The JMS 108: Karaoke Theory
Posted by Josh | Filed under Me, The Josh Mormann Show
Lovin the early U2, and mentioning the new reissues coming soon this year. Ultimately however, I blabber about my basic theory of Karaoke; because hey, I got to do the karaoke tonight!
Music Played
* A Day Without Me by U2
* Walk On By by Deliliah Why
The JMS 098: Stressed Beyond Words
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I’m stressed out, I haven’t had any alone time, or any down time to recuperate. I dabble with the idea of taking tomorrow off, but I feel much better now after two Gin and Tonics while out hanging with Drew.
Music Played:
* Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes by Beck
* Govinda by Kula Shaker (link goes to Karaoke version)
The JMS 067: Y and I are the Same!
Posted by Josh | Filed under Me, The Josh Mormann Show
I really just go off on a tangent, and lose track of any semblance of showmanship. If you want to know more about my history, and underachiever opinions, download this one baby!
Music Played:
* Digital Love by Daft Punk
* Green by Edie Brickell
Yup It’s Me
Posted by Josh | Filed under Me
My name is Joshua August Mormann, and this is my website and portal to my Podcast called the Josh Mormann Show, or the JMS for short. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the episode download link on each episode listed on the home page, or you can click one of these links below:Subscribe: 
Vote: 
This website isn’t the only place you can find out about me. I have varying levels of information about myself on many other sites, and here are a few (ranging from give a crap down to couldn’t):
- StumbleUpon.com
- LinkedIn.com
- Fictionomicon.blogspot.com
- Digg.com
- Pownce.com
- Facebook.com
- imeem.com
- Twitter.com
- MySpace.com
Aside from what I am willing to tell people I don’t even know, I’ll tell you directly, that I’m a 34 year old libertarian graphic designer for a small industrial electronics OEM in Walpole Massachusetts, with an interest in magick and the occult, personal psychology, and self improvement.
I’ll probably get fancier about this self talk when it comes back up in my tickler file (that sounds gross) I wonder if David Allen ever considered that.
Old Articles Added
Posted by Josh | Filed under Me
Well I’ve added some old articles. The dates aren’t exactly right though I’m afraid. I was digging through my MacJournal and found many items, however they were pulled from old blogs, and didn’t have correct dates, but they will at least display in proper order.
There is more where these came from, and I will continue to add them to this site, but for now, here are the “way back” Links:
- Losing My Mormonism
- Moving On
- We’re Headed Somewhere
- The Endless Benefits of Blind Faith
- Note to Self: Premise for a Book
A Bit of an Update
Posted by Josh | Filed under Me, Meaningful Labor
I have held off again at putting together a “WOW” of a site, and traded in for a something I could get done in a day. The look is obviously a bit more personalized, but the majority of the CSS is still the standard default from a Textpattern CMS install. I’m not in love with it, but it’s a bit more mine, and I feel a bit more comfortable exposing myself with it.
You’ll notice on the left, that I have updated the links. These are all links to my various profiles available throughout the web. I’m also going to post a bunch of my older stuff as well. So if all goes well, and I don’t get Buffy side-tracked, there should be several “new” entries appearing in order of when they were first published on earlier and various blogs I’ve hosted in the past.
Added: It looks like I’ve gotten side-tracked by a missing feature of Textpattern rather than more Buffy. I can’t adjust the date of the posted documents without going directly into the database (as far as I’ve been able to figure). I’ll have to hold off on adding old content until I have this figured out.
Added: Now I have it figured out, but now it’s time for bed… Tomorrow this shall be done.
A Good “Life Hack” to start with
Posted by Josh | Filed under Hope for the Future, Me, Meaningful Labor
Some really good advice and perhaps the best introduction to the concept of a life hack. Some of these ways go hand in hand with what I was saying in my last post, making me feel somewhat vindicated in my words, and some stand on their own, causing me to consider altering my points made just a little. You’ll notice though, that it’s worded like a collection of “that shalts” and “shalt nots,” and I find that interesting because it gives me food for a theory I plan on putting in essay form for you somewhere in the future, and that is that all laws and commandments are written with the intent to compel people to live good advice, rather than just being good advice. I have a lot of research yet to do, but I promise to site all my sources.
Reading Myself Write
Posted by Josh | Filed under Me, Meaningful Labor
None of the following is going to be much of a revelation to anyone but me, and to me, the following already has been my revelation. That being said however, I think I’ve finally made it past some interesting road blocks in my life both mentally and professionally in the past few hours.
It is often fascinating to me how these eye-opening experiences come about in my life. As much as one should probably quiet ones mind I always divine my answers from recognizing the wise tones of thought that are occasionally audible amidst the cacophony of my ordinary thoughts.
Today, while staring, in growing frustration at my computer screen, that has yet to display any good news for my endless, but still limited (by funding) efforts in the unfortunately necessary voodoo practice of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a small thought hit me. The thought didn’t come to me unaided mind you, it was sparked by the great Jacob Jaffe, when he was defending his blogging on a recent Podcast of his.
Lately, I have noticed an increase in frustration caused by a condition I call EIOT or endless interest in other things. Call it ADD if you like but my girlfriend has some pretty intolerant views on it being a condition treatable by anything but one’s on psyche. I have contradicting views to hers, but they aren’t to be explained in this entry.
