… cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

The quote in the beginning of this post is from The Art of War.  Art of War has always been important to me.  I explained it to someone last night by saying “Christians look to the Bible for advice. I read Sun Tzu.”

It may time again to pull steaks, break camp and journey to the next destination.  This time is a little bit different then in the past though.  I have moved around quite a lot between 1994 and 2004.  From Colorado to New Hampshire; Washington, and back; then to Boston, down the mid Atlantic seaboard to Virginia, where I sojurned in a few different cities.

The only things I ever took with me was whatever I could fit in whatever transportation I could dig up.  Each time I packed up and left, it was typically to run away from some problem that I may, or may not have caused.  I always found greener pastures and brighter shores, and I always ended up learning new methods that women use to break a man’s heart.  Each time I landed in a new place, I was able to take everything I learned in the past and use it to grow my experience and wisdom.  It was a very exiting and constructive way to spend my twenties, I think. More »

I have spent more time building out this blog, and no time writing in it.  I got a sweet new template, that I did almost no customization to, and installed a fancy-shmancy Twitter widget that doesn’t always work.  It’s kind of like buying a big, fancy flower pot and letting the dandelions take over.  Sitting down to write recreationally just doesn’t feel like it’s time well spent to me.  Furthermore, having a blog with it’s own domain seems more serious, for some reason.  In the past I have blogged on Livejournal, SuicideGirls, Friendster and Myspace, however it was always to a specific audience.  Now it feels like I’m out there, without the comfort of top friends, for all the world to judge.  Plus I have two other blogs that I have much more reason to write in, and I don’t ever update those either.

I have been busy however.  I have projects I’m planning, projects I’ve started and projects to finish.  I also have a bit of a rant to go on about the company I started this year. More »

On May 3, 2003 I opened the doors of my first company.  Panic! was the brainchild of Marco Hyder, a Virginia Beach tattoo artist who I knew as a friend of some friends.  We had high hopes for the place, despite it being doomed from the very start.  Neither one of us knew much about running a business; not to mention the fact that it was quite possibly one of the most clusterfucked and unstable periods in my life.  The store was pretty cool though, and I learned a hell of a lot from it too. More »

I am proud to announce that the new Trypnotik Visual is now live and direct, at long last.  The story of it’s rebirth is long, and boring.  I was planning on writing a drawn-out, cheer-leading hooray all about how excited you are for me, and how this new Web site is going to change your life for the better.  I got to the end of the second sentence and realized that i had nothing to write about, and even if I did it would be the most dull string of lies that has ever been strung since the other guy from Wham tried picking up dudes in bars.

The future is way too uncertain for me to feel comfortable shaking my pom-pons at it.  I do however, have a specific issue regarding higher education. More »