I’m adding a couple of new entries to the food section of my Blogroll.Insanewiches, and This is Why You’re Fat. The first is a blog featuring interesting and amazing sandwiches. Everything from a Diet Débâcle Sandwich to andEast Meets Westdog. Truly an ingenious website! Then we have our other fascinating foodie foundry. The apparent premise behind “This is …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Plagiarist
Lindsay has been doing a lot of reading lately about plagiarism. It’s a serious concern for artists I would imagine. Perhaps my views on software piracy relate here, people justify software theft by saying that it’s just 1’s and 0’s on the Internet. Well a book is just ink stains on paper, should I be allowed to scan a best selling …
There’s a new ad campain on the block.
And it’s full of hooey! I caught an advertisement on the Food Network on my lunch break today. It was pretty short and sweet. A 30-something man ponders aloud about the effectiveness of prayer. He breifly mentions that prayers for “big” things seem to not be answered. Overall it stays pretty vague. At the end of the …
Books I should be reading.
I have a pile of books that have been accumulating for a while now. I’ve read a small part of each of them and I want to finish them, but I’m having difficulty choosing a starting point. (Actually, I just made the decision now on which I will read first, but I’m still lost for number two…) Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path: …
Sometimes, this is me…
xkcd — A Webcomic — Superlative. I don’t mind though. Someone has to be the boring one :-P
Much ado about ethics.
My sister and my girlfriend have recently blogged on the subject of ethics. Particularly regarding the fashion industries questionable ones, such as the use of sweat shop labour, or the over-sexualization of products. I try to be aware of my choices in that I would like to avoid supporting sweatshop labour, I don’t want to have slavery …
Sooo bored.
And a little bit stressed about money. My current job either needs to provide a raise, or full time hours, or I need a new job. All of those options are difficult to ask for. Difficult to talk about even. It’s been a very long time since I’ve had stress about money. I’m not used to it. It was so eazy …