Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Why I hate Wal-Mart
I was doing my daily news browsing online today and I saw a story on the Palladium Item website that really made me mad. It’s the story of a small, privately owned grocery store in a small town in Indiana that’s closing down partly because Wal-Mart is moving in 4 miles down the road. At…
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An unusual weekend
This weekend began like most any other weekend. Kristen, her brother, a friend of ours and I spend a little while trying to figure out what we were going to do Friday night. After going out to get something to eat we drove to Eaton Ohio to Taffy’s, a coffee bar on the main drag.…
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April Fools Day Tricks
It’s that time of year and I like to prank people just as much as the next guy. However, I’m a little dry in the idea department this year. Do any of you have some ideas for great tricks? Post them as comments!
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Return of the Mac
I found this great article about the Return of the Mac. It’s a good read for any of you that just don’t "get" the whole Mac thing or why anyone uses Macs.
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Constructing a well-rounded drum set
At one time I was really into drums. I was up on what the best and worst items were, what characteristics a drum set had to have in order to be considered a good drum set and how much one could expect to pay for that set. Well, that was a long time ago. Now,…
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Why do people hate other people?
I understand that there are always going to be people that are not happy no matter what happens in their life. I can even understand that sometimes people are going to be in a bad mood and say something bad about a person that has "wronged" them. What I don’t understand is why some people…
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Some site updates
I’ve been making some updates to the site that I’ve been putting off for a while. My Portfolio has been sitting untouched for far too long and I finally decided to try and get it updated. I’m very happy with it now. If you take a look you’ll notice that I’ve added lots of new…
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Announcing PhpDwgallery
I’ve been a website developer for around 7 years, and while I love graphic design, one of my not-so-obvious loves is PHP programming. I’ve been writing PHP for around 2 years now and I’ve learned a lot of things. One of the biggest learning experiences was the process of developing the Photo Gallery for this…
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Back to School
Nearly two years ago I graduated from the Purdue University programs here in Richmond. My experience with their programs was pretty wonderful. The program was fairly new so there weren’t very many other students in the program when I started. Each sememster there were more and more students coming into the Computer Graphics Technology program…
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Kong is King
If you were a big fan of the Lord of the Rings films you’re probably familiar with who Peter Jackson is. I became very interested in learning about Peter Jackson after seeing the films simply because of the quality he was able to produce even though he hadn’t done very many big budget movies in…
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