September 2009
6 posts
August 2009
2 posts
Feature Creep →
Despite the fact that I barely ever produce content, I have a twitter account. Isn’t that the point, though?
December 2008
2 posts
CE#3 – Cool Hand Luke: The New Gospel and the DIY...
SO MANY SPOILERS.
But the movie’s like 40 years old. So any complaints are invalid. Kinda like with Lord of The Rings.
It was originally written by Donn Pearce in 1965, it was converted into a screenplay by him and Frank Pierson, and then Cool Hand Luke went on to become one of the most highly regarded films ever made. It was set in a road prison in the Florida Panhandle during the 50’s. The...
October 2008
2 posts
Walk All Over You
Walk All Over You
It’s cold as I’ll get out right now, and that’s great. It gives me an excellent excuse to throw away the summer-oriented footwear I so abhor and bust out my boots. Even when I’m not scrubbing pipes in the engine room of a retired PT boat, wearing a pair of boots draws on an even more sacred type of history than that of blue jeans – these are some of the most ancient shoes that...
The Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan →
A respite from all this anime overload:
As far as I’m concerned, this is the greatest Youtube video that exists. It’s a fragment of Carl Sagan’s reading of his book, The Pale Blue Dot. It’s the only way I know to express to many people the existance of morality without religion, and then it goes so much further.
If someone wants to do it for their cultural experience, go...
September 2008
1 post
Cultural Experience – The Drumline, before Clemson...
As a member of the Clemson Drumline, my game day cultural experience is like no other. It starts earlier than most tailgaters, grabbing a quick breakfast (my only meal that I got until 11 PM) on the way to band at 7 in the morning. I scarf it down in Drew’s truck, and we pull up to the Brooks Center and grab our instruments to go warm up.
We are there about a half hour before any non-Drumline band...
August 2008
3 posts
highly regarded quotation
[Writing of the famous photograph taken by the Voyager spacecraft, “The Pale Blue Dot”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pale_blue_dot ]
On the scale of worlds, humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.
- Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot.
Introducing
Name: Warren Kenneth McElhaney III, or “Kenny.”
Major(Minor): English Literature (No minor. Does this make me inferior?)
Hometown: Mobile, AL
Favorite Book: Right now, it’s probably One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Alternatively, Dune by Frank Herbert, or any number of others.
Favorite Movie: A Clockwork Orange…? Essientially the same situation...
