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Why does everyone think I’m an asshole for not having a TV?
Perhaps my title has a bit of hyperbole, but it’s true! I don’t pay for cable and I don’t I have the 5 local channels in my apartment, and people plainly think I’m an asshole for it. They probably think I’m some neo-intellectual who is trying to enact some half-smart vision of what I might consider an enlightened existence. Why don’t I have a TV? When TV, as I had grown up to know it, disappeared in 2008 (antenna broadcasts were replaced by a mess of digital converter what-whoozels) I refused to pay $40 for the technology that enabled me to watch the shitty local programming I’d always gotten for free. Truth be told, I watch...
Read MoreHow photo filters are aging us
I was a 90′s kid. I spent my childhood decked out in Ninja Turtles garb and collecting baseball cards. These relics of the recent past often com to haunt our present as nostalgic reminders of who we once were, and by contrast how far we’ve come across the brief expanse of time. These are the kinds of things that age generations, everybody has their own “Ninja Turtles.” This decade’s “Ninja Turtles” is is far more subtle, but also much more pervasive: photo filters. The difference between my mid-nineties Turtles rampage and pocket photo filters is its widespread use. It’s affected our culture at every corner. How long until...
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I'm a web designer & front end developer for the ecommerce and web publishing company Juggle.com and writer for the music blog PlaybackSTL.com.
When I'm not scribbling wireframes, tweaking CSS, or trying to find yet-another way to describe sounds with words, I doodle, play guitar, try to write and kill zombies.