Pbur's Adventures

The life and times of Patrick Burleson

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Pbur’s Next Adventure: Apple

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TL;DR: I’ve accepted a position at Apple in Cupertino, CA and I start there March 3. I’m very excited! Ever since I understood what getting a job meant, I’ve wanted to work at Apple. I was in junior high and I was tooling around on a friend’s Apple IIe writing basic programs to do who […]

RIP Sam: 2003-2014

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Not longer after we got our first dog Bailey, we quickly realized that she had a lot more energy than we were ready to deal with. We decided to her a companion dog to play with and be able to burn off energy with. That’s how we ended up at the SPCA one July day […]

Dallas Turkey Trot 2013

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After watching my brother Greg finish his second Dallas Marathon last December, I’ve spent this past year getting back into running. I’d gotten back up to being able to run a 5K without walking and was doing that every other morning, getting a little bit faster each time out. That went well through the Spring […]

RIP Bailey: 2002-2013

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I’ll never forget the first week after we got our Black Lab-mix rescue Bailey. We came home after an evening of celebrating my birthday in 2003 to find Bailey, who was in a puppy fence in our kitchen, had turn up a foot-wide circle of our linoleum. She was super lucky she was a very […]

2012 Pun World Championship Final Round

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I’m a sucker for puns and this is 13 minutes of awesome. (via Kottke)

High School Basketball Player Will Make You Cry

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An incredible story of sportsmanship and being a good human being.

Watch Out For Counterfeit Mophie Juice Pack Cases

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Recently, I made a disastrous mistake with my Mophie Juice Pack Plus by partially submerging it in some water. This of course destroyed it and with only a couple of weeks until WWDC, I needed to get a replacement pronto. I jumped on Amazon and noticed the Mophie was selling for $65, which was an […]

MartianCraft

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I realized I never put this on the blog, but back in November I started working with the great guys at MartianCraft. I’ve been super busy working on a client app that should get released sometime this week. I’m pretty excited about that app being unleashed on the world, and I’ll be sure to post […]

Treadmill Desk

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Back in December my friend Jeff LaMarche posted that he had built a treadmill desk and then a little later wrote up the plans for the one he built. I also work with Jeff on projects for MartianCraft, so I was able to see that switching to a treadmill desk had no impact on his […]

The worst kind of Spam

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Shawn Blanc posted about companies that spam their own customers. This is a terrible practice and it pains me when a company I’m already doing business with does it to me. The worst offender for me is Time Warner Cable. Over the summer I switched to their high speed cable internet service because it offered […]

What Brown Can’t Do For You

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TL;DR: Shipping something via a UPS Store location means only that location can call UPS about any issues with your shipment. You’re stuck talking through a middleman. Nowhere in their store or on their receipts do they mention this. From now on, I’m shipping only via USPS or FedEx. The sordid tale: A few weeks […]

Pixar Followup

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A quick followup to my last post about my Pixar visit. While at the company store, I picked up a couple of toys I couldn’t fit with me back on the plane, so I had to have them shipped. They were a Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear and the iconic Pixar ball (as seen in my photo here). […]

Frozen creek

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The past couple of days have been quite cold for around North Texas. We will have been under freezing for over 36 hours in the morning. Yeah, yeah, I know, no big deal to the Midwest and other locales, but we certainly don’t see that kind of extended cold very often. That also means we […]

Battling Being Overweight and My Plan

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Before I get into the meat of this post, let me show you three pictures.   2004 2005 2010   I have been overweight for as long as I can remember. In 2004, I weighed 280 pounds. The picture above was taken in May of that year at Caprock Canyon in west Texas. A couple […]

New beginnings

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At the end of October, I decided to make a rather large change in my life: I quit my day job to pursue iOS contracting full time. An opportunity presented itself that would allow me to work from home while developing an iOS application for a large company. This would also lend itself to allowing […]

links for 2010-12-10

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mpoauthconnection (tags: OAuth Cocoa)

links for 2010-11-21

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davextreme – Configuring AirPort Extreme to Work With Blizzard Downloader (tags: WoW AirportExtreme)

links for 2010-11-16

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Getting Your SSD Back to Full Speed in OSX « Jason Nash’s Blog (tags: SSD OSX)

links for 2010-11-14

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ASIHTTPRequest Documentation – All-Seeing Interactive Fast networking class to help replace NSURLConnection (tags: Cocoa Networking iPhone OSX)

links for 2010-09-27

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Nick Farina – iOS Icon Template for Perfectionists (tags: iOS Icons)