Bentley Video!
Emily wanted me to do a video of our dog Bentley in the backyard, and I was eager to test the 5D Mk II and it’s great HD video. I had to compress the video considerably to get it to stream online, but you can still see the quality that this camera can produce. It [...]
New Things
Things have been changing pretty fast lately. Emily and I moved to Perry, GA in early January of 2010. We decided to make the move after realizing that there was very little future in Carbondale for us. We miss our friends very much, and the decision to leave our friends and Emily’s family was a [...]
Droid vs. iPhone – Missing the Point
First of all, I must say that this post is not by any means a professional review or comparison of the two devices. If you are looking for such, I would recommend Boy Genius’ review of the Droid. This is rather my personal opinions on the two devices and the current cell phone industry in [...]
Honeymoon Pics and Update
I signed up with a new hosting company in the past week, so I have had to migrate everything onto to the host. My database backup for the blog was slightly old, so I had to restore some of the newer posts via google cache. Thanks Google! I hope you like the new look. I [...]
New Flower Bed
Since spring has come in full bloom, I have had an unprecedented desire to garden and work in the yard. I can only attribute this to some sort of instinct that kicks in once you are married. I have lived in this house for almost 4 years, and have not done any gardening or cultivating. [...]
Wedding and Honeymoon
Emily and I were married on January 10th of this year!! The wedding day was a complete whirlwind, but I do remember how beautiful my bride was as I saw her for the first time in her gown. I couldn’t believe I was actually going to marry the girl who was walking towards me!! The [...]
Is it Still Sleeting?
We had a nasty ice storm this week that managed to suspend public school all week. SIUC was only out of classes for a day and a half, but apparently it was the first time class had been canceled due to weather in over 20 years. This is the side of my house the night [...]
Halloween 2007
So Halloween 2007 has come and gone. It brought with it an interesting party at my house and some great costumes. This is Chase and I dressed in our costumes. I am Chase’s stalker, complete with a mock-up board of his blog. Chase is a depressed emo kid. There were about 25 or 30 people [...]
SIUC Reserve Fine Policy
I apologize again for the lack of posts, and will continue to make promises to be more productive in the area of blog content. I had an interesting occurrence the other day involving Morris Library at SIUC and their reserve fine policy. I have decided to write a letter to the Dean of Library Affairs [...]
Fake Steve Jobs
This is one of the most entertaining blogs I have read. It doesn’t hurt that it is mostly about apple products, but nonetheless, it is very humorous. It was in the news this week because a journalist from the NYT finally figured out who was writing the blog, apparently another journalist from Forbes. The entire [...]
nawlins’ and miami spring break
Only 3 days of school left before me and a bunch of people from the BCM at SIU will be heading down to New Orleans for the second year. We have an amazing time last year, which I wrote about here. Actually this next week will be the first year anniversary of my blog. The [...]
Valentine’s Day
For the past 3 years or so, Valentine’s Day has been nothing more than a normal day for me. There were no trips to the store to buy flowers, chocolates, cards, teddy bears, or other mass produced objects. I never sat around my house for hours at a time composing a brilliant story, song, poem, [...]
Dilusional Gates?
For those of you who haven’t read the latest interview with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates about Window’s Vista and comparisons that the media are making with Apple’s OS X, you should really check it out. It is pretty funny to hear Gates attempting to defend an operating system which he knows is inferior. First of [...]
The Cold Winter
I realize that it has been awhile since I have updated the ole’ blog. I had a great Christmas break that was spent with family and friends. Now I’m back in chilly Carbondale, trying to stay warm amidst the freezing temperatures. I am eagerly waiting for the arrival of spring and it’s warm temperatures. I [...]
5:30 Motivation
It’s 5:30 AM, I have been up since 9:30 this morning, and I still have to finish my final for one of my classes and email it this morning. It’s times like this that I sometimes like to take a step back and realize what an incredible time in my life this is. Yes, it [...]
MFA Phrase Generator
With regard to the issue of content, the aura of the Egyptian motifs brings within the realm of discourse the accessibility of the work. thanks Tracey!
SIU grad school
This is an image that basically sums up the entire grad school experience for me. Thats Alison on the left and Tracey in the middle, and thats me trying to read some crap. This was taken during our qualitative research class. My creative capacities have increased dramatically after taking this class. I can’t begin to [...]
Only 3 weeks
Regardless of what does or does not get accomplished within the next 3 weeks, I will be driving to Georgia on or around December 18th with Christmas and old friends on my mind. This is the only consultation as I constantly remind myself how much work has to be done in the next 11 days. [...]
Sunday…Sunday….Sunday
Last night I was sick of sitting around the house doing nothing, so I got dressed to go up to Panera bread and work on nothing in particular (basically use the free internet to kill time). In my hopes of striking some chord of understand with my readers, I am divulging the seemingly pathetic confession [...]
Monday Night Football
This may well be the only post you will ever see on this site on the topic of sports. Well, I take that back, I did make a prediction about the FSU vs. Miami game which I went to a couple of months ago, but this will probably be the only post entirely about sports. [...]
apple and life
It’s been 3 weeks since I got my shiny new Macbook in the mail. Even though I’m in a financial crisis as a result of buying the computer, I can’t say that I regret it. Like I mentioned before, I have been a mac fan for a few years now, one of the few mac [...]
New Host
Today is a good day in the life of johndcorson.com. I finally got a new host for the site. My old host (catalog.com) was having some speed problems and also going through new ownership, which was very confusing to say the least. I have switched my hosting company to siteground, which offers much more space [...]
Soofie
I had a great time at the Sufjan Stevens concert last weekend in St. Louis. I’m not going to give a full review of the show because I think Chase has done a much better job than I could ever do in his blog. But I will give my basic thoughts on the show and [...]
New Computers, Familiar Problems
As I mentioned in the last post. I am getting a Macbook, at some point. It seems as though Apple decided they should wait a week and a half at the least to ship the computer. A little disconcerting, but hey, if I can wait over 3 years for an Apple notebook, I can wait [...]