Triangle Life Science Center

Abandoned Buildings RTP: Triangle Life Science Center.

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Christmas Mix Volume 1

Good evening, special friend.
This day greets you with I found Brian’s Christmas Mix . Though you may not know this about me, I am a well-seasoned mix-maker, so I hope my first mix for a wide audience is a hit!  So if you’re tired of having an N’SYNC Christmas or you want to deviate from The Rat Pack Christmas Volume 1-34, download my mix. ‘Tis the season indeed, so rejoice!

First, click here and download Winter Mix, Volume, 1.

Now look at you! You’re in the 21st Century of Christmas. For optimal enjoyment, I suggest you listen to the entire mix all the way through. If you’re at work, put on some good headphones and enjoy 38 minutes of Winter tunes.

1) Run Run Rudolph - Chuck Berry
2) Baby Please Come Home For Christmas - Dion
3) The Christmas Waltz - Nancy Wilson
4) Christmas Kisses - Ray Anthony
5) Jingle Bell Rock - Wayne Newton
6) Little Jack Frost Get Lost - Frankie Carle & His Orchestra
7) Winter Wonderland - Peggy Lee
8)Snowfall / Snowfall Cha-Cha (Medley) - George Shearing/Billy May
9) Jingle Bells - Johnny Mercer
10) I’ll Be Home For Christmas - Bob Dylan
11) I Bought You Violets - Renzo Cesana
12) Just Like Christmas - Low
13) Baby It’s Cold Outside/I’ll Be Home For Christmas - Jackie Gleason And Jack Marshall
14) The Christmas Song - Ella Fitzgerlad
15) The Merriest - June Christy
16) Auld Lang Syne - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians

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It’s Beginning To Look A lot Like…

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Updates

I think I’ve slept in seven different bed the past seven nights. I am literally living out of my suitcase and it’s exhausting. I’m in Philadelphia for the APHA Conference for the next several days, and after working in a hotel for the past three years, I feel surprisingly at home staying in a hotel.

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My Sabbath

sabbath |ˈsabəθ|
noun
1 (often the Sabbath) a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jews from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday.

Elizabeth and I have started a new ritual for Sundays that we are basing off of the Shabbat, which is the Jewish observance of the Sabbath. Instead of resting on Saturday, like the Shabbat, we are going to rest on Sunday. And by rest, I mean really rest. There will be no cleaning, very limited electricity, and no traveling. After researching this, I was surprised to find that almost every religion and many secular groups observe some form of the sabbath.

I need more relaxation and more time to reflect. I’m realistic about the limitations of living completely free from transportation, communication, and work even if it is only for one day. I know that it will be hard to do this correctly, but we are going to give it our best shot.

With that said, this Sunday I will be traveling to Philadelphia. It’s a shame but it’s something I can’t control. Tickets were bought long ago and it’s the only day available. Oh well… Once I arrive to the hotel, my day of rest will begin!

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The Lost Generation

Via The Lost Generation

For people just starting their careers, the damage may be deep and long-lasting, potentially creating a kind of “lost generation.” Studies suggest that an extended period of youthful joblessness can significantly depress lifetime income as people get stuck in jobs that are beneath their capabilities, or come to be seen by employers as damaged goods.

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Twitter Experiment

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Let’s face it, twitter is a popularity contest and last night I decided to hang out with the cool kids. You know exactly who the cool kids are: the marketing whiz, the guru, the evangelist - the ever-present prophets of social media. I’ve been on twitter for about 6 months and… let’s face it, with only about 150 followers I’m the kid who’s still eating lunch alone in the corner. It was my time for a complete makeover, one worthy of it’s own TV show.

So last night I created a new twitter account with the hopes of hanging out with the cool kids. And there’s one thing I know about the cool kids: they follow a lot of people. I mean a LOT of people, sometimes up to 150,000. At 11pm, I created the account and started mass following around midnight. Before I went to bed, I was following almost 600 people. When I woke up at 7 this morning, I had almost 300 followers. I found out that hanging with the cool kids means tweeting about cool things like marketing, social media, networking, and SEO! SEO! SEO! (People love SEO for some reason.)

What I really wanted from this experiment was to see how long it would take to pass the current number of followers I have on my actual twitter account (150) by mass following and tweeting about popular subjects.The fact that I curated about 300 followers overnight may not be too impressive to some but if I were to do this every day, it could really add up. And add even more if I actually put considerable effort into it.

I’m not the first person to do this. Take for instance, Osen Komura, who followed 41,789 users in a month and had 7,847 users follow him. If Osen were to unfollow 40,000 people, he would seem to be a pretty popular twitter user, someone you might actually trust. I do believe many people have built a following on Twitter legitimately. Some because they are well known outside of the twitterverse, not because they are entertaining or helpful as a Twitter user. Others amass followers because they contribute a lot to Twitter and they are inherently fun to follow.

Even people like Robert Scoble, who previously suggested that it’s beneficial to follow many Twitter users because you gain more access to information and it shows that you’re listening and more open to communication or meeting people, are changing their opinions on the subject.

Honestly, I didn’t like hanging out with the cool kids at all! If I were truly following these people, I couldn’t stay up-to-date on what people were actually saying. And I don’t believe the cool kids can either. So if you want real online community, stay away from these people. And stay away from people who claim to be the saviors of  your small business woes or marketing experts and small biz PR gurus. And, please avoid people who want to evangelize social media. If any of you I just mentioned are reading this, you should know getting 124 auto-Direct Messages all saying the same thing is pretty annoying.

**A special thanks to Andy for helping me with this article.


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Living Roof

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*They even have a cool website

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Rain

The world makes its own music, but we rarely listen with native ears.

-The Quiet American

I’ve always been obsessed with sounds and recently I’ve become very interested in field recordings. For this one, I started with almost twelve minutes of audio, of which I think this is the most telling. So here is my first recording, unfiltered and recorded with a computer microphone.

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Sketches

Venturing back to my previous dreams of being an urban designer, I’ve decided to take these old sketches and digitize them using my new pen tablet.
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