Published July 22nd, 2008
With the advent of the AppStore in the iPhone’s new operating system update, a whole slew of new apps and tools made themselves available to the ever-expanding user base, including this new Wordpress posting application. Finally, mobile blogging is possible, complete with photos.
It looks like you can just edit the post after the fact and fix the photo positioning using basic HTML. Later iterations of this app might fix that, we’ll see, I doubt they’ll build in a nice WYSIWYG editor into it.
Still, it’s nice to know I can blog on the run. I might have to start actually looking for crazy stuff happening around me now.
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Published July 21st, 2008
It’s been just over two weeks since my last post, and I can’t quite explain why. It’s not like I haven’t had anything worth writing about lately, I guess it’s just that I sort of lose interest in projects that lack focus. Take this blog, for instance… if you look back through the meandering history of post topics, it ranges from events in my life to restaurant reviews to tech news and websites that I’ve discovered. Music, video games, art… a smattering of everythign that might have touched my life or grabbed my attention any certain day.
Like today, I could possibly write about how I discovered that you can take a screenshot on your iPhone by holding down the home button and pressing the power/lock button. Handy? Sure. Interesting? Not really, but it’s something that I learned and remembered today, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I should share it with the world, especially when the same information is available anywhere else.
I’m sort of sick of my blog sometimes. It’s like some old beater car that you have to use to get where you need to go; you hop in and get from point A to point B, but you don’t enjoy a nice cruise around the town in it. I think it’s because the template isn’t really a personalized design. Everything is just… there. I need to switch up the layout and make this thing mine again and put forth some effort into making it unique instead of a cookie-cutter blog site using a random URL. I’ll have to think about it.
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Published July 5th, 2008
Everything about this shot amuses me, from the inflatable Ameri-rocket to the crudely-painted sign declaring the sale of fart bombs. I don’t know if people are actually looking for self-exploding flatulence… maybe it’s a hot item this year.
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Published July 5th, 2008
I know you’ve seen them… they lurk on the shelves and stands of nearly every bookstore out there. Bad book covers.
There’s almost no reason for them in any instance, but it is especially puzzling when a notable author like Dean Koontz is displayed with a horribly-designed cover such as this. I mean, come on, I know the guy has written dozens of books, sometimes a couple a year, but a 30-minute Photoshop hack-job slapping a yellow lab on top of a photo of dark woods? Please…
Really, it wouldn’t be as bad without that stupid cropped-out dog on the front with the green outer-glow around it. It’s completely out of place, looking like it was cut and paste out of a shot of a family picnic in an L. L. Bean catalog. Hmm, maybe it’s appropriately scary.
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Published July 3rd, 2008
“Has it really been that long?” was the first thought through my head when I was anonymously contact on MySpace by someone whom I’m sure I never even talked to before, requesting my information so a 10-year high school reunion eVite could be sent to me. Come to think of it, I don’t think I talked to 90% of my graduating class, and those who I did make friends or acquaintances with I haven’t even seen, much less commiserated with.
I’m not sure what it is about the past, especially high school years, that gets people all happy and nostalgic. For me, high school was an awkward and socially isolating endeavor made much worse by the fact that I didn’t attend a very large school to begin with. For the three years that I attended Northern Lebanon High School, I can count on one hand the memorable moments that would even make me consider wishing to find myself in the presence of individuals I really couldn’t care less about.
Do I want to know where everyone is now? Or what they’re doing, or who they married or divorced or had kids with? If anyone had any sense, they would have moved far, far away from Central Pennsylvania shortly after graduation and never looked back. Sure, I’m still here, but I could be doing a whole lot worse for myself.
Ten years later, cynical as ever.
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Published June 19th, 2008
Just discovered my cousin’s DeviantArt page… there’s some definite talent there. It’s sort of funny to see family members grow up from a somewhat external view. All of my cousins are hours away from me, this one in particular lives down in Florida, so we don’t get to see each other very often.
I guess that’s why I like the internet so much, it can bring people together in many different ways.
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Published May 26th, 2008
And yea, let us set aside one day each year to celebrate the defending of freedom and winnings of wars with the eating of seared cattle meats and tube-shaped meat on buns.
Actually, that’s just what I’ll be doing, like a lot of other people that I know, and it’s certainly not enough of a thank-you to hundreds of thousands of brave men and women who would sacrifice everything to see that this country remains free and its ideals unchanged. Most of us take that for granted.
So if you know a soldier, thank them. If you know someone in harm’s way, even today, wish them well.
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Published May 21st, 2008
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Published May 10th, 2008
Just a quick update from the hotel room…
We’ve been in Memphis, Tennessee for the past couple days. Actually, as of now, we’re getting ready to leave and drive the nearly 1,000 mile trip back to PA today, into the night. Lots of pictures to post and stories to tell, which will have to wait until later, unfortunately, since we’ve got to head out soon.
I used to live down here in the South (okay, a long time ago, but still) and my most missed thing has got to be the food. Yesterday, we had some barbecue from this little place called Neely’s BBQ (you might have seen them on the Food Network), and ohmygod it was the best pork sandwich I’ve ever had. Ever. And the sweet tea… ooh, it’s like a glucose coma in a glass.
Anyway, got to go, but will update later on our wanderings in the Blues City.
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Published May 4th, 2008
So I snagged a Nikon D40 digital SLR camera from Circuit City on Friday after work and have been messing around with it all weekend. It’s great to have the flexibility of an SLR with the ease of use and instant preview of a digital… now I can see what I’ve been missing out on for so long.
I’ve uploaded some new shots to my Flickr account, in case you were interested.
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