Category: Employee Thoughts

While I know giving blood is very necessary, many years ago I had several bad experiences while having blood taken at the hospital (NOT related to donating blood). A nurse was unable to get my vein and continued to poke and prod aggressively. After the 4th try I asked her to stop because it was…

I recently returned from the Greyfox Bluegrass Festival click here where I spent a long weekend in bluegrass heaven. Greyfox is held each year in upstate New York on the 3rd weekend of July. During the past several years I have volunteered my services as part of the festival’s audio archiving team. My primary duties…

For the longest time, I hated working with my banking stuff and figuring everything out. Since then I’ve met and started dating a bank teller, so now I can get her to do my money stuff and make sure everything is correct (don’t worry she loves this stuff…). Today while randomly browsing the Apple download…

Way way back in 1995, Small Dog Electronic’s own Art Hendrickson penned the design for three “internet vending machines” including details of costs and materials. We included our projections of 1 in one year, 10 in two years and 2000 of the “Log ‘On” in three years! We had stand-up Log ‘Ons, sit down Log…

In life there are many lessons, many of which have given birth to age old cliches. One I recently revisited is “Haste Makes Waste”. I use a Griffin iTrip with my first generation iPod mini. This weekend I was in rush and hastley removed (or more appropriately yanked/ripped) the iTrip from the mini and tore…

More recently I’ve been getting back into playing video games. While I do buy most of my games, I usually like to try out a demos before I purchase them if I can. Usually, I just look on Apple’s website in the game section. I find that it’s hard to find things and searching for…

The template Small Dog Electronics modified for use on this blog is called “Branches,” and it was developed by The Blog Studio. Click here to visit their excellent website. The Blog Studio believes “the job of design on the blogosphere is to add the color, feeling, and passion back into plain text.” They “design, build,…

It’s back to work after a great Fourth of July celebration. Independence Day is celebrated with enthusiasm throughout the U.S.A, and with particular passion in New England. Every town in New England throws itself into the celebration with fairs, fireworks, and especially, homegrown parades. Warren, Vt. has one of the most usual parades I’ve ever…

It’s that time of year when we seem to start getting more and more thunderstorms. If you’re one of the many people that runs their computers, whether it be a laptop or a desktop, without a surge protector, you probably get a little nervous every time the forecast calls for lightning. With a surge protector,…

Well, when Hapy heard I ordered a pair of Nike + sneakers, he had to rush out and get some for himself. Problem is, he rushed to eBay and bought the wrong pair. Are these Nike – sneakers, compared to Nike + sneakers? I wonder how they’ll look with a kilt…