Is Education Worth It?

A rather controversial article on TechCrunch this past weekend has apparently caused quite a stir, begetting a follow up article on the same website. The originator of all the fuss was PayPal co-creator and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, who proposed that people who drop out of college, or otherwise opt to pursue other avenues [...]

Foodie Fridays: Foster’s Freeze

Fosters Freeze is one of a waning breed of great old-timey drive-in-style diners in Ventura, CA. With outside dining, as well as a covered patio, you can enjoy your greasy or delectably sweet order with all the sights and sounds midtown Ventura has to offer. Located within walking distance of Ventura College, you will often [...]

Playing The ‘Game’ of Life

Welcome to what I call the “Facebook” generation in which we all now live. People all over the world yearn to share their lives with one another, including, and perhaps most importantly their successes. Whether with gold stars, blue ribbons, badges, stickers and trophies, people always like being rewarded for their behavior. Accordingly, companies offering [...]

Brendan’s: the place to be

As excitement builds for the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day festivities, I thought I might go back to the place that has become my old standby. This is the only place I would consider going for the most glorious days of gluttony the whole year. I have posted about the food in the past and I [...]

Play time’s over. Learn something.

The Huffington Post website posted an interesting article yesterday that caught my eye and brought back memories of my experiences in school. In the article, Tina Barseghian, Editor of MindShift, a website about the future of learning, describes how video games are better teachers than the humans academic institutions employ to instruct our children. While [...]

Penny for your thoughts

Greetings mediocrity-lovers, I don’t usually like to get political, but a particular article posted to a blog on the NPR.org website piqued my intellectual curiosity. As a disclaimer, I have only taken introductory college courses in Economics, but I did well in them and have a good enough understanding of the principle of supply and [...]

Things that make you go…

“hmmm”… logic: 1, religion: nil.

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone, In an effort to expand the repertoire of music I write about here, and in honor of the most romantic of holidays Valentine’s Day, today I tried to find a band that best exemplifies the spirit of today. Then it came to me: no group is a more appropriate (and parodied) [...]

“Where everybody knows your name”

Brendan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant is the answer to Camarillo, California’s hot spot woes! An authentic Irish pub that has all the character restaurants in the area have needed for years. The ‘Irishness’ is over the top, but still classy. Every piece of ornate decor is meticulously selected and shipped direct from Ireland. Awaiting guests [...]

Keanu sticking it to the man

POM: Crackshot self-promotion on Twitter

Back to the Future: Part Unlikely

Let’s file this one under mediocre theories. This video comes from an Irish filmmaker named George Clarke, who claims that while watching a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film, he noticed an extra walking through the frame holding what looks to him like a cell phone. Obviously he was skeptical at first, considering cell phones wouldn’t be [...]

Irony University gets D+ for ironic PR campaign

Hello mediocrity lovers, Out of the Des Moines Register, a newspaper in the US state of Iowa, comes a story of motivation, education…and irony. The wisdom in Drake University’s new recruitment campaign is being questioned by university students, faculty, prospective students and news organizations nationwide. One observer cited in this news article sums it up rather [...]

These are the moments of our lives…on the internet

Hey people, After much ado about the movie, I finally saw Social Network this past weekend. It was well done and entertaining. It chronicles the birth of Facebook in the dorm room of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg in 2003. The story is told not in a biopic, but rather from the perspective of how Zuckerberg deals with the [...]

Ignorance hurts the soul…and the rest of us

So, I was surfing through the news the other day and I came across this story on Reuters.com, which describes a couple of guys who felt bad about people projecting the wrong image of themselves or their respective businesses by misspelling words in their own tag lines or advertisements and decided to do something about [...]

Hollywood Contemptible

  Greetings World of Mediocrity, Let me start off by saying I absolutely despise most everything Hollywood. I am not into most of the TV shows put out these days, any awards shows, or celebrity gossip…I just don’t really care. One recent story in the news, however caught my eye. Paris Hilton getting caught with and illegal substance is [...]

Party Favors

Hello 50th percentile enthusiasts, This story from Reuters comes out of Germany, where apparently young people’s education begins with a crash course in anatomy. I don’t know about you, but I was never given a party favor for going to school, let alone something of immense entertainment value. Of course, it could be attributed to cultural difference, [...]

Lights out for productivity?

  Hey people, Listen, I’m all for a comfortable workplace, but napping on the job? I mean, siesta seems to work out in some countries throughout the world; it’s possible it could work in the U.S., too. On the other hand, what about small businesses that deal with just as much stress as the big nine-to-fivers, albeit [...]