Because I rarely focus on any given personal project long enough to even start it, let alone finish it, I have yet to get serious about any one of my Internet-based projects. I have an almost pathological tendency to create new ideas before any earlier ideas can make it to the starting line. My interests are varied, and divers. As a result, my growing desire to both compartmentalize my ideas, and plan them out, puts all my ideas, and would be dreams into a holding pattern while the next distracting idea comes to the surface. Often the distracting idea comes to this “surface” as a direct result of my attempts to compartmentalize, and plan the earlier ones. Basically if I were some kind of a fractal, or plant like organism, I would have very short branches, that branch off quickly, no trunk like a tree, more like a moss, or one of those fungi that look like moss.
Jaffe mentioned how he makes no attempt to excuse himself for his blog, and how the material covered isn’t going to be directly related to his main drive of marketing, he writes about what ever he wishes, and whenever he wishes. Because his main interests are in the Marketing industry, his blog is primarily marketing related, but there is no reason he can’t have photos of his family, or stories about his own efforts in weight loss, or anything else that he might want to cover.
Why this has been such a difficult albeit liberating concept for me to discover on my own is beyond me. So, as scatterbrained, and poorly written this entry is, this is the entry that explains that, I’m going to begin my Blog for real now. Anything I want to cover here, I will [Dammit].
As part of this declaration of Blogging Liberty, I will begin with what works out to be both an apology and a warning:
To my family and friends who think I am still a soft-spoken, word of wisdom-keeping, youth leader for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I don’t mean to offend you, or hurt your feelings, but if you’ve always thought of me as a roll model for your children, now is a time to reconsider the notion. I have been my own self since I was born over 34 years ago, but as of 4 years ago, I started living my own self too. I’ve taken a few people with me along the way so my words can be mind altering at times. I do as I wish, and I say what I wish, and I expect others to do the same. it has always been kept to my much closer, and much more understanding social circle. Blogs [of mine] in the past that have hosted my true feelings have been shut down due to hurt feelings, but the words that were once removed, will now be placed here, for people to read and associate to truly be from yours truly.
I now believe, and will likely be writing about things related to the following:
There are two forces in the universe, and we need both, one is often considered positive, and the other is often considered negative. Together they create all things. Without opposites, we would have nothing, and nothing in itself is but a cancellation of the two, and therefore has its place in this universe as well.
All things are relative to one’s own perspective, and desires. What is good for one, can and often is bad for another, therefore nothing is Truly Bad, or Truly Good, things just are what they are, and we attach our own meanings.
All rules are a collective attempt to compromise on ideals for the purposes reducing moral relativity. By attempting to establish a right and a wrong, [and therefore a good and bad] organizations, be they governments, religions, fraternities or families can move in their own ways toward their collective goals. I don’t believe this is wrong, this just was is, and why it happens.
We are entitled to our own beliefs, and theories, but we must remember that they are only that, and that they may not truly be our own. In point of fact, our feelings and beliefs may be and are actually more likely to be those of a group that we participate in, be it intentionally organized, or of more organic origin.
These Truths do not need to be accepted on my word, but can be learned at any level of magnitude or magnification one may wish to examine them. Whether one seeks the knowledge through chemical or meditative means one will learn that one there is no difference between chemical and meditative other than method, and two, that I speak only the Truth.
Water seeks its own level, but water can be calm as glass, or as destructive as a Tsunami as it seeks it.
I will be blogging about: sex, drugs, music, habits, tastes, shows, obsessions, religions, philosophy, magick, the occult, the obvious, conspiracies and memes, my day job, my personal projects, and anything else I hope I won’t be a wimp and apologize for.
From the iPhone
Posted by Josh | Filed under Hope for the Future, Me
Well in fact I am not actually writing this from the iPhone at the moment. The point is though, that I will be. I have decided to keep taking the MBTA to work and save money a little longer before buying the car. I have so many things I’d like to do, that buying a car right now would really cramp my finances. I did however buy the premiere smart phone to take care of business while I ride. I have found that taking the train home is just enough (ordinarily) to lose any steam for trying to get my personal projects done. So now, between my laptop, and internet/phone connectivity, I should be able to get started on any of my personal projects before the MBTA lulls me to a TV-watching, beer-drinking stupor. The plan is that by the the inertia of getting at least something done while riding home, will be enough to over come the current standard of my effectiveness/lack thereof when I get home.
I’m not here yet
Posted by Josh | Filed under Me
I like text pattern, and I like the notion that I’ve finally considered putting up one site that covers all the projects I’ve worked on, but at the moment, I haven’t really done it. I have plenty of ideas, and they’ve been scratched out on my legal pads, and molskines but they don’t show up here yet.
They will though. Rest assured. There may be a bit of a drag added to the existing friction of getting this thing off the ground though, due to the fact that I now have begun considering the use of MT4 Beta. I have always loved MT over any other CMS on the web, but their pricing has prohibitted me, so I’ve been scrolling down to my second favorite TXP lately. This new “Open Source” Deal with MT4 has me licking my lips a bit tough, and scratching my head a bit…
