The farther back in time I go, the shorter these lists get. In 1999, my lists record 8 gigs and 11+ bands. It's certainly more than 11 bands because I only recorded a single band for Studio-A-Rama and none for Folk/International, and that's clearly not accurate. Alas, it's as good as we're going to get. Here are the bands my lists remember ( Read more... )

The Fall 1999 semester is where my memory for what happened with pledges joining and brothers graduating and/or leaving starts to get foggy. This is partly because we had had some pretty substantial pledge classes and some pretty significant graduating classes, and partly because I started having more and more activities and interests outside the ( Read more... )

I turned 21 in the Fall 1998 semester, so this seems an apt time to talk about the various bars we hung out in during college. A few places came up in some of the commentary, but a more methodical summary might be fun ( Read more... )

The Fall 1996 semester was my first semester of college. As previously mentioned, at the start of the semester the roster of the house was as follows (listed by year of college, roughly):

Seniors - Some of these may have been super seniors (aka, fifth year seniors)
Dave - From Michigan.
Darin - From the east side Cleveland suburbs. Hudson or Stow ( Read more... )

For most of the last decade, if you googled my given name one of the things that came up in the first ten hits was the web page I had to put up on a CWRU server for ECES 338. It was a kinder, more innocent day. Note the email embedded right in the site for spammers to harvest, and the full name there for google bait. Ah, to be 23 again ( Read more... )

For those of you who graduated from my alma mater and live in the Cleveland area, are any of you going to the alumni event that they are having on Wednesday (1/16)? I wouldn't bother, except that it is at my office, so I don't even have to get up from my desk to attend. If you are going, let me know and you can see my beloved cubicle and play with ( Read more... )