30 September 2008
I’m going to keep my mouth shut and let (inter)national news media do the talking. House Works on a Bailout — for E-Mail -New York Times (includes a small screen cap of my work). House of Representatives’ Web site overwhelmed -CNN (#1 most viewed story earlier today).
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Pegged as
Politics and Design.
19 September 2008
As my conversation with Kristy and Patrick at the bar last weekend turned to politics, two other patrons within earshot expressed their disdain with icy silence proportional to our increasing application of decibels. It became clear that their body language was expressly directed at us, and we considered the possibility that continuing our conversation would lead to the necessity of physically incapacitating two men larger than either of us. In short, we began preparing for a bar fight.
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Food, Nostalgia, Wit and Design.
5 September 2008
When I came across the packaging for HP’s Pavilion dv6929 laptop, I was stunned. Not for what it is, but because it hadn’t occurred to anybody, myself included, before the year 2008 to actually do this: ship the laptop in a messenger bag.
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It’s about
Objects and Design.
3 September 2008
Like an obscure band that high school kids you once mocked now call their god, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about purple entering the pedestrian American fashion lexicon. In an attempt to spur myself to introduce myself to strange women and simultaneously spare myself inevitable humiliation, I’ve made it a point to approach women wearing aubergine overcoats.
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Plays well with
Love and Design.
2 September 2008
My four-year hiatus from academia is over. Half of my first class at Georgetown was an introduction to WordPress, the same software in which this is being composed. I’m still optimistic.
Between Once and Man on Wire, there’s an undercurrent in my choice of cinema this past weekend of little things — pop songs and filament-tied-to-an-arrow […]
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Academia, Nostalgia and Cinema.