Author: jgamblin

This time of the year I am getting dozens of pieces of mail  that is full of personally identifiable information so I can figure out how much money I owe Uncle Sam. 

Yesterday my local credit union won my “Did they really just do that” stupidity award of the year with this sticker stuck on to my mortgage interest statement (1098).

I guess they were out of “Please steal me” stickers when this mailing was going out.

If you were looking at stealing someones identity my best guess is all you would need to do would be to check their mailbox the last week of January and you would have all the information you would need.

If you have a Facebook account you should really take a minute next time you log in and activate Secure browsing.

Enabling it is extremely easy:
 
Log into your Facebook account and then go to  Account > Account Settings > Account Security > Change > Click the “Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible” > Click Save.

This will then force all your Facebook activity to be encrypted from your client to Facebook’s servers.

Anyone know how to delete a sparseimage file?

WARNING: All unattended electronics will be played with, there is no guarantee what condition they will be in when returned.

Beyond Belief is my second of twenty books I am trying to read this year. 

I really thought this book was going to be more of a “Coming to Jesus” book and less of a true biography. I was wrong and am glad I was.

This book deals with in details a lot of the stuff I had heard about Josh Hamilton in sixty second sound bites on baseball games or espn.

The one thing I noticed in the book was Josh spends a ton of time defending his parents. From them not being the one pushing him to be a professional athlete to them not being “Helicopter Parents”. When you say your parents are not helicopter parents as much as he did, they are.

One of my favorite quotes from the book was from after the 2008 home run derby when Josh was in his hotel room and the MLB drug tester came by:

“He said he didnt mind, so we sat there at the edge of the bed, me and the pee-test guy watching The Natural.”

I really enjoyed reading the book and I hope that Josh Hamilton is able to stay sober and clean for the rest of his life even if he never plays another baseball game again.

I thought the books was good although not as well written as other sports biographies I have read.  I will pass the book on to some other sports fans I know but I only give it a 6/10.

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I love when this song comes up on my iphone on the way home.

Some mornings on the walk into the capitol I have to take a second and realize that I am blessed to go to work in the center of Democracy in Missouri every day.

People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.

When God asks what you’ve done with your life, try not to say “Didn’t you read my tweets?”