Healthy Mind Heart Body

Author: Geoffrey Hale

  • No Sleep For Freedom

    It’s 10pm Sunday night and I’ve been awake since 10am Saturday morning. That’s 36 hours of mind-numbing coding and market research. I’ve been nod napping since noon and have nearly fallen out of my chair twice. I’m in bed now so we should be good to go for another 24 hours or so. All kidding…

  • The Many Colors of Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara is beautiful. A quick Google search or peek outside my window reveals cloudless skies over the Pacific Ocean and prominent Santa Ynez Mountains, streets lined with palms and purple flowers, Spanish Colonial buildings with whitewashed walls and orange clay tile shingles, and happy, healthy, eccentric Southern Californians with fire in their hearts and…

  • Taking Notes

    A good friend of mine asked me if I take notes when learning from something other than a lecture. For example, if I’m learning javascript from a book or the internet, do I take notes? This is a great question and I appreciate the point for reflection. I’m glad he asked. My quick answer is…

  • 201 Photographs of Children

    Somewhere over the course of me growing up I learned to stop being annoyed by the little buggers and started deeply appreciating children for the refreshing bundels of joyous ignorance that they are. Perhaps it’s my biological clock that’s got me kickin for kids. Perhaps it was my developing social and emotional maturity that’s helped…

  • Online Poker

    Last Thursday after accidentally eating an entire box of cereal, I headed to McKinney for a Texas Holdem tournament. I was greeted with a plastic party cup topped with home-brew beer and all-you-can-eat bratwurst. After meeting the competition we sat to a kitchen table, paid the entry fee and got to ragging on a guy…

  • Douglas Murray on Israel & Nuclear Iran

    In the video below, Douglas Murray delivers an impressive 10 minute discourse “delineating the inane moral fetor emanating from Western academicians on the Iranian nuclear crisis.” Douglas Kear Murray (born 16 July 1979) is a British writer. He was the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion from 2007 until 2011, and is currently an…