Eloy Zuniga Jr.: Houston web developer, I'm unique just like everybody else.

Between eating and sleeping, always sleep

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on June 13, 2010

If you’re tired and hungry. Just go to sleep. I have yet to wake up and think to myself, man am I happy I ate those those bowls of cereal before I went to bed.

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eReaders such as the iPad, make questionable books more socially acceptable

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on March 31, 2010

The NewYork times wrote a post about not being able to judge an eBook by it’s cover. The idea is that book covers, advertise. People purchase books, based on who’s reading them. Normally it’s fairly easy to start a conversation with someone on their choice of literature. They have the book out with it’s book [...]

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Bundle.com – Spending and Saving Habits Illustrated

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on March 27, 2010

Lately my interest in finances has grown 2 fold. All I see is cost and value. With my new-found appetite for money metrics you can bet I’ve been on the lookout for tools that help me research spending and saving in it’s all it’s minty glory. Bundle.com does a great job of showing simple statistics [...]

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Daily Booth makes “365 Projects” easy

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on March 21, 2010

Today I started playing with a service called “Daily Booth.” It’s been around for some time now and I’m late to the game. What peeked my interest was the fact that Facebook already has this functionality, but no one really uses it. The ability to write a message (status) and attach a photo is build [...]

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Facebook iPhone Sync and Comment Reply via Email

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on January 13, 2010

Facebook added some features, even I’m excited about. Facebook contacts sync with iPhone contacts Now all of my iPhone contacts have photos, woot! My iPhone is also synced with my Gmail contacts; Trifecta! (Facebook, Gmail and iPhone contacts are all synced) Quick link to contacts Facebook page via my contacts list, sweet Reply to comments [...]

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I really like the delete feature on iPhone mail

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on January 10, 2010

I really really really appreciate the way the mail application on the iPhone knows to travel to the next logical email whenever I click delete. It figures out which direction you’re traveling through your emails. Are you reading the latest or the newest? It’s just such an enjoyable experience. It’s the only mail application that [...]

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Warm Saturday Morning

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on December 5, 2009

Relaxing with Kara in her new apartment. It’s almost 10AM and we’re still in bed. It’s wonderful. Kara made us some breakfast and hot chocolate. I’m going to leave soon and get ready for the day. I would prefer not to, but responsibility is about delayed satisfaction as opposed to immediate satisfaction. It snowed yesterday. [...]

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Sharing coffee pot cleanup duty is hard

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on October 12, 2009

Ed Schipul wrote an interesting post the other day entitled Tragedy of the Commons. In summary, the tragedy of the commons is best explained like this: A dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest will ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is clear that [...]

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Replacing television watching with internet browsing

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on August 15, 2009

Browsing the Internets is normally done … By yourself Watching television (including movies) is normally done … By yourself Next to friends Next to family Next to strangers Maybe I should not replace watching television with internet browsing. “Hey you, person next to me … sit here patiently while I entertain myself with another person [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuck in the morning

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on August 10, 2009

I woke up this morning to browse the nets and ran into a post from Gary Vaynerchuck, I wanted to click the play button and watch the video but couldn’t. All I could think to myself was … it’s too early to get yelled at. http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/157346439/who-what-how-much-its-not-what-you-know-its-not

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Looking at Children’s Books

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on August 9, 2009

In the children’s book section, thunder outside while the sun is still out. Just finished watching Julie and Julia. Nice movie. Blogging has become an everyday part of life.

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Important Decision

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on July 22, 2009

Made an important decision today. Not really sure how I feel about it. Everyone else tells me I should feel good, but my brains not listening.

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Card from female Schipulites

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on July 21, 2009

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Google Squared – A New Way to View Search Results

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on June 6, 2009

Hung out w/ friends at Adobe Cafe at Marquee center. Friend @holtkampw is learning Ruby, i loath you … but in a good way. Saw “HangOver.” Hilarious. Don’t expect “hilarious” when you see it though, because then you’ll only get “funny” out of it. Then ended up at some small place called So Vino. Winery [...]

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iPhone Touchlytics Application Reviewed after 3 Days

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on June 5, 2009

Downloaded Touchlytics. Not loving it. It’s crashed my iPhone several times and the information presented on the iPhone does not match the information presented on the Google Analytics website. Disappointed. I did download it the first day it was available (or at least I’m sure pretty sure I did), so I’m going to justify this [...]

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Eloy moved his website and lost some stuff

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on March 22, 2009

Eloy! What happened to your website!? What are we looking at!? Why does it look weird? I moved some stuff around and broke some stuff. It’s a good move though, I assure you. Just wanted to let you know that I am well aware [mostly] of the look of the website and will be working [...]

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I went to the Houston Rodeo Carnival and Cookoff

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on March 1, 2009

Went to the Rodeo Saturday night.? Overall I had fun.? It didn’t start that way though.? We drove what felt like an hour going about 2 mph in circles to get to a parking lot that felt like it was in another zip code.? I took my DSLR (camera) hoping to take some awesome shots [...]

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Help Please

By jerry on February 27, 2009

I was thinking about considering about thinking about getting an “Eye” phone (make sense?). Can someone please convince me because I’m just not sold yet.

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Bad Day with Houston I10 Cops

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on February 24, 2009

I drove the speed limit today.? It hurt real bad.? I couldn’t help myself with that beautiful stretch of I10 road that are taxes paid for.? So much time spent eagerly awaiting this beautiful stretch of road. Now we can’t even enjoy it because it’s a cops paradise for speeding tickets and excessive lane changing.? [...]

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Reprioritizing Work and Home

By Eloy Zuniga Jr. on February 22, 2009

I’m a list maker, do it all the time, even when I’m talking … not sure if that’s good or not.? Today I reorganized my list into ‘work focused’ things to do and ‘me focused’ things to do.? Both list are about the same length, but one significantly outweighed the other in priority. My workaholic [...]

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