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Tweaking Your Dates and Calendar

I was listening to the most recent episode of Cortex (one of my favorite podcasts), and the hosts were talking about their calendars. Unexpectedly they had a little standoff about what day of the week their calendars started on. If you grew up in America, this is an absurd statement that does not make sense. Upon some reflection and listening to the discussion of the hosts, I don’t have a good argument against their position that your calendar should start on Monday. Listen to the episode here:

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Earth Day 2019 Badge

Nothing like a little gamification to encourage me to get out of the house on Earth Day.

It was a fantastic day outside, and the walk gave me the energy to work some more on an upcoming project, which I am very excited about!

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Parallax Effect in PowerPoint

While I am not a big fan of the Office 365 suite of apps, this video definitely made me reconsider just how deep the feature set is in Microsoft’s apps.

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Silicon Valley

If you, like me, have an HBO subscription only while GoT is on, you might have missed Silicon Valley.

Get your money’s worth out of your HBO subscription and fill the void between Sundays by checking out this hilarious and tech nerdy show.

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I May Have Bought a Power Washer

My wife and I have owned our home for the better part of a decade; last weekend, we bought our first power washer, and this weekend we started using it. Things will never be the same!