Monday, May 31, 2010

Coffee Grounds or Coffee Grinds?

Minutely related to the following post...

What's the difference between coffee grinds and coffee grounds? Here's the only light Google can shed.

For the purpose of this post I'm just gonna go ahead and say that coffee grinds is the substance you put into a filter, and coffee grounds is the mushy grinds after water has run through it.

Now onto more related matters...

Just because you get some coffee grounds into your pot of coffee doesn't make it a horrible day. Two days ago this happened to me. I didn't let grounds in my coffee bother me. I just added some more water to the pot and started my day. I got rid of some junk around the apartment, cleaned off my porch and made it a nice place to sit, and went through the old receipts in my car with hopes of finding a lifetime warranty on a muffler, which I need desperately right now, from Lovell's Discount Tire in DeKalb. Later on I played some disc golf and read a substantial amount of Daniel Quinn's "The Story of B." During my reading I got a call from a friend asking me if I wanted to make $10 holding a ladder for his brother for a few minutes. I said I'd do it for free and met his brother down the street. The long and short of this tangent is that I made $20 doing the job. It was a great day.

I found the lifetime warranty, which is great because about a year ago I went into Lovell's to check and see if they had it on file, and they don't. So that's about $200 I don't have to spend now.

However, yesterday I lost the lifetime warranty, which is great because now I get to buy a brand new muffler. Also, yesterday my boss gave me some coffee she roasted herself, which is great because maybe now I can somehow redo the last two days by accidently getting some grounds in my coffee.


Wednesday, May 26, 2010

To Blog

Blogging is like keeping a journal or diary, but it's less private as a journal or diary. I may not write some things on my blog that I would write in my journal, and vice versa. Sometimes I get used to writing in my blog so much that I don't write in my journal. Sometimes I get used to writing in my journal so much that I don't blog. Maybe it's all a reflection on the way our society is headed. I only listen to some albums as a CD or an LP, and I only listen to some albums digitally. Sometimes I listen to my iPod so much that I don't listen to my CD's. Sometimes I listen to my CD's so much that I forget about my iPod.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Information Delivery Service Presents...


My friend John and I are starting a seasonal multimedia magazine. This is call for submissions.

Each issue will be tangible and digital.

Any form of art is an acceptable submission.

Anyone can submit any amount of pieces in any format.

All visuals (literature, photographs, paintings, etc) must be submitted in PDF or JPG
All audio must be submitted in MP3 or AIFF
All film must be submitted in MPG or MOV

All submissions must be original and must have been made in the last 6 months from each deadline.

Send submissions to idspresents@gmail.com

All contributors will decide on a title and design for each issue.

Tell everyone you know.

Friday, May 28th is the deadline for the first issue.