Thinking before sharing

"In the meantime, as all of us stumble over the challenges of living in a world without forgetting, we need to learn new forms of empathy, new ways of defining ourselves without reference to what others say about us and new ways of forgiving one another for the digital trails that will follow us forever."

-Professor Jeffrey Rosen

The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com

Jeff's thesis is better, but Rosen drops MANY genius bombs in this essay. A good read. I hadn't even heard of some of the websites he listed. I won't ruin it for you.

Scary stuff though! Enjoy.

the sky might fall

but i'm not worried at all, at all, at alllllll

hi out there in blog world. what's the word? everything's good over here. sorry for the lack of caps right now, but oh well.

ummmm it's getting toward the end of august. blast! time's goin too fast.

uhhh not sure what to talk about. i could give you the recap of my wknd, but...eh.

oooh how about this?! -- i'm planning on rowing in head of the charles with my dad in the father/son doubles race. it's technically the "parent/child" race. what this means is that i've gotta train for the next two months and get myself in shape. i'm in ok shape now, but i gotta erg more.

so yeah, that's exciting. head of the charles is awesome. i've only raced in 8s before. the father/son race is pretty mellow, but i still wanna have a good piece.

Whether that’s right or not, I won’t ever know -- Drake lyrics. Too many Drake mixtapes. Nattymari is my new favorite chopped and screwed producer. Name of his latest mixtape? – “Orange Mocha Frappucino.” Sheer genius.

peace

World record!

The Virgin GB Row 2010 team celebrates completing their rowing challenge around Great Britain - becoming the first female crew to complete the feat - on the River Thames in London July 23. (AP Photo/Gareth Fuller-pa)

BBC News - All-female crew first women to row round Britain

"During their journey, the women have been swamped by huge waves, survived storms, almost sunk and navigated some of the most treacherous tides on the planet.

At one point, Ms Madsen broke her finger when she was setting off a flare to warn off a ship that was on a collision course with Go Commando.

She carried on rowing by strapping her hand to her oar."

Hit the road Shaq

Song that I’m currently obsessed with – “You Neva Know” by Husalah

Good stuff. So whatup yall. Summer’s winding down. Omg did I just say that? What a horrible thought.

But whatever it’s been a great summer. Great weather, plenty of cookouts, plenty of parties. A lot of hanging out, a lot of productivity. Many fruits and vegetables, many sports games. All good things.

So yeah. Shaquille O’Neal is going to be a Celtic next year! Ridiculous! Should be fun. Green Diesel, biofuel style.

Hmmmm. So what other stuff is going on. Did I tell you about the new glasses that I’m looking at? I wanna get the drill-mounted kind that don’t have any rims. Then it’ll look less like I’m wearing glasses, which is what I’m going for. I like the ones by Silhouette. Anyway, new glasses are a big deal cause I wear them everyday (albeit very begrudgingly).

In two weeks I think I’m gonna be on cape cod, lovin life. Wellfleet=joy. So many nice beaches and the water on the bay side is so warm.

Don Wyper is running a marathon and raising money to beat cancer. It’s a Wype Out Cancer campaign! He’s gonna try to do it under 3 hours. Keep in mind that Don is 6’ 4” and 200 pounds and is a natural rower and swimmer, so going out and trying to do something like this is very impressive. Read about his journey and donate at his blog -- "Wype" Out Cancer

The first patriots preseason game is tomorrow night, very exciting.

Last night I went to a friends place in Lincoln and we made homemade pesto with basil from their garden. Yummm. Side note – I got peaches and blueberries from the farmers market this weekend that were outrageously good.

Ok, take it easy, Dave

jolly green

just had my second dartmouth reunion of the summer. incredibly fun. this summer is flying by! i cant believe it.

have i not mentioned that august is my favorite month? is it because eight is my favorite number? unclear.

naw i like august cause it's summer (my favorite month), and it's nice and lazy. it's before school starts, before football starts, so it feels like there's not a whole lot going on. it's just a time to relax and take things easy.

the only problem is that i'm pretty bad at taking anything easy. i do everything way too fast sometimes. last night i wrote a letter and i actually had to rewrite it because i realized that my handwriting is so horrible because i write so fast. of course i'm typing really fast right now too, but i can't really control that.

t y p i n g s l o w i s n o t f e a s i b l e i n t h i s d a y a n d a g e

also, regardless of how fast i type, my handwriting online is always impeccable :) though my capitalizing and punctuation leaves something to be desired

happy august everyone, i'll be in touch

peace, Dave

freestyle blogging

folks, what's happenin. i'm feelin the bloggin in my fingertips. i want to feel prolific and boundless. looking upward i see the top of the hill and there is likely another hill beyond.

recently i've been guiding cupcake franchises into new growth spurts. i tell them -- look, if you charge 3 dollars for a cupcake and it's not that big, well then it better be really, really good. do they listen to me? whether they do not, they'll soon find out if it was worth it.

listening to rinse 11 by oneman right now.

i focus a lot on sports and music. but do it too much? is there an answer? is there a right and wrong answer?

ps i really need new glasses. i've been driving around with a new prescription in my car for months. DAVE GO TO THE GLASSES STORE TMRW AT LUNCH.

