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My favorite local magazine, The Capital Gains, asked to interview me about why I use foursquare. Only two or three sentences of my interview are going to be printed so I figured I would post the entire transcript here.
[Capital Gains Media] - Why do you play foursquare?
[Travis Stoliker] - I don’t “play” foursquare really. […]

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When we are growing up descriptions of events and people are always simplified into a neat story that is memorable and clear. Any fine details that deviate from the simple message we are trying to deliver are ignored in an effort to keep the story simple and easy to understand for the child.
We tell our […]

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This issue is very important to our country so I wanted to try to make it as simple as possible - a lot of facts are glossed over. Here is my best shot at the Valerie Plame incident in plain English.
President Bush and Vice President Cheney wanted to go to war with Iraq. Their […]

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I spoke at the East Lansing Rotary meeting this week. Subject: New Marketing, New World. This was an extemporaneous talk that included a 8 minute video called “Did you know 2.0″ and a Question and Answer session. The talk was 40 minutes and completely free form, so please excuse the many mistakes.
I removed […]

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This is a video that I used in my presentation to the East Lansing Rotary today. Thank you

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Here is the transcript of my speech today. Video is processing now and will be online soon.
Update: Video up

“Thank you very much for the honor of speaking to you, the future leaders of our community. Congratulations to all the graduates. Whether you realize now or not, your successful graduation today is a cumulative […]

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A few recent website and press mentions:
Microsoft.com feature about how Liquid Web uses Microsoft servers.
CapitalGains Magazine featured me in their article “10 People to Follow on Twitter”
WILX interviewed me for their story, “Digital Dirt”

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c
CNBC Gives Financial Advice

Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri Martin
Political HumorEconomic Crisis

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Mona from WLNS did a story on an unfortunate study released which indicates many Michigan cities will be seeing increased unemployment for 2009. Fortunately, Liquid Web is hiring so they came out to interview us about our growth and hiring projections.

Transcript:
“Don’t look for the hiring slowdown to change any time soon.
According to the most recent […]

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On March 2, 2009 I went to see Richard Dawkins give a lecture at Michigan State University’s Wharton Center. I have watched hundreds of Dawkins videos on Youtube and I think that his speech at MSU was very, very, tame. The question and answer section was pretty good though. It was moderated, so the questions […]

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I’m getting a little better at double bass but I still have a long way to go. Practice today.

Sloppy earlier thing…

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This is something I thought you should be aware of…
The Posse Comitatus Act is intended to prevent the government from being able to use the federal army for domestic security. The Posse Comitatus Act is why you don’t see tanks rolling down Main Street.
Constitutionally, and through legislation, state and local governments are responsible […]

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My favorite Michigan band is getting together for another holiday show this year. I’m very excited. They are fucking awesome live. As you will see below.

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“Americans will remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday.” - George Carlin

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I am voting for Barack Obama.

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Less than a week to election. I’m deciding who I will be voting for. Will my McCain friends, please provide me some reasons to vote for him?via Ping.fm - 12:41am - 21 Comments
Jim at 12:56am October 29 - He’s only slightly less liberal that Barack.
Don at 1:04am October 29 - Pity vote?
Jim […]

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As a follow up to my post on Not In Our Name I put together a short video that I shot at the peace protest in Lansing on February 15, 2003.
I decided to post this because many people, including one of my college professors, wrongly think that everyone believed the lie’s that lead to […]

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On March 23, 2002 an organization was founded called Not In Our Name (NION) to make a statement of conscious against the United States governments actions following the attack on September 11th. NION’s statement of conscious included:
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in […]

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From the time that the “bailout” was originally proposed to the time it was actually ratified, a lot of non-bailout items were added to pork-it-up. Here are some of them:
“Sec. 503. Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows designed for use by children.”
“Sec. 317. Seven-year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track […]

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Eric Schmidt solves the energy crisis in 1 hour with detailed math calculations to justify his case. Long story short, Nuclear is too costly to justify any additional plants, off-shore drilling is a loser, solar thermal is extremely viable and wind is as reliable as coal.
Some other key points from Eric and the […]

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