True Detective

We just finished watching True Detective, and while I’m yet even more impressed with Matthew McConaughey as actors, I’m also totally creeped out by the idea of anyone who lives in the backwoods of Louisiana.  A friend at work recommended this series and while we were in Savannah on vacation, we watched the first several episodes of…

Running: Back to Basics

Running: Back to Basics

I started running again a couple weeks ago.  I took a few weeks off from training last year. I took forty-nine weeks off actually.  I haven’t really done anything since Rocketman 70.3 in May. To say that running now is frustrating would be an understatement.  It’s frustrating, humbling, and depressing.  My three-mile runs are filled…

Frustration

Comcast and Bad Service

Despite the fact that we’ve decided over time that we’re not willing to pay Comcast’s prices for cable television and telephone, we’ve never really been able to ditch them for high-speed internet service.  Frankly, there’s no real competition for them in this market.  AT&T offers U-Verse service (DSL) here, but it’s not really comparable.  …

Fujitsu Scansnap s1300i Deluxe

Product Review: Fujitsu S1300i Scanner

As part of my paperless office project, I purchased a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Mobile Document Scanner a few weeks ago.  Aside from the fact it had a rating of 4.5/5.0 stars on Amazon, the scanner is very heavily recommended in productivity forums for integration with Evernote. To be fair, Evernote also makes a really slick…

Event traffic backed up on Matthews Bridge on Gate River Run race day.

Missing the Gate River Run

After Jen and I took up running, our first Gate River Run, which serves as the U.S. 15k Championship, was in 2007.  I had barely started running at that point (Jen had recently completed her first half-marathon with Team In Training) and I recall smoking a cigarette in the parking lot before we walked to the…

GTD Paper System

Can a GTD system be too simple?

I was reading an article the other day on Lifehacker that showcased how to use Apple Reminders for GTD.  The idea was that it’s so deeply embedded in iOS and OS X, that users of those platforms should find it beneficial to use it for GTD-based task management. This raised another question in my mind,…

Hachiko's Funeral in 1935

Animal Loyalty

I was reading an article yesterday about a dog in Japan named Hachikō that was famous for his loyalty to his master for long after the master’s death.  When we lost Clancy in April of 2013, I became convinced that we will never own another dog with which I would be as close as I was…

Toodledo

GTD Review: Toodledo

Overview It took some time for me to rule out Toodledo. In all honesty, I think it’s one of the more GTD-oriented and powerful solutions available.  I do want to call special attention to the fact that this application handles Next Actions in a manner consistent with the way GTD tasks should flow.  This has…

Mac OS X Shortcuts

Inefficient on Mac

I was reading an article recently on Lifehacker about Mac keyboard shortcuts that boost productivity and I got to thinking about my migration from a Windows laptop to the MacBook Pro a year or so earlier.  I’m one of those nerds who knows all sorts of obscure Windows application shortcuts and I realized at some…