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"Growing Up" a dissorder we submit ourselves into

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:22:48 -0400

These last few months through my adventure of another school have been a mental struggle, not because school has been overly demanding, but more from not being able to see my family. I have realized that there is a price to be paid when trying to seek what many call "success". You get stuck in "growing up" mode and everything around you is changing at a fast pace and before you realize what is happening you have missed out on the important aspects of life. Family keeps going, relatives have babies, and the life you where once surrounded with is no longer as accesible as it once was. I know that personally this is a very hard concept to grasp. You almost wish that when you leave that life should stop and when you return that life starts again, but in all truthfulness it doesn't. Most people change(I am an exception), little ones join the family, family events still take place, and that life keeps moving along. When you snap back into realty(if you ever do) and try to focus on your previous life arrangements it might be too late. You might be wondering where I am going with this, and you should be. I would just like people to stop,take a deep breath, and look around and make sure that you haven't lost touch with yourself and with your family. They are your roots and deserve much more then just a phone call and a letter once in a great while, and we sometimes forget this from the business that we create and the walls of stress and worries that have no meaning. I notice others around me and the abandonment of their families that they cause. Please remember your past and what you once loved. Those days you looked forward to spending with your family, have they turned into worrying about bills and other nonsense that you submitted yourself into? If you answer "Yes" it might be time to re-evaluate what you are doing with your life, and realize what really matters. It might be hard to give-up some channels on your TV or give up buying impressive clothes because you make yourself think that they matter and start making time for your family. You will not regret it...

the rambling will continue...

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Move over Hollywood!

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:43:01 -0400

Paranormal Activity is a must see! Not only was I impressed by the amount of fear that it put into me. I was also impressed that the independent film was on a budget of $15,000 or so and kept my attention more then any other Hollywood horror flick has.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179904/

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Get full use out of your Mac- Alarm Clock

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:44:22 -0500

Here is a useful application that I use to keep me from having to buy an alarm clock and clutter up my living space. It is an alarm clock application that can be setup to wake you up slowly by using a default alarm clock "beep!" or you can set it to wake you up with your favorite tunes in Itunes. The other great feature with this alarm clock application is that allows you to set multiple alarms and the days that you would like those alarms to go off on to help you with your busy schedule.

You can download this application at:
http://www.robbiehanson.com/alarmclock/

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Fresh Start

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:12:07 -0400

So it has been quite awhile since I have posted a blog, and quite a bit has changed since the last time I have been on here. First off I have lost about 30 pounds and feel the best I ever have. I have also decided to take a huge step in my life and send it spiraling in a new direction. I decided that my previous attendance at the University of Maine was fun but not really the greatest for what I wanted to do in Web Design for my career, so now I am living in Florida and attending Full Sail University. It has been quite a change but I am comfortably satisfied with it so far. Our schedules here run all hours of the day and range about 8 to 10 hours a day in class or labs, yes it is a very long time that you spend in class and is very demanding. This allows for students (such as myself) to gain a professional view and experience as one you would experience in this kind of industry that I would be going into after school, which is pretty damn exciting! I have been more focused on my work then I have ever been and feel that I am doing something that is worth while unlike what I was experiencing through taking meaningless classes that had nothing to do with my major at the University of Maine. I no longer have to worry about getting in a class that I would like to take to contribute to my major as well. Besides that I have been experiencing the Florida life and trying to soak in as much of that as possible in my short stay in Florida. Well Folks, its pretty late and time for me to hit my bed. Till I write again. Chow!

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Buzzword

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:13:08 -0400

Here is a really cool application that I found online and the best part, it's free! Have you ever wanted to show someone one of your papers and had the hassle of having to find your paper, send it to them and then hope that they will be able to open it? Well, thanks to Buzzword you can sign-up for a free accounts and store documents, share documents , edit documents, spell check and have most of the functionality that OpenOffice and the dreaded Microsoft Word offer in this online application. It's sleek appearance and layout makes this program extremely easy to use and is a great way to have your papers wherever you have Internet access. Check it out at www.buzzword.com.

BuzzWord

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On this road, but what for?

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:45:54 -0400

Sometime very recently I have come to the realization that I have been living for all of the wrong reasons. There comes a point in your life when you have to take a step back and look at what you are living for and when you really think about it, it can become very real and almost scary for a moment. When I finally came to my senses and actually did this I got something out of it that was much more then what I was looking for.

Lets take a step back for a second...

You may have been like me living your life to get everything that the economy/society/who the hell knows wanting to have money, the big house, the nice car, and all of that other material bull, but why? See, this is the part that I really had such a hard time answering myself.

Then came the scary part...

Do I want to live like this? Do I want to live my life chasing these material objects? Would I have lived a happy fulfilled life if I decided to strive for these "things"? When I asked myself this, there was no way that I could say that this would make for a happy and worthy life.

I really have come to believe that we buy all of these "things" and form our own prisons, stress, and something to convince ourselves that we are somehow bettering something that is bigger then ourselves. The fact is that we created this fake scenario for our board mind. There is so much more out there that this world has to offer and believe that I would much rather spend my life experiencing what this world has to offer. I would love to know that I have seen most of this world and have met some really interesting people over the years. This has much more to offer for your curious mind.

I want to keep writing but I have to jet. I'll keep you updated on this adventure called "Life"!

:-)

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My trip to California

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:20:49 -0400

I recently went out to San Francisco, California to visit my cousins Brian and Brandon. This spring break trip intended for bar hoping, lots of drinking, and getting to know my cousins better became much more then that. I got to see the golden gate bridge, Alcatraz and other exciting scenes that the beautiful city of San Francisco had to offer. But most of all I got to see the variety of people and the diverse society that resides there. I found that most of my life I have been living in a place were diversity is a matter of clothing, car’s, and other materialistic objects. Three years into my college career and this trip made me reaize how much that I have not discovered and learnt. Majoring as a New Media student at the University of Maine’s experimental New Media program where you are surrounded by nothing but Older Media really hit me through this trip. My parents have helped me immensely helping me with school bills making sure that when I left school that I would not have a pile of bills to deal with, now I am stuck with having to explain that I really don’t want to continue going to school here in Maine and would rather start over again schooling in California were I know I can gain much more and actually fulfill my career ambitions. This has left me in a rut and very confused with what I should do now… Will keep you posted.

Peace.

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My Digi.Art and Net.Art site.

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:13:36 -0500

Check it out at http://josephcolby.com/netart/portfolio/index.html.

I had to do some of these small projects to test out different forms of net.art.

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Shirt.Design

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:28:47 -0500

Wendy and I have came up with a new shirt design. Check it out at our new CafePress Store. Tell me what you think or if you like it enough then buy one!

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QotD: On The iPhone...

nobody@vox.com(americanstruggle) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:49:56 -0400

Over a million iPhones have been sold. Have you: bought one, considered it, or decided it's not for you?

Alright, here we go... The IPhone brings forth wonderful technology that is considerably different from any other mobile device and does it well, plus its an Apple product so you know it is a product with quality. I currently do not own an I Phone and am currently not considering buying one any time soon for the sole reason that there is only one mobile phone service that offers the IPhone. The service does not work the greatest in my area so there would be no point in me purchasing something that will not work where I live. If I lived in a different area then I would most definitely consider the IPhone, but at this moment am waiting for the IPhone to be offered on other mobile services or until Google releases there new mobile OS that will be offered on phones soon enough.

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