On Kenny and I’s trip to Austin to visit Bigcommerce, we stayed at the Quality Inn Austin and have a very negative review to share for any potential future travelers. We called the front desk four times asking for toilet paper that never came. Our room never received maid service even though we never out out a do not disturb sign.… read more “Quality Inn Austin – Negative Review”
Author: Joel Gross
Joel Gross is the CEO of Coalition Technologies.
The Carillon Restaurant In Austin TX
Kenny and I are in Austin Texas to visit BigCommerce and provide SEO training. Tonight we went to an excellent restaurant, Carillon. They had a 3 course meal menu option for $50 so we did that and loved everything, especially the pork belly and the escarole.
USA Bomb Yesterday Kills 30
On the same day that a tragic event happened at the Boston marathon, another tragedy on the other side of the world occurred. US airplanes in Afghanistan came under anti-aircraft fire and responded with close air support bombings… but one of the bombs missed and hit a wedding party killing 30 people and wounding 120 more.… read more “USA Bomb Yesterday Kills 30”
Preventable Deaths
It seems to me that media sensationalism makes too big a deal out of most terrorist attacks in America. Of course an attack on the Boston marathon is extremely high profile and scary so it receives a lot of coverage.
I think we have a lot of preventable problems that aren’t as exciting as terrorism but are far more deadly.… read more “Preventable Deaths”
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Offensive Jokes You Can Never Repeat To Anyone
I found a fun thread on Reddit with jokes that you should never repeat to anyone. Here are a few that are less offensive (and yes, I realize these are all still highly offensive!):
- Why did Princess Di cross the road?” She wasn’t wearing her seatbelt
- How do you know Princess Di had dandruff? When she crashed, they found her Head & Shoulders on the dashboard…
- What do you call a train full of toffee?
Real Life as an MMORPG
Around 3 years ago, I wrote a blog post about World of Warcraft vs Real Life. I have been thinking about this topic of real life as an mmorpg (massively multiplayer online role playing game for those of you non-nerds) more recently.
It’s been roughly 6 years now since I played serious computer games and got started with “Real Life”.… read more “Real Life as an MMORPG”
What Are Your Friends Professions?
A very important question to ask yourself is what are the professions of your friends? Study after study has shown that who your friends are, what they do for a living, and what their habits are will have an enormous influence over you and your behaviors.
Here is a list of some of my friends professions:
- Law firm owner
- High end design firm owner
- Tutoring firm owner
- Google account executive
- Finance professional
- Hippy semi-pro skier
- Struggling Actor
- Waitress
- Maid service owner
- International business consultant
- Iranian pastry shop owners son
- CFO / accountant
- COO / recruiter
- Sales Director
- Drunk oil rigger worker
- Aerospace engineer
- F-16 Fighter pilot
- Dentist
- Affiliate website entrepreneur
- Financial marketing exec
- Nursing services firm owners son
Who are your friends and what are their professions?… read more “What Are Your Friends Professions?”
Recursive Functions in Python
I spent the weekend learning more about Python on Udacity.com. I went through Unit 6 which was all about recursive procedures in Python.
A recursive function is basically a function that calls itself. An example of this would be:
def factorial(n):
if n == 0:
return 1
else:
return n * factorial(n - 1)
Recursion is great because it allows you to write code that is much simpler and cleaner than if you had to write the same code using if/while procedures.
Buy Bitcoins
This article makes me want to buy bit coins.