Dissatisfied politicians and wonks (mostly non-Democrats) are busily opining President Obama’s failure to even attempt the bipartisanship he had promised. These folks may be right to some extent, but certainly not to the extent that would warrant all of their whining. It is clear why they moan, however: their concept of bipartisanship is ridiculous. They [...]

Most of you in the non-architecture world might know a little about architecture. For example, the cool building you pass by everyday that is a milemarker on your route or maybe the Disney Concert Hall in LA by Gehry. A lot of what you see everyday is corporate designed architecture that follows an established formula [...]

This will be a short post but this has been setting in my drafts folder for too long. Windows 7, there is a free beta, or at least there was. I’ll have to check and see if the beta is still open. Though I have several keys so if you want to try it out [...]

What is Fight Cake? The first rule of Fight Cake is “Don’t Talk About Fight Cake”. Wait… That’s not right. Okay now you are asking yourselves “Really what is Fight Cake?” And to that I say “The key to relationship bliss”. “Yeah, right” you say. Before you dismiss me, hear me out… Where do couples [...]

I will constantly be playing around with my theme and making it better. So, tonight I played around with the CSS and made my design more monochromatic. Don’t worry you can still get the old look back. Scroll to the bottom of the page in the footer there are two links, one says Orig. Style [...]

In light of the verbal sparring over the correct procedure for righting the errant American economy, I think it is beneficial to point out which are good reasons for holding a particular political position, and which are bad reasons. The title of this post foreshadows my conclusion rather obviously, but I will explain myself more [...]

The greatest B-movie actor of all time, Bruce Campbell, was in Edinburgh, Scotland this week promoting his new film, ‘My Name is Bruce’. I went to the show, mostly to see the man himself–but the movie turned out to be worth it too. Now don’t get me wrong–this is by no means a great film. [...]

Last night I saw Paul Blart: Mall Cop. The only thing that kept me from walking out of this film, and I’m using that term loosely, is that we were eating dinner and had a pitcher of beer to drink. We went to the Fork and Screen in Buckhead there you can drink and get [...]

Welcome to life:/straightup.com! Take a look around, kick the tires play with the switches and dongles. It’s still in beta and I know there is still some problems but considering that I have done it all myself I think think it is going quite well. I know that in addition to the design still evolving [...]