Exactly Like Winning The Lottery Wednesday, Apr 1 2009 

Uncategorized rmason 1:00 pm

I’ve been treated well by whim, it seems. Yesterday while I was buying a bottle of iced tea at the gas station I decided I might as well buy a scratch ticket. I forgot about it until just now, produced the quarter I’d been carrying around, and scratched it.

Apparently I’ve won $10,000. This is wonderful news, for obvious reasons. My windfall comes in the midst of an amazing several days. I’ve had the most amazing streak of luck and everything is going more or less perfectly. I’ve been cheerful and confident and this is just a crown to the moment. It’s wonderful.

 

New Domain! (This One, I Mean) Saturday, Jan 10 2009 

Uncategorized rmason 3:19 pm

I’ve had rsmason.net here for a while but the friend who was previously hosting it for me had something of an unreliable server so it was mostly just sitting and wasting space. This year I’m working on productivity and developing my web presence and portfolio, as I previously stated, so I’m working on the page here. So, welcome!

I’m working on adding new pages and sections to flesh it out–I will probably have to find a new theme. In the meanwhile let me know if you have any problems with the new site or any suggestions on a better theme, or if you want to make a theme for me et cetera.

In the meanwhile thanks for reading. In case you were curious, I have not been slacking on my post-a-day. It’s still going strong at Dreamers Often Lie. I’m actually getting things done! Are you amazed? I’m amazed.

 

Extremely Liberal MSNBC Criticizes Obama Tuesday, Oct 21 2008 

liberals and politics and Uncategorized rmason 1:09 am

MSNBC has an article about how Barack Obama misrepresented some of Sarah Palin’s comments about negative campaigning. The very first comment: “You people are ridiculous with your headlines. Palin clearly criticized the robo-calls.” The poster’s name is “MSM is biased.” This confuses me. I’m used to accusations of bias, of course–Fox is conservative, MSNBC is liberal, and as some people would have it, everyone that isn’t Fox is liberal–but I’m not sure I ever expected to see someone accuse MSNBC of conservative bias.

Perhaps this is just a case of the hostile media effect. But that is most prominent in a controlled study–and by and large the media is pretty friendly with Obama. What I think this is about, really, is the danger of getting your news from Daily Kos or Huffington Post (or, on the other hand, WorldNetDaily or all those other fun Republican places). Research your news, please.

 

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