Archive for February, 2006

Recent Flash Exercises

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

First, go install Flash Player 8.
Then, check out two of my latest Flash exercises here and here. They’re just exercises. But they were the best in my New Media 2 class, if I do say so myself.

Emerson Jeopardy

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Did anyone TiVo Jeopardy last night? “Emerson College” was the question for the $1600 answer under the “College Knowledge” category and I really want to know what the answer was.

Why I’m not buying from iTunes

Monday, February 20th, 2006

(or any other music store) anymore. Or at least, having a hard time doing so when I can’t pirate the song or get a used CD.
As I am working on my directed study, honors senior thesis project, and taking Studies in Digital Culture, the issue of media control is ever present. I can […]

Quote

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Nick: i brought all my cds from home to my apartment finally and it’s like a whole new place
Nick: i’m not sure my neighbors are digging it
Me: The people beneath me play boom-boom-ghetto music every morning starting at 9. I want to hurt them.
Nick: you should play show tunes at 8 am

Poetry

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

For some reason, I felt poetic walking across the parking lot today. A storm was on its way to Boston and the salty warm breeze was taunting me again. These aren’t poems. They are freeform thoughts.
Storm
I need to live where it thunderstorms.
I need to smell the sense of urgency fill my lungs […]

Solitary

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Arthur and Steph are in Nicaragua until Tuesday. I am alone in the apartment.
In so many ways, I feel like I am a freshman again. For the first time in a long while, I am living solo, staying up late, working, concentrating almost exclusively on my projects, and just kind of floating from […]

After Hours

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Steph and I attended the reading of After Hours by Jason Roush. We both had Jason for three courses of our freshman year as part of the Honors program. And we both absolutely adore Jason.
Jason is one of those professors that you never forget. He’s quirky. He’s witty. He’s smarter […]

Vibrant Media IntelliTXT

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Recently, several technology-related websites that I read have had green double-underline links appearing under random words after the page loaded. This is the latest method online advertisers (and the content-producing websites that deploy this form of advertising) are using to annoy visitors. The advertising is more visually intrusive than banner ads sprawled along […]

Explicitly Me v2

Friday, February 10th, 2006

I have upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1 and now proudly introduced the Explicitly Me mulligan.
Version 2 of Explicitly Me is the layout that I wanted from its inception. I am working on a brand new theme (especially now that my hair is buzzed), but couldn’t leave this theme undone.
The columns are centered horizontally and vertically. […]

Spirit FM

Friday, February 10th, 2006

I learned unfortunate news that Spirit FM has cancelled the LiveWire. Spirit FM is following in the footsteps of the entire Christian music industry: irrelevancy. Instead of playing the game, Spirit FM sits in a holy huddle. The station is preaching to the choir. Their music selection does not reflect the […]