Author Archives: steph

Hank Williams receives Pulitzer citation

It’s about time this guy receives some love. Icon Hank Williams receives Pulitzer cita­tion. From the article:

The cita­tion notes Williams’ “crafts­man­ship as a song­writer” and his “piv­otal role in trans­form­ing coun­try music into a major musi­cal and cul­tural force in Amer­i­can life.” He joins other recent spe­cial cita­tion recip­i­ents Bob Dylan, Thelo­nious Monk

Kindle Prices are Unchained from Reality

Well, it’s hap­pened. Kin­dle prices have unhinged from real­ity. Check this out:

Yeah, I can pur­chase the paper­back for $9.89 and have it shipped to my house for free, sec­ond day. Think about what that entails. It involves a per­son retriev­ing the book from Amazon’s ware­house, box­ing it, send­ing an order to UPS, a UPS dri­ver pick­ing

My Steps to Writing Better

I was recently help­ing a friend edit his resume and he men­tioned that he’d appre­ci­ate some input on writ­ing bet­ter. Fol­low­ing is the advice I gave him. These are my steps to writ­ing better.

(Also: No, I won’t edit your resume.)

Read, read, read. Always be read­ing some­thing, even when you’re just killing time watch­ing TV. It’s

His Favorite Time of the Day

The screen door slammed shut, bounced open and slowly set­tled closed. The porch boards groaned as he moved to his chair and set­tled in. He leaned his head back, sighed deeply and relaxed. The sun was slowly set­ting in the dis­tance, his favorite time of the day.

I told you to stop slam­min’ that door,” she said.

New Photos Online

These pho­tos are for Pho­tog­ra­phy: The Art of Com­po­si­tion Flickr group. These are for Exer­cise 1 from Chap­ter 4, Rocks.

Yes. Rocks.

I’m not happy with these because I was in a big hurry and neglected to set the ISO down to 400. These were shot at ISO 800, so the shut­ter speed was crazy high to com­pen­sate.