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Avoid This Job

Entertainment, Music, Personal 25 February 2010 | 2 Comments

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I don’t want to step on the toes of the (excellent) Avoid This Job blog, but I saw this ad in my college’s newspaper, The Royal Purple, and thought it seemed ripe for an Avoid This Job style takedown.
First of all, consider the ad’s target market. It’s in a college paper, so it is [...]

“Caravan” by Van Morrison

Entertainment, Music, Personal 11 January 2010 | 0 Comments

I re-watched The Last Waltz not too long ago, and the thing that stuck in my mind was how awesome Van Morrison is, so much more than “the Brown Eyed Girl guy,” which is how most people know him.
Anyway, I’ve been listening to his records a bunch lately, and I got the bug to make [...]

Taking Stock, Looking Forward

Personal 31 December 2009 | 0 Comments

You may remember my first blog post on this site, where I talked about using this blog to catalogue my attempts to suck less every year. Well, now it’s the end of the first year of this blog, so I figured I’d do a little re-cap of my accomplishments for the year, and set some [...]

Ragged Bay New Years Eve Spectacular!

Entertainment, Music, Personal 16 December 2009 | 0 Comments

Ragged Bay New Years Eve Spectacular!

My band is going to be playing it’s first show on New Years Eve at the Brass Rail here in Whitewater! I’m super excited! Here’s the cool poster Joe (the lead guitarist) made (click it to view the full size version):

So if you’re going to be in the area over the break you should come [...]

(A Few Of) These Things That I’ve Done

Personal, Programming 6 October 2009 | 0 Comments

(A Few Of) These Things That I’ve Done

I’ve been working for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Continuing Education department as a web developer/computer specialist for just over a year now, and I’ve been working for Beeline Design out of Burlington, WI for slightly longer than that. It just dawned on me that there are actually a few things that I’ve been largely responsible [...]