George Bush has once again given the same speech to a throng of military personal at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He stood before the settled and enthusiastic (or at least noisily patriotic) Midshipspeople and repeated the same message he has gone on with since we first didn’t find WMD in Iraq. […]
You may or may not recall that I won free lunch at Qdoba a while back. It also so happens that two weeks later, I won a similar drawing at Noodles. How can one person be so lucky, you ask? i don’t know. And that’s not the point of the story.
So […]
If you don’t know me, and even if you do, there are probably some names you don’t really recognize. I’ll try to list them here and give a quick explanation of who they are.
-Me aka Michael Braun - I’m a graduate student in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Check […]
This entry originally written November 26, 2005.
So around 5:30, my phone vibrates and says I have a new voicemail message. I didn’t feel the phone right, but that’s not surprising because there is such bad signal in this area, I often have missed calls. It makes me worry about the whole structure of […]
I made it to La Crosse with my sister just fine and dandy, set up my wireless router, and am here in the livingroom, surrounded by aunts and uncles (okay, only one aunt, but you get what I’m saying). Still, it’s pretty boring here. I tried to fall asleep for a while, but […]
I think Thanksgiving is a really inconvienent holiday. And I guess it isn’t even a holiday; there’s nothing holy about exploitation of a native people. Nevertheless, tomorrow I will pile into my car and drive all the way to LaCrosse for two days, then drive all the way back across the state, and […]
A couple of weeks ago, I was in class talking to Megan (I think I mentioned her earlier, a person I have two classes with this semester, not the girl I dated for 3.5 years) and Krista. Somehow we got on the subject of my album Unstoppable Cool. Blowing my mind, they said […]
So come Friday night, I was done working on stuff with my website. Dan and Andres returned from their late night exam around 8:45, desiring to go out. Andres seldom goes out, though I am unclear why that is. Maybe because his girlfriend doesn’t go out? I don’t know. More […]
I decided to make a new layout for my website. I wasn’t really happy with the old layout anymore. It was too simple and too restrictive. So with a little help from Tony, telling me what an image map is, I was able to make the whole website run off of one […]
So this evening I attended a screening of a documentary against Wal-Mart called Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices. I saw it with Brittany and her roommate Kelly. Now, I don’t see a lot of documentaries, but the ones I do see I usually like. For example, I really […]
Children’s literature is an amazing thing. There have been several instances in my life when a simple children’s book can make me feel a lot more power in words and learn a lot more about how to write than an ‘adult’ book. Some of my favorite books in the world are supposedly for […]
Through some department, or something, a grant has been set up for instructors who start using Podcasting technology in the classroom here at UW. This is very exciting for Apple and is a great chance for us to start meeting with departments and telling them all about how awesome Apple technology can make podcasting […]
It’s difficult to title a post with something obscure and about which you have little to talk about and then expect to sustain the reader’s interest. In this post, I have more to say about the GRE and some new shoes I bought than I do about the subject in the title. Still, […]
First off, maybe it’s time to get a new banner for my website. The spooky one I put up for Halloween is kind of freaking me out, and what with it already being Nov. 7, I guess a change wouldn’t be such a bad thing at all.
So, the story I have been working on […]
I don’t believe that people ever get jobs after they graduate from college. I have never seen someone graduate and actually get a job. Dan’s sister graduated from Tufts in Boston and couldn’t find a job. She ended up working for their aunt in Virginia. I have two jobs now and […]