November 10, 2008
October 28, 2008
Check out this link for the most awesome cat-house.
October 21, 2008
Solar Power 2008 - Roundtable
a discussion with 3 Solar companies - news & challenges in the Solar field
October 19, 2008
wow
Hey, you there, lower right-hand corner, please win. Please.
August 31, 2008
Get In The House!
In The BURGH, Baby!
Crappy resolution, but you get the idea.
Yeah, the Pirates got their asses handed to them by the visiting Brewers, but whatever. It was a perfect night to be at the ballpark & PNC Park in Pittsburgh is a true gem.
Now, I am not a bonified true-blue baseball fan, but I grew up going to loads of Pirate games at Three Rivers Stadium with my best friend Amy. Her dad, Nellie King, was the announcer for the Bucs along with 'The Gunner' Bob Prince. Amy & I would run around Three Rivers, eat a bunch of crap, try to make each other laugh in the announcer's booth (& then be asked to leave), sneak around into areas that where we were not supposed to be, and generally terrorize everyone. Oh yeah, & watch some Bucco baseball. I have very fond memories of that time in my life, so going to a ball game with Amy last night was a special treat. Before we went to the park, we drove out to visit Mr. King. I haven't seen the Big Guy in many years. He is one of a kind & I love him. I don't have the words to convey the depth of my emotions, but yesterday was great.
February 23, 2008
New lemony-fresh candy shell
Well, it's more yellow than cream ... but it's worlds better than it was.
Subprime crisis explained nicely - using stick figures
Here's a brilliant explanation of the subprime clusterfuck that even a 3rd grader could follow.
It's also quite humorous, in that extremely nauseating kind of way.
February 02, 2008
Maybe I just don't pay attention...
but I swear I did not know this: My Mother's Father's Father's Mother was from Dublin, Ireland. She married a man named Goings & they lived next door to the Comings. He was in the import export business. I know. It sounds like the beginning of a corny joke. But this was told to me tonight by my mom.
Now, mom is enjoying the early stages of dementia, so is any of this fact-based? I don't know. Because, honestly, I don't ever remember her telling me this. I thought all my ancestry was English. But now I learn I have some distant Irish blood in me. Or maybe she has told me this several times throughout my lifetime & since I too have been enjoying my own version of dementia I just have no memory of it.
Now, according to mom, her Father's Father was a real crass son-of-a-bitch, who's family gave him $100K to LEAVE the country (the country being England). So he moved his wife & 7 kids! to America.
My flight down to see mom was the worst flight I've ever been on in my life. It was ridiculously turbulent. They had us in a holding pattern over Philly for over an hour while the winter storm kicked our collective asses all over the not-so-friendly skies. It was insane. I took 1/2 a xanax & listened to the guy behind me throw-up! Then some woman 3 rows up threw-up. It was super. By the time I got to Greensboro I didn't even care that they had left my bag in Philly. Really. I wasn't mad at all. I was like "of course it's in Philly. But you know what? I didn't die in a fiery plane crash, so whatever. bring it by the hotel when you get it & god bless."
January 20, 2008
so this is cool
TerraPass is a web site where you can learn all about how you & all your bullshit is contributing to the demise of the planet.
The good news is there are things you can do right now to help make things better: buy carbon offsets, learn how much CO2 you are creating, buy energy saving products, get conservation tips...
All my Earth day gifts will be purchased here. Keep an eye out for your plastic bag dryer.
December 31, 2007
Happy Next Year
We'll end & begin with Namaste
A greeting, a prayer, an acknowledgment that all things are sacred.
I honor the place in you
where the entire universe resides
I honor the place in you
of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place in you where,
If you are in that place in you
And I am in that place in me,
There is only one of us
Vermont visit - July 2007
- Holly & I drove up to Vermont last weekend to see Sheri & Jess & their country home. What a beautiful state!
Columbus Circle + The King Award
- Holly & I ventured to Columbus Circle this weekend. The Time Warner Center is there, full of shops & restaurants that I will never be rich enough or Republican enough to shop in or dine in. Lot's of cute puppies everywhere.
Carolina Beach
- 1 week in NC watching the waves. Sweet stuff.
Green-Wood Cemetery
- Sunday, Holly & I took a fieldtrip to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Founded in 1838, it's one of the "world's great historic cemeteries". It is huge & chock full of catacombs & crypts & mausoleums & towering granite & marble monuments. Throw in several lakes, a crematory & over 1/2 million dead people & you've got yourself a primo dead-zone. Too bad the day was so sunny & blue. This place is probably fantastically creepy on rainy, foggy days. We'll go back.
New Mexico trip
- Pictures from our trip to the beautiful & odd state of New Mexico - witnessed mostly from the inside of a speeding car.
Hudson, NY
- A few shots from the new neighborhood. Hudson is a great mix of really old, not so old, kind of old, new that wants to look old & new. Throw in some weird & well, there you go.
Fall 2006
- Color coded for your viewing pleasure
On the way to NC
- Dad is .... and then I always pause. Dad is..... Dad is..... out of the hospital & back at the assisted living home with his wife. He is playing host to a swarm of cancer tumors. He will not magically survive this. But he's a fighter, Mother Fucker. He's a God Damned fighter & he is doing just that. For how long is anyone's guess. But for now, he is home.
Little town in lights
- December 2nd was Hudson's 2006 Winter Walk http://www.hudsonoperahouse.org/winterwalk.html Hudson is a great little town & well suited for holiday decorations & both organized & spontaneous festivities. We enjoyed the lights, took some photos & then went to the grocery store (good feeling gone).
Roaming around our small town
- A chilly, foggy, then not so foggy Saturday in the little town. We met a sweet dog & got to say hi to Tippy at the coffee shop - so it was a good day.
Rockin' Eve '07
- Ringing in the new year 2007 at Victor & Mindy's little pink house in Philmont. Dick Clark looks better. Fiver has the worst breath ever!
