December 2009
29 posts
Cities of this year
These numbers are in Metro Areas:
New York - 19,006,798
Los Angeles - 12,872,808
Washington, DC - 5,358,130
Boston - 4,522,858
Phoenix - 4,281,899
San Diego - 3,001,072
Denver - 2,506,626
Providence - 1,596,611
Salt Lake City - 1,115,692
Boise - 599,753
Provo - 540,820
Ogden - 531,488
Ft. Collins - 292,825
I’m going to stop there.
My travels this year.
Once I finished school in June, I made a goal of getting out of Utah at least once a month. I hope to continue this though at least May. But why not forever! Anyways, I figured it be interesting to compile all the places I’ve stopped.
My real traveling started with a nice trip to Oregon in June, but a quick jaunt to Nevada started me off.
May - Nevada
June - Oregon, Idaho
July...
Circle logic to fulfill my goals.
I thought of a good idea, thought it’d make a good new year resolution, proceeded to hate it because I thought that new year resolutions are cheesy, then proceeded to disregard last statement and just embrace it:
Often I don’t do things because I don’t have a reason to do it. Maybe this year I’ll make it a point to do something regardless of it having a reason to do it.
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Animal Collective - Brother Sport
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Heads Will Roll”
WatchIt is character and virtue that inspires wisdom and success. You have to have something of worth to believe in to do anything of value.
Eye Contact - NYTimes.com →
A presumably older woman considers eye contact. Of course, she puts the natural “things aren’t the way they once were” which she falls victim to. Thats really just an aspect of growing old.
However, she does bring up a good point. When I’m feeling ambitious (having a lot of energy) I often try to seek eye contact and continue it until the other person begins to feel...
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing...”
– Calvin Coolidge
(via fred-wilson)
I suppose this struck a chord with me because not only is it a good quote, but it is also inspiring to me to “Press On!” Hopefully, it isn’t inspiring because I struggle with it.
Parasite - Nick Drake
Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I & II)
My radio
I have created my own radio with the help of tumblr and streampad.
Both very cool product, and hopefully my music will live up to the technology.
Hope you enjoy. It can be reached at musecks.tumblr.com.
“I just hate knowing how many incompetent, lazier-than-I people are out there...”
– Devin Masters on being frustrated when on the job hunt.
Financing the fight against climate change →
Someones got to pay for it.
Spanish fly by Blondes
Almost sublime. Erleichda.
A look back
I did a little look back at my blog. It interesting to see my state of mind at the time. I also notice that this is my 500th post, so it is fitting for a look back.
Here is one of my favorites:
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Thursday | June 4, 2009 | 9:25 pm
Two weeks from the transition from working on great possibilities to working on the depressing realities.
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So far, so true. Interesting how that...
