Andrew L. 3 Stars. I don’t know if this is a criticism or a compliment, but there’s almost too much to do. There’s literally no possible way to do everything you’d like. On one hand that’s great, but it can get frustrating. “I want to be a surfer, oh wait, I want to be a […]
October 17, 2011
A Heaping Helping of Justice – Kansas Style!
Justice. Is there any concept more noble? Any pursuit that embodies the best parts of our humanity more? Even as our biology asserts that might-makes-right, and when wronged we seethe for vengeance, we hold on to this notion of balance and fairness. We have the courage to protect someone’s right to speak, even when we […]
October 14, 2011
Terrifying Reality TV Statistics: Free With Every Box of Thin Mints
A study conducted by the Girl Scout Research Institute (which is apparently a real place, where I doubt there are serious-looking women walking around with clipboards while wearing the little uniform) has concluded that girls who watch awful reality TV shows have worse images of themselves and beliefs about how to behave as women. I […]
October 11, 2011
Phase 6: Write Blog Entry
Once a month, some friends and I go to this pub-trivia competition. It’s teams of 4, 9 rounds of trivia, in a no-holds-barred, winner takes all, melee of intellectual carnage! (that’s possibly an exaggeration) It’s also a fund-raiser for Rwandan schools, which can be a bit embarrassing to forget when you can’t remember, say, exactly […]
October 8, 2011
Please Hire Me To Be Apple’s New Visionary
It is very, very sad that Steve Jobs has passed away, for many reasons, of course; but for we, the world, it is mostly for the loss of his vision, and the incredible things he surely had yet to create. And while he had resigned from Apple shortly before his death, he could only ever […]
October 5, 2011
“You Say It’s Your Birthday!” (dun dun dun dun dun!) “It’s… WHOSE Birthday, Too??”
You know that conversation where you talk about famous people who share your birthday? I do not enjoy that conversation. I think of this not because it’s my birthday (It was in July. You missed it. Don’t you feel awful?), but because another sad chapter has been added. I was talking with a couple friends […]
October 2, 2011
Rebel With A Versatile Cause
A couple of bloggers have been kind enough to name me for the Versatile Blogger award. (That’s why I’ve been in absentia for a few days now – I was at the awards ceremony in Copenhagen. Well, I assumed there was an awards ceremony, and that it was in Copenhagen, but couldn’t seem to find […]
September 27, 2011
7 Reasons You Should Care About the 20th Anniversary Re-Issue of Nirvana’s Nevermind
It’s just so, so, so much better than you remember it being. When’s the last time you listened to Sgt. Pepper’s? Or Led Zeppelin IV? Or Thriller? Long time, right? Because even if you thought about it, albums like that feel like their permanently etched in the brain. Like you’ve heard it so much, it’s […]
The Byronic Man 
October 20, 2011
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