April 2008
23 posts
Great Northern - Low is a Height
I’ve been...
Since I don’t have any kids, it’s easy for me to forget about the crisis that the public education system faces and only worry about this country’s problems that directly affect me. Being a public school teacher, my roommate John puts it into better perspective from time to time and reminds me of the problems that the system isn’t handling very well. This NY Times opinion article focuses on the...
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time...”
– Warren Buffett
What is Photoshop Doing to Our Society?
We live in a world nowadays where most things around us are not what they seem. Popular culture has grossly distorted the media we’re exposed to. Executives of clear skin cream companies should thank Adobe Photoshop for making them rich. No one’s face you see on a magazine is anywhere close to being that perfect. But what is it doing to everyone? Sometimes I can’t help but feel...
There’s something about watching birds glide around in the wind that calms me down. Taken from the Pitt Street bridge in Mt. Pleasant.
Josh Ritter - Girl in the War
The first time I...
“A neutron goes into a bar and asks the bartender, ‘How much for a...”
Taken on a trip to Florida a few weeks ago.
I rocked this out last night in Photoshop right after watching a Modern Marvels episode about Truck Stops.
Everybody knows that when you run for a political office, your opposition tries to dig up as much crap as they can to make you look bad. Most people running for office these days grew up before the digital age, but can you imagine how bad it’s going to be when everyone our age is running for office? There are a million pictures of every person out there and I’m betting that almost...
Music that Makes You Dumb
One of the hundreds of interesting links I’ve seen lately that I’ve wanted to share is Music that Makes You Dumb: Average SAT (with standard error) for the 133 most popular entries for “favorite music” on facebook.
This list ranks the “smartest music.” Most rankings don’t really surprise me, but some seemed strangely high on the list, like #14 Phish, #18 Dispatch, and #24 Third Eye Blind. In my...
How I Discover New Music
Yesterday I was sitting at work, staring off into space and trying to be as unproductive as possible. I was thinking about all the ways I discover new music and how it all eventually gets to me. I realized that there really are very few avenues due to the fact that I don’t do a ton of research on my own to find new music. I usually just sit back, relax, and let my friends do the hard work...
Electric President - Insomnia I’ve really...
The Onion
The Onion is really bringing its A game today. Among the headlines on the front page are:
$46,000 Vacuumed Out of White House Couch
Judge Awards Heather Mills Writing Credit on Eleanor Rigby
Mead Releases New Grad-School-Ruled Notebook
Nation Trying to Fix Ralph Nader Up with Date
Suspicious Package Industry Falls on Hard Times
John McCain Thoughts on Torture: Doesn’t Support Stuff...
Colleagues, Not Competitors
This article details a rare occurrence in today’s American business: competitors sharing resources. I toured Samuel Adams’ brewery last summer in Boston and I was really impressed with their outlook and attitude (for a beer company, of course). With the shortage of hops right now, hoarding a large supply is an easy way to run out competition. But Sam Adams has done the opposite and offered a...
Nichole and Jason
From an engagement photoshoot last weekend in Charleston, SC. My girlfriend Rita took the last picture. She’s good. It scares me.
Here is a slideshow of some of the pictures as well. I didn’t embed it directly into this page because i’m still working out some bugs in getting the slideshow to play how I want it to. I can’t figure out how to set it...
I'm Not Ashamed
I’m pretty tired of all the online t-shirt companies with their lame immature wannabe-vintage shirts. But I’ve discovered a shirt that I couldn’t pass up. I’m not ashamed that I bought it either. In fact, when it arrives I will wear it proudly, hoping to get attention or at least some random smiles on the street. Isn’t that why everyone buys shirts like this online?
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“It’ll Happen”
from the Punch...