Monthly Archives: June 2008

No Celtics On the Olympic Team!?

No Celtics On the Olympic Team!?

The 2008 NBA Champion Boston Celtics apparently had no players worthy of being sent to China to play for the US… despite spending the 2008 season wiping the court with the rest of the league. Oops… have I forgotten how successful our more flashy players can be in international play. We wouldn’t want [...]

Fetchr4SSP v1.3.1 // Combining Flickr and SlideShowPro for Photo Gallery Goodness!

Fetchr4SSP v1.3.1 // Combining Flickr and SlideShowPro for Photo Gallery Goodness!

Fetchr4SSP(TM) is a Fetchr(TM)-based PHP script that will fetch photos from Flickr to display as albums inside the awesome gallery software SlideShowPro!

Allows you to fetch all of your Flickr photosets as albums inside your gallery
Allows you to fetch any Flickr user’s public photosets, recent photos, “favorites”, and/or “most interesting” photos (according to Flickr) and [...]

Shot Heard Round the World

Shot Heard Round the World

The US Consitution dodged a bullet today… and socialism took it in the gut. In a landmark 5-4 ruling the US Supreme Court recalibrated the anti-gun wingnuts. The high court repeated to us the 2nd Amendment - using small words we ALL could understand - which secures the citizen’s right to own firearms [...]

Cape Cod 2008 Trip Photos

