Monthly Archives: August 2009

Hungry?

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

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