Josh

Between Tumblr, Twitter, obsessively refreshing fivethirtyeight and CNN, texting and calling my friends, mostly Crush Girl, I didn’t have time to think about what was actually happening. When Barack Obama was announced as President Elect, the 44th President of the United States, the obsessive refreshing only continued. During the last phone call of the night, [...]

In my last post, I tried to avoid saying that voting for Obama was the right thing to do. I mean, it’s obvious how I feel about the guy, and how I feel about McCain, but I try not to say what’s right for everyone when it might not be. However, I’ve been talking a [...]

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
Without access to true chaos, we’ll never have true peace.
Unless everything can get worse, it won’t get any better.
This is all stuff the Mommy used to tell him.
She used to say, “The only frontier you have left is the world of intangibles. Everything [...]

I’m a fairly intelligent person; alright, I think I’m damn intelligent, but that’s just my ego talking here. I’ll pretend I’m modest and say that I’m fairly intelligent, leaving room for error. I understand a lot of things, things come easily to me, I read or hear something and I remember it; I read physics [...]

Note: I originally started writing this post awhile ago, possibly a couple of years. It’s been in my drafts list for a really long time. I’ve updated the post a bit.
Note #2: I am NOT, repeat NOT, posting an online personal ad for dating. I’ve posted online ads for friends, but not dating. I do [...]

Yay I got an extra day on the internet this week! I’m working on getting the internet at home again (a new ISP most likely) and until I make my decision on which is the best, because to be honest with you, I don’t know what our situation is going to be (whether we move [...]

As I said in my previous post announcing the new design, it was only about 85% complete when I first launched it. Well, now I’m proud to present the final version of joshanastasia.com.
When I started to finish the design, it took on a life of it’s own, as most things that I start tend to [...]

I know what you’re thinking about now…interesting death facts? No, I’m not obsessed with death, I’m obsessed with numbers and there are a lot of interesting number facts that just happen to be related to deaths, and or murder, assassinations, and attempted murders/assassinations.

The new look is about 85% complete, but I got sick of the previous design and decided to put it up anyway. You’ll notice it’s not as fancy as previous designs, but that’s ok because that’s what I was going for.

When I started going out to eat on my own, after I had my own job, I learned the basic rules of tipping. It always amazes me how cheap people are, even if they get the best of service. It makes me sad that I live in a country where even the best of work [...]

Common’s seventh studio album is set to be released later this month on July 31st. “Finding Forever”, like 2005’s “Be”, is produced by Kanye West. As with most of Common’s albums, the lyrics are what drive me to listen to the tracks, and it’s no different with “Finding Forever.”
“Finding Forever” carries with it [...]

I just want to drop a quick note and say “Hey, I’ve put up a new design!”
I’m going to be slowly rolling out some new stuff for the site, but not anytime soon, and you’ll see some really big changes in the next couple of weeks (hopefully). I’ll post a real post…later tonight! [...]

My buddy David has finally launched 6pins. 6pins is a forum for web developers. I’m relatively active over there, so go check it out. James Mathias is also active over there and has written about it on his site. Oh, and the lovely Kristin is over there as well.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I previously wrote about Darfur as part of my Things You Should Know About series. I forget sometimes that many people still don’t know what is going on in Darfur, despite the push by George Clooney and other celebs to get the [...]

New York and Massachusetts, plus 10 other states, are suing the E.P.A. “for failing to properly do its job,” citing that “the Clean Air Act requires the E.P.A. to impose limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted by new cars.”  I’ll be interested to see the outcome, considering that the Bush administration claims [...]

A new Open Source template is up and available for download.

Dark Matter, which for a bit I thought was bullshit, because there had to be an explanation for other gravitational forces besides an unknown, unseen force called Dark Matter. I was wrong and I’m not afraid to admit that. Now, we have proof that Dark Matter exists, and this is a huge [...]

The U.S. Census Bureau released a list of the smartest cities in the U.S.  They measured it by how many people living in the cities had at least a B.A.

On Saturday, CNN has a program discussing the poverty issue with Bill Clinton. Here’s the article. The program starts at 8pm EST.

In an effort to curb the effects that carbon dioxide has on the environment, the governator and the state legislature passed a bill that would cut carbon dioxide emissions 25% by 2020. This is by far one of the most advanced policies set in place in the U.S.
It would make California the [...]