11.29.2008

I'm currently sitting at what is quickly becoming one of my favorite coffee shops (Spill the Beans in Merrillville, IN) and just can't find any motivation at all.  I've had this problem all Thanksgiving break and I really don't know what is wrong with me.  Hopefully a quick blogpost will get me in the mood to write an economics paper.

Here are a couple links which will hopefully spark your interest.

Been listening to The Escape Frame's self-titled LP.  We have The Hideout spinning at the station and it's the best track, so take a listen.

A couple of my friends signed up for Twitter, so show them some love.  Check out @hcassin, @nathanbanga, @irbylgerbil, @jeff_vu, and @peglegmeg.

Been checking out a bunch of cool blogs lately and you should definitely take a look into them as well.  Zappos's Life Coach blog, Treehugger, and Matt Green's blog are all real great reads.

Alright, now that this is out of my system I can only hope that my paper on trade agreements and their impact on the Austrailan economy writes itself.

-CB

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11.28.2008

Hey everyone,

I have been sitting around at WVUR for a basketball broadcast and figured, what better time to do some updates to my website?

The format and overall look hasn't changed a whole bunch, but there are some changes of note. In the navigation menu to your right, you should now find my résumé. I've kept my recent tweets available for viewing and I would love for you to follow me if you use the service. I've also added a list of blogs I follow and the ability to follow this blog with your RSS reader. As another small addition, I added this widget which lists gives the name of people who enjoy my blog and follow it. I would love to see the names of everyone reading this content I spend time on, so I hope you all check that out and say you follow my blog so that I can check out your blogs or websites as well.

I hope that not all the changes to this blog are cosmetic. I began using Flock as a web browser today and I hope that leads to a couple more posts here and there. The browser makes it real easy to post entries, add pictures, link to cool stories, etc, so I hope to make use of the features and keep entries a little more frequent.

I know, I'm as shocked as you are. As always, send your comments or suggestions to Cameron@CameronBanga.com and I'll be sure to check them out and try to message you back. Definitely let me know what you think about the changes.

-CB

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11.21.2008

Hey everyone,

I know it's been a while since the last post and I wish I could bring better news, but I must inform everyone of a few things which may disappoint.

I know several of you were looking forward to a Four48 marathon this Sunday and I'm going to have to let you all down and let you know that we won't be having an event as planned.

It's not that we didn't try, it's just that a bunch of factors (both technical and timing) didn't work in our favor. Frankly, we wouldn't have enough Four48ers and there were some computer problems we would have to overcome and I just don't feel like we could have provided an interesting or entertaining marathon. It wouldn't be up to Four48 quality standards (as low as those standards may be haha) and the team wasn't cool with that.

Sorry to disappoint anyone who was really looking forward to it, because I was really looking forward to it myself. I really enjoy these things and would have loved to do a 10 year celebration of Ocarina of Time.

As for when the team will be back next, it's a little early to speculate. I would bet that if anything was to occur, it would maybe be in early January, but that would just be speculation.

Questions, comments? E-mail me at Cameron@CameronBanga.com.
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10.30.2008

While I am still rather young, I have never found myself interested in politics before this Presidential election. I guess because I have never had to provide for myself or been forced to think about taxes, health care, education, or other issues that seem to take a fair amount of the focus in any election cycle.

However, Barack Obama has made me think a little differently I guess. While I know many disagree with my points of view, I see Obama as the one person who could bring the change that this country desperately needs.

While I can assume that you have heard of it by now, Senator Obama purchached air time tonight on 7 different television networks to give his closing arguments to the American public. If you didn't check it out, I definitely suggest that you spend a couple minutes taking a watch.


I definitely don't feel like I have the persuasion ability to convince anyone else to think or feel the ways I do, that's not my purpose in this post. If I can do anything though, I do hope that I can encourage you to at least take some time out of your day next Tuesday to vote. Many have fought to give us that future, so use your vote and help make the nation a better place for future generations.
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10.01.2008

So, it's been just over a month since my last blog post (thanks Adam for the friendly reminder).  I know that this extended length of time without a single blurb about my life makes me a horrible blogger and I may just be content with that.  The last 45 days or so have been  blur for me and a great one at that, full of memories I'm not sure I will ever have again in my life and I am super appreciative for that.

To prove that I haven't spent the entire last month eating Twinkies and popping collars (and to provide actual content to this post), I'm going to link over to a couple of other cool things I have been up to.

The biggest event of the last month has been a Relient K concert which the radio station I work for threw on September 27th.  Helping put together a free show for nearly 1000 students was unbelievable.  I got to meet a lot of cool people and see the smiles on many entertained concert-goers.  We got a lot of great pictures taken at the event and I hope to post some here soon.

For those of you who know me personally or have followed the site, you may know that I love to conduct interviews.  I have gotten some sweet interviews recently through work at the radio station, here are some of my favorites.

I am also working weekly on a morning show for my station, WVUR, where we conduct interviews and piece together segments to entertain students and faculty on their drive to class or wake up.  One of our more popular pieces is this psuedo-soap opera called "Pushing It Back."  Take a listen to the first 3 short episodes and let me know what you think.


As the academic year progresses, more and more of my time will be going to the radio station and class work.  I will try to be a little more regular on the blog however and keep posting links to what I am working on.  I should have some sweet interviews lined up here for the morning show soon, with 3OH!3 doing a little over the phone interview with me next week.  If anyone has a suggestion for a possible interview, send me an e-mail.  Heck, if you read this at all, send me an e-mail and let me know what you think of my work.  I love reading feedback.  You can send all electronic transmissions to Cameron@CameronBanga.com.
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