http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog The Blog of Jeremy Scott, who is crazy about a lot of things. Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:13:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have a lot of friends.  Among my friends are people from every color of the political spectrum, and all of them have an opinion about President Obama's Economic Recovery Plan.  From conversations at school, tweets I've received on twitter, facebook wall posts, and emails, I have discussed this issue ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2009/02/08/why-the-economies-problems-arent-so-simple/ Any resident of the United States will agree: times are rough and somewhat scary.  Today, Warren Buffet's 8 year old warning saying that the stock market was overvalued by as much as twice as what it should be worth proved true, because today after seeing peaks near $14,000 one year ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2008/11/20/reflections-on-the-state-of-the-states/ Cameron Moll, blogger and web standards pioneer, wrote this week about the epiphanies had "under the cadence of falling water"--in the shower. Moll explains, in what I believe to be one of his best posts of all time, how the self-imposed interruption of taking a shower gives a moment for ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2008/11/13/showertime-perceptivity-and-its-greatest-gift-to-me/ I am not dead and I still blog, just a bit less. As the end of the semester approaches and my busy season for both jobs approach, I don't expect the every-other-day regularity to resume until after the new year. T-Shirt tuesday will continue, but not every week, ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2008/11/13/so-much-to-write-and-comment-on-so-little-time/ The other day on my way home from school I stopped at a convenience store to get a dollar hotdog for lunch.  As I approached the entrance to the store, a brief glint, dull and with a reddish color, caught my eye, drawing my attention--if only for a moment--away from ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2008/10/30/four_pennies/ My last T-Shirt Tuesday provoked the first discussion in my comments section.  Thanks, it was cool! This week I want to share some interesting shirts that have come out of this year's monumental election. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption=""Everyone Poops" from Threadless"][/caption] The picture above is from a recently reprinted Threadless classic, Everyone ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2008/10/21/t-shirt-tues-feat-splatter-in-d-minor/ There are two kinds of poker players in the world.  The first kind is the poker player who wins some and loses some, in the long run probably loses or breaks even, and plays for the fun and fellowship of it.  The second kind is the elite group of players ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2008/10/04/war-stories/ One of the myths Phoenicians have about riding their bus system is that the busses break down, a lot.  To that I retort: so do cars.  A possible bus breakdown never worried me, because the way I saw it, if the bus broke down it would indeed be an inconvinience, ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2008/10/02/a-bus-breakdown-aka-the-inevitable-and-my-role-as-hero/ I really thought I'd be writing more about school life on this blog, but I find I am not.  So here is my forced attempt at fixing that problem. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="ASU student: Jeremy Scott"][/caption] As of this week I am in my sixth week of school.  Last week I ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2008/10/02/quarter-of-the-way-there-and-a-sharp-dose-of-reality/ Welcome to another installment of T-Shirt Tuesday.  This time, I'd like to offer a shout-out to a couple of t-shirt blogs I frequently read for news and sales information: First is tcritic, written by a great guy named Karl.  Tcritic gets about 8 posts a week, considerably less than other t-shirt ... http://jeremy.thescottspot.com/blog/2008/09/30/tst-featuring-most-deadly/