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Monster zucchini

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Fresh from our garden. Pencil for scale.

Fireworks/carnival

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I’ve had a ‘blog’ for quite some time now. However, I never was able to accurately define a direction for the blog, or to write cohesive enough entries. Much like my thoughts, my posts were tangential ramblings that failed to engage in thoughtful dialogue.

I find it difficult to consistently find topics to write about, mostly due to the fact that I am a fulltime college student who is not pursuing a degree in underwater basket weaving. Further, I feel that the bigger issues are better covered by syndicated blogs, such as the folks over at engadget.com, lifehacker.com, or Om Malik’s blogging network, GigaOm.com.

While I have been searching for direction for the blog, I realized that I often find obscure videos, links, and posts that most people I share with. Yet, I find mindless link forwarding rather pointless unless it fosters some sort of debate.

I found a direction for my blog while watching a rerun of the Family Guy episode “Stewie B. Goode”. During the episode, Peter gets a job at the local news station, and becomes the star host of What Grinds My Gears, a segment in which he rants about things that bother him.

The light switch went off, and I had it. The direction of this blog will be a running commentary of things that don’t align with my view of the world.

If I feel like it, I will offer solutions, but I won’t hold myself to that.

This “My Way or the Highway” approach will not bring the bees, I realize this. However, I do hope that if I complain enough, someone will eventually oil the squeaky wheel.

To close of this celebration of rebirth, I quote one of my all time favorite books, Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Toolbooth”

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

Going to restructure the site and find a new direction for the blog.