My friend Tim Walther has just released his first book, Seeking True North: The Pathway to Freedom, Beauty and Success with co-writer Erick Erickson! Tim is an accomplished climber and mountaineer, a leadership expert and motivational speaker, and longtime friend of my housemate Paul Dickey. Tim and Paul were my travel buddies in Barcelona and Ibiza this winter. Tim’s business, [...]

I spent about a week in SoCal, and I’m still recovering from three nights sleeping in the desert! Last Wednesday was a long night racing across CA-41 and CA-46 in the pitch black, which was a very eerie experience with literally no other cars on the road for miles and miles. After downing two Rockstar energy drinks and six shots [...]

Patrick Farrace brought this to my attention the other day: the Bee finally ran a short article on typefaces and the new documentary “Helvetica,” asking many local Sacramentans about fonts and personalities, and they included a brief snippet from me. Nothing too fancy, but it was kind of neat to be included. Bee writer Sam McManis asked me a few [...]

For the last two months, my good buddy Paul Dickey and I have organized a gathering for Second Saturday in Downtown Sacramento. Every month, on the second Saturday of the month, all the galleries open up, as do several other businesses (firms, record shops, restaurants), and exhibit art and live music for free. There are also a lot of stops [...]

Ah, blogging… Okay I’ve been meaning to participate in Robert Hruzek’s latest meme since May 24th! That’s been over a month now (!), and I feel really horrible I still haven’t shared how I feel bloggin’ has impacted me since I started. What can I say? … I’ve been swamped with work, and interviewing authors and entrepreneurs, and calling San [...]

My good friend Steve Gorlick recently came across a popular green energy program in my hometown of Sacramento. Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is offering one of the nation’s largest and easiest renewable home energy programs. SMUD’s “Greenergy” program is certified by the Green-e Renewable Electricity Certification Program, and offers either a 50% option ($3/month) or 100% option ($6/month). For [...]

I recently connected with a really nice gentleman named Paul Dickey here at Sac State. From what I understand, Paul worked for E*Trade as an internal auditor and worked his way up for a while. Now he’s taking time off for school, and he’s getting really involved as VP for the campus chapter of the Financial Management Association and also [...]

This is the third post in a series that I was inspired to write by what I learned from a recent National Geographic Traveler feature. In today’s post, I give some concrete examples of animal species that are suffering due to global warming. Many people tend to think that “global warming = everything getting hotter,” so when there are unusually [...]