Archive for July, 2006

Professor Corson

I have heard rumors that I would be teaching next semester, but I got the official word yesterday when I signed my GA contract. So its official, I will be teaching a CP 220 class next semester. It is basically an 8 week Photo 1 class for non-majors, teaching students how to develop, print, [...]


WSOP, Here I Come!

All I gotta say is…
10th place in a 15,000 person poker tournament. I just won $40.00 playing poker online. Goodbye school, goodbye carbondale, hello Vegas.


ultimate summer = ultimate frisbee

Everyone knows that the perfect summer is not complete without a rousing game of ultimate frisbee. However, this is particulary hard to accomplish when you have no frisbee. Brad and I decided to remedy this problem by heading to Wal-Mart to buy a frisbee. You would think that in the dead of summer Wal-Mart would [...]


one year older…

Yes, the rumors are true. It is indeed my birthday today, (yesterday actually) and yes, I am officially one year older today. Its not that I have gotten a little older every day, every hour, or every second, but that today, and only today, I have become one year older. If I look at [...]


On the Surface

I’ve spent the last hour reading a blog that one of my best friends from high school writes. While reading his intensely deep and descriptive blog, I keep asking myself…”what is a blog supposed to be?” Is is just a collection of timely news stories like what current companies are doing, or should it [...]


New Apple Products

New Apple Products

It seems that apple will be releasing several new products in August at the WWDC conference. The most widely anticipated product is the new Power Mac line that will feature Intel processors and a brand new enclosure. Macrumors.com is reporting on this and several other new products coming out from Apple in the [...]


Introducing Sufjan Stevens

Introducing Sufjan Stevens

First of all, if you haven’t heard of Sufjan Stevens by now, you should go to the store and buy his album “Illinoise” right now. I was first introduced to him by my friend Chase who seems to know all of the great musicians at all times. He knows about them before they [...]


summer fun

summer fun

After spending a hot afternoon on the back concrete slab of my house yesterday, I have decided to purchase an inflatable pool. Now, I know that your first impression of an inflatable pool is probably some backwoods hic family lounging in pea green water that has more bacteria content than actual water. I [...]