This last week, I’ve had the joy of moving. I don’t mean to be sarcastic, I’ve been pretty excited to reach this stage of the process. Two weeks ago, we sealed up the shipping container filled with our posessions, and we started driving out of Seattle towards Minneapolis. After a week of crashing with friends and then on an air mattress at our new apartment, we were pretty stoked to get our shipping container back and have all of our things again. Continue reading
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One usually doesn’t have to go too far before finding blog posts decrying slacktivism, or the modern trend of low-effort internet activism. Whether these actions are sharing the Kony video, wearing a plastic bracelet, changing one’s social media profile image or texting to donate a small amount to charity, they are often decried as not being well thought out and just another way for privileged people to feel better about their status. Continue reading
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Last week was (finally) my big moving week, and it culminated with our 1,697 mile road trip to the Twin Cities. The first third of our trip was filled with heavy rain and snow pelting our car, and the rest of the trip was marked by very heavy winds. While we were able to drive through the weather just fine, we learned in both cases that the driver’s window doesn’t seal well, and we had to work pretty hard to hear our music and radio shows properly.
As I was staring down the highway before us, I thought of this as a good metaphor for living in the new uber-connected world. It can be very difficult to hear the proverbial signal through the noise when we are constantly connected to Twitter, Facebook, RSS, Pinterest, Reddit, Stumbleupon, and you get my point. Continue reading