I write at least one article every single day. As I tend to do most of my writing on three different websites, and write so often, I think it’s easier if I just link to my profiles on each of those sites. A full list of my articles will be on each one.
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By now you probably already know the terrible details of the shooting at a midnight show of “The Dark Knight Rises” out in Aurora, Colorado–the number of the dead, the wounded, the rounds of ammunition that the suspect was able to purchase legally, etc.
The shooting also took the life of a young woman who isn’t so dissimilar to me, Jessica Ghawi (pen name Jessica Redfield). I’ve written more about her here, but how sad it is that the world has been robbed of ever seeing the fruition of what looked to be a bright future–not only from her, but from all the other victims, too.
I went to a movie recently after the shooting. It wasn’t “The Dark Knight Rises” (I’m not a huge Batman fan), but, in a hopeful sign, two consecutive showings of that movie were sold out and the theater was packed. There were even some kids having a birthday party. Aside from one county police officer who walked out of the lobby as we walked in, I didn’t notice any heightened security. But people were still enjoying movies. We have to keep doing that. If we don’t, the shooter wins. Fear wins. Terror wins.
Simply put, that can’t happen.
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This is a really interesting site: vizualize.me, a place that allows you to either import your LinkedIn information or build your resume up from scratch and then have it visualized as a clean, colorful info graphic. I went in and had fun with it, creating a nice cool-colored graphic about my experiences and education to date.
Click this button to check out my vizualize.me profile:
The site is still in beta and one feature I would really like to have, Export as PDF, is not yet available. But for now, it’s nice to put in all your information and have it shown to you visually. It helps you realize how much you’ve done and what’s to come in the future. If you choose to sign up and start visualizing your experiences, use my referral link!
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I now have two gigs going where I can write about sports! Aww yeah! First of all I am with the Yahoo Contributor Network as a featured contributor in the sports category. I already have one article up over there.
Second of all I write about the Bruins for Rant Sports and have two dispatches so far.
I look forward to writing more for both these great sites in the future and getting more experience with them.
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My friend Vicky told me about this on Twitter and I just had to say something about it. With baseball season around the corner, and baseball fantasy leagues set to fire up soon, CBS wants to distinguish its leagues from its competitors in order to gain new participants, more market share, improve their bottom line, et cetera. Okay, that makes enough sense to me. CBS may also recognize that women like to play fantasy sports too. (Said the commissioner and current second-place-holder of her fantasy hockey league.) How do you get more women to participate in fantasy?
Why, make a special standalone app called “Baseball Boyfriend,” of course! (Side note: If you really want to get irked, check out all the egregious spelling errors on this page!)
Baseball Boyfriend, which is available for $2.99, basically takes the idea of creating an entire fantasy roster and distills it down to picking one player. He is your baseball boyfriend, you see, and when he plays, he can accumulate points for you. But if things sour between you two, you can break up with him and pick a new baseball boyfriend. Select a baseball boyfriend using a “little black book” and keep track of him in an interface designed to look like a teen girl’s diary, down to the handwriting font and puffy heart doodles in the margin. There’s also a way to look at all your exes and how long you went with them, each of them dotted with stylized hearts and skulls.
You have to be part of a CBS fantasy league to use Baseball Boyfriend because it imports your stats and such, so it does seem a little redundant: why not just keep track of your favorite players in your normal league? Do women have to be reeled in with this cheesy gimmick that one blogger likened to the old board game Dream Date? No! We’re perfectly capable of using the same fantasy leagues as everyone else and that is that.
But seriously, those spelling errors just look even worse in the unusually large font CBS uses on that site.
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I’m glad this restaurant reopened. It’s right in my neighborhood and I really like it.
I LOVED this story. It is such a good idea when you read the specifics and it’s very eco-friendly, plus the animals are adorable.
This brought back pleasant memories of interning with the food section of Creative Loafing.
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