hit up two farmers markets this weekend. yesterday i went to the winchester farmers market. i bought cilanto and pok choi (i didnt realize it could be spelled with a p) from the dude at the hmong farmstand. their farm is in lancaster. i've gotten pok choi from them before in union sq and i asked the guy why they were always so clean and he said that he didnt know but his mom cleaned him

i made guacamole with local cilantro and local tomato and it was delicious. everyone loved it at the bbq that i spent the day at. success. i ate garlic cilantro scrambled eggs today which were good, got the recipe from allrecipes.com

today i went to the charles sq farmers market in harvard sq. got green peppers, hot peppers, potatoes, onions, apples, peaches, heirloom tomatoes. now i just gotta eat em all! i think i should just chop up the potatoes and onions and peppers real small and just try to cook em with some oil in a skillet. i dono tho we'll see i'll make some consultations.

football at fenway and die antwoord

i went to see football at fenway wednesday night, sporting vs celtic. unreal. once in a lifetime experience.

last night i saw die antwoord (and sleigh bells, who also rocked) at the royale. also unreal. also once in a lifetime experience.

i'll try to rally and write up some more detailed recaps

summer is my favorite season, and i'm just trying to enjoy myself, but i miss blogging

peace

-Dave

i am still here

i promise

considering coming back from sabbatical

twas a good world cup, viva espana

a title that does not have a negative word in it

i can't stand negativity, even a blog post that has a negative word in it

it's summer, let's celebrate with keggy the keg

sending you positive vibrations...

-splatman

disgraceful

that goal that england scored not being a goal. _____ you fifa. get it together. i feel bad for english fans. give germany credit.

scary stuff. i might have to give up fancy sushi tuna permanently:

Tuna’s End - NYTimes.com

"On the high seas, the bluefin is being hunted into extinction. Will we ever be able to think about seafood the same way?"

blogger on quasi sabbatical

until further notice. usa won today tho.

blogger at reunion

i'm at reunion for the weekend. let's go celtics, let's go usa

check this out, nuts! -- Sailor artist Reid Stowe completes record 1,152-day voyage | Sport | The Guardian

usa tied england

on to the next one

blogger paused

tbd, watching soccer

congratulations

congratulations on being 8th in the country 2010 dartmouth mens heavyweight crew! a great accomplishment

some of the nicknames i can remember having

DISLAIMER -- you will not be able to make sense of the rest of this post. it is comprised of edits and reedits from multiple posts made in multiple platforms.

yo, unbelievable. so i'm using mars edit now, which is a blogging program. and i think that when it's uploading my photos it's not uploading them to blogger so it's not conforming to my template, so it's just a whole mess.

wow. hmm i might remove my "the internet" links and "Ray Kurzweil expects you to live forever" links. or is that wack? unclear i'm bout to do this again tho, check it, i just have to drag and drop images

some of the nicknames i can remember havingin various friendships and groups

Cheese

Tree

Bear

Hurricane

Chief

DH

DS

Stein

Shmurn

noway! it blows up my photos

yo, unbelievable. so i'm using mars edit now, which is a blogging program. and i think that when it's uploading my photos it's not uploading them to blogger so it's not confirming to my template, so it's just a whole mess.

wow. hmm i might remove my "the internet" links and "Ray Kurzweil expects you to live forever" links. or is that wack? unclear i'm bout to do this again tho, check it, i just have to drag and drop images

the limitations of mars edit, and muir woods

so if i upload like a high res photo in mars edit, it just blows it up. i think maybe i have to put html tags in there or something? i dono. but here are 5 photos of muir woods in the meantime. and here's the link for muir woods. go there sometime. the forest, i mean --

Muir Woods National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

dave testing mars edit

does mars edit really work? and will i start using it? is it better to just spend time using microsoft word? time will tell

_______ and ____

What up folks. Yo I’m bloggin up a storm. Lemme get some love here. I’m crushing it. not posting enough photos or links, not recapping enough weekends, but hey, better never than late. Oh wait, I mean…ahh forget it.

Quick hitters – celtics Thursday, world cup starts in 9 days. There’s a rugby event called the sevens that’s going on this weekend, and dartmouth is in it. dartmouth baseball plays miami in the ncaa tournament on Friday. Dartmouth heavyweight crew is ranked 7th (seventh!) in the ira regatta, and will be racing Friday morning in heat 3.

Ok I got a killer link for you. Somebody please try this. somebody with a surplus of printer ink. The site is so that you can upload a high res image, then it gives you a pdf that you can print out, then you attach them all together to create a poster. Amaaaaaazing. (thanks YV)

The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator

Here are some photos of boston. I hope it’s not too annoying that I really like putting up cool photos of boston and massachusetts, but whatever. Ok here’s the story behind these photos:

Wildfires in Quebec cast their pall into New England - The Boston Globe

Yeah, so there were some forest fires in canada, and all the smoke made its way down through new england. It was super weird on Monday – everything was really hazy. I kept on thinking that my glasses were smudged or that there was something in my eye. It was odd. In some communities people were calling the police and complaining that it smelled like burnt rubber. It wasn’t that bad, and not really a nuisance, but I swear everywhere you looked you saw this weird haze.