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Armchair Sociology

What I Learned When I Had to Move Apartments in a Hurry

Moving day headaches are no fun. Here are 4 tips you can start using NOW to make sure your next move goes smoothly, whether you’re relocating to a new city or just across the street.

By Justin, 5 yearsJanuary 29, 2018 ago
The STBD Cast from Season 4
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The Life and Death of the Web’s Longest-Running Sitcom, Something to Be Desired

In September of 2003, before the launch of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or MySpace — before you could watch a video on your iPod, much less on your cell phone — the first episode of a brand new, so-called “web series” was uploaded to the Internet. The writer-director of this web Read more…

By Justin, 10 yearsSeptember 22, 2013 ago
Armchair Sociology

8 Ways to Lead a More Interesting Life

Facebook is making us boring. Our perpetual digital connectivity has warped our minds into believing that others are hanging on our every word… even when those words are all about our allergies, our retail woes, our opinions about pop culture, politics, and other inanities. In other words, the very stories Read more…

By Justin, 12 yearsApril 13, 2011 ago
Armchair Sociology

10 Questions You Should Ask Yourself More Often

Life is short. We’re busy. Things happen. And then we die. In the meantime, here are 10 questions you should ask yourself more often, so you don’t end up running in place between now and then. What did the 18 year-old me think the current me would be doing? What Read more…

By Justin, 12 yearsOctober 11, 2010 ago
Social Media

What I Learned by Reading Everything

Last week, Ian M. Rountree and I started Read It All Week, a challenge to read everything we were subscribed to — especially all the blogs we so easily subscribe to, but never actually absorb.  We did this for two reasons: To reconsider why we subscribe to certain kinds of Read more…

By Justin, 13 yearsJuly 26, 2010 ago
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5 Good Reasons to Blog Every Day… and 5 Good Reasons Not To

I prefer to blog 5 times a week.  It keeps me connected to the fishbowl in a way that blogging intermittently would not.  And since a combination of travel, weather and the holidays have derailed my normal blogging schedule these past few weeks, I’ve learned a few first-hand lessons about Read more…

By Justin, 13 yearsFebruary 17, 2010 ago
Armchair Sociology

The Death of Fun

Remember the ’80s?  Those were my formative years, so their influence is hard to shake, but I can’t help but feel like the ’80s were the last time in Western culture when fun was generally acceptable. I grew up reading comic books like Batman and Spider-Man, and watching cartoons like Read more…

By Justin, 13 yearsOctober 27, 2009 ago

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