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I'm Brent. I do Internet marketing and run a stock picking community website. My job and heart are still in Chicago, but I'm telecommuting from Cincinnati. I do a little longform blogging at billock.net and I tweet as @BrentBillock.
I really like motorcycles, guitars, and good design.

I really dig this.

theotherlives: “For 12” from 4eyes.tv session. 

Condescending Wonka is my new favorite meme.

Condescending Wonka is my new favorite meme.

And I have trouble keeping track of four.

And I have trouble keeping track of four.

Ha!

Ha!

He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn’t the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn’t get along well with others.

—Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Fair enough.

Fair enough.

I’m sorry too, Siri. 
I’m sorry too.

I’m sorry too, Siri. 

I’m sorry too.

52 degrees at lunchtime today. That was fun until the rain started.

52 degrees at lunchtime today. That was fun until the rain started.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Merry Christmas everybody!

It’s a single from my long awaited Christmas Album, done at last. 

Ok, so it’s a 4-song Christmas EP, but it’s done, and I’m pressing a dozen of them and handing them out to friends and family. I set this goal about 10 months ago and had many doubts about whether I’d actually ship anything.

I thought a Christmas Album would give me the best chance of teaching myself how to use Garageband to record, mix and produce, without worrying too much about being perfect or artistically precious with it.

It’s already led to one paid gig making original music, so I’m really glad I followed through, and I hope you enjoy this example of the final product.

I AM getting older

So all these people are noting the passage of a psychotic dictator who starved his own people to indulge his megalomaniacal and pointless military ambitions…

…and wishing that he “rest in peace?” That’s irony, right?

It seems awfully subtle if it is. Maybe my irony detector’s broken.

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