An Old Mix

I’ve been listening to a bunch of old CDs at work and popped this one in just now. It’s a mix I made senior year of high school. I’m now listening to the words, analyzing why I chose the songs I did. It’s like a mini-conversation with my 17 year-old self. “Like A Stone” – [...]

Landen’s Postcard – 5

New Victor and Landen: Landen’s Postcard. Unfamiliar with Victor and Landen? Here’s the first comic.

Advice for Job-Hunting College Grads

Last week, we put out a call for UMBC Underground writers. With the original 4 now graduated, we’re facing the dilemma we always knew was coming: recruiting new people to write and help lead the site/group. It’s been difficult to watch the site fall into that static state and know work needed to be done [...]

Arm wrestling on the road

The summer after my sophomore year at UMBC, I stayed and lived at school so I could work as an orienation advisor for new undergrads. Before we worked an actual orientation day, our group of 15 or so spent a lot of time meeting with staff from residential life, student life, the bursar’s office, academic [...]

Forbes Misleading 2009 College Rankings

Yesterday I spent a few minutes before leaving work to skim over the Forbes 2009 College Ranking of America’s Best Colleges (thanks Heather). It didn’t take long to get the impression that many of the colleges on that list were not at accurate rankings. Here’s the breakdown for Maryland: 30 – United States Naval Academy [...]

August 5 (Victor and Landen)

Just finished the newest comic.

Excerpt – Style

Currently reading: "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser "Still, we have become a society fearful of revealing who we are. We have evolved a national language of impersonality. The institutions that seek our support by sending us their brochures tend to sound remarkably alike, though surely all of them–hospitals, schools, libraries, museums–were founded and are [...]

Goodreads.com

Goodreads.com has gotten me excited about reading again. Here’s what it is: "The largest social networking site for readers in the world." In other words, a site you can keep track of books you’ve read, are reading, or want to read in the future, and share this information with people you define as friends. Here’s [...]

TGIF (Victor and Landen)

New Comic:  “TGIF“

Good Morning, Linda (Victor and Landen)

New comic, “Good Morning, Linda.”