Callie Neylan

Callie Neylan

📍 Seattle, Washington

Me. Singing.

originally uploaded by jasongcampbell. My Tula’s debut, singing with a live jazz trio. This was my set: My Romance Ain’t Misbehavin’ A Kiss to Build a Dream On I’m taking the same jazz vocal workshop spring quarter. Stay tuned….

The Namesake.

originally uploaded by Neylano. I went to see The Namesake at the Uptown last weekend with a friend. It was a great movie; good storyline, compelling characters. What I liked most, though, was the cinematography. Like the movie Brokeback Mountain, every frame of this film could have been made into

Crêpes Voilà.

If you’re ever in downtown Seattle, you HAVE to eat here at La Crêperie Voilà. Their stuff is sooooooooooo good and so authentically French. My favorite crêpe is the red pepper, goat cheese, and spinach. And then Nutella and bananas for dessert. Yum!

Rethinking the Remote.

Wow. This is interesting to see given that one of my class assignments with Axel was to rethink the remote. Introducing The Loop. Interesting….

Very clever.

An experimental interface of sorts. But actually pretty lo-tech.

Why I went to grad school.

“Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.” – William Lyons Phelps When you’re already $39,000 in student loan debt for your undergraduate education

Happy birthday to me.

IF APRIL 14 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: Pass a few tests and you will be certified to succeed. Between now and the end of July, don’t take vacations or launch new initiatives and be a stickler about taking care of key responsibilities. In August concentrate on business rather than pleasure,

Digital Ethnography: The Democratization of Grief.

I’ve been fascinated by the news coming out of Virginia about the mass murder there. While viewing profiles of the victims on the New York Times online, I noticed that they are listing links to the Myspace and/or Facebook pages of the deceased. It’s downright eerie – macabre

First it was Blacks and cocaine,....

then it was Mexicans and marijuana. Now it’s Muslims and khat. Apparently, the Feds are now going after Northern Africans and Arabs who import and chew khat, a relatively harmless plant that’s grown in the mountains of East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It is mainly consumed (via

I love Kurt Vonnegut.

originally uploaded by Supercapacity. I’d heard of him before he died last week, but had never read any of his stuff. But since his death was highly publicized, now I have. That’s the bright side of famous writers dying; they’re so eloquently eulogized on NPR that I