Scott Morey
Technologist, Traveler & Human Being
Elizabeth Warren: Soothsayer and Smartie
So Elizabeth Warren is a Harvard Professor, lead the congressional oversight committee for the bank bailout, and is currently being considered to run the Consumer Finance Protection Agency. She is also a genius, a great communicator, and overall badass with the ability to make scummers like Timothy Geithner squirm. She also predicted the current financial / debt crisis 3-4 years before it happened.
In the video lecture below, she explores the crisis that the American middle class faces by comparing spending and income of families in the 1970′s with spending today. It is a long lecture, but you owe it to More >
Getting There, Getting a Toothbrush, and Getting Started
Well for those of you who don’t follow my Facebook/Twitter feeds, my voyage to Geneva was kind of a bad deal. You can check out the Twitter feed to the right if you want some of the details, but the bottom line (I love that phrase) is that I ended up getting there about 12 hours later than I was suppose to and without the luggage that I had checked. This luggage contained all of my clothes and toiletries, and after traveling for 24 hours straight I was definitely in need of both. So after escaping the airport, taking the More >
Returning to Geneva
Tomorrow morning I depart on a journey that will take me to Geneva, Switzerland. Upon returning I will have completed my Masters in Education and will rejoice in being done with school (until the next episode). This will be my second visit to Geneva as part of my graduate program and as the moment of departure approaches, my excitement about this trip increases.
Geneva is a pretty awesome place and my residence during my stay, the John Knox Center, is perhaps the most idyllic location on the planet. Nestled in the hills of Grand-Saconnex, a suburb of Geneva the boarders France, More >
WordPress, OS 10.6, Php.ini and Almost Going Crazy
So I am new at this whole WordPress game. Having developed some pretty nice chops in Ruby on Rails the last year or so, I figured I was too hip for an out of the box CMS system. However, after lamenting the mobile apps support that I could provide myself using a homegrown rails blog, I decided to install WordPress on my MacMini web server and am very happy that I did.
WordPress provides an elegant interface that allows me to do pretty much everything I want to do (including changing the entire look and feel via some simple css and More >
My Front Lawn vs. Cherry Festival Parade
So this was my first Cherry Festival as a home owner in downtown Traverse City. This past Saturday was the last day of the festival. Among other activities that day was the Cherry Royale (or something like that) parade. Having only attended small scale parades in the past, I didn’t think all that much about the parade route running by my front lawn. I was surprised when I came home from a late day of Interlochen webcasting on Friday to find strings of chairs tied to street signs. 6:00 am Saturday morning, I was awoken by a porta-potty being installed More >