Category Archives: Life

Blog is back online!

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Ben Bromley

I have successfully moved to Richmond, Va. and gotten Internet! More stuff shall be coming soon, but in the meantime I have changed it around so that you can login either with a name and email address or with your … Continue reading →

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Blog outage

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Ben Bromley

This blog is going to be offline for a couple of days; I’m in the process of moving from Chapel Hill, NC to RIchmond, VA.  It’ll be back up when I get internet, hopefully on Tuesday or Wednesday. Cheers!

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Master’s paper update

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Ben Bromley

I’m chugging along on my master’s paper, which is due three weeks from today.  I am finishing up the data collection as we speak, and I want to have a draft finished by next Monday.  What I’ve found so far … Continue reading →

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Browser ennui

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Ben Bromley

I’ve had a problem deciding what web browser I should be using.  I’ve been using Firefox for a long time, but for some reason the current versions on Ubuntu like to freeze a lot, causing me to have to force … Continue reading →

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Under construction

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Ben Bromley

As you may be able to tell, my blog theme now looks very very basic.  Well, for all intents and purposes, it doesn’t have a theme right now.  I’m a compulsive tinkerer, and so I’ve decided that I’m not happy … Continue reading →

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Crowdsurfing

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Ben Bromley

Crowdsurfing, to me, is the most selfish thing someone can do at a concert.  You are making a lot of people, who are there to enjoy the music, hold you up while you float on top of a sea of … Continue reading →

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Education, the American South, and Strangers with Cameras

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Ben Bromley

[Note: This post was crossposted from my Daily Kos account.  Its similar to an earlier post I did, called Stranger With A Camera, but has a more political bent than the anthropological bent of the first post.] Recently, there has … Continue reading →

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I-40 craziness in Greensboro

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Ben Bromley

I’m a transit nerd.  I like learning about roads, bridges, highways, trains, neighborhoods, and all sorts of elements of history of cities.  In Greensboro, there is a part of I-40 that is just ridiculous.  I-40, along with I-85, used to … Continue reading →

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Movie filming in my apartment

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Ben Bromley

Over the weekend my friend Josh Clayton filmed some shots for his movie “The Virgins” in my apartment.  I took some pictures of the filming process. Here’s Josh and his director of photography, Aravind, setting up for a shot in … Continue reading →

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Stranger With A Camera

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Ben Bromley

Today, at my work, we watched a film called Stranger With A Camera, which told the story of murder of a Canadian filmmaker, Hugh O’Connor, by Hobart Ison when O’Connor was filming a family who lived in a rental house … Continue reading →

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