Archive for November, 2006

changing the fingers changes the mind

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

In 1996, my wrists started hurting when I was at a computer. I was a recently-graduated, entry-level, computer geek working for a new and optimistically-named web development company “Utopia,” and friends all around me were developing major problems with RSI (or as MC Frontalot calls it, the “wrist-hurt disease”) caused by a combination of [...]

Political Ads: the voiceover guys interviewed on NPR

Friday, November 10th, 2006

NPR : Dire Predictions and Disastrous Votes: Election Ads
Melissa Block talks with voice-over artists Dennis Steele and Scott Sanders about how to make a threatening voice for a political ad.
This is some funny stuff, here, especially the nursery rhymes.
I wish everyone would at some point in their life understand that pretty much everything that [...]

Thought for the day

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

We prove ourselves citizens of a democracy not by our winning of elections but by our agreeing to lose elections. — Lewis H. Lapham

… They should teach this in grade school civics and not let anyone graduate until they really get it.
Hearing the news come in today and having watched politics for [...]

“First you are a citizen. First this is a nation.”

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

The Blog | Eric Kuhn: A Conversation With CNN’s Lou Dobbs: The Economy, Immigration, The Constitution, And A Little, Tiny Sip Of Vodka | The Huffington Post

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You are going to have to assert, again, a fundamental value that you are going to be first and foremost a citizen and that you and everyone around you, [...]

Stationkeeping

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

I’m sitting in Glen’s living room, tired from a long day of work after a shorter night’s sleep than usual. (Was visiting J&J and their boys, which as usual meant staying up late hanging with the adults and getting up early (in this case, 6 a.m.) to hang with the whole family. While [...]