One Teacher’s Take on Obama’s “Socialism”
on Nov 20, 2009 in Jokes & Humor United States Politics Barack Obama economic plan Humor Jokes socialism Every once in a while I receive a forwarded e-mail that either makes me laugh out loud or makes me smile at the overall point of the message. I received one of those e-mails this morning from a friend of mine who happens to be a town councilman. Ta...

Congratulations to Roxbury High School Football!
on Nov 20, 2009 in Local People & Politics Sports East Orange Campus Fair Lawn football Giants Stadium High School Football Nfl Roxbury Roxbury High School Star-Ledger state championship Congratulations to the Roxbury High School football team for going back to the state championship game Earlier tonight, the Gaels decimated Fair Lawn by 42 to 7 to earn a trip back to the state championship game for the first time in 11 years. Incid...

Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns
on Nov 19, 2009 in Book, DVD, Movie, & Media Reviews A Thousand Splendid Suns Afghanistan Book Review Kabul Khaled Hosseini Laila Mariam refugee services Tariq The Kite Runner United Nations First, I have to contradict something that I wrote a few days ago. If you read my entry from this past Sunday, I commented on how sometimes it takes me a year to get through a single book due to problems with timing. That wasn’t the case with...

No Longer Using LinkShare for Online Advertisements
on Nov 18, 2009 in Computers, Internet, & Technology advertising Amazon.com Associates Facebook Google Adsense LinkedIn LinkShare Microsoft Money Plus Myspace Norton 360 Plaxo Pulse Quicken Text-Link-Ads Yahoo! Messenger Like I’ve been writing about lately, I’ve been deleting software programs and removing online services that are, essentially, unnecessary to me at this point. I’ve removed my MySpace account, Yahoo! Messenger, LinkedIn, Plaxo Pulse...

The Latest Software to Get Removed: Microsoft Money Plus
on Nov 17, 2009 in Computers, Internet, & Technology Money, Jobs, & Finances Accounting software Microsoft Microsoft Money Microsoft Money Plus Personal finance Quicken software Spreadsheet This one should have hurt, but it didn’t. Since my Mom gave me this laptop in May 2006 as a present for graduating a graduate school, I’ve never been happier with a computer system. It’s fast, reliable, virus and malware-free R...

The Merger – One Year Later
on Nov 16, 2009 in Computers, Internet, & Technology Arrested Development Blog Family Guy Google Groups Halloween JerseySmarts.com Joe's Journal Merger Monmouth University New Jersey Newsletter Rutgers University Usable Web Solutions Web Design Can you believe it was one year ago today that the merger was complete? Pretty amazing, huh? I mean, just to think that there used to be such duplication seems absolutely mind-boggling! Oh wait – you’re not sure what I’m talking...

Book Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma
on Nov 15, 2009 in Book, DVD, Movie, & Media Reviews Sustainable Living Book Review food In Defense of Food industrial food system Michael Pollan Nutrition obesity Organic farming organic food slow food movement the omnivore's dilemma Sometimes I buy a a book and it takes me forever to read the thing. Not because it’s a bad book, but rather because I sometimes just don’t have the time to sit down and read! That’s what happened to me with The Omnivore’s Di...

Thoughts and Pictures from Monmouth University vs. Seton Hall University
on Nov 15, 2009 in Sports Big East Conference Florida International University Hawks Jersey City Monmouth University NEC Northeast Conference Seton Hall University St. Peter's College After a rousing victory against Florida International University on Friday night, the Monmouth University Hawks came up slightly short against the Seton Hall University Pirates. A little earlier today, the Hawks went down 72 – 87 in a game tha...

Album Review: Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
on Nov 14, 2009 in Book, DVD, Movie, & Media Reviews album review Alt Nation Amazon.com iTunes Kids MGMT oracular spectacular Sirius XM Youtube Sometimes I hear a song that I like on Sirius XM’s Alt Nation and I go home to find out more about the band who sings the song. Generally, I’ll then go to YouTube to hear some more of their songs and, if the band is good and the music is...

100 Hilarious College Courses That Really Exist
on Nov 13, 2009 in College & Fraternity Life Centre College college college courses Economist Homer Simpson Karl Marx philosophy Star Trek The Matrix UC Berkeley The good folks over at OnlineUniversities.com sent me a link to a page on their site that chronicles hilarious college courses that actually exist. I took a look through some of these courses and it makes you scratch your head. Take a look below at...