Tumblr has always caught my interest, mostly due to the overally interesting content that I’ve seen on there from other’s blogs. In addition to The Many Happenings, I have created A figment, a Tumblr blog where I will share notes, photos, and other small insightful tidbits from my life. If you are on Tumblr check [...]
It’s been a tough time. Balancing school, work, my overall online presence, and just trying to survive in the real world, I haven’t had much time to blog. I think I’m now on a schedule to finally dedicate some time each week to update The Many Happenings. For those of you still reading this, thank [...]
Lately, it seems as if the newest and greatest pop sensations are not drug guzzling blonds in their mid-twenties, but teenagers who have been overly exaggerated, used, and massively published by Disney and their partners. It seems as if they try to make a pop music star out of each of the characters from their [...]
I know it has been a while since I have updated my blog, so I decided to partially keep things going with LCD Soundsystem’s All My Friends music video. It has been out for a long time, but I just decided to recommend it to you all, especially if you haven’t seen it yet. It’s [...]
Occasionally I like to go to the local Barnes & Noble bookstore to read, write, and just relax in the coffee shop within the store. It is usually the same deal – browse the magazines, browse the books, select some temporary reading, buy a coffee, open the laptop, and then sit and enjoy myself. However, [...]
Today Kevin Bryant, a Republican senator from South Carolina, posted a very offensive and immature image on his blog that contained Senator Obama alongside Bin Laden. Bryant has just recently taken down the image for unknown reasons, but you can still see it here: Despite my personal beliefs of the image, Bryant had full freedom [...]
Need some extra traffic on your blog? Besides paying for costly advertising, bribing your friends with successful sites for link exchanges, or just spamming uncontrollably (not recommended), one of the best methods to take advantage of is to create a Twitter and add a lot of friends. If you already have a personal Twitter, and [...]
Today I went to see The Modern Skirts at AthFest 2008, and had a really great time. I hadn’t heard much of the Modern Skirts before, but they were tonight’s main act and they put on a unique and entertaining show. Their keyboardist was insanely good, running around stage switching instruments and banging on the [...]
If you downloaded Firefox on Download Day (6/17/2008), then you can go here to claim your certificate as well. Here is mine, in all of its shiny glory: There is no real way for them to check to see if you really did download it, since putting in fake names works as well. But if [...]
After an embarrassing attempt to launch without any support from the record industries in the recent past, QTrax is trying once more to launch today, supposedly offering millions of free and legal P2P music tracks for our listening pleasure. If you download the client, which is based off of the Mozilla based Songbird, you are [...]