I need to jump in now and become a fan of Michigan basketball, which I never have been. Ever. Even when I attended Michigan, I went to one game when my family was in town. I sat way up in the nose bleed section and probably spent more time talking, snacking and texting that actually [...]
There are a few places I feel inspired and “at home”: 1. College campuses 2. Good concert 3. Film festivals 4. Some conferences My experience with the later two is macro enough to not be jaded by any of the politics involved. My time in college was the last truly free thinking time in my [...]
Since college, my ideal Sunday morning has been waking up early and watching Meet the Press with a hot cup of coffee by my side and a newspaper or my computer to peruse.
I know I’m really bored when I (once again) try to set-up Pine or it’s equivalent, Alpine, email in the Terminal on my Mac. I’m decent with computers and can follow directions, but actually accomplishing this has thus far been beyond me. I’ve approached it on four separate occasions over the past year, and have [...]
Beloit College’s Mindset List: The Mindset List is a set of constants that each graduating class grows up with – significant people who’ve always been dead, the emergence of trends, etc. The list is very retrospective, and may appeal more to those who came before the birth of the graduating class because the emphasis seems [...]
Steve Jobs makes an interesting point: You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts [...]