Logan Frederick

Catch-up Update #1: First Year of College

Logan Frederick — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:48:12 +0000

I severely slacked at my blogging during my first year of college. The emphasis is on “at my blogging”, as I have certainly not been slacking at my work. One would think I’d take Spring Break to relax as opposed to crank up the mojo more, but that one person would be wrong. The tens of [...]

The Escapist: A Two-Year Retrospective

Logan Frederick — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:58:31 +0000

August 22nd marked my two-year anniversary as a News Reporter for The Escapist Magazine. Hitting the two-year mark at the end of my high school and adolescence has made me look back on my time there. I’ve also been asked a few times about the back story behind my joining of the team, and figured [...]

Worst Colleges in America 2008

Logan Frederick — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:54:09 +0000

It’s that time of year. For many of us, we have started our freshman year at the institution of our choice and have nearly completed the first quarter or semester. Dorms, parties, books, freedom, they’re all part of what makes the college experience great. Then again, there’s that scary possibility that maybe you’re not going to [...]

Lessons from Lost Time

Logan Frederick — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:55:20 +0000

The coldest blood runs through my veins. You know my name. The proceeding post will seemingly lack cohesion. Think of it as a metaphor for life, one not viewed as the continually flowing that it truly is but as an amalgamation of eras marked by major, life-defining events. The expected articles for the month of October [...]

Giant Realm and Google Android

Logan Frederick — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:31:49 +0000

**Note: Technical difficulties are delaying the Economics of the Candidates series. I’m doing my best to hurry the process.** Expanding beyond the world of Escapist writing, I have landed a position as an occasional editorialist for Giant Realm, a site for “Stuff That Doesn’t Suck.” With such a descriptive caption, one might not understand that it’s a [...]

Logging Out

Logan Frederick — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:50:17 +0000

No phones, no lights, no motor cars, not a single luxury, like Robinson Crusoe, it’s primitive as can be…. I was profusely salivating, drool flinging from my mouth with every angered snap at the computer. My eyes were enraged. All because I had been blocked. When you’re a computer nerd who doubles as a writer for an [...]

Economics of the Candidates

Logan Frederick — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:01:13 +0000

It’s time to cut through the crap. There hasn’t been enough publicly written that rebuffs the blatantly liberal bias of the internet and media and isn’t purchased by the conservative corporations. With only two parties able to win the presidency, the options are solidly placed on separate sides of the political spectrum with no truly [...]

US Government Bails Out Top Two Mortgage Giants and Brief Comments on the Housing Fiasco

Logan Frederick — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:12:53 +0000

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the two largest mortgage companies in America with their roots stemming back to the Great Depression when FDR formed them as part of his New Deal to handle the majority of America’s mortgages and mortgage repackaging. Ever since, these two government-sponsored institutions have monopolized the mortgage market. This means [...]

Google Chrome

Logan Frederick — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:45:19 +0000

Google, the icon of Internet companies, recently released Chrome, an open source browser set to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, as well as Firefox, for which Google is its largest customer. The browser itself is still in beta, like GMail and every other Google service, and I expect it’ll stay that way [...]

McCain Taps Female For VP

Logan Frederick — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:57:48 +0000

Whoever wrote CNN’s headline “McCain taps Alaska Gov. Palin as vice president pick” has a dirty sense of humor that I applaud. Governor Palin has been in office for two years, a degree in Communications/Journalism (so I’m betting she’s great at PR handling), and has a decently pretty face for 44. Pregnancy rumors and bothersome ex-brother-in-laws aside, [...]