Ryan Scott Miller

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I have 28 34 (and counting) blogs that I read through my Google Reader. I follow 100 +600 people on Twitter & Plurk (thanks to ProBlogger). I find more and more friends from childhood, high school, college, etc. on Facebook everyday. How do I process all this information!?

I’ve actually cut down the number of blogs that I read (I had some that would post 5-6 times a day)! My reading of ZenHabits has got me to try and simplify. But at the same time, I just added like 80 people to my Twitter/Plurk/Facebook! One good thing is that the additions are not as demanding as the blogs. Which reminds me! I have like 5-6 books that I want to read!

I guess it comes down to priority. What priority is all of this information for me to get through? How thoroughly do I want to digest each source? It’s pretty easy to “fill up on junk food” with all the social networking. Even some of the blogs are low-nutrition! I know that I should spend more time of the information that has the best return on investment (i.e. books, quality blog posts & family info streams). Being that I aspire to income generating blogging, I also need to invest time into developing contacts and relationships. So, while there is going to be a good deal of personally irrelevant info, I do plan on spending time with my “new” friends.

Anyone else dealing with this? How do you handle it?

We recently went to an Orem Owlz game, and we went all decked out in Angels unis (The Owlz are the Angels’ Single A team). We were taking pictures and in these pictures it looks like Jeremy might have some red in his hair! It’s actually not too surprising because Papa Ottley had red hair.

Kim had a blast running all around the outfield grass seating and on the huge playground. She had a pink Angels jersey and wore here Daddy out.

Go Angels!

Down goes Canseco! War at the Shore: Vai Sikahema vs. Jose Canseco

It took all of a minute and a half for the 5′9″ BYU great, Vai Sikahema, to knock out the 6′4″ A’s great, Jose Canseco. The celebrity boxing match was put on for a good cause and Vai donated his $5,000 purse to the family of a Philadelphia police who was killed in the line of duty, according to Sikahema’s NBC affiliate where he works as a Philadelphia Eagles correspondent.

Here’s a video link to segments of the fight and here’s a great interview of Vai by a Utah radio station.

I finally got my brother to start a blog. Even though he’s 8 year my junior, he has more musical depth than the majority of the world.

One tip: don’t start a debate with him that you aren’t prepared to go the distance on!

If there is a more stubborn person out there, I haven’t met them yet! You have to give it to him, when he makes a stand on a point, there will be plenty of fact and logic to back it up. He doesn’t disagree on everything, and on things that he freely admits he might not be right on, he’ll admit he’s wrong. But if “he’s right” then you got an uphill battle convincing him otherwise.

It should be a fun one to read if you like music…and like to pick a fight!

Note: At first I was just going to put this on my “What I’m Digging” page or on Twitter, but I just kept writing and decided it needed to be a whole post.

Dominic Buettner for The New York Times

Some Christians will find it shocking — a challenge to the uniqueness of their theology — while others will be comforted by the idea of it being a traditional part of Judaism,” Mr. Boyarin said.

The New York Times reports of a discovery of a tablet that predates Jesus Christ by decades and speaks of a Jewish belief that “a messiah will rise from the dead after three days.” What baffles me is how this could be shocking for Christians or “a challenge to the uniqueness of their theology.” This only confirms the idea that Christ fulfilled the Law of Moses and was in fact the anticipated Messiah. Read more »

Pop quiz: Which is me? Which is Jeremy?

Crazy, huh?!

We got Rockband today! Lots of fun for the whole family. It was actually a present for my wife, she wanted it for her birthday!

Maybe you’ve seen Guitar Hero, and it’s that plus drums, plus a mic to sing on! What I really like about the Rockband guitar is there are two sets of frets to play on (one at the top and one on the high strings). Apparently, you can download more songs to play on Xbox and Playstation, but on the Wii you can’t, at least not yet. I imagine they’ll add that down the road.

As you can see Kimberly wanted to do it all. We had her cousins over, Alexa and Ayla, and we had our own little Rockbabies Rock Band!

Congrats to Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett. I am glad to see them win. At least it’s not the Spurs or the Pistons.

There’s a good chance we can be doing this again next year. I don’t see the Celtics going anywhere. The Lakers will get Andrew Bynum back and probably pick up a few more defensive pieces. So, I hope this really is the start to another Lakers-Celtics Rivalry.

But the basketball season is over! I don’t want to hear anymore about it till next year. Go Angels!

I’ve recent run into several great, great, reads. One book. One blog. And one post in particular.

First, the book. I have to admit, when I read the title I thought it was a hokie. The 4-Hour Workweek. In my industry, I see a lot of big promises and many are barely more than complete scams. My skepticism kept me from getting the book for months, even though I had seen the author and the book in several places. What got me to break down and buy it was when I saw someone I knew had it. I don’t even think they were reading it, to be honest, but the simple fact that someone else had it made me give into my curiosity. I’m half way through and now it’s in the running to be my favorite book! I wouldn’t say that I’m ready to move to the 4-hour week, but the reading I’ve done has got me reevaluating how productive I am and how I go about my day. Once I finish the book, I’ll post a more in depth review, but I can already say, buy it!

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So I was watching Last Comic Standing and one of the female comedians was making a joke about how Halo 3 destroys relationships…something about how her boyfriend spends all day with a headset talking to little boys online. I tried to get my wife to play Halo with my friends and I but she inevitably ends up spinning in a corner staring at the sky.

Then came the Wii.

Hopefully, you’ve all had a chance to do the bowling. And I do mean all of you because even my grandparents have Wii bowled with us. The beautiful thing about the Wii is my wife loves it! I can play video games and not only is she okay with it, she plays with me. We’ve recently come across some new games that we’re kind of excited about:

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