So, for folks who might have thought that I’d forgotten to blog today, nope. Squeaking in under the deadline with this one…

Today marks a half a year that I’ve blogged at least a post a day. Be it all me, or some friendly surrogates, I’ve gotten in at least a sentence or a thought a day. And its good for the writer to do that.

For my first year of having this site, I wanted to do that. And the more and more I thought about it, and the more I realized a lot of the uncertainties and days/times that I might not be able to blog, well, the more I thought about how maybe a half a year was good enough for posting once a day.

As a whole, we’ll see if I keep up with getting in a post a day. I’m going to certainly try to when I have something to say, but I think it lessens the really good deep thoughts that I have when I post the quick lame ones that I’m just doing for the sake of blogging.

But, as a whole, blogging is just about writing what you feel like in your space, as you feel it. We’ll just have to see what I feel…

Remember Ask Jeeves? The search engine where you’d post your search queries as questions? Well, a classmate of mine showed me something similar to that…

What it is, is the website of a really unique cell phone service. Running around and have a question? Text your question to 242242 (or “ChaCha”) and in the next few minutes or so, you’ll get a reply back from a real person. Answers change all the time, depending on who’s answering, so you can answer one question and get different answers if its opinion based, but if its factual, well, its a good start.

Forgot who won Superbowl XIV? Ask ChaCha.
Need to know the airborne speed of an unladen swallow? Ask ChaCha.
And if you need a magic 8-ball style answer? Just ask ChaCha.

I’d say that the possibilities are endless. Its just like Googling yourself. Ever do that?

With school ending only a few weeks away, I’ve been trying to start reading more when I’m not working on the job hunt (more on all of that on Monday, I think, if I feel like talking about it). And right now, I’m in the midst of Lewis Black’s Me of Little Faith with Keith Olbermann’s Truth and Consequences lined up right afterwards, followed by Maggie Jackson’s Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. From there? We’ll see what crosses my hands.

And with that, I’ll ask another question, as I’ve come akin to do on Saturdays:

And that reminds me… I need to put a Last.FM widgit somewhere on my page, and maybe I’ll add a “now reading” one too…

This is the first night in a long time that I’ve actually pulled an “all nighter.” Not with much purpose or much completed from it, I found it a bit interesting all over again. After working as a RHAP for as long as I did and having the all nighter a second part of my nature, to force myself to pull it off now was almost too much for me.

I guess that’s what happens when you get a little older, you can’t do what you used to.

Guess I should get my wonderful wife up and get her out the door for work (on her Birthday, of all days), and get myself some sleep… Sweet sweet sleep…

Seeing Goob posted this on his website after my post on HeyItsFree last night, I figure its only fair that I post it here… This is via ChaCha.com and my friend Shaynon:

…and lastly, I asked
“What is AdamJCohen.com”?
They said, AdamJCohen.com is a political blog that talks about current issues facing the country”.

Really now, ChaCha? Next time someone asks, you should tell them this: “Adam J. Cohen is a guitarist/songwriter who has a blog that he never or rarely talks about his music or any music in…”

I should probably fix that too and actually start talking about music some more… Ah well…

And my thanks to Amrah for showing me ChaCha… I’ll write more about it for my Sunday Share this week…

Morning friends… I type this one out as I walk to campus for mediation training- something I opted to do today and tomorrow. I find it funny, though. See, any day of the week that my alarm goes off at 6:18 AM and I’ll hit snooze a few times before finally dragging my ass out of bed around 7. Today? The title says it all…

With a title like that, you wouldn’t expect a post about my cell phone of all things, eh?

Last night I had one of my last two finals of my undergrad collegiate career. Cool, huh? Well, to get to campus I usually use the shuttle service that’s provided for some of the off-campus areas. Instead, I decided that I’d walk to campus.

Now why would I do that, and why would I leave at 3pm? Well, this weekend on Saturday and Sunday, I’ll be taking a First Time Mediation Training through the UCF Dispute Resolution Services–two day seminar from 8:30a-5p. I thought it’d be nice to add to my resumé, as well as just in general it’d be good to undergo before even wanting to be a manager one of these years, as I’d like to eventually be able to attain.

