Posted in Digital Media, Pop Culture, tagged Kids, star wars, YouTube on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Saw a link to this video on the Micro Persuasion blog. This little girl is incredibly cute and so well-spoken Check it out…
Posted in Pop Culture, Video Games, tagged Game Developers Conference, indiana jones, LEGO, LEGO Universe, star wars, toys, virtual worlds on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my favorite toys growing up were LEGOs and just last month LEGO celebrated their 50th anniversary. When I was a kid the LEGO craze was somewhat limited to small plastic bricks. Now there are LEGO theme parks, LEGO conventions, and, of course, LEGO video games.
I’ve heard a lot of buzz about the LEGO video games, [...]
Posted in Music, tagged all asia bar, boston music, cambridge, entertainment, hip hop, mic monarch on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
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Mic Monarchy will be playing their first-ever show on Saturday, March 8th at the All Asia Bar in Cambridge, MA. The show is half hip-hop and half stand-up comedy, which means that the performers will alternate between hip-hop acts and comedians. Mic Monarchy will be playing a 20 - 25 minute set [...]
Posted in Sports, tagged new england patriots, nicaragua, super bowl on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
(AP) Managua, Nicaragua - The New England Patriots won the Super Bowl and ended the season with a perfect 19-0 record - at least it looks that way in Nicaragua.
The NFL donated 290 Patriots hats and an equal number of team jerseys trumpeting the slogans “Super Bowl Champions, 19-0″ to impoverished children from two small [...]
Posted in Massachusetts, Work, tagged Commuting, Framingham Worcester, MBTA, Teleport, Train Schedule on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For the past six months or so the Framingham / Worcester line of the MBTA commuter rail has been running off schedule. In my experience, at least every other day the train will be between 5 to 20 minutes late. For someone who just worked a full day and is eager to get home, 10 minutes [...]
Posted in Home, Massachusetts, tagged First Time Home Buyer, House Search, Massachusetts Real Estate, Motley Crew, Real Estate Search on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Lucky for Dorothy, she had a cute 3-bedroom 2-bath house with a picket fence on an 8-acre farm in Kansas to think about when she uttered the famous words “there’s no place like home.” If she were living in an apartment with Auntie Em, Uncle whatever-his-name-was, Toto and the rest of the farm animals, I’m sure [...]
Posted in Misc., tagged carpe diem, HBO, john adams, john f. kennedy, president's day, taxes on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s interesting to look back at how some of our greatest presidents thought about many of the same important issues that are at forefront of the current election - for example, JFK’s take on taxes. From one of my favorite blogs, Carpe Diem, here is JFK in his own words during August of 1962 - John F. Kennedy, [...]
Posted in Public Relations, Video Games, Work, tagged Business Travel, Game Developers Conference, GDC, Public Relations, San Francisco on February 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have a love-hate relationship with business trips. Working at a PR agency means always having to travel to and from conferences, media events, and new business pitches in different parts of the country. In fact, my colleagues are flying out to San Francisco next week to attend the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Even though [...]
Posted in Sports, tagged Daytona 500, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, NASCAR, physics, Tony Stewart on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Attention NASCAR fans (myself casually included) - have you ever wondered what the difference is between the coefficients of static friction and kinetic friction when tires are skidding along a race track, pondered the molecular properties of the drivers’ fire-retardant suits, or stopped to consider the computational fluid dynamics of car racing? Right, probably not. But if [...]
Posted in Music, Pop Culture, YouTube, tagged Beyonce, Grammy, Proud Mary, Tina Turner on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Grammy’s were on last night (if you haven’t already heard or, perhaps, live under a rock). Tina Turner and Beyonce’s performance of Proud Mary was absolutely FABULOUS!
Tina probably could have picked a better outfit (the silver body suit wasn’t extremely flattering for her), but I loved her hair and the overall performance from both of them was [...]
Posted in Home, Massachusetts, tagged new england public policy center, housing affordability, new england on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
FRB, Boston - Between 1995 and 2005, home prices in New England increased by 85 percent, compared to an increase of only 56 percent nationwide. The growth in house prices was far greater than the growth of real incomes, meaning most households in the region have seen the affordability of housing decline in recent years. As a result, there’s been [...]
Posted in Family & Friends, Pop Culture, tagged Acapulco's, Derby Dames, Sunday, Ziggy on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It turns out over 1,600 people showed up last night for the Boston Derby Dames bout and there were lots of interesting characters in attendance (keeping Dan and I very entertained in between periods). The Wicked Pissahs beat the Cosmonaughties, but unfortunately lost one of their dames in the last period. The poor pissah had to be [...]
Posted in Sports, tagged Mercury Morris, new england patriots on February 8, 2008 | No Comments »
But those obnoxious ‘72 Dolphins are making it hard to forget about what might have been for the ‘07 Pats.
Since Mercury is accepting gifts, how about an overfilled, unattended turkey fryer for that BBQ?
Next Patriots season is only seven months away.
Posted in Music, tagged willie nelson, 9/11, emmylou harris on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
American icon and country legend Willie Nelson evidently doesn’t believe 19 terrorists are responsible for the tragedies of 9/11. He likens the “symmetrical” way that the towers fell to the appearence of an intentional building demolition, and makes the leap that 9/11 was therefore an inside job.
He said the following on a nationally syndicated radio [...]
Posted in Video Games, tagged Cheap Ass Gamer, donation, Iraq, Stars and Stripes, video game on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I work at a public relations (PR) agency in Boston and for the past few years the majority of my clients have been gaming companies. One of my first clients was Wizards of the Coast, a division of Hasbro, which produces more traditional pen-and-paper games like Dungeons & Dragons and trading card games like Magic: The Gathering. [...]
Posted in Family & Friends, Food, tagged Dunn Gaherin's, Food, Newton, Restaurant on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Dan and I just got home from another great meal at Dunn Gaherin’s, an Irish Pub on Elliot Street, a few minutes from our place. The service is great and the food….even better. They always have an awesome “specials” menu (not to mention our good friend Tim lives right across the street)!
Now that we’re home [...]
Posted in Family & Friends, Pop Culture, Sports, tagged Boston, boston derby dames, roller derby on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
This weekend the Wicked Pissahs take on the Cosmonaughties in a bout of barbaric porportions.
I recently discovered the Boston Derby Dames, a roller derby league in the Boston area. I am truly intrigued by the whole production. In a way it almost reminds me of the WWE and wrestling - big personalities and a big [...]
Posted in Misc., tagged Boston, election, Nonantum, Pellegrini Park, voting on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Massachusetts residents across the state are casting their ballots today. Dan and I were (I assume) one of the first to stop by our voting station in Nonantum (the “Little Italy” of Newton, MA) at 7:15 am this morning. We’re morning people - Dan even more so than myself.
Our voting station, the gym at [...]
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