Plan Your Room with mydeco

mydeco living room design

mydeco let’s you plan out your room with incredible details and options. They’ll even pay you if someone buys a product in your room design.

From the room dimensions, actual furniture, paint colors, floor surfaces and more, you can virtually create or redesign your room in just a few minutes. This looks much better than the FloorPlanner that I used to use.

mydeco room planner

100 Miles

Just logged 100 miles for the year—the last three of those miles came in at 8:18/mile.

Strawberry Cupcake

Just enjoying my wife’s homemade strawberry cupcake.

Strawberry Cupcake

It tastes as good as it looks!

Lunar Eclipse

In case you missed the Lunar Eclipse last night…

Lunar Eclipse

Taken in the freezing cold from right outside our front door.

Picking a Standard

You don’t pick a standard from the average.

You Don’t Know

Several years ago I was in a band during high school called Watermill, and just the other day I came across a CD with some of the songs we used to play.

Here’s the acoustic version of our popular song, “You Don’t Know.” I’ll try to post a few other songs from the CD in the future. They’re actually not too bad!

Visit the Site to Hear the Song

Image Resizing by Seam Carving

Image resizing is so much cooler than it used to be. Here’s the original video I saw a while back using the smart resizing technology.

Can’t see the video? Click Here

FotoFlexer.com

FotoFlexer

I’ve been looking for a tool like this for a long time. Now I can make pretty intense changes to my photos with FotoFlexer even if I’m away from Photoshop. The feature I love the most is the “Smart Resizing” tool. Check out how you can resize your images.

These are a few shots of me testing out the tool.  The man on the beach needs to go! Just select what you want to remove (you can even select what you want to keep), and begin resizing.

Country Music Half Marathon Registration

I just registered for the Country Music Half Marathon. Prompted by the fear and rumor that the 22,500 participant limit was already full, I went ahead and signed up today! I officially have to run the half now.

Training Update

I started training January 7, and I’ve already run just over 75 total miles. My farthest run was this last Saturday totaling 6.5 miles. That’s half of the total distance I’ll have to run on race day.

Evan And Kasey.com

Evan And Kasey.com

EvanAndKasey.com

Check out this little website we threw together for my brother’s engagement and wedding.

Be sure to let them know what you think!

A Clean Inbox

Bacn

I like to keep things clean and tidy—even my email. You may not care what your inbox fills up with or how many unread emails are sitting in there, but in case you’re curious, here is what I’ve done to limit my time with email to a minimum.

Filter the Bacn

While Spam is unsolicited email that most filters do a pretty good job of keeping out of your inbox, Bacn is all the mail you signed up for—but don’t really want to read—that lingers in the inbox taking up your precious time. Even if you don’t read these emails, you have to delete them each time or skim through them every time you’re reading your emails.

Save yourself the trouble, and filter these messages out of your inbox. Marking them as Spam will remove them from your sight, but by filtering these emails, you’ll still be able to find them when you’ve reset your password or the like to even the rarely visited sites you’re signed up with.

I’ve been heavily filtering these emails for a couple months now, and I’ve seen a huge improvement with the time I spend in the inbox. I have over 6 email addresses pointing to the same inbox, yet I don’t feel like I always have to check my email because it no longer appears as though I’m getting new mail. Everything from 1-800 Flowers to Blue Star Jets is out of sight and mind until I need it (which has been never since I’ve set up the filter). Read More »

e·pit·o·me

[ i píttəmee ] (plural e·pit·o·mes)

noun

  1. A highly representative example of a type, class, or characteristic
    Isn’t she just the epitome of elegance?
  2. Summary of a written work: a brief summary of a piece of writing

After not recognizing this word in a book—a word I frequently use—I felt pretty stupid reading the definition. Maybe reading more books this year will help me out in this area.

Baby Octopus

Our sushi chef served us up a surprised tonight with some baby octopus.

Baby Octopus