The Daily Show - "Myspace"
Just hilarious... As a recovering myspace adict, I actually think Myspace has been brought to us by the devil and no longer use it. But when the man's right on emo rock, he's right on emo rock.
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good for a larf.
Just hilarious... As a recovering myspace adict, I actually think Myspace has been brought to us by the devil and no longer use it. But when the man's right on emo rock, he's right on emo rock.
One of my favorite videos ever.
Seems to have an intense left-wing slant... but then that may be reflective of the documentary industry.
I'm vastly aware no-one/very few people read this... hence it is going to become way for me to organize and publish my thoughts, and work on communicating and recomending in a public forum.
Well,
I think a lot at the gym, it's my refuge to go over the meaning of feelings in my human experience, and dissect my day. I'm tempted to get all Vonnegut one of these days and write a story about the absurdness of it all and how my human experience was so confusing compared to my Tralfamadorian experience... but I'm not that good a writer yet. :)
Today I made the faithful trek into my local YMCA and about halfway through my workout I reached some conclusions on Love and Friendships - usually the topic that dominates my thoughts. So I started to think about health and general body maintenance.
Yesterday I played some pickup football with friends and acquaintances... despite now fighting with my knee I was pleased with how well I'd performed. I've never been an extremely athletic fellow, but the month or so I've spent focusing on improving my eating habits and aerobic exercise have helped a lot. I'm still not the greatest guy on the field, but I'm holding my own. It felt good to start to excel at football. I was always better at rugby and I'm curious to see if my improvements have helped my rugby game in the same way. Either way I noticed that I'm feeling a lot better -- apparently I look better as well. I have a weird memory or body image viewer, I can only see the most drastic of physical changes in myself and others (you can imagine the problems that poses with girlfriends), but others have commented that I look more fit.
I don't know what drove me to embrace a healthier lifestyle but I have some thoughts on my experience. I'm curious if they translate outside of fitness.
Maybe I'm stretching to apply those to non-fitness settings, but there is at least some correlation.
I've added a small button for my comments online. I realized that alot of my writing is done as comments on other peoples blogs. I saw someone had the idea of making a del.icio.us tag for all comments and using that RSS feed to allow people to descirbe to my comments. I stole the idea with a quickness. Chris Yeh gets full credit for the idea.
I kinda feel bad calling this guy out -- but for all I know it was an intentional move on his part, and it made me chuckle, so I don't feel that bad.
I've been quoted in the cover story of this week's Gambit.
A friend forwarded to Willis an email invitation explaining Rethinking New Orleans. "I didn't know what to expect, I was worried it wasn't even going to be worth the bike ride," he says a week after the meeting. "But I was impressed by the knowledge everyone brought. It wasn't just a bunch of people bitching and getting drunk."
Willis was most impressed, he says, with the ideas for preserving the city's distinct neighborhoods and the culture of each. A native of California, Willis is enjoying his transition to life in post-Katrina New Orleans. "The atmosphere seems a lot different from what I hear it used to be, with lots of negativity and [an] almost fatalistic approach to things," he says. "But I've experienced none of that. The energy I feel here now is positive."
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Despite concerns about a lack of cohesion among the far-flung grassroots groups and their varied approaches to rebuilding New Orleans, activists are making inroads, holding meetings, generating new ideas and sustaining the passion that propelled them to action in the first place.
Tyler Willis created a Web site, www.projectneworleans.info, that includes information on an online math tutoring program, hotmath.com, that he says has great results in helping students. Citing education as critical to rebuilding what Willis labels the "New City of Hope," he has started lobbying local school officials on behalf of the program. He says he has gotten good responses, especially from the proposed charter schools."
here's a few corrections
1 - It was a phone call from an ex-girlfriend, who was significantly more supportive then that sounds. Quite frankly I wouldn't have done it without a kick in the pants from her, and she allowed me to bounce ideas off her and moan about how much some of the work sucked. Less of a "Challenge" and more of an influence.
2 - Blake invited me through IM... I wish I could say I didn't say "bitching and getting drunk" but that sounds suspiciously like me. I guess I should work on my cynacism a bit. Sorry everyone involved, especially Blake. PS - the wine was Fantastic.
3 - I'm not a Native of California, I was born in Missouri and spent most of my life in Ohio. I do like California quite a bit, but I wouldn't wanna ignore my roots. ;)
Aside from that, I'm still very excited. I hope this will give me a bit more traffic and visability - At this point donations are going to be what makes or breaks what I can do here.
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