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I’m a Happier Person, Thanks to My Mac

I’m a Happier Person, Thanks to My Mac

by Ben Saren on Sep Wed, 2009 in Music, Pop Culture

No, seriously. I can honestly say that I’m a happier human being because of my MacBook Pro. My entire life I’ve been very into art, music, and especially the digital forms of those things. So I guess in some respects I’ve always been somewhat of a closet artist, but hadn’t really found my medium yet. [...]

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Passion

Passion

by Ben Saren on Jun Sat, 2009 in Entrepreneurship, Pop Culture, Videos

My first video blog. I think I’m going to start doing this more often. This is also a sort of response to Aaron Irizarry’s video entry, in which he also included me in his wrap up.

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Sixth Photo Meme

Sixth Photo Meme

by Ben Saren on Dec Tue, 2008 in New Media and Web 2.0, Pop Culture, Social Networking

My friend Sooz tagged me in a little Interweb game called Sixth Photo Meme. Basically, Sooz went to her Flickr account, to her 6th page of pictures, and to the 6th picture on that page and then tagged me in the picture. Now although I’m not actually in the picture isn’t the point – the [...]

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Got Five Minutes? Check out Baracky III

by Ben Saren on Sep Sat, 2008 in Politics, Pop Culture

My buddy Sean Coon posted this on his blog and after watching it I just had to post it up on mine too. I try to stay away from politics on my blog and on my Twitter feed, but sometimes I just can’t help myself. Anywhere, here it is, for your viewing pleasure.
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iPhone 3G: One Month Later

by Ben Saren on Aug Mon, 2008 in Gadgetry, New Media and Web 2.0, Pop Culture

So now that I’m a proud, card-carrying Mac dude, although a little embarrassed that it took me this long to see the light, it was inevitable that I was going to get the iPhone 3G. Last year when the first generation iPhone came out I was using a Blackberry Pearl, which I absolutely loved after [...]

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Social Media is Mostly Noise

by Ben Saren on Jul Wed, 2008 in New Media and Web 2.0, Pop Culture, Social Networking

I’m a fan of social media, I am, but it’s noise. Like too much time in the subway, or at the airport, it’s just loud and mostly unpleasant noise. Yet somehow many of us us can’t help but get lured into some of it, like a drunk at a bar fight (I know, odd parallel [...]

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Mobile Evolution & Revolution

by Ben Saren on Jun Tue, 2008 in Gadgetry, New Media and Web 2.0, Pop Culture

When the first iPhone came out last year I stayed away mostly because of price, and because I was warned by numerous people, websites and blogs that a) any first generation device from Apple is for die-hards and early-adopters and b) it wouldn’t be enterprise friendly (e.g., no push email, no syncing, no Exchange support, [...]

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“You’re suspect!”

by Ben Saren on Oct Fri, 2007 in Pop Culture

I was talking with Larry Sullivan this afternoon, and he asked me “why is your blog named ‘your suspect?’ ” I explained briefly and referred him to a scene from Good Will Hunting, a movie I really like, and partly relate to. There’s a scene in particular that… well, here it is…

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Thank you, Radiohead, Thank you!

by Ben Saren on Oct Fri, 2007 in Music, Pop Culture

Radiohead has long been at the forefront of innovation in music, specifically rock and pop, and their music has evolved greatly in the years since The Bends and OK Computer (The Bends still being my favorite) but they’ve really outdone themselves. I have to confess that their recent albums were lackluster for me. They were [...]

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Artbeat 2007

Artbeat 2007

by Ben Saren on Jul Sat, 2007 in Pop Culture

Artbeat
Originally uploaded by Benee
Is getting bigger every year. Chris did a great job with the Citysquares table at Artbeat.

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