I am a computer nerd, and beyond that I am a college student. Because of these two factors, I have little space for things and am always at the computer. Logically, therefore, I use my beloved PowerMac G4 Tower (Nadia) to listen to music, as it saves me the space a stereo would take and the computer is always on when I am around.
Christmas In April: Slated for 2015
Call me crazy, but I always thought that the Christmas season—which of course revolves around the Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ—probably ought to stick to the four weeks before Christmas, and then jingle around until perhaps New Years. This seems reasonable, as that’s about as long as the Advent period runs before Christmas and the recovery runs after.
Board Out Of Our Minds
As my project for this Government 103 class, I was asked to visit a government body in action. My selection for this project was to visit the Fairfax County School Board at their bi-monthly meeting on November 15. There were many reasons this was my choice, not the least of which being that I was a student in the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) system for over six years and, to be frank, hated it.
Airborne Carcinogens and the Little Black Box
Well there are two issues on my mind today that I’d like to rant about, the first being airborne carcinogens. For those who need to study their vocabulary, airborne means “in the air”. A carcinogen is a substance that has been identified as a cause or potential cause of cancer.
Those Underrated Bee Gees
Those who know me well know that my two favorite bands are the unlikely combination of Pink Floyd and the Bee Gees. Now surely, neither of these bands are well understood by the majority of my friends—as they are far too preoccupied with whatever pre-fabricated beats and hot-bodies they hear and see on MTV to worry about any music made before last year. This obsession with modern “music” bothers me quite a bit, because although certain modern bands are worth listening to (Matchbox Twenty, Wallflowers, Linkin’ Park, others) the fact is that older music was more consistently memorable, interesting, and most importantly REAL.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.