Author: Nicholas Ohrn

  • Angela is Awesome at Drawing Blood

    As part of her medical assistant certification, Angela has to learn to draw blood from patients in case she has to do it as part of her job. She just did it for the first time yesterday and, before she left class, she managed to snag a few materials so she could practice on me…

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks About Persuasion as a Component of Teaching

    I really liked this video. Thought it was a pretty awesome viewpoint and something we can all learn from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2xGIwQfik

  • Goal Progress – Q1 2012

    I’m quite goal conscious and have become more so in the last couple of years. I think that writing down and thinking about measurable, concrete goals is the way to a happy life. Writing them down and having measurable targets makes sure that you know what is required to get to where you want to…

  • My Dual OS Development Setup

    In a previous post, I talked a lot about the hardware that runs my development PC. Getting that all set up and going was only half the battle, though. In this post, I’ll be talking about how I configured up my dual OS development environment to take advantage of the strengths of my hardware. There’s…

  • The Hunger Games – Movie Review

    Angela and I are both big fans of the Hunger Games series of books by Suzanne Collins, so when we heard they were making a movie we were really excited. We went to see it last Friday and both enjoyed it, but would recommend the books above the movie any day of the week. This…

  • 3 Awesome Musical Adaptations (of Mediocre to Awesome Movies)

    Angela and I stumbled upon these today, somehow. They are amazing: My personal favorite is the Terminator 2 Musical but embedding is disabled for that one. There are a ton more if you want to watch them.

  • Development Computer – 2012

    Want to learn what my development PC has inside of it? Sure you do! Learn what I do with the rig and how I built it component by component.