Shit Support Agents Say

Posted by Tim on Jan 23, 2012 in Video, Web | 0 comments

From the folks at ZenDesk…

Ice Skating With Ben

Posted by Tim on Jan 23, 2012 in Ben, Video | 0 comments

Ben, Mama, and I went Ice Skating at Wheaton Regional Park’s indoor rink today. This is the second time he has ever skated and last time was last year around this time. He did much better then before.

More Yoga!

Posted by Tim on Jan 21, 2012 in Yoga | 0 comments

I am on my third class and enjoying it A LOT! I wish I would have tried it sooner. I have taken two classes at my gym and one community class at Willow Street Yoga Studio in Silver Spring (which I like a lot!). They have a free class every Friday evening from 5-6 at the Silver Spring studio. I have kinda jumped in so I don’t know the fundamentals as I probably should but I am picking some up as I go a long as well as the names of the poses. Ill probably sign up for a beginning Yoga class soon at one of the Studio’s in the area. I think I am doing pretty good for just starting and it feels sooo good!

DC Vegan Drinks at Cafe Green

Posted by Tim on Jan 17, 2012 in Food + Drink, Vegan | 0 comments

The 29th (roughly) DC Vegan Drinks is tonight at Cafe Green. We have visited Cafe Green once before and had a great time. This time the event will be a little different in that we will be at the bar area on the lower (entrence) level. From what I hear the they are pretty excited that we are visiting this month as we are as well!

Hope to see you all out there tonight! Please RSVP on Facebook so we have an idea of how many to expect.

My First Yoga Class

Posted by Tim on Jan 16, 2012 in Yoga | 0 comments

I did my first Yoga class yesterday at the gym I go to, LA Fitness, which is in downtown Silver Spring. I have always wanted to try Yoga just for what ever reason never took a class. I have had a lot of stress the past couple weeks and I think that pushed me a little more to try. I was a little nervous, didn’t really know how advanced the class was going to be. To my surprise it was kinda a beginners class, they had stared at the beginning of the year so I did miss a lot, but they were still doing a lot of beginner stuff and the instructor was still explaining a lot as we went along, which helped a lot.

I think I did pretty good for my first class and I am looking forward to my second one tonight. I still want to find a very beginner class so I can learn some of the fundamentals. If anyone knows of one let me know.

Zipcar – Audi A3

Posted by Tim on Jan 14, 2012 in Cars, Review | 0 comments

I needed to use a Zipcar this weekend to go visit my folks up in Frederick, this is my second Zipcar since my car died last week. I decided to do an all day rental cause it made more since if I was going to ren it for half the day it was almost the same price as a full day. I also decided on the Audi A3, because it was close to my house and I wanted something nice if I was going to have the car all day. The Audi is considered one of their luxury cars which means it doesn’t say Zipcar on the side of the car and it also had a SpeedPass in the car as well.

I have never driven an Audi before so I was super excited and I also came to find that this Audi A3 was a S model! If your not familiar with the A3 its a little bigger then a Volkswagon GTI and is also a hatchback. The inside was pretty roomy and there was decent about of trunk space. I had to take some laundry with me and I was able to fit the laundry basket and another box in the back, and still had a little room to spare. The Audi A3 has an automatic / tiptronic transmission, which made driving a very fun.

Being an S model the car had very good pickup! I did a little city and highway driving and had no complaints on either.

The car was in in pretty good shape on the outside and inside and was relatively clean. There was no noticiable interior or exterior damage. There was about 35k on it, the transmission light was on on the car and first gear seemed a little slow to respond but other then that the car drove very well. I called Zipcar to let them know that the light was on, when using the iPhone app, they know exactly what car your calling about when you call.

Overall I was very happy with renting the Audi A3 and will definitely rent this one again.

Stop SOPA

Posted by Tim on Jan 14, 2012 in News, Video, Web | 0 comments

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.