http://jasonthomaspowell.com Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:46:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Huevos Rancheros for breakfast! Cook Time: 10 minutes, at most Ingredients: Scrambled eggs (2) Guacamole (pre-made, low-fat from Whole Foods) Salsa (I use a Newman's Own variety) Black Beans (Canned, rinsed) Tortilla (Whole wheat, from Whole Foods) Skip the sour cream.  While the eggs are scrambling, heat the black beans in the microwave.  Heat the tortilla in a ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2009/03/06/huevos-rancheros-recipe/ An observation on a CEO's presentation. When speaking to your employees, and grasping for a metaphor to liken the current economy, don't use a rich man's pastime.  Like, say, pleasure sailing.  How to make it worse?  Include a picture in your presentation of you doing said activity off the coast of ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2009/02/20/an-observation-on-rhetoric/ I struggled with getting the nice-n-shiny Google icons for docs and calendar on my iPhone.  Clearing my cache, closing browser tabs, and swearing didn't work. On your iPhone, go to www.google.com. Make sure you see the blue bar across the top of the page with links to Gmail, Calendar, Reader, etc.  Select your ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2009/02/16/getting-the-nice-google-icons-on-your-iphone/ The sign of matured writing is in how an author treats the "profound."  It's something you can see in every aspect of someone's writing--their words, style, and especially the topic and ideas they're discussing.  Why "matured?"  Because I think overcoming the profound is the last hurdle to good writing. In your ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2009/01/08/profound-writing-is-the-problem/ Humans are social animals, and no social event is probably more important to us than eating together.  We've done it for millenia out of necessity.  The hunters and gatherers hunted and gathered as a group, and it was easiest to prepare and share that food as a group, too.  In ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2009/01/07/the-case-for-cooking/ Orthography isn't my subject.  One of the best ways for me to remember how to spell a word is to break it up into smaller words, even if those smaller parts don't have any real meaning for the word.  This is one that always bothered me until... res These letters are easy ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2009/01/03/how-to-spell-restaurant/ These are the nachos of the gods.  Yeah, I'm looking at pictures of food on Flickr.  Suzanne and I are planning a trip to Asheville in February, and Salsa's (a restaurant) is at the top of the list of recommended cuisine to try. This picture alone has ruined all other nachos ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2009/01/03/nachos-from-salsas-in-asheville-nc/ On Daniel's suggestion, I'm writing this article on my personal approach to getting stuff that I don't want to do, done.  I'm a huge fan of "Getting Things Done" and "The Four Hour Work Week," but for the severely attention-challenged, such systems have their own difficulty in implementation.  Somewhere between my ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2009/01/03/how-to-get-the-work-done-that-you-dont-want-to-do/ I'm watching "Braveheart" on TBS, commercials, edits, broadcast quality and all.  Six inches away from my tv is the same movie on DVD, on a shelf filled with DVDs.  Almost none of which I'd ever actually watched (saw the movie in the theater or something, just didn't watch the disc). I ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2009/01/03/my-approach-to-dvds/ I'm fortunate to earn far more than what is necessary to sustain my life (compared to billions of other people in the world).  But this excess of resources tends to create an imprecision in the way I use it.  I believe this imprecision is the root of becoming a full-time ... http://jasonthomaspowell.com/2008/12/31/the-precision-of-living/