Archive for the ‘People’ Category

Oh come on now…

November 4th is quickly approaching, and the final debate between Obama and McCain took place last night. Many people are still undecided, some refuse to vote, while others defend their candidate with an almost annoying enthusiasm. That being said, there are a few things that generally annoy me about people.
1. Single issue voters. OH COME [...]

Narratives vs. Blogs (not really)

Narrative:
* a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events
* the systematic recitation of an event or series of events
Blog
* a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
Like personal Twitter accounts, many blogs exist on the internet solely [...]

Drunken Fury (The Penn years) part 2

Looking around, it was your average drab dorm room. It being an Ivy League school, perhaps I expected plush carpeting, diamond chandeliers, and my own personal butler; it was not the case. It seems that no matter what the school, and no matter how much money you throw away to get that lousy piece of [...]

Drunken Fury (The Ordination and the first Fury) part 1

I turned to Ewald and said: “At least he will be the best wingman ever now”.
He turned to me with his typical half-smile half-scowl and retorted: “Yea, either that or he will be the biggest cock-block in the world”.
Imagine this scene: We are standing outside of a Christian Seminary surrounded by at least 200 priests [...]

Did you do your part?

Today was the PA primary. Did you do your part? It doesn’t matter if your candidate won or not, but the fact that so many people went out to vote is monumentally important for our nation, which has been historically weak in voter turnout.
The only thing that worries me is that we probably won’t [...]

PA Shackmeet at Korban’s

Friday night at the Korban apartment proved to be an epic event. This…is their story.

Shackmeet at Hershey Park

The day was Saturday the 20th of October, 2007. The event: a shackmeet of epic proportions.
It all started with ThomW’s post a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. The idea was simple: gather a group of Shackers that are local to the Pennsylvania area in a somewhat central location. That location [...]