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It is easy to build everything.
It is next to impossible to build nothing.

My thoughts when it comes to software development.  

With today’s tools and the (relatively) minimal cost to begin developing, it becomes incredibly enticing just to build something.  Anything.  Everything.  

It is much more difficult (next to impossible) to have a plan, understand the minimum viable product (MVP), and create your business around this sound philosophy. 

Spending the day along side my mom in surgery. (Taken with instagram) View high resolution

Spending the day along side my mom in surgery. (Taken with instagram)

I hadn’t seen this until a few days ago, but think this is a great story. 

Full credit to madame Anna for showing this to me. 

Small snapshot of the final finishing touches for NetworksMD.   I’m biased, but our case viewer and discussion tools are (hopefully) about to make a big splash.  View high resolution

Small snapshot of the final finishing touches for NetworksMD.  

I’m biased, but our case viewer and discussion tools are (hopefully) about to make a big splash. 

My Grandpa’s bathroom light fixture looks like the lightbulb demo display at The Home Depot.  View high resolution

My Grandpa’s bathroom light fixture looks like the lightbulb demo display at The Home Depot. 

For anyone that hasn’t heard about SOPA or PIPA do some research, or a quick read of this wikipedia article.  It’s important. 

Our company, NetworksMD, relies entirely on user generated content to create the most diverse, collaborative, and informative medical community.  These bills could threaten businesses like ours and other majors like Tumblr (where this blog is hosted), YouTube, or FaceBook. 

From a NYT op-ed piece by Rebecca MacKinnon:

The House bill would also emulate China’s system of corporate “self-discipline,” making companies liable for users’ actions. The burden would be on the Web site operator to prove that the site was not being used for copyright infringement. The effect on user-generated sites like YouTube would be chilling.

Don’t get me wrong - I’m all for respecting copyright and intellectual property, this just isn’t the way. 

Video Via laughingsquid:

The Day The LOLcats Died

(Reblogged from laughingsquid)
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The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do [is] Bust your ass and get rich.

Make a boatload of money. Pay your taxes. Lots of taxes. Hire people. Train people. Pay people. Spend money on rent, equipment, services. Pay more taxes.

A good friend sent this article to me that Mark Cuban wrote.  The entire article is worth a read.
Back at my Alma Mater for the day. (Taken with instagram) View high resolution

Back at my Alma Mater for the day. (Taken with instagram)

Another year of JDC West has finished. Such a great initiative - View high resolution

Another year of JDC West has finished.

Such a great initiative -

Always a good laugh. 

From the video description:

In an age where the anonymous reviewer is held to no general standard of grammar or spelling, an intelligible trolling rant is a common and often eye-rolling occurrence. And when a game is meant as a parody of its genre, and a player playing it doesn’t quite get the joke … well, magic happens.

But the real triumph, is when an epic voice actor decides to perform a run-of-the-mill game review rant … committing to all its grammatical belligerence.