there. Now I’m in the reverse position. For the next 10 days I need [...]

Over on Digital Colony, I was having some fun in Photoshop. Take the colors from a classical painting and apply them to a photograph. Below is an autumn photograph from New England, a Monet painting and the resulting mashup.

Photo and Classical Art Mashup