Posts by: BrianR

Clean Stoves Can Save Lives

By On January 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The World Health Organization reports that around three billion people cook and heat their homes with an open fire that burns biomass such as wood and coal. That’s HALF of all people in the world! Nearly two million people die prematurely from illness attributable to indoor air pollution from household solid fuel use. [...]

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David C. Sutherland III

By On January 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I was reading the Wikipedia page of David C. Sutherland III and discovered he illustrated the first edition rules of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master’s Guide. (Seen to the left.) Very cool to find a peice of the puzzle that is the history of creative work done for early RPG.

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Starting to Get it, Understanding Computer Programming

By On September 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I just discovered Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman aka SICP aka The Wizard Book. It’s a computer science text book that introduces computer programing. It uses Scheme, a dialect of LISP, as the example and basis with which to teach.

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Chapel Hill vs Carrboro

By On September 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Chapel Hill and Carrboro are related but they have significant differences. I love them both like family. I feel like their little brother constantly annoyed with one or the other but will remain steadfastly in love with them both till the day I die.

Many of my fellow Chapel Hillians do not understand these differences. [...]

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Work Different, My Book Project

By On July 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Ok. I said it. I’m writing a book. I’ve avoided saying that out loud or writing it here because I have lots of book ideas. But rarely have they made it this far. This idea has a lot of blood, sweat, time, and ideas behind it. It’s really a result of the past four years [...]

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What is Coworking?

By On July 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Coworking
1. The act of working together to get things done.
2. A global movement of coworkers and coworking spaces.
3. Offices that provided a consistent location for independent workers to be productive.

I’m elaborating on it here rather than using someone else’s definition for a few reasons. One is that I [...]

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Work Different, Number One

By On July 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

My first real job was doing digital print design for a book. It was a eighty page art book with ten pages of full color photography of painting. I had used Apple computers all through college to edit QuickTime movies that became part of video installation art. Then someone asked me if I knew how [...]

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What would Dr. King say right now?

By On May 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Possibly this…

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you [...]

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WCHL Village Pride Award

By On February 23, 2011 · 1 Comment

I was just honored by our local AM radio station WCHL 1360 with the Village Pride Award. A pretty cool thing to receive. Here is the mp3 of their mini peice about me. Thanks to WCHL, Ruby, and Ron Stutts
WCHL Village Pride Award – Brian Russell

A little context: WCHL [...]

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Article about Murray Brothers

By On February 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Holy Pop Culture!, Duke Magazine, Volume 89, No.6, September-October 2003

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