Sheepish Grin

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I joined Twitter. Seems like just yesterday/last August that I called it stupid. Ah well.
It turns out it'll probably be pretty useful in promoting my blog and getting info from various news outlets and cool people.
Just chalk it up to a guy named Leo Laporte. He's a tech guru who's on top of the latest trends and all that business. He likes to call it "hand-holding on the information superhighway." And he's super dorky, like me. Anyways, he's talked about Twitter being a sort of finger on the pulse of the web, filtering the staggering terabytes of data that pop up on the internet every second. And since I am a journalist interested in such things, I figured I should probably know the vital signs as much as the next person.
I'll mostly be retweeting (posting something someone else has already posted) and promoting blog posts and my photos on it, but that's okay. That's pretty much what it's for, and what it's evolved into.

Shuffleboard 11

1. "The Departure of Boromir" by Howard Shore from The Fellowship of the Ring
Howard Shore. The man is an enigma to me. He came out of nowhere (for me, at least), wrote hours of outstanding music for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and hasn't written anything close since.
Nevertheless, his music for the epic movies is indeed epic in it's own right.
This track is from the "Complete Recordings" album, which adds even more outstanding music to an already outstanding score. It plays during the fight against the Uruk-Hai near the end of the first movie, playing over Frodo's separation from the Fellowship, and Boromir's heroic last stand to try to save Merry and Pippin.
Shore's sad pieces are heart-rending. Mournful strings, absolutely gorgeous french horn parts, eerie choral parts, and bittersweet oboes make for an earthy-feeling lament that is second-to-none.
Listen to some of it here.

Knee-Jerk

This blog is called THE REACTOR for a reason. I tend to be very opinionated (at the very least, in my own mind) about things that happen from day to day. I have knee-jerk reactions to many things, which sometimes I unfortunately write about and publish without a second thought.
Such is the nature of the blogosphere (+10 points for using that word), and it's not always bad. They say that the first initial reaction to something is usually correct. And I have several test scores in college that would verify that statement.
But sometimes, the knee-jerk reaction is cultivated into an almost reflexive hatred of something, or in this case, someone.