Posted in Photography, Pop Culture, tagged Annie Liebovitz, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Teen Celeb, Teen Star, Vanity Fair Photo on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My little sisters are two of very many young girls that adore the 15-year-old actress and singing sensation Miley Cyrus (aka “Hannah Montana”). News has run rampant about her recent photo shoot with well-known photographer Annie Liebovitz for Vanity Fair magazine.
I understand PR stunts – hell, I work in PR – so I can actually [...]
Posted in Energy & Environment, Massachusetts, YouTube, tagged carbon emissions, Massachusetts, middlesex county, news, science, vulcan project on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Researchers from Purdue University’s Vulcan Project have created the most detailed picture yet of human sources of carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. There is an article on this featured in today’s Boston Globe. This video is a really interesting animation presenting the data – you can see the emission levels pulse as emissions increase during the day and [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, Work, tagged Board Games, Boing Boing, ComicCon, Geekdom, New York Conference on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend hundreds gathered in all their geek glory for New York ComicCon (a couple of my clients were there, but I didn’t make it out.) I did, however, stumble across a post and video on Boing Boing about the conference – a great video. Love this guy! I mean c’mon, how great is his assesment that you can tell [...]
Posted in Massachusetts, Sports, tagged Boston Marathon, Commuter Rail, Hairdryer Costume, Hairdryers for Cancer, Matty in the Morning, MBTA on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I very rarely overhear interesting conversations on the MBTA commuter rail. When you are on a commuter’s schedule (i.e. on the train between 6 and 9 in the morning and 4 and 7 in the evening), you will usually hear miscellaneous and very BORING work-related cell phone conversations or the occasional commuter buddy chats to the tune of “how [...]
Posted in Massachusetts, tagged American Revolution, Concord, Lexington, Massachusetts, Old North Bridge, Patriots Day on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s not forget that 95 American patriots – the first American patriots – gave their lives on this day in 1775 at Lexington and Concord in the first battles of the American Revolution.
When British General Thomas Gage sent a force out of Boston to confiscate weapons stored in Concord and capture patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John [...]
Posted in Music, Work, tagged 9 to 5, Free E Card, Hoops and YoYo, Mondays, Office Diversion, Pandora on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Most of us get up every day to the sound of an alarm, get dressed, grab a bite and its off to work we go for hours and hours….and hours and hours. I switch gears quite often throughout the day with my job- which can make focusing difficult sometimes, but overall it helps to make the day go [...]
Posted in Economy & Politics, tagged center for freedom and prosperity, flat tax, national sales tax on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In this video, Dan Mitchell from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity explains a bit about why a National Flat Tax or National Sales Tax would be better than the current system in which we all get screwed. Support for tax reform in the form a Flat Tax and/or Sales Tax has been gaining a lot of [...]
Posted in Energy & Environment, Food, tagged beer, climate change, unquenchable thirst on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No, God, noooo! Come on, people - At some point we need to draw a line in the sand…And the worst part is, we’ll be so much more thirsty in a hot, crowded world
Wellington, New Zealand – The price of beer is likely to rise in coming decades because climate change will hamper the production of a [...]
Posted in Sports, tagged Baseball, Detroit Tigers, Fenway Park, Hecklers, Magglio Ordonez, Pesky Pole, Red Sox on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We attended our first Red Sox game of the season at Fenway park yesterday. The weather was good – although a few degrees warmer would have been nice. Everyone was out, as usual, toting their Red Sox garb. The crowd seemed particularly excited at this game – probably because it was the second home game [...]
Posted in Misc., Photography on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Mars Reconnsaissance Orbiter looks back and photographs the Earth and our Moon (since we’ve been photograhing the Moon for a long time and know exactly its brightness and color, the Orbiter takes pictures like this to help calibrate the color and brightness of its cameras).
Posted in Economy & Politics, Pop Culture, tagged american idol, presidential candidates, recession, subprime crisis on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Digital Media, Public Relations, tagged 360PR, BlogHer, Blogs, New York City, Public Relations on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow morning, along with a couple of my colleagues, I’m leaving good ol’ Boston for New York City to attend the BlogHer Business conference - an event bringing the world’s leading bloggers together with businesses interested in social media.
I’m really looking forward to the event. I’m getting the sense that there will be a very interesting mix of [...]
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