Monthly Archives: November 2009

i’m getting old or cheap — or both

[vent mode] I just bought a ticket to join friends to see Thiev­ery Cor­po­ra­tion at the 9:30 Club in Jan­u­ary for (plus 10.50 in #$@! ser­vices charges). It has been some time since I’ve pur­chased tick­ets for a live [music] show, but damn! $40?  I could see if it were in an arena with a crew …

November 27, 2009 – 6:44 pm | By matthew | Posted in business | Tagged , | Comments (2)

you can’t please everyone

Yes, I’m talk­ing to you Pres­i­dent Obama. You know, I really appre­ci­ate that Obama is will­ing to lis­ten to dif­fer­ent points of view to find  solu­tions to prob­lems, but — and I may be alone on this one — Obama needs to stop try­ing to pacify every nook and cranny of var­i­ous polit­i­cal cir­cles and push …

November 27, 2009 – 4:15 pm | By matthew | Posted in business | Tagged | Comments (0)

a pleasant surprise

At least for me, one of the prob­lems of hav­ing so much music on my Zune (yes I use a Zune, and not an iPod) is that I often for­get what I have. The upside, how­ever, is that I’m often pleas­antly sur­prised by a track while lis­ten­ing in shuf­fle mode. On my drive into work …

November 27, 2009 – 3:15 pm | By matthew | Posted in business | Tagged | Comments (0)

just one word

Ugh!

November 27, 2009 – 2:48 pm | By matthew | Posted in business | Tagged | Comments (0)

happy thanksgiving

save room for dessert!

November 26, 2009 – 5:20 pm | By matthew | Posted in business | Tagged | Comments (0)

iverson retires

I was on the fence about Allen Iver­son for a num­ber of years. There was no ques­tion that he was one of the most tal­ented play­ers in recent his­tory. My pri­mary issue was off-the-court behav­ior and act­ing as a respectable role model. How­ever, like with many peo­ple and issues in our lives, my issues with …

November 26, 2009 – 4:32 pm | By matthew | Posted in business | Tagged | Comments (0)

opening my mental junk drawer

I might be spread­ing myself to thin, but though I’ve been pour­ing a lot of my time into devel­op­ing my craft as a pho­tog­ra­pher, there are so many other things that make me tick.I have become increas­ingly inter­ested in social media, com­puter tech­nol­ogy and web design. Also, to know me is to under­stand I LOVE …

November 26, 2009 – 3:05 am | By matthew | Posted in business | Tagged | Comments (0)