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The Blueberry Story

This story is a bit old. I first heard it while student teaching in Troy as told to my Contemporary Issues class by my cooperating teacher. It is an excellent story about trying to run the education s...

education, humor, politics

Repost: The Game

Baseball is just around the corner, so I thought I'd repost this short tribute to the game I wrote a year ago for those who might not have caught it the first time around. The time is approaching. You...

baseball, writings

The Wedding

I had a great time at the wedding. It was really fun, except for the 3 hours of picture taking with odd poses. About 15 minutes before the reception, the Maid of Honor Angela and I found out we had th...

general

On Lost, and other such shows

Okay, I'm a little late on the Lost train. My dad and sister have come to love the show, so I gave it a shot. In about 5 days (one a sick day in which I spent all day watching past episodes while in b...

rants, tv

On April 30th, You Can Find Me...

In St. Louie. That's right. We have 6 tickets to a Cardinals game in the new stadium. What's even better is it's in an indoor/outdoor suite with all the food, soda, and beer, yes beer, you could possi...

baseball, cardinals, sports

Site5 Has Become a Joke

Because of the increasing number of complaints about inadequate service, suggestions for improvements, and general unhappiness of Site5 customers, Site5 decided to remove the service forums from their...

news, technology, websites

MySpace: The Movie

Wow, now this is funny. Anyone who is remotely familiar with MySpace can understand where David Lehre is coming from on this excellent video.

humor

My Public Profession

A while back a buddy of mine, Mike Goodspeed, wrote about his party profession. What he meant by this is changing what he did for a living when people would ask what he did. Computer programming just...

general

Four Things

Unfortunately I was tagged by tunarider to fill out the Four Things. It's been going around for a while and I knew it was a matter of time before I got hit. Well, I got hit, so here it goes (and I don...

general, lists

On Stupid People

Allow me to entertain you with a little diatribe on stupid people. The internet is a great place/thing. I've met many great people and increased my knowledge on a variety of subjects exponentially. Th...

rants

Funniest Scene from Whose Line is it Anyway

Whose Line? is one of my favorite shows ever. The improv and comedy is classic. Check out this clip from Youtube. It could possibly be the funniest scene from Whose Line is It Anyway?

general, humor

Host Update; Waiting for Site5

The host search continues. I've literally signed up with a few hosts and quickly aborted. I'm not going to say their names because I'm sure they are great hosts. Their back-end just wasn't for me. I'v...

technology, websites

Searching for a new host; Leaving Site5

It appears that I will be searching for a new host and leaving Site5, the host that no less than 6 months ago was recommended by many in the blogging world. A lot has changed since then. I've voiced m...

technology, websites

Political Jackass Hiatus

I decided to take a hiatus from Political Jackass. Writing about politics takes too much time when you are trying to stay up on current events. I just don't feel like blogging about politics anymore....

news, politics

WordPress Theme- PhoenixBlue

My modified version of PhoenixTheme is now available for download. It is called PhoenixBlue. You can download it from here: PhoenixBlue theme. Here is a screenshot:

projects, wordpress

The Best Hip-Hop Albums

After seeing some other lists of favorite albums, favorite hip-hop albums, and favorite albums of 2005, I decided to make a list of my favorite hip hop albums of all time. One thing I should note befo...

binary-star, bone, cunninlynguists, dogg-pound, hip-hop, lists, music, tech-n9ne, the-roots, tupac-shakur

Blog it Forward

I bought blogitforward.com a while back. After not doing anything with it for a long time, I decided to do something. People in #wordpress suggested I make a mock web 2.0 site and have it link back to...

technology, websites

Back to the World of Windows

A good friend from #wordpress, Podz, has been chronicling his switch from Windows to Ubuntu Linux, and now back to windows on his blog. His latest post about the switch explains why he made his choice...

technology

One-way trip into black hole takes 200,000 years

I find this quite interesting. It seems as each week goes by, science is closer and closer to having another major breakthrough. The next few years will no-doubt bring a huge revelation in the field o...

science

Blue Skies, Sunshine

Lately I've been on a Masta Ace kick. I can't get enough of his music. It's probably because I've been listening to CunninLynguists' A Piece of Strange a lot lately. APOS is 16 tracks that make up a s...

music