Here is a collection of what I consider to be the best original tweets by me during the last year.
I did this project because I feel that in this world of oversharing and constant content creation, we tend to forget what we actually said amid all the turnover of attention we pay to the digital [...]
Today I went to the dentist for the first of two “deep cleaning” procedures. Yeah, it’s been a while, I don’t floss regularly like I should and now my jaw feels like a mini battlefield of blood and bruises.
Still, the whole process wasn’t all that bad. Granted, getting a shot of anesthetic into your gums [...]
I don’t blog about religion much (I honestly can’t remember the last time I made a public comment online about it) for a lot of reasons. It’s a touchy subject and everyone generally has made up their mind where they stand about all things religious. In other words, it’s opening yourself up to a flame [...]
Tomorrow Museum presents an intriguing argument about my generation’s lack “of authors whose love of writing was born from years of geekery, starting in chat rooms and message board,” which jomc dubs the “l33terati” (clever term!), and puts forth a few reasons why such a literary movement hasn’t taken place.
The latter half of the essay [...]
If I had absurd amounts of money, probably one of the first completely unnecessary purchases I would make would be a set of authentic samurai armor dating as far back as possible and with the most ornate detail. I’d want it all. The chestplate, the facemask, the headdress, the gauntlets, the sword and spears and [...]
Throughout my life, I’ve enjoyed quite a few hobbies, most of them involving “collecting.” Like a lot of young boys, I believe I first collected rocks that I thought looked really awesome. Obviously, these stones I found in forests, driveways and backyards retained no actual monetary value, but I’d put them in my pocket, take [...]
Urban planning skeptic Peter Gordon is interviewed by Reason Magazine in 1998 on the benefits of sprawl in the suburbs:
There is the presumption that suburbanites are living these lives of quiet desperation and isolation, and they really hate being there. You see trotted out ideas about community being missing. And to have community, you’ve got [...]
In addition to deactivating my Facebook account, I also reduced the number of people I followed on Twitter by more than 50 percent.
Twitter makes it easy to follow more people than you would friend on Facebook, simply because it’s not a two-way relationship. You can follow. They can follow. But you don’t have to [...]
This week I took two fairly significant steps on two of my most-used social networks, Facebook and Twitter, to reduce my participation.
On Facebook, I opted to completely deactivate my account. Several of my friends have tried this before and failed, so who really knows how long this will last for me. As one of my [...]
Here’s a short list of assorted thoughts after my AngryJournalist.com presentation at WIU. You can read the essay my presentation was based on here and the student newspaper’s coverage here.
1.) I had a blast spending time with the WIU faculty. They were all really nice and it was great to be around educators who [...]
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