Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

When you are a child, your parents are these larger than life figures to you. They hold all the keys to your happiness, they provide you with every need that you have. Growing up you look to them for guidance, for discipline, for laughter and yes, for tears. The things they teach you as a [...]

I have been making an effort to remember to assign categories to my posts – which is haaaard. Remembering I mean. Clicking the little category button is not so hard. But that’s not the point. The point is, my categories are a little whacky and incomplete, so I’m going to try and fix that up. [...]

There has been a lot of buzz about the Maritime lately. Everyone seems to be heading west to the meatpacking district to go to this place. At one of my normal bars one night no less than three groups of people within an hour asked the bartender for directions. Seems like no one knows exactly [...]

I just spent ten minutes in the closet they call the pantry at my office attempting to toss an individual coffee brew cup into the coffeemaker with no success. It was suprisingly satisfying to do that for ten minutes even though I was unsuccessful. If the Olympics come to New York I’m going to submit [...]

I have been wondering when computers would stop looking so fragile. Does anyone else share this thought with me? If our computers are so fast and strong, why do they look like they’ll explode if we set them on the desk the wrong way? I want a computer that looks like it’s actually doing something. [...]

First of all, Red Bull sucks. It tastes bad, and why the hell would you voluntarily drink a chemical mixture that will increase your heart rate and give you the shakes? A couple of cups of coffee will do that to you and it tastes better. Ah, yes, you say, what does one do when [...]

Since I’ve got this new cube now, I’m in a world of exciting seclusion. The higher walls and everything make my day a little nicer from a slacker standpoint except for one small vital thing. The higher walls meant that I can’t see my boss coming until he is right behind me. If I’m really [...]

Gun control in the United States has been a hot political issues for years. The NRA defends their right to bear assault rifles and rocket launchers, while the the bleeding heart liberals complain about the more than 30,000 gun dealths in the U.S. each year, with 2900 child fatalities per year. But amid all the [...]