I learned some interesting things about financing retirement yesterday. I’ve been reading a financial book a friend recommended to me preaching the common methods on “how to get rich the safe way” through managing your 401(k) and IRA’s and such. It’s somewhat helpful in recommending what banks to use and laying out all of the [...]
Archive for the ‘life’ Category
3 May
Road Bikes are Waaaay Better than Target Bikes
Recently I bought a junky Road bike to hold me over for a while in Minnesota while I build my return to my beautiful road bike in California. I’m leaving it there for now for several reasons. It costs a lot to ship, I’m never sure how much longer I’ll be in Minnesota, and I [...]
26 Jul
Computers and Lemonade
It may not surprise some of you to know that JaredSIM is not my first company, but my fourth. The first I started with my sister in elementary school. We received a children’s loom for christmas and started making custom fabric coasters for people at my mom’s work. We called them “Mug Rugs” (@copyright 1992) [...]
9 Jul
The Dangers of a Startup
All the women I meet lately ask me what it is that I do. When I tell them I’m doing a startup they look at me with their big doll eyes like a scared Lana Wood with the mysterious Sean Connery and say, “Isn’t that dangerous?” I usually respond with a simple “Sometimes (dramatic pause) [...]
5 Jul
Plone Sprint at Google
I had the privilege of spending last week at the google campus hacking at the doccom Plone sprint. It was an awesome experience both to work inside the area that justly has the reputation as one of the most awesome places to work, and to take part in Plone’s excellent open source community. Here’s a [...]
26 Jun
The Facebook addiction
Facebook has evolved as one of the most powerful way of social networking, sharing photographs, video, blogs as well as communicating with friends and networks. Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s who studied facebook and it’s usage at his university. As he goes to describe his [...]
20 Jun
JaredSIM – The Adventure
I get asked all the time about why I call all of my projects Jared.[project_name], what thingsilearned is about, and why we chose to call our company JaredSIM. The only way to explain it is to explain Jared, and the whole story, or adventure as I like to call it of JaredSIM. I thought I’d [...]
19 Jun
California – Lets go!
At 7:30 pm exactly 1 week ago today Priyesh, Vu and I packed up and left for the airport. At 9:50 our plane departed and at 11:50pm we landed in San Francisco California ready to conquer the world that lay ahead of us! … By 12:15 Priyesh and I were lost somewhere in the city [...]
15 Jun
Opening Tough Jars and Bottles for Tendonitis Sufferers
While I was dealing with tendonitis, I figured out how to open a variety of jars and bottles without too much strain. Here are some of the methods I’ve acquired: Spaghetti jars: Get a spoon. Wedge spoon slightly under jar lid and jimmy the rim. The safety button should pop. Lid comes off easily. Gatorade bottles. (This [...]
25 May
Day 1 – Introduction
Yesterday 3 guys moved with me into my parents basement. I have amazingly supportive parents, though they often wonder whether they adopted me. Most of us can’t move to California for a week or two but we want to get started so we chose to do that here. We’re all set up on a collection [...]
