Eric Duncan

You may think you know how to take a nap.  Lie down, close eyes, and whenever you wake up that's it.  As it turns out, anything beyond 30 minutes puts you into danger of biting your work colleagues heads off when they interrupt you at 40 or 50 minutes into your nap. I find myself constantly giving this advice to my work colleagues and ...

Happy one year anniversary!  As Chris Hammond pointed out this week, it has been exactly one year since I last made a post to my blog – this blog! It is not for a lack of content.  I have well over 100 of “should have, will do, todos, blog this” of bookmarks, code snippets, and more.  It didn’t ring a bell until christoc actually ...

For those of you looking for that special gift to get me, the Animaniacs DVD collection is it.  I just read where in 2007, Warner Bros. is releasing the first 50 episodes in a DVD set (there's 99 episodes total).  Thank you WB!  Not sure if it is out yet, but keep an eye out.[video]I've wondered for a long long time ...

Warning, this is a rant.  A rant against the gaming industry.  I'm going to bash it hard.  EA, turn away as you don't want to read this. What's got me off my rocker tonight?  Advertising within games. Morgan Webb was just on G4tv's X-Play bashing the gaming industry for pushing these Intel and Cingular ads on ...

It seems we are loosing our rights to free speech, more and more these days.  Some may remember a previous post about SouthPark being sensored in showing the Profit Mohamed last season.  That was justified as it was a corporation that owned the cable channel, therefore sensoring anything they want. Recently USAToday reported a story ...

  I'm going to touch on a few applications and concepts to help my friends and family that are just learning blogs get started.  If you need any help, just email me. Writing Blog Posts This is my first post using Windows Live Writer, a remote Blogging tool.  Woot!  This should really ease your ability to blog - ...

How many of you watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart?  *raises hand* How many of you watch one of the former news anchors on The Daily Show, Stephen Cobert's Corbert Report (pronouced Corbear Repor - no "t"s)?  *raises hand* Ok.  A few months ago he adopted a Bald Eagle (it was at the Institute for Wildlife ...

Just had to blog about waiting for something you want, but don't need. Over the years I've used my friend's Canon Digital Rebel cameras.  This is quite an impressive camera.  I've used the earlier one, the updated one, etc.  And the 8 MP XT has been out for a little while. Well I never had a good camera - or even ...

17.8 MPG vs 24.1 MPG.  Read on... I am not an aggressive driver. I can not count the number of driving schools I've been to that got me out of a speeding ticket.  I know I had 7 in Davidson Co. in Nashville alone, and I only lived there 6 years.  Not to mention the countless counties I have received driving citations in across ...

Comedy Central joins an ever growing list of TV and Newspapers censoring the image of the Prophet Mohamed. Last week South Park started a two-part episode spoofing the Family Guy sitcom (read previous post) titled First Amendment.  It was making fun of Fox refusing to show the Prophet.  Within the first episode, the ...

SMS, aka "Texting", aka "Text Messaging" on cell phones.  Why do we pay for this? Europeans have been texting for years now, with an extremely lost cost.  Hell, even Singapore allows several hundred text messages a month before charging. I went out and did a little research.  To sum up this article, I ...

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  Well, ours went as expected.  Spent a lot of time with the family.  Got stuffed.  Needed nap.  Went out for a few drinks with some friends.  I haven't been to the Martini Lounge downtown Chattanooga in years and neither have they.  So we ended up there and it was pretty busy with the occasional ...

Rob Howard and the guys at Telligent have offered me a position that I could not refuse with Telligent Systems.  And what a great blog post to start off my "Career" category here. I will be relocating to Dallas, TX, where the business is homed, in the next coming months.  Some might think picking up and ...

Let me put this into perspective.  You can: Answer cell calls with a BlueTooth headset. Answer office phone calls with the same BlueTooth headset. Talk in PC Video Conferences with the same BlueTooth headset. Talk with VOIP for things such as Gamers and Vonage, using the same BlueTooth headset. With a laptop, ...

The end of an era seems to be upon us.  The aging Shuttle Program is being phased out by 2010.  But if they do not return to space by Spring of 2006, the program will be canned for good.  :( NPR reported that NASA will be releasing a study in a few weeks looking into using Private Industry to cargo supplies to the ISS ...

And the winner from a previous post about me emptying my coin jar is...  Riley.  He used a formula, boo.  Cheater.  Hehe. Total?  $851.51 Not bad.  But 8 years investing... Humm. Makes you think about all of those times you said, ''Keep the Change'' eh?    

UPDATE: Riley was the winner with his calcuated guess of $889.23.  The correct answer was $851.51. So I have this old Bud Light coin jar I got as a house warming present from a friend when I moved to Atlanta back in March of 1997.  I had a rule (briefly) that when people visited, they must keep the Coin Jar Gods happy and ...

Last Saturday while playing coed flag-football for a sports league here in Nashville I felt a sharp pain in my left hamstring.  I tend to have a high threshold for a little pain, so I kept on playing nursing my left leg (jumping off of my right now).  Well, after a complicated reverse to get a tackle caused another ...

I really think this phenomenon is annoying.  Time and time again, I see something that I could swear I saw before.  A car, a movie, a place I could swear I've been to before, a book that I haven't read but seem to remember bits.  I want to have words with the person who planted the seed in my head that, ''Deja Vu is simply where one ...