Archive for July, 2009

Revisiting A Hole In My Heart

July 19th, 2009 by jason

One of the reasons I love the fact that I’ve kept this blog going for over 4 years now is that I can go back and read things I wrote before and see how my thoughts/perspective have changed.
A very recent example: I re-watched the movie A Hole In My Heart — which I still consider [...]

Living Underground

July 18th, 2009 by jason

It seems that if we want to move to live on other planets, the surface is probably the worst place to live. On the surface you have to deal with weather, atmosphere (or lack of), possibly solar radiation, dangerous dust (which inspired me to write this), etc.
If we’re going to plan on building colonies on [...]

AppHole

July 11th, 2009 by jason

I’ve been meaning to do a post about iPhone apps ever since I got it (… which was back in September 2008 or so…). But recently my friend Jolie and my sister both got iPhones so that’s a bit of a recent incentive.
I sort of plan on updating this as I find new apps and [...]

Beat It

July 11th, 2009 by jason

The other week in my post about Michael Jackson I made a terrible mistake! When I listed my three favorite Michael Jackson songs (“Thriller,” “Off The Wall,” and “Wanna Be Startin’ Something”) I left off my true favorite Michael Jackson song: “Beat It.”
I’m not sure why I omitted it. I think I was caught up [...]

Proof of ‘The Sexual Politics Of Meat’

July 10th, 2009 by jason

Last month’s Details magazine had a an article called “The Greatest Virginity Story Ever Told.” The story is about a 21-year-old guy with down syndrome who is a virgin and goes to Las Vegas to get laid.
What struck me, of course, was this guy’s tendancy to objectfy women by comparing them to food. Some choice [...]