Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Why I don’t give a damn about the news, and why you shouldn’t either
I do not watch, read, follow, or care about “the news”. I’m talking general news. You know, stuff on CNN or KSL 5 (local NBC affiliate).* And I’m not exaggerating. I don’t care about it. Not one little bit. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero.
Extreme News Delay
I found out about the Haiti earthquake 2 days after it happened. The oil leak in the Gulf? Like over 3 days. Mosque new Ground Zero? Couple days delay. I asked Amy what other major news stories I might have missed, and she said “like the kid that killed Natalie Holloway killed another girl in south america.” I have no idea who Natalie Holloway is, or for that matter, that sadly, she
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Back in Black
First, a 15 step explanation on the photo:
1. I love AC/DC
2. Back in Black is one of my favorite AC/DC songs/albums.
3. I haven’t blogged in a hair under 3 months.
4. Some reasons for that is I’ve been spending time on Twitter (@jeremyhanks) and FaceBook (My Profile)
5. Status updates (micro-blogging) is extremely space constrained
6. I like to talk. Verbosely. And spew my opinion. And kick off the occasional rant (Health Care Cluster *#&@ & Best Rant of All Time. Seriously.)
7. There’s an inherent conflict between #5 and #6
8. Blogging lets me type for as long as I want. AND YOU WILL READ
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The In-N-Out Project: Think and Act Like a Kid (or life will be boring)
Tonight, I’m camping out at In-N-Out Burger in Draper, UT. They’re opening tomorrow.
It’s their second location in Utah. (or the 3rd as Orem opens tomorrow too)
I love In-N-Out. I first ate there when I married a California girl and started going to the Bay Area regularly. Since then, I’ve developed a rule while traveling: if I’m within 20 miles of an In-N-Out, I eat there.
Some might say this love (nah, I’ll admit it, call a spade a spade, it’s an obsession) is childish. I mean it’s only a hamburger joint. And some might say camping out there tonight in 20 degree temps on cement just to be front of the line tomorrow
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Récompense
We got home Wednesday afternoon from our trip to Paris.
I told you I’d check back on whether we had ‘rewards’ on this trip. To put it in terms of startup exits, we hit a base hit. Didn’t hit a home run, but definitely didn’t strike out either.
Paris is an amazing city. The kids did surprisingly well. We learned some travel tricks. (Rent apartments!! You’ll save 2/3 over hotels, and we ate at least 2 meals a day at the apt and saved hundreds and hundreds in meal expenses.) We ate an authentic Thanksgiving dinner at a French restaurant. We never had one run-in with ‘the rude’ French. I fit in a couple of business meetings. It
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Entreprendre
I think most people would agree that any definition of entrepreneur has to involve some angle about risks and unknowns juxtaposed with rewards.
And in case you didn’t know, the French word Entreprendre, which means “to undertake”, is the root to Entrepreneur.
So in the spirit of risks and unknowns and undertaking–and in the spirit of visiting the country that provided the root to one of the words of the title of this blog–Amy and I are taking Kaitlin (4) and Alex (2) to Paris for Thanksgiving.
Risks? Check. Unknowns? Check. The French? Check. Rewards? I’ll tell you in about 8 days.
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Election 2008
I voted this morning. (for Barack Obama, and here are some of my reasons.)
I didn’t vote in 2000 or 2004. I’d become pretty disenfranchised with the whole process and our political climate. But you know what? If I’m not going to vote in this country, I should just be a man and go live somewhere else (or start revolution 2.0 or something).
So go vote. I’m having an election party tonight to follow the results. Here’s a couple of widgets to follow them yourself.
United States:
Utah:
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