A RECENT HISTORY IN IMAGES

Been a little lazy with my posts recently. What’s new in my life?

• School’s out for the summer.
• I decided to start a Photo-A-Day dealio which hopefully I can keep up with.
• I’m addicted to Youtube. Check out ‘happyslip’, ‘kevjumba’, ‘valsartdiary’, and ‘deansanta35′!
• I’ve started working out regularly. Mmm cardio..
• I start work next week.

5 songs on my iPod:

1. “Kissing Families” - Silversun Pickups
2. “Cupid’s Chokehold” - Gym Class Heroes (bad song, i know)
3. “Superstition” - Stevie Wonder
4. “Little Sister” - Queens of the Stone Age
5. “Diamonds on my Damn Chain” - Fabulous (for Dave)

QOTD: What is your perfect summer?

So after having a conversation with my friend Dave about how he got shafted from signing up for classes, I found out:

I am good friends with Dave,
who is a DePaul classmate of Elaine,
my “cousin” & childhood friend,
whose mom is friends with my mom.

Which reminds me how:

I lived at Bromley Hall for one year of college,
and one of my neighbors was a friend of my cousin.

That same cousin is in a sorority at ISU, and a friend of mine 
from high school is in the same one at Depaul. They met at a party in Chicago.

Looking through one of my friend’s facebook pictures,
I spot someone I know in the background of a picture.

Small world phenomenon is so…. weird.

Me = Awake again. Really need to sleep but can’t. Which led to making:

10 Things to Do – Summer Edition

1. Get into Shape.
   Start running / biking. Start lifting. Don’t be lazy.
2. Work at Motorola.
   Be productive part of my group.
3. Take a picture every day.
   Maybe upgrade some of my gear, budget permitting.
4. Take some Art classes?
   Time permitting.
5. Hang out with my friends.
   The killer B’s: BBQ. Bowling. Beach. Wii Boxing. Bilinear transformations.
6. Root, root, root for the Cubbies!
   ‘Nuff said. Rich Hill for Cy Young!
7. Chill at home.
   Help out the fam with chores, babysitting, and errands
8. Work on my Website(s).
   deanosaur.com, sigphis.org
9. Learn stuff.
   Cooking. Playing guitar. Cutting my own hair. Card tricks. Etc.
10. The Miscellaneous Stuff.
    Read. Watch movies. Go to concerts. Volunteer. Something productive.

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I recently read an article in the IEEE Spectrum about how the internet has become a portal for us to reveal our identities, and how our internet profiles sometimes misconstrue who we really are. To quote the article: ”In all this confusion and obfuscation about identity, the question arises: On the Internet, who are you? As one of my friends recently commented, you leave an electronic slime trail behind you as you creep through cyberspace. Who does Google think you are? How about Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and so forth? Whether you like it or not, you are creating a résumé on the Net—one that will stay with you for a long time.”

For me at least, I would like people to know who I think I am. I know a lot of young people like doing those stupid surveys with questions like “What side of the heart do you draw first?” or “Can you dive without plugging your nose?” or “What color is your razor?” and most importantly “Describe your perfect summer,” but I hate those things and think they are usually stupid, superficial, and self defeating. Me, I wrote a list about myself tonight. It’s sorta a poem. But I don’t want to call it that. I felt like just writing a list, but making it more structured and English-y. I don’t know where the idea came from, it somehow was formulated from my laying down on my futon and trying to sleep. Maybe I want to better know who I am as a person and how I fit into the grand scheme of things. Maybe I was just bored. Anyhow, here it is. It’s not done yet (I think), but check it out if interested:

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