I’m allergic to some beer, but not all beer. It’s not a specific kind or style of beer either. This is a problem for me because I really like beer… not just some beers, but all sorts of beers. I love to try new beers … which is tough with the allergy. With my iPhone, I’ve found an application that lets me keep track of all the beers that trigger my allergy.

BeerPad is a nice little application for the iPhone that is designed for beer enthusiasts to keep track of their beer adventures. You can add beers that you try into the application and it keeps all sorts of information in its database for you.

Features include:

– Assign parameters to each beer from predefined lists. These include Style, Brewery, Region, and Pairings. Each of these lists are editable so that you can add items to them if they don’t exist.
– Assign a photo to the beer. Choose from the camera roll, or take a new one. I am not a fan of the iPhone camera, so I search google images to find either the label or a good pic of the beer online, then save it to my phone and use that one. I discovered that once you assign the photo in BeerPad, you can remove it from your camera roll and it stays in BeerPad.
– Assign a rating for the beer on a scale of 5 stars.
– Several other free form parameters can be assigned. i.e., color, aroma, finish, etc.

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Hi friends and family! I wanted to write a quick note here to tell you about a few stuffs that happened. A few weeks ago, I went walking on this dirt road with mommy, daddy and Lauren. I was wrapped up on mommy facing forward so I could see all the cool stuffs around me. There were some trees, and green grass. I think they call it hicking, or hiking … something funny like that. It was a little cold, so they put a beanie on my head… it’s one that my Omi made for me and it keeps my head nice and cozy.

Oh, and my mommy started giving me some things that she lets me put in my mouth. She usually doesn’t let me do that with all the stuffs I want to eat. There’s all sorts of neat stuff I find around the house, but mommy and daddy take them away from me before I get to taste them. Were was I?… Read the rest of this entry »

I studied Photography in college. It’s my passion. The group of friends I studied with would often go on museum outings and photowalks. On one trip, we visited the Museum Of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles. They had an exhibit by a Japanese photographer that captured my attention. They were a series of large format black and white prints of views of the ocean. In all of them, the horizon went right through the middle of the frame. Some of them were easy to tell that it was the ocean, others were more difficult; misty fog filled the sky and diluted the horizon, or the photo was taken in the evening with little light and you could barely see the horizon. All of them had the perfect balance of air and water. This struck me as so simple. Read the rest of this entry »

Got a link sent to my email yesterday that was for the Quiznos Million Sub Giveaway. I thought: Free + Food = WIN!

I went to the site and gave up my email address in order to get the coupon. They’re slick those guys at Quiznos, they make it so you can only print it once. With my golden ticket free sub coupon in hand, I went with a couple of co-workers to our local Quiznos franchise. As we got in line to order the manager passed by us, and he noticed we were all holding the coupons. He told us “sorry, I can’t accept those… I can’t afford that promotion. But, I can give you a free drink.” On our way out we noticed that he did have a sign posted on his door stating that they were not accepting any promotional coupons. We missed that on the way in. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a cool meme going around on FriendFeed today: What would your album look like if you were in a band?

Here’s how it works:
Go to “Wikipedia.” Hit “random” and the first article you get is the name of your band. Then go to “Random Quotations” and the last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. Then, go to Flickr Read the rest of this entry »