Category: Culture

Moved On

Post author By Kivus
Post date June 18, 2020

As you can see below, the last post that I wrote on this site was in 2017. August 2017, as college football season was about to start. Honestly, I am not sure what occured around that time that made me stop writing, but I am pretty sure part of it was that I grew tired of just doing those link posts (which is mainly what the site had devolved into.)

Since then, most of my online “writing” has been on my Twitter page, or, if it was about Disney, at my Disney focus website Rope Drop [dot] Net. Recently, however, I started writing again over at JohnKivus.com (which, actually, used to be the domain of my photographer website…probably through about 2012-2013.) If you want to follow my writing, check me out at one of those places. For now, my plan is to just keep this site up as an archive of what I tried to do for a few years.

Other sites

Rope Drop [dnot] Net
JohnKivus.com
Kivus & Camera (Elyssa’s Photography Business)

Culture

Craft Beer Modernization Bill Filed in NC Legislature

Post author By Kivus
Post date April 9, 2017

If NC doesn’t do it, another state will. Might as well keep NC as a great place for craft beer.

Tags beer, north carolina

Culture Sports

North Carolina high school student banned from golf team for getting through school too quickly

Post author By Kivus
Post date March 16, 2017

This is NCAA levels of stupid. The North Carolina high school athletics commission should be ashamed.

Tags north carolina

Culture

Beer lover? “Hop on” this craft brew hotel experience

Post author By Kivus
Post date March 5, 2017

If they made one of these in Asheville it would already be booked for the next 3 years.

Tags asheville, beer, north carolina

Culture Technology

AT&T, Verizon try to prevent ban on text message blocking

Post author By Kivus
Post date November 24, 2015

Shocking. I’m shocked.

Tags at&t, verizon

Culture

Chapel Hill Tom and Chee, and Raleigh Tyler’s Taproom close

Post author By Kivus
Post date November 22, 2015

Major bummer. I liked both of these places.

Tags chapel hill, raleigh

Culture Entertainment Technology

Rdio shutting down, and Pandora will buy its technology

Post author By Kivus
Post date November 16, 2015

This is a bummer. I really liked Rdio, but Spotify ended up interacting directly with apps like RunKeeper that I use all the time, so I switched. I imagine Apple Music helped speed Rdio’s collapse.

Tags music, rdio, spotify

Culture

AB InBev/SABMiller agree to key terms of mega deal

Post author By Kivus
Post date October 16, 2015

That’s one way to try and react to the growing amount of craft beer options.

Tags beer

Culture Sports

NCAA says daily fantasy participation could result in a year of lost eligibility

Post author By Kivus
Post date September 23, 2015

Not a surprise here. These “daily fantasy leagues” are gambling, plain and simple. At least the NCAA is evaluating this appropriately. The NFL and ESPN, meanwhile, talk about the “horrors” of gambling while having 3/4 of their programming sponsored by these ridiculous leagues.

Tags college football, gambling, nfl

Culture Technology

Apple shooting to release car by 2019

Post author By Kivus
Post date September 21, 2015

As you might expect, I am interested in seeing what comes out of this.

Tags apple, apple car

Culture Software

Tips for People New to Slack

Post author By Kivus
Post date September 17, 2015

As more and more people start to use *Slack* to communicate, the tips in this article might be useful.

Tags slack

Culture

Celebrate the Art of Craft Beer

Post author By Kivus
Post date September 15, 2015

A cool guest post by Landon Biehl on *NC Beer Guy* discussing some of the reasons why people like craft beer. I admit, I am kind of a craft beer guy.

Tags beer, north carolina

Culture

Optimus Prime Transforming Birthday Cake

Post author By Kivus
Post date September 2, 2015

This is amazing.

Tags transformers

Culture

The Most “Timeless” Songs of All Time

Post author By Kivus
Post date September 1, 2015

This was really, really interesting.

Tags music

Culture Productivty Technology

Brett Terpstra gives some tips on how to Write Better Markdown

Post author By Kivus
Post date August 24, 2015

None of these are earth shattering, but I would recommend that anyone who writes Markdown take a look at them.

Tags Markdown, productivity

Culture

NC craft beer industry now tops in the South

Post author By Kivus
Post date August 21, 2015

> The [original estimate 300 new job created by the craft beer industry] was off by 2,700 jobs. And that’s just the number working in North Carolina’s 132 craft breweries. If you add related jobs, including servers, delivery truck drivers, beer shop cashiers and hop and barley growers, Erik Lars Myers, president of the N.C. Craft Brewers Guild, says the number is closer to 10,000.

If you love craft beer, you really can’t do better than what we have in North Carolina.

Tags beer, north carolina

Culture Software

∞ Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it

Post author By Kivus
Post date July 25, 2015

When one of the most popular Apple writers pens a piece like this, there are some *real* problems with the service. The more I read about it, the more I am glad I just stuck with Spotify.

Tags apple, apple music

Culture

Rise plans to open north Raleigh location

Post author By Kivus
Post date July 25, 2015

I think donuts and biscuits from Rise are delicious. I go there rarely, however, because the ordering experience (lines, structure of the queue, etc..) is horrific. I hope they fix that in this new location.