It’s ticked down to less than a month until the Everest Trek 2010 gets underway. While I won’t be participating in this year’s trek, I did at least want to offer a bit of advice to the next batch of trekkers based off of my experiences last year. I certainly can’t claim to be an … [Read more…]
I made it! I actually did it! I was sitting at Base Camp at Mt. Everest. It came at the end of a long and grueling day, after two weeks filled with struggles and challenges, and months of planning before that… but all the pieces came together, all the hard work paid off, and there I sat. At Base Camp. On Mt. Everest. With Jon Miller. On The Rest Of Everest.
Damn.
This episode and episode 126, A Death In The Family, carry similar themes. Life, death, and risk. So I’ll refer you back to my post from 126 for my thoughts there. Instead, I’d like to write a bit about that mountaineering spirit, or “gene” as Jon calls it, and what I learned about it on … [Read more…]
I got to spend all afternoon playing around with an iPod Nano & iTunes, and I got paid for it! One of our clients wanted to ship the iPod to one of their clients loaded with a bunch of their podcasts on it. Thing is, they weren't really podcasts, but just a bunch of random … [Read more…]