Scoop Blog Archive / October 2011

At a gathering with friends last night, we exchanged regrets about the news of Steve Jobs' death.

Later (read: a few beers later), we fell into a debate over who was more influential in our lives: Steve Jobs or Albert Einstein?

The conversation never really settled on a sensible answer. Because it's not a sensible question.

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Our staff photographer, Hayley Young, just alerted me to the fact that an adorable Seattleite named Phillip Lomax has made his way to the bootcamp stage of Simon Cowell's new Idol-esque program called The X Factor.

Here's Lomax keeping it classy in his audition with Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon."

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