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Articles Everyone Wants to Be Johnny Carson

All late night talk shows (aside from the Daily Show and the Colbert Report) are lame and practically worthless. They’re formulaic, unoriginal, and pander to the widest audience possible. Half…

Aug 5, 2007
Images Symphoniacal Theater Under Construction

Construction has officially begun! It will be the place where Symphoniacal performances can be heard, (and eventually seen). If you have a Second Life installed, click here to visit. If…

Aug 7, 2007
Music Version 6.31 Now Available

I made a mistake and saved over the session file, and it set me back a few versions. So, using the MP3 I had of the most recent version, I…

Aug 20, 2007
Blog Get a (Second) Life!

I recently got in a discussion about Second Life (a virtual world in which you can live, work, and play) because I just got into it a couple weeks ago.…

Aug 30, 2007
Blog Selling Virtual Things

My cousin, Steve Metze, asked me how one could make money selling virtual things. Well, the entire Second Life economy is a lot like the US economy, only it’s based…

Sep 4, 2007
Blog 2000 Honda Civic Gas Mileage

I bought a slightly used 2000 Honda Civic in October of 2002, and at the time it only had 32,000 miles on it. I was increasingly aware of the coming…

Sep 18, 2007
Blog Sasha Metze (2002-2007)

We buried our cat, Sasha, today. She was about five years old, independent as can be, and only had one kitten (Spot, who lives with Erin and me). I’ll spare…

Sep 30, 2007
Blog Why I Miss Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle’s show was absolutely brilliant for the first couple seasons because he got to be open about humor with complete disregard for race. It allowed for some truly historic…

Oct 9, 2007
Articles Global Temperatures and Human Activity

I recently got into another discussion about global warming, and the person I was talking to said they weren’t convinced that humans were the cause of it. Though it’s just…

Oct 15, 2007
Articles A “Cool Heads” Global Warming Discussion

Or, lets say that we are NOT the cause of global warming. Then that frees us of the burden of having to correct it, right? Wrong. Even if we're not the cause of it, it's happening anyway. So, doesn't it seem like a good idea to plan for the future?

Oct 25, 2007
Articles You Can’t Waste a Worthless Vote

I know how this is going to make me look to some people, but I just stop reading certain emails when I realize it’s their attempt to convince me that…

Nov 17, 2007
Music Version 6.4 “Dinosaur” Now Available

Added: “Ocean Whispers” from Pirates of the Caribbean by Klaus Badelt – Just felt like it fit nicely and gave it a little more darkness without adding too much melody…

Nov 26, 2007