Video Tour of My House

by Chris Tingom on January 23, 2010

In December I took a short video of my house (interior only). Enjoy!

I have also placed some photos on Flickr.

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Owning a Home: 1st Year

by Chris Tingom on June 5, 2009

Today marks 1-year since I bought my first house. It’s been an adventure, to say the least. Here’s a list of improvements:

  1. Raised the block wall in the back yard, added stucco, and painted it white.
  2. Raised height of gate.
  3. Filled in sunken living room with concrete.
  4. Wood floors in the living room and dining room.
  5. New baseboard in living room and dining room.
  6. New carpet in entire house.
  7. Painted entire house.
  8. Cleaned, then painted garage floor blue.
  9. Fixed sprinkler system.
  10. New toilets.
  11. New sink / cabinet in half bath.
  12. Repairs to kitchen cabinetry.
  13. New stucco on indoor fireplace and new paint.
  14. Installed crown molding in living room.
  15. Repairs to sprinkler system and pool backwash piping.
  16. Installed recessed lights in foyer.
  17. New knobs on kitchen cabinets.

Besides all of that, I bought a lot of new and used furniture and my mom and dad helped me decorate and set everything up. They’re a big reason that list above is so big. Without their help I would have never accomplished so much in just one year.

What’s next? I need to get some additional artwork on the walls and get busy finding me a wife!

In case you wish to see photos, you can browse my Flickr gallery.

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Home Office Video Tour

by Chris Tingom on February 11, 2009

I’ve been working on making my home office the best home office in the world. I’ve recently added a new second monitor, and also some shelves in my office closet. Here’s a video I made that gives you a walk through.

Sometime down the road, I plan to do more videos showing the rest of the house.

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Bought a new house!

by Chris Tingom on August 19, 2008

Well, I purchased my first home and it’s going great. Here is a photo. I’m currently working on setting up my home office and just painted my desk a slick black. Having lots of fun maintaining the backyard, too. Everything from mowing the lawn with my push mower to cleaning the pool.

My New House

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Balloon Ride

by Chris Tingom on February 26, 2008

On Saturday I went on my first balloon ride! If you’ve never been, I highly recommend the experience. The balloon ride lasted about an hour and a half. Since the wind was moving in different directions at different altitudes, we were able to land only a quarter mile away from where we took off.

I took a video of the experience, and a few photos. Enjoy!

Balloon Ride

Balloon Ride

Balloon Ride

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Buying a house

by Chris Tingom on February 4, 2008

I’ve been looking at houses now for a couple of months. I’m not in any hurry and my Realtor and I have been looking at all kinds of houses. Many of the tips about buying houses say that you’ll have to look at a good dozen houses before you really know what you want. That’s true.

On Saturday, we looked at 7 or 8 houses and the last one was a house in Scottsdale near Shea that turned out to be pretty cool. It’s cool enough that I decided to put in an offer (watch the video of the house). I won’t know for 10+ days whether I have it (because it’s a “short sale”) but it sounds like my offer was “in the drivers seat” according to the broker.

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Picture of me

by Chris Tingom on August 23, 2007

Here I am at a Phoenix coffee house.

Chris

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A cool photo of me

by Chris Tingom on April 21, 2007

I was in San Francisco recently for the Web 2.0 Expo with the Viddler team, and while there Viddler hosted a little party with a few people and someone named Cindy Li took my photo. I thought it was a pretty cool photo, so decided to post it here. The business card I’m holding is for our new web app.

Chris Tingom

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In which Superman meets a fan

by Chris Tingom on March 4, 2007

There was a homeless guy at the gas station today. I had stopped to get gas after setting up some servers, and was surprised when he ran over to meet me. He asked if I really was Superman, and asked to shake my hand.

I was wearing my Superman t-shirt and he kept saying how awesome it was to meet Superman.

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Tour of the Tornado Design Office in Phoenix

by Chris Tingom on February 14, 2007

Here’s a quick video tour of our office in Phoenix.

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