In high school and college, I made mix tapes from recording the radio. Occasionally there might be a few songs mixed in from albums borrowed from the Oak Lawn Library. For context, I graduated high school in 1993, college in 1997. It’s fun to look back at the songs captured from that era. One of …
It’s amazing what you can find in the iTunes music store. I was able to create two albums of songs all based on Psalm 27. My mom really like that’s that chapter in Psalms, so I did a search for: “Psalm 27” in iTunes. There are over 90 songs in the results. There are …
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I was recently asked who is a favorite artist of mine. I really haven’t evaluated that in a couple years in the framework of favorite. The true inspiration is the artists that are around me. They influence and inspire me to get going and producing work. However, to list actual names is tricky, because I …
The architect’s rendering of the rink at Wrigley Field for the Winter Classic. (Handout photo/NHL) With the Wrigley Field being iced over from the Blackhawks game on January 1, they are going to let regular people ice skate on it January 4. Sounds really cool, right? Ice skate on Wrigley Field. Want some tickets? Uh. …
These are the verbs that Apple’s Mail program shows when it checks for email: checking connecting opening fetching evaluating synchronizing performing That’s a lot of verbs to use when it just checks for mail. Sheesh.
OH HOW I LOVE WALKING IN THE SNOW! The cashier at Walgreens doesn’t think so, “All that cold makes me wanna die, y’know?” I encouraged her, “you need some good boots to go. They empower you to be oh so bravo!” She replies with “Honey, you’d have to be psycho to be tramping round when …
We all often sit like robots on the bus. I’m a reading robot. Being a robot can be good sometimes, because we respect each other’s quiet and space. But we don’t have to be totally robotic. This past Wednesday night I was in a good mood after a very good small group Bible study. The …
99.9999999% of German music sucks, but of the 0.00000001% that is good, it’s like REALLY good. There is no middle ground with german music. It either really SUCKS or it really ROCKS. Here is the basic categories of German music. 1. It’s like most of German pop is in the 80s, the bad 80s. Ever …
Clear logic says that the further north you go, the closer you get to the sun. But then why does it get colder up north? Maybe this whole “the sun is hot” thing is all wrong. The sun is actually one big cold-emitting snowball. And when it snows, it‚Äôs actually pieces of the sun falling …
Beau Bergeron is the artist behind the increasingly popular snow ghosts did an entertaining presentation to IDEO. On his website’s contact form one of the fields is “favorite fourth grade memory.” Here’s my response: learning multiplication. it showed me how things in life can not only happily add up, but happily exponentially compound. Ok, so …
Before I went to bed, I put this away message on my instant messenger: “Sleeping. Send me a dream through instant messenger.” It’s fun to think that someone could send a dream via instant messenger into my head while I’m sleeping. What dream would you put into my head while I’m asleep?
