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Facebook, Twitter and the Fracturing of Society
There have been more than a few, rather lively, academic debates taking silicon valley and social media to task for their role in the awful state of our public discourse. A conversation I welcome. I don't doubt many of their founding members had nothing but the purest of intentions when creating their networks and mobile …
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Shifting Voices
Photo Credit to Jessie Smith @ Suggstreetpost. Below is another piece from my time working at the Sugg Street Post. It is quite apparent I was confident. I can't say, looking back now, I care for the tone or general snarkiness of the columns I wrote for the paper. But I do remember enjoying the …
An Act of Expiation
I think we have all been that small, scared child on the bus with our head resting on a cold seat; our eyes fixated on the passing scenery of trees and houses through foggy bus windows. Hoping the kid who called us a "fat-turd" or threw a half-full bottle of Fanta at us in the …
Net Neutrality
There are precisely zero anti-net neutrality arguments that hold any water. There are lots of theoretical libertarian arguments that might if there was actual competition in the marketplace but for the majority of non-metro area consumers in the US there is one option in their geographical market. If consumers are stuck with one provider for …
Shifting Personailites
As far as I can recall this is my first public piece of writing. I wrote this album review for now defunct regional arts newspaper. As I look back on writings I did just a few years ago I seemed to be a much more sardonic and confident writer. I wonder where that person went? …
Used But Never Abused
I've been thinking a lot lately about things my daughter's generation won't be able to experience, or at least it doesn't look that way as of right now, and one thing that came to me as being the most depressing is the trip to the used record store. As a teenager, I relished my trips …
Space-coon!
My wife and her sister started this tradition a few Christmases ago where they paint a large ceramic raccoon and then gift it to each other. Lindsey hadn't been able to do it for the last two years because of Penny, but this year Penny helped paint the raccoon! As usual, I just watched and …
Curiosities
I wonder who sat down one day and said let's make an eyeball salt shaker? What would be the potential market for such a thing? Would they move 1000 units? 10,000 units? These are questions that can't be answered, and that's what makes them even more fascinating. To be the proverbial fly on the wall …
Sharing One’s Work
When I sat down at the computer this morning, I had every intention of working on my manuscript but instead got sidetracked by a notification from a WordPress email. Exactly a year ago I set up a WordPress site to share my ramblings with the world, but after sleeping on the idea, I never followed …
Shell Beach 