Posted in Modern life, tagged "election 2008", humor, politics on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Congratulations to Majorly English for coming up with the best metaphor for the recent democratic primary runoff I think I’ll ever see.
Posted in Articles, Modern life, tagged tales of the weird on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The Associated Press
Whew. Don’t know how many nights I laid awake worrying about that doctrinal dilemma…
Posted in "Johnstown PA", Modern life, tagged blogs on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of few people who can consistently find something funny to say about Johnstown is apparently deciding to call it quits.
It will be a shame to see you guys go. Good luck.
EDIT: Well, it seems like they decided to reconsider. Cheers to more posts on Chandran Vora and Chicken Charlie!
Posted in Modern life, tagged Cloverfield, movies on January 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What a happy, feel-good little movie that was.
Yoy.
Posted in "Johnstown PA", Modern life, tagged my dad-his church, sad day on October 14, 2007 | No Comments »
All I can say right now is I’m glad my father didn’t live to see this:
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_286233736.html
…it’s sad to sit around and watch an entire town slowly fade away and vanish….
Posted in Modern life, tagged Google Streetview on October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today Google anounced six new cities to their Google Maps Sreet View including, of all places, Pittsburgh. It includes such shots as this slick view inside the Fort Pitt Tunnel.
They seem to have made as far east on Route 30 as St. Vincent College, which I’m sure had nothing to do with Steeler training camp.
(in [...]
Posted in Modern life, tagged Christmas, Rampant Consumerism, Shopping on October 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Okay, in case you don’t know, every year Neiman-Marcus offers a one-of-a-kind, outrageous, “blockbuster” Christmas gift, think the very Aston-Martin that appeared in the latest James Bond movie.
This year, this is what N-M is offering as the ultimate Christmas gift. And this, THIS, is why Neiman-Marcus is the bestest department store EVAR.
The Jeff Han Interactive Touch [...]
Posted in Modern life, tagged cellphones, consumerism, LG 10000, LG Voyager on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/09/05/lgs-vx10000-and-vx8800-touchscreen-spyshots/
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/09/29/verizons-juke-pearl-venus-and-voyager-get-outed/
http://www.verizonwireless.com/next
…I’m going to go ahead and profess my mad love for a cellphone that hasn’t even been released yet. My only complaints are that the camera is reportedly still only 2MP and now the sliding lens cover has been taken back off.
… a touchscreen front, widescreen format internal screen, and Mobile TV kinda make up [...]
Posted in Modern life on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
I saw this on Cnet and decided to check it out:
http://www.tafiti.com/
(you must install Silverlight to use it)
Check out the Tree View…do things like drag multiple clippings onto the glass shelf or close out one search term to get back to an older search on a lower scrap of paper (you’ll see what I mean).
I ran [...]
Posted in Modern life on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I should refer back to this every time I get myself caught up in the old “could’ve, would’ve, should have” loop:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/08/12/PKMADONNA.DTL
(desperately trying to get over being an artist who doesn’t make anything)
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