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Active Disconnect: Givi...

I am an emotional person, many times to a fault. Films, art, technology, anything, I base my perspectives on a more thin-sliced, emotional attachment to the object, later utilizing my analytical mind to determine the constituents of my feelings. My emotions, my sentiments, define...

5,000 Tweets: A Reflect...

In mid 2007, through a Ruby on Rails podcast, I discovered an up-and-coming service called, “Twitter”. Twitter was a service that made sense to me. Fascinated, I saw its potential, and nearly a month later I had the beginnings of a personal network of acquaintances and...

Counting the Days...

My life will radically change for the better this year. This coming July, the lease on my apartment will end. I will be faced with a few options: I can renew the lease, relocate within Champaign, move in with Andrew and Stephanie in Springfield, move in with Nathan Philips in Springfield,...

One Step Closer...

I finally have a good start to my first animation. I have been wanting to do an animation for some time. Unfortunately, like with many of my aspirations, it was put on the back burner. I began talking about it more regularly again a couple months ago — brainstorming, conceptualizing....

Envy, I Adore You...

My sin is Envy. Envy, jade green with desire, she teases me. Like lust for the flesh, I crave that which I can not have. To hide from her allure, I have cloaked myself with disappointment and despair. Sacrificing my passions on an alter of flames, I rend my soul in a frail attempt...

Therapy...

Writing is therapy for me. Like many who require therapy, I don’t submit to it enough. It teases me at a distance, playfully hoping that one day I will catch it, but in the mean time, remains just out of reach. She remains just out of reach. I see her in my mind. Shapeshifting,...

Less God, More Present...

Beyond Belief I’m almost done with, “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins, and I must say, I can’t put it down. I’ve been questioning my beliefs a lot over the past few years. This year I began listening to a Buddhist podcast on Zen, and recently, my...

Latest Email to Hostway...

And the latest email to Hostway.com, after they said that they had forwarded my request to second tier support, and would reply to me soon: Alright guys, seriously… Is this a joke, or is Hostway.com just a big, fat joke in and of itself? (I’m going to go with the latter). This...

Previous Email to Hostw...

The proceeding email is what I sent to support@hostway.com regarding a very simple request: It’s a damn shame that you can’t provide such basic services that are easily available through other hosts, like Crucial Paradigm (crucialp.com if you want to see why they rock)....

Discipline, Fuck You...

I hate discipline. Why? Because it’s more elusive than that asshole leprechaun and his pot o’ gold at the end of a rainbow. I know this because I’ve caught that little fucker before, and all he had was a damn Twix Bar. Yeah, he struck a deal with the makers of Twix...