Macbook
It’s in the mail. I couldn’t resist the temptation.
A Two Year Anniversary
Its been a busy couple of weeks since school started. I have been spending nearly every moment working on schoolwork. It is to the point where if I am not doing something related to school I am falling behind. So I spend just about every waking moment attending class, teaching, preparing to teach, or preparing [...]
So Long Sweet Summer
I hate to say it, but it’s the end. As the clock turned 12:00 AM this morning, the summer of 2006 is officially over and tomorrow I will wake up to find myself driving to class. It has been a summer of amazing moments, and not so amazing down times. I am actually kind of [...]
A Hard Lesson Learned – Lacie D2 Drive Fail
After rolling out of bed this morning, I walk to the computer to check my email. Having received nothing, I put the computer to sleep and go get something to eat. I come back to the computer a couple of hours later and wake it up. It starts lagging on me, and I look over [...]
Macbook?
I have been waiting for years now to purchase my first Mac. You could say I’m the biggest Apple fan that doesn’t actually own a Mac. I love everything about Apple, but I haven’t had the money to buy anything. I still don’t really have the money, but I am seriously thinking about buying a [...]
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, and [...]
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 life [...]
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 be [...]
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 future. I [...]
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 even release [...]
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 have usually [...]
Back from Vacation – the shark encounter
So I’m finally back in Illinois, and I have to be honest, I’m not exactly glad to be here. The first day of being back home was pretty cool, throw the suitcase on the floor, grab some stale chips and relax on the couch. But around the third or fourth stale chip it hit me, [...]
back in fl
Well, I’m finally back in Florida, hanging out with my buddies from Tallahassee at the Chateau de summer place in Destin. It’s a good life down here, full of sun, water, good food, and friends. I appreciate all of your prayers and thoughts for my first year review last Friday. The review went pretty well, [...]
site performance – wanting feedback here
I’m sure all of you have noticed how lethargically slow my site is. First of all, I would like to know how the performance is from other places, as my personal connection is pretty unreliable to test a site with. But, I also wanted to know some other things, as I am thinking about switching [...]
myspace design ver. 1.1
Mike Davidson has done a much better job of articulating the horrific design problem that is known as myspace. He has actually worked to create a better looking myspace page by hacking the code. Check out his blog, it’s good to know that other people are worried about the atrocious design of myspace. Also, check [...]
internet explorer
First of all, I would like to apologize for my recent rantings on seemingly mundane and insignificant matters such as internet service providers and browsers. With my first year review rapidly approaching, I find myself more and more cynical and just plain bitter about many things. I realized how bad it had gotten when I [...]
a holiday
Since I enrolled in grad school, I have somehow managed to stop photographing as much as I used to. This is very disheartening and alarming. However, what I find very interesting is how many of my friends in grad school have been experiencing the same thing. Personally, I have found it very difficult to come [...]
who is Tom?
So I signed up to myspace today, simply because I was getting angry at not being able to see my friends blogs and other content. In accordance to my last post about myspace, I was again completely disappointed with the myspace site and their apparent lack of concern regarding design and layout. Oh, and when [...]
apple and windows
so apple has released boot camp, which allows mac users to boot windows onto apple computers with the new intel processing chips. I must say that this sounds pretty amazing, especially considering that now you can buy an apple and get the best operating system in the world and windows xp (so you can run [...]
website revisions
I have been working pretty hard on the website lately, refining the visual look of the site and making browsing a little easier. I’ve been engrossed in code, writing html and CSS. I have changed things a little bit, but the majority of you will probably barely notice a difference. Oh well, at least I [...]
the visual genius that is myspace
If anyone has ventured onto the virtual community that is called myspace, no doubt the first thing that they will notice is the incredible visual style that comprises the entire site. There is no where else on the web where amateur web authors can display their latest and greatest visual styles to the entire world. [...]
SPE and Chicago
I just got back from the national SPE conference in Chicago. There were some great presentations, lectures, and displays, and some not so great ones as well. It was my first trip to Chicago and I was impressed by the city, very clean, well maintained, beautiful architecture, and lots and lots of art. It was [...]