thebigreason

First Week Wrap Up

A new baby update for the family and friends

Dec 11, 2008 9:50 AM

We made it through the first week, and it was surprisingly less hard than I expected.

It’s A Girl!

Dec 4, 2008 8:58 AM

We have another girl! Oh, boy ...

We’re having a baby tomorrow

My last minute thoughts on our last hurrah

Dec 2, 2008 8:06 AM

Kristyn is scheduled for a caesarean section tomorrow morning. ”Cut time” is at 8 AM. Yeah, it’s totally weird ... but in a cool way.

How We Give Thanks

Nov 27, 2008 8:07 AM

In my household, we don't travel for Thanksgiving. It's just Kristyn and I and the kids, and any friends who don't have anything else to do on the holiday.

Frustration Free Packaging

Bravo to Amazon for taking some serious initiative

Nov 19, 2008 10:00 AM

My sincerest kudos to Amazon for their daunting Frustration Free Packaging initiative.

Balancing Monotony

The art of maintaining freshness in a part time band

Nov 1, 2008 8:53 AM

It takes a lot of work to stay motivated in a part time band. These are some of the things the Bottom Dwellers struggle with from time to time. 

Take The Bus To Work

Oct 10, 2008 9:07 AM

I was inspired to start taking the bus to work a few months ago. Recently, I got over my lazy morning routine and went for it.

thebigreason TinyMCE Skin

Sep 29, 2008 10:14 PM

Moxicode System’s TinyMCE javascript rich text editor is my choice for the content management systems and web applications I build. It’s highly configurable and widely supported. It’s also ugly as fucking sin. So I made my own skin.

Gambling with Fire

A request to Kidde to finally solve the smoke alarm problem

Sep 23, 2008 4:28 AM

Smoke alarm batteries always fail at night. Even if you play by the rules and change your batteries at the beginning or end of daylight savings time, non-direct wire alarms often fail before the year is up. All we ask is for a reasonable notification when it is time to change our batteries. A pleasant chime, a sexy voice, a cute icon, a reasonable hour ... it’s time for a redesign. I decided to use the 30 to 40 minute intervals between the chirps of my failing alarm batteries this very early morning to bring it up with customer service.

And We’re Back

thebigreason now powered by thebigreason power

Sep 20, 2008 9:18 PM

I’m finally WordPress free! thebigreason is now unified and powered by a 100% custom blogging engine. My blog, my portfolio and my music now live in the same place, and there is plenty of room left over for anything else I want to put here as well