Matt Bernier

Challenge: Create a minimum of 3 meals using the ingredients below. One meal must use potatoes (I have 3 pounds of potatoes that need to be used), one meal must be a salad and use cherry tomatoes, and one meal must be a juicer recipe.  You can assume that I have things like condiments, spices, and every-day kitchen ingredients.  You are not limited to the ingredients I have, but please utilize as many of them as possible. Ingredients I have: Potatoes 3-4 pounds Jalapenos Cranberry Jalapeno Jelly Tortilla shells Fruit pears nectarines grapes apples oranges kiwis lemons limes grapefruit Cherry tomatoes (from garden) Vegetables Carrots Onions Cucumber Frozen corn Shallots Chives (from garden) Garlic Cremini Mushrooms Lettuce (from garden) Milk… » Read More

10:00pm – On the phone with Tony, decided to pull an all nighter because the only thing I accomplished all day was to improve the length of my to-do list. Emails: 52 since 3:30pm     Tasks: 31 10:30pm – Went to the gas station to pick up some liquid energy and a snack for tonight, cricket decided she was going and offered to drive.  I bought 3/5 Monster Energy, a Nos in case the monster energy’s flavor sucks (it will) and a bag of sunflower seeds for $10.78. Get Glue – Monster Energy 11:00pm – Got home from the gas station, set up my seat and cooler.  Then I started an episode of The Office halfway through. Michael impersonates “Survivorman” and… » Read More

Here’s your challenge: Take the ingredients listed below and help me come up with creative meals using these ingredients. I also have a full pantry of spices as well as various alcohols, condiments, etc. I am looking for recipes and instructions for how to utilize the ingredients in recipes. I love all kinds of foods and trying new things. I will take pictures of things that are suggested when I am done. If you are curious if I have an ingredient like spices or condiments, just shoot me a question and I will answers. Have fun and thanks! Ingredients: Frozen pizza Mini frozen pizza Snack packs:w butterscotch, chocolate and fudge tortilla Chips salsa wheat bread spaghetti noodles spaghetti sauce chicken… » Read More

There are some serious players on Empire Avenue who have come up with ROI calculations to give them all the answers for who they should buy. In managing my own portfolio, I was attempted to give weight to specific factors while trying to figure out the best way to rank tickers I should buy so that I can get the most out of my eaves. Caution: Math Ahead! This is a little math lesson of some of the calculations I have looked at and what I was thinking when making them. I would love to hear your thoughts! I will use a couple example tickers to illustrate how these formulas would rank these tickers: Ticker – price – divs –… » Read More

Melissa and I took a week long trip through Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Canada. It was pretty awesome because I got to go to parts of this country that I have never been to before.  We also got to see every animal on our list of animals to see, except a wolf.   We saw coyote, marmot, Bull Moose, Grizzly, Eagles, Hawks, Horses, Bison, and tons of other animals. Overall, it was a great trip! There are a BUNCH of pictures here, sorry about that. Also, there are a couple duplicates because I kept the HDR (digitally edited) version of the picture. You can find the pictures here:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100361734857400.2662539.15911758&l=7d71fb96d9&type=1 Sphere: Related Content… » Read More

I love my iPhone4, and the HDR feature is pretty awesome – for some things. Pretty much any time you are moving, or if there is a sign in the image HDR will cause some weird issues.  The other thing I have found is that it gets weird in places with lots of detail, like on a trail, or whenever there is snow. Here are some of the weirdest images we got from our Glacier trip. Information about HDR from Wikipedia. Sphere: Related Content… » Read More

Melissa and I went camping and checked out what Colorado had to offer near Bailey, Como, Kenosha Pass and Guanella Pass this past weekend. We had a great time.  I had an amazing time, because I got to drive offroad so much with the 4Runner.   Photos from the trip: Melissa Playing Hey Cow, the wrong way: Some offroading videos we took: Sphere: Related Content… » Read More

We are strange, and that’s why the ladies love us! Seriously though, the reason that I grow my hair and beard out when I want to push myself towards something is that it is a really good motivator.  I can tie a string to my finger, but those fall off and get lost.  I could write myself a note, but I lose my todo lists and I keep those in our Project Management software.  The main reason is that it is always there, it is right up front, “in my face” (haha). Recently I grew my beard out until we “launched” something at work. It was a fun way for myself and friends to continually be reminded that I haven’t… » Read More

Just about every morning, one of these cats gets on my lap while I am working and begins tap dancing away until I pay attention to them. At the point when I go to pet them, they take off running. It’s a sick game. Sphere: Related Content… » Read More

I was talking with a friend about all the Facebook page likes and what happens when you “like” something.  It turns out that there is a way to view all your likes. Go to Discover Facebook Pages In the top right corner, you will find “My Pages” Once on that page, you will find all your pages in reverse chronological order.  At this point I am not sure how to “unlike” any of the pages.  Which fits with true Facebook fashion of always being positive.  What I don’t appreciate is that if I ever liked something accidentally, or something embarrassing, I cannot get rid of it from my list.  Oh well, thanks Facebook! Just For fun: The My Pages links… » Read More