I’m an avid user of Evernote. Since the first day the iPhone has given me death grip hands, their icon has been on my first home screen page. I use Evernote mostly to transfer notes from my work desktop to my iPhone for meetings. It’s part of my mission to become entirely paper-free in the [...]
My Journey to the Las Vegas Rock n Roll Half Marathon
by Patrick OBrien on 15. Dec, 2009 in Events, Marathon Training, Travel
This was a trip a couple years in the making. Lindsey and I talked about running the Las Vegas Marathon in 2007, and we started training for it–even creating a blogging website for training (that still ranks #1 in search engines). We trained all the way to running 16 miles on the weekends before Lindsey [...]
FAIL: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign photos
by Patrick OBrien on 14. Dec, 2009 in Events, Travel
While in Las Vegas for the Rock n Roll Marathon and Half Marathon, Lindsey and I took three trips out to the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign to snap some “jumping” pictures. The sign is a 10-minute walk south of Mandalay Bay along the Las Vegas Strip. I had been to Las Vegas many [...]
Twestival for those who Twitter in DC
by Patrick OBrien on 12. Feb, 2009 in Events, Friends
Twestivals are community gatherings to meet those who use the microblogging social network Twitter and raise money and awareness for charity. The buzz around the Twestival for Washington, DC was hightened on Twitter a couple weeks prior to the event.
There were other Twestivals happening at the same time as ours, including ones in London, [...]
Take me out to the Nats game
by Patrick OBrien on 16. Sep, 2008 in Career, Events
Close to the end of work today, my boss Allan asks if I’m interested in taking his seat at the Washington Nationals baseball game tonight. I would be sitting next to Gannett’s VP of Labor Relations. I had not been to a ballgame yet since we’ve been to DC, so I asked Lindsey to head [...]