So I leave home and along my way while I’m on an open stretch of road, it starts to rain with heavier drops. Fairly spaced out, but still heavy enough for me to start getting wet. And then, it really picked up.

For folks who aren’t from Florida, you might not understand the idea of “sideways rain.” We see it all the time over summer. Its that really fragrant and fresh rain with the heavier drops that instead of normal rain that seems to fall from a 90 or 75 degree angle (i.e. straight down, slightly from the side), you’re talking more like a 40 degree angle. And that’s what I faced.

With no shelter to even duck by or behind, I was drenched. My jean shorts were soaked through to my boxers, and my shirt was a wet mass that I was wearing that started to droop. I was thankful that my bookbag was waterproof, or so I thought, but more on that in a bit…

But in my pants, I had my cell phone, wallet, keys, pens: the usual for me. And my phone seemed alright, and I got to the parking garage and flipped open my phone and read the text that Sarah had sent me. I had made it to campus in about 30 minutes. Not bad.

Not bad? No, my phone got it bad. I went to reply to my wife’s message and my phone started freaking out as if I was adding spaces right after letters. Just horrible. It’s 3:30, I’m soaking wet, my phone is acting up, and my final is at 6. Things weren’t looking good for me.

I started looking at my phone (a Samsung m510) better. I noticed that it was primarily a few buttons that seemed affected: 3, 6, 9, #, and “Back.” Now, while that might not seem too bad, well, Sarah’s phone number was saved to speed dial on 9, and I text message a lot and that means that I’d have issues with: d, e, f, m, n, o, w, x, y, z, and “space.” Ten out of twenty-six characters. Damnit.

I couldn’t turn my phone off right away. I left it on and brought it to a bathroom and tried to use hand dryers to dry it out a bit. It mostly started to seem like it cleared up. So I called up Sprint’s customer service because *2 wasn’t affected. The gentleman I got was extremely helpful and gave me the number that I’d need to call to do a warranty replacement. Of course, that’s $50 to do that, which sucks, but still not bad. Of course, I have to run this by Sarah.

Now, its about 4ish at this point, and its still a bit frustrating and it seems to get better. If I push the 3, 6, or 9, it automatically adds a # after it. So texting is out of the question. Seriously, have you ever tried to text without using 5/13ths of the alphabet? Yeah, doesn’t really work all that well. I was able to get off “Call me” from the preset messages in one text, and then “ASAP” to Sarah, but because of the way my phone was acting up, it turned out more like–and I kid you not because I’m transcribing this from my sent messages–”Asap pjfox e o-w fox dozenyfowemen-yene my book for youfox.” Mr. Bush and Homeland Security: I swear to you that its not an encoded message and that it has no meaning. I may be critical of my government, but I’m no terrorist.

Needless to say, I finally get ahold of Sarah and she says to just wait it out and see what happens. I’d say that I agree with this, but if you know me? You know I’m addicted to my phone and I do almost everything on or with it. But seeing I can go to recent calls and access her number to call her, and any/all calls that I need to make, I can always use my GrandCentral account as a dial interface to make my calls. And because I can still receive calls, its not too bad. I could always use my wireless backup to add new numbers to the phonebook to make calls if I need to as well.

Still, I’m frustrated.

So at about 6:30 after calling Sarah after my final, I turn my phone off and leave it off. When we get home around 7 after getting dinner, I take out the battery and the memory card and let it sit on a paper towel. I powered it on last night and it seemed to be doing a little better, but still messed up. I then turned it off and re-divided up the pieces.

This morning, I turned on my phone and I crossed my fingers… And honestly?

It works.

Now, I’m not going to be like “omg, perfect like before!” I do notice that there are some differences. For one, the # key seems to falter 1 out of 7 times or so, give or take. Meaning when I’m typing messages, sometimes it doesn’t recognize when I push space all of the time. And there’s one other problem. The backlight for the keypad? Is dead. So there’s a little more battery saving right there…

All in all? I think I lucked out on this one. But if I ever text you and I’m missing a space? Yeah, now you know…

I thought I’d share something that I “just found out” now.

