Some would say that 31 is just too early to retire.
I am not so sure.

There are many compelling reasons to retire at an early age. Adventure sports like hang gliding and wild game safaris can be performed without the fear of pulmonary over excitement. Being young, one is better suited to make the most of modern leisure activities like video games and YouTube viral video watching. A major concern of older retirees is health care and costs, young people are generally better at healing and have the option of forgoing health care all together. Some older retirees can find themselves financially strapped by their children’s education costs, by retiring before your children go to college… or before you have children all together… one can enjoy a much less worrisome retirement.


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You’re Fired.

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Special thanks to all the volunteers who made the first annual DWIFF Challenge a reality

• Scott Dunham
• Suzanne Janik
• Sarah Mark
• Nicole LaDouceur
• Denver Rochon
• Billy Whitehouse
• Mike from CCS
• 23 Willing teams of Detroit film makers…

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These are two words that I never wanted to read next to each other. In my world of fragile technology strung together by bits of wire, IP addresses, and a few lines of code… I am completely vulnerable to the forces of nature.

All the tech support in the world can’t help you when the thing catches on fire and burns to a crisp.


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I have been working in roughly the same cubicle space for about the past 5 years. I actually don’t mind it, I would even say that I find it “cozie”… in a slightly complacent sort of way.

Recently the network connection at my cubicle, indeed the whole west side of the building, has been on the fritz… one of those random ghost problems that only seems to surface when you have managed to forget about the possibility of it coming back. I was in the middle of a project with a deadline, and instead of waiting for a solution from the ever diligent (yet admittedly perplexed) IT staff… I decided to move my work space to the other side of the building.

What happened to be available was the largest conference room in the office, normally seats about 74-100 employees. For the past few days it has seated one employee… me.

From the moment I sat down at my freshly configured work space, I was overwhelmingly satisfied with my new environment. My new cubicle is about 40 times the size of my old one, and thats saying something… my employer does not skimp on even the regular cubicle. But this is whole new universe of work space. The only location more spacious would be to transplant myself outside on the patio. Not only is it larger, but I am situated such that I can actually look out the window… all 70 feet of it. Its an amazing experience…. I don’t know if I have ever had such a beautiful view to accompany the peripheral vision of my working line of site.

Oh ya… the network connection is much faster in here too…

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Failing hard disks are the bane of my existence. I recently dug through my PC junkyard and did a quick catalog of all the dead drives that I could not bare to throw out over the past decade.

27 Dead Hard Drives

I have lost hard drives in my…

• personal computers
• laptop
• corporate server
• personal business server
• i-pod
• external backup drive
• double redundant external backup drive

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Over the past 4 years I have competed in a national competition, known as the National Film Challenge. It has been one of the best experiences of my budding film career. In one weekend, all excuses go to the wayside, and you just make a movie… its a short… but its a finished short. I am very proud to be able to bring this experience to the local Detroit indie film community through the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival.

This is our chance to put everything we have come to love in the national competition into our own and bake in some home grown Detroit flavor and community.

• DWIFF Challenge Website www.dwiff.org/challenge
• DWIFF Website www.dwiff.org

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Just when I thought I had grown up and found “better” alternatives to trusty Taco Bell, they come out with this… its hard to pass up for $5. Its the Cinnamon Twists that really put it over the top, its usually hard to justify paying for the sugared Styrofoam… but here they are included with the meal!

• One Club Chalupa
• One Crunchy Taco
• One Bean Burrito
• One order of Cinnamon Twists
• And of course, a bottomless beverage

What more could you ask for? Way to go Taco Bell!

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• He was in that one movie as a dull teacher who kept repeating “Bueler”…
• He was the casual genius on that one kooky game show in the 90s…
• He’s the right wings answer to Michael Moore!

Just watched Ben’s movie “Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed” last night. It was a lot more fun than I was anticipating… which means it has been a while since I appreciated just what a fun guy Mr. Ben Stein is. I really enjoyed the movie, in much the same way I have enjoyed Michael Moore’s movies… just without the downer hangover afterwards. Ben is just really cool. He opens up a lot of cans in this little movie… I will think through some of it and return…

You only have to read a little bit of Ben’s wit to appreciate him…

• Ben on Snopes
• Ben’s Website

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In my daily NPR listening I have taken in at least three stories on the emerging technology of FMRI, or Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It is a mashup of technology and medicine in which doctors and scientists are able to effectively see what you are thinking. What’s more, is that after observing the visual response of someones brain for a little while, patterns emerge in which the observer “knows” what you are thinking.

In the past few stories on this technology the application and studies have usually been focused on helping doctors understand how drugs affect patterns in the brain and how people suffering from mental illnesses like schizophrenia may be helped. That is all well and good, but in each story the future application of this mind reading device is hinted to be lie detecting… and of course marketing… I think I am getting sick…


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I am an independent film producer. Independent in the sense that I have just myself and a few friends to team up with on a project. The budgets are determined by us, how much do we want to spend on our movie. These days “independent” movies are popular, mostly because there are a lot of good indie films done through spin off mini studios from the big boys. They receive huge budgets and resources compared to anyone like myself. They also have actual experience… unlike myself… I am a few notches below experienced when it comes to “making movies for real”. Most people that create films with my level of experience end up with something that no one really wants to watch… I have made a few of those. So when you find a truly indie film that is actually watchable… even compelling… its note worthy. These guys are my heroes…

• Primer The Movie
• IMDB For Primer
• Shane Carruth

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Its exciting stuff. Thanks to everyone who has been working to bring this opportunity to Michigan, I hope we are ready…

• Michigan Film Office

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