Anyone else get a cool facebook vanity name?
I was hoping to get aaron but sadly it was already taken, so I decided to take a different route and instead got imawesome.   No real significant Marketing or SEO advantage like some other names I’ve seen people get, but mine is a whole lot cooler. Given I probably should have gotten aaronwesterman, just because I use it in a lot of other ways including twitter, but oh well.
The other thing that I have found to be pretty cool about the facebook names, …

So as many of you know I devote quite a bit of time to the shows How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs.  I try to write reviews of the weekly episode and they get quite a few visits. I enjoy writing them and have tried to put a lot of thought into it. I break things down and even used to try and recap the whole show in addition but found that it was cutting into my nightly nap times so I cut back, for now at least.  I …

I enjoy punishing myself through fruitless side projects. One that I truly love and thought was going to be far more popular than it turned out was my Rock Band/Guitar Hero parody (real band) site joinarealband.com.
I made it because I am an actual drummer and the game kind of annoyed me at first… let me take that back, the people who loved the game annoyed me. The games are actually quite fun, despite the lag of where actual notes and beat should be played (I’m not alone). But I …

So glad you asked. If you have ever watched the TV show How I Met Your Mother you would probably know that Barney (a character on the show) had commissioned an “Awesomeness Poster” to be made. On the poster, the motivational phrase was “When I get sad, I just stop being sad and be awesome instead. True Story.”  I was sad, because this became my motto to live by but I could not find the poster anywhere. So I commissioned my own to be made. You can find it here. …