First off, I upgraded to Firefox 3, and I’d recommend the same. Tim, when you read this, I know we were just talking about it tonight and why I wasn’t going to, but I figured I might as well try it out. It seems mildly faster, but only negligibly so, which is nice.

Needless to say, if anyone uses GMail and has been trying to setup their “mailto: redirects” in Firefox 3, I found this nifty little guide which really helped out with that info.

Just thought I’d share that little tidbit for anyone who might be looking for it…

Oh, and for people wondering why this is in “Webmaster Woes,” I’ve just been using that as my all purpose computer one…

I’m finding myself looking forward to final exams.

I’ve got one tonight and one in 3 weeks, but because its at the end of the line? Well, I think that has something to do with it…

So I’ve been watching MSNBC like usual while working on homework and studying and preparing for a presentation tonight, and I saw this interview between Matt Lauer and Luke Russert, and it was just beautifully done… It seems to be a little slow in loading, but I’d imagine because a lot of folks are trying to access it, but wait for it, I think its worth it.

I thought it was worth sharing because its definitely something amazing. I’ve read and heard so many stories in the aftermath of Russert’s untimely passing, and just to see the interview with his son, who’s just barely younger than myself and my peers, I’ll admit that even days later I’m close to a tear or two…

I think I heard the best comment from a viewer e-mail in to Morning Joe: “It’s such a big news story that you expect Joe [Scarborough] to say ‘Coming up after the break, we’ll hear from Tim Russert on this.’”

So true.

More later when I have the time…

let a cat lick them!

For this sunday’s Sunday Share, I thought I’d share a little video clip that I took this Thursday with my cell phone. As you can see, that’s my cat Cassandra licking my feet. So to all fathers out there? Kick back your own feet and relax and have a great Sunday there.

Recently, I haven’t been listening to as much music as people know me for. Instead of leaving on a different album here or there, I’d have my TV on and be watching MSNBC out of the corner of my eye whenever I was at my computer.

But, as I’ve been finding a few new albums, I’ve been taking the time to stop and listen to them and try to absorb them, as well as moving through a few older albums…

So, I ask of you friends:

I’ll come back with some of my answers later in the week…

Just another Friday that I find myself drowning in the homework and schoolwork that I should have been doing over the course of the week that I’ve been nit-picking at slowly. The truth of the matter is, I’m a horrible procrastinator: I can jump the horns of a bull anytime, but I’m still working on that organizational skill that keeps me on task.

I think we’re all like that, though. Its much easier than we think it is, but sometimes we just don’t want to sit down and “do it.” Its much easier to just slack off a little, enjoy ourselves now, and then come back to it.

That’s where it all happens… Or so I think.

Maybe more insightful tomorrow…

Not much for today, seeing I had a paper that I submitted and I’m in the library right now, studying for a midterm. But, that’s what happens when school is a responsibility… Needless to say, the title of this post refers to my day. For all of my time on the UCF campus, I always walked by the Clip Joint hair salon. In dire need of a hair cut, I stopped in today. Not only was it a good cut–one of the better ones I’ve had–but it was reasonably priced, costing me $15 including tip.

Long tale short, stop along the way sometimes. You never know what you might always be passing by…

I found a guitarist the other day that really caught my ear and eye. The guy’s name is Newton Faulker. Your best bet is searching for him on YouTube.

Which the only reason I suggest that is because he’s a red haired, dredlocked musician who has phenomenal guitar skills… But when I listen to his album, Hand Built By Robots, I wouldn’t know half of the stuff he was doing if I hadn’t of watched him do a video or two.

And that’s the interesting thing as a whole which is sad. I’ve run across guitarists like him who have amazing technique, but if you didn’t watch them play? You wouldn’t know it.

I really don’t have much today… Still brain-fried with a ton of stuff, but I promise I’ll have some good stuff soon… I hope.