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Where have I been, and where am I going. Good questions, I�m glad you asked. I have been all around the region with my radio show. Where am I going? Worldwide Baby!!!
That is correct, not only did I stream last week�s radio show over the net from dongle, but word spread quickly and several friends from far away tuned in for the show. I think I am the first DJ at my campus radio station to get a request from Orange City, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska. For those of you not in the know, I have a show from 10 PM to 1 AM every Thursday night. I like to have guests come in and play some guitar or just hang out usually. I try not to talk too much, but you never know when I might get caught up on some editorial tangent between songs. If you are by a computer thursday evenings feel free to listen.
V-Day weekend was very fun for me and my favorite girl, Becca. Not victory day, Valentines Day. Or, as my roomate likes to call it, Singles Awareness Day.
Meme�s are everywhere. It is mildly interesting to watch the rise and fall in popularity of certain products. Disturbing and annoying memes like reality TV are very large scale and quite obvious. Yet, there are fads which are just as pervasive in society but do not get as much attention. For instance, the Nalgene water bottle has attained an ubiquitous level of popularity in our society, or at least the society that I am exposed to. I see many of my peers with these water bottles and I myself have one. The Nalgene bottle has become as much of a symbol of personal identity as Fossil watches and Oakley sunglasses for a portion of this generation. I first heard about these water bottles from Becca, and she gave me a purplish/blueish one as a christmas gift 2 years ago. Before that I had never heard of them, then all of a sudden, last summer everyone had one. The popularity of this product grew swiftly and quietly. The craziest part about the entire phenomenon is that the product is so dirt simple. A water bottle that is nearly indestructible and made from translucent colored plastic. The simplicity of this product is likely the reason for it�s wide based popularity.
Speaking of the strengths of simplicity, all of you who have any uncertainty of what the internet is, or more specifically what it is not, should read this article. I found it very enlightening for the way it puts into words a concept that is continually abstracted by all who claim the right to expound upon it.