For those of you who don’t know me…my name’s Justin. This is my blog. It’s called he’s on wheels well…because I use wheels to get around. :) As you’ll see in the side bar of my blog (look to your left right now) my TEDx talk explains the viral inflammation that caused me to …
Category: Life
And I’m back.
It was NOT an April Fool’s joke! It’s April 1st and I am ecstatic to announce my recommitment to blogging as often as I would LOVE to. The HESONWHEELS blog is something that I have missed SO much over the past few months. Primarily, due to my endeavors as a graduate student (from studying, to service, …
Zuckerberg: 1 non-Facebook employee per day. Sound familiar?
I’m going through some of the old links on my Mac’s Reading List that I wanted to read over the course of the semester – before things got super crazy – and I came across this one about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s goal of trying to speak to one non-Facebook employee every day during this …
What do you model?
In the spirit of Never Eat Alone, tonight I’m sharing dinner with a new friend. When I wrote about Never Eat Alone a few weeks ago, it was the first time that we met. Since then, we have gotten to know each other through time spent with mutual friends, sharing meals together, etc.; typical fare. …
My plan is to productive.
Most of the time I am a procrastinator. But I am absolutely determined to make sure that I do not waste time this week. Three weeks from today, I will begin the fall semester, and at that point I will be exactly two semesters away from completing my Master’s degree. With the fall semester comes even …
Nature.
“L K Speas, aka Conundrum, will backpack the AT beginning in May 2013. She will hike as far as she can this summer, and then complete the trail next summer. The AT, nearly 2200 miles, begins on Springer Mountain, GA, and ends at Mt. Katahdin, ME. Conundrum will begin her trek on Springer Mountain on …
“Controversial” Cheerios Commercial
And this is why I love young people, as in children, or kids: honesty. I’m going to leave this here with minimum commentary. Think about it. Here’s the original commercial. http://youtu.be/kYofm5d5Xdw And here’s the episode of “Kids React.” Pay special attention to the disclaimer at the beginning of the “Kids React” video. My biggest takeaway? …
Morning pick me up.
A few weeks ago, some friends randomly texted me, “Hey, want to go downtown!?” It was a Friday and I was in the library. Of course my gut reaction was “yes”. But I wasn’t sure…it wasn’t in my plans, I had planned to get homework done for most of the night. Well, I didn’t have too much …