I'm Ben and this is my Blog. I talk about all kinds of stuff: photography, cooking, sports, scuba diving, and even the occasional software development topic. Hopefully you find my random words mildly interesting.
So we’re sitting at home tonight, watching the finale of The Next Food Network Star, and on comes a commercial break. Nothing to worry about, time to go get some ice cream (it was Coconut Bliss Vanilla flavor, if you’re curious). I come back and what do I see but A COMMERCIAL CELEBRATING THE WINNER [...]
Hey everyone – sorry to have been gone a long time! I was busy getting married – see the photo to the left? That’s from our wedding day! Check out more on that at http://www.alexaandben.com. But now, I’m back and I’m returning with style – a new style on the blog that is. Yes, after [...]
I was out at my flag football game yesterday, and right at halftime this huge rainbow came out. So like the camera nerd that I am, I went out and attempted to photograph it. I say attempted because all I had was my iPhone, and it’s not exactly known for its stellar lens… So with [...]
I recently had the honor of shooting the engagement photos for my good friends Kristin and Mike. We spent a nice afternoon at the Olympic Sculpture Park, and I must say – they are truly photogenic! Add that to the long list of superlatives I could lavish upon them, and you’ll realize why they are [...]
This past weekend, I flew between Seattle and San Francisco for a friend’s wedding. Beautiful wedding, by the way… The cool thing was that Virgin America just started flying between SEA and SFO, and I have to say, the experience was great. I really liked the new airline. First off, the planes are great: new [...]
Couldn’t help but doodle up this comic to complete the story from the other day. This one isn’t courtesy of xkcd, it’s just my feeble attempt at being funny with a digital pen. Turns out drawing drool is really a lot of fun!
This feels like me today. Yeah, I’m the dude at the computer Note that it’s late. Note that I’m writing this from work. Note that my french fries are currently cold. On a happier note, my brother and his girlfriend are visiting next weekend! Can’t wait to see them!
Yesterday in my hometown, a gunman entered a classroom at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on the class, killing 5 students before turning the gun on himself. In memory of the deceased victims, and in support of the students, faculty, and staff affected by the incident as well as the DeKalb, IL community, I [...]
Just happened to see this xkcd comic today and thought it was hilarious. Ok, so BenA sent mail about it because some of our friends have a running "It’s Complicated" joke, so I can’t take credit for finding it. But whatever, it’s still hilarious! This just shows that Facebook has taken over our lives. It’s [...]
A good friend of mine recently launched his startup website, Seekler.com, which provides social list-building capabilities. With a free user account, surfers can create their own Top-10 lists for almost any topic, which are then merged with same-title lists of other users to form a community list. The community list aggregates the preferences of each [...]
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