http://helloburin.com ooh, just the daily happenings in Burin's life Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:52:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Yesterday the Travel Studios dev team got their MacBook Pros! Hurrayyy! A couple weeks ago we did get a shipment in, although there were a few hiccups in the order. Something along the lines of getting too many of one type (business-level), and none of another type (development spec). It ... http://helloburin.com/2008/08/16/macbook-pro-christmas-at-travel-studios/ These past few months I've been looking into Human-Computer Interaction graduate programs. Despite the small size of the field, it's been difficult narrowing down my choice of programs. I've been able to do it though! Carnegie Mellon - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan Georgia Tech - Atlanta, Georgia Uppsala Universitet ... http://helloburin.com/2008/05/04/masters-in-hci/ Last week I attended Design Thinking Dallas at IMC². Overall, the event was pretty good. We had lunch, beer, and other free stuff. I think the tour was the best part of the event haha (thanks Mr. Capone!). In my last post, I mentioned how some advertising agencies and marketing firms ... http://helloburin.com/2007/10/26/design-thinking-imc%c2%b2/ Over the past couple of months or so, ALTA (Ad League at Texas Arlington) has been touring some ad agencies and not-so-ad agencies. Today we toured The Richards Group! The experience has been pretty enlightening. One thing that I've noticed is that to these agencies, "the internet" is this magical medium ... http://helloburin.com/2007/10/18/tours-galore/ I am in a position that most college students would be envious of: after just 2 years in school I have graduated with a bachelor’s in business administration. For those of you interested in how I managed this amazing feat here are my six easy steps to getting the bare ... http://helloburin.com/2007/05/26/six-steps-to-graduating-college-in-2-years/ Wikipedia says: A pea is the small, edible round green bean which grows in a pod on the leguminous vine Pisum sativum, or in some cases to the immature pods. This legume is cooked as a vegetable in many cultures. I say: They're damn tasty. Actually, not really. But I do like them ... http://helloburin.com/2007/05/20/peas/ We're have our new host now, DreamHost, with loads and loads of space and loads and loads of bandwidth. Anyways, the current plan is to just get stuff up and out there. This will be our blog for daily musings and rants. http://railing.dreamhosters.com will be the sandbox for Rails that we're ... http://helloburin.com/2007/05/19/dreaming-and-railing/