When you meet someone special, you have this overwhelming urge to document every aspect of your time together. You save ticket stubs, notes, cards, you name it, you save it. There is this desire to keep each and every memory as if these little momentos will eventually become important artifacts for future anthropologists. As life [...]
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Horses and Bayonets: First 3 Hours on the Internet
October 23rd, 2012 
Ryan Simmons Each debate comes with it a memorable moment. Depending on your humor, you’ll either remember “the 1980s called, they want their foreign policy back” burn or the “horses and bayonets” quote. Both comments were made by Barack Obama whose personality has risen from the dead. The right will spin it that 80s foreign policy and [...]
Decision 2012: Who Should You Vote For?
June 14th, 2012 Ryan Simmons With November just around the corner, the ends of the political spectrum are quickly coming into focus. If composite sketches are to be believed, you have baby-killing, peaceful, misguided-robin-hood elitists versus the patriotic, god-loving, tractor-driving, gun-toting billionaires. From now till November, hundreds of talking heads will craft an entertaining narrative about two characters based loosely [...]
Facebook Interactions: How to Unsubscribe and Hide Friends
March 28th, 2012 Ryan Simmons Unsubscribe/Hide Facebook gives us an immense amount of control over what and how much we see from each friend. These settings are easily editable from the NewsFeed. When hovering over the right side of a friend’s post, an arrow will appear. Clicking that will offer a host of options. ‘Hide Story’ offers you the ability [...]
4 Great Apps for Productivity and Business
March 2nd, 2012 Ryan Simmons A few weeks ago when I purchased my iPad 2, I challenged myself: move into a post-PC world. The basics of social media and web browsing were easy. The most difficult aspect of life to convert was business. Without Microsoft Excel and a scanner, nearly a decade of business practices needed to be relearned. Fortunately, [...]
How I Doubled My Hits In 1 Month
February 2nd, 2012 Ryan Simmons When writing a paper in college, I’d type as much as I could before double spacing. Seeing the page total jump significantly closer to the required amount was a great feeling. Last month, I kind of did the same thing with my blog. In 2012, I wanted to increase the traffic coming into my site. [...]
5 Things Making Your Life Mediocre
January 31st, 2012 Ryan Simmons 5. The Opposite Sex There are two types of people who are negatively affected by the opposite sex. The first one is the guy or girl who chronically falls in love. Every other month they have a new fling who they immediately <3. They do the same things they’ve done with all their previous exes [...]
Goals for -ion Summit
January 27th, 2012 Ryan Simmons Tonight’s meeting of the minds has been a dream of mine for quite sometime. In an effort to share with you my expectations, here is a brain dump of things I’m hoping to accomplish. Make friends and celebrate the underestimated South Jersey art scene Discuss how to get paid to do what you love Help [...]
-ion Summit: Meet Fellow Creative Minds in South Jersey 1/27/12
January 12th, 2012 Ryan Simmons Since I’ve moved to Ocean City, I’ve had the unbelievable pleasure of meeting dozens, if not hundreds, of creative people. I wish there was time in the day to sit down with each and every one of you but we’re just always so busy! So I’ve decided to have this big event and invite every creative, [...]
Netflix Pick of the Week: “Sherlock Jr.” starring Buster Keaton
January 12th, 2012 Ryan Simmons “Sherlock Jr.” (1924) Starring: Buster Keaton Plot: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocketwatch. Run Time: 44 minutes In Sherlock Jr., Keaton puts on an Oscar worthy performance without the benefit of sound (and 5 [...]
Record Bowl: How To (Technique 1)
January 11th, 2012 Ryan Simmons Thanks to the constant evolution of technology, some of our most prized possessions eventually become nothing more than junk. Finding a new purpose for these old things can be fun and exciting. That is what I recently did with my mother’s old vinyl record collection. Below I will share with you one way to recycle [...]
Scrabble Coasters: How To
January 11th, 2012 Ryan Simmons You know you’ve crossed the threshold into adulthood when a bonus at work is spent on a new coffee table for your living room rather than a night out or an iPod. The lovely new table adorning my Asbury apartment might be the first piece of non-Ikea furniture I’ve ever purchased, so I want to [...]
6 Songs for My 26th Year on Earth
December 10th, 2011 Ryan Simmons Today marks 25 years of being alive. Looking back on the quarter century I’ve lived, I’m pretty proud of where I’ve ended up. Am I satisfied? Never. Whether I die today or 75 years from now, I don’t think I’ll ever be satisfied. That’s the upside and downside of being a dreamer. This year, it’s [...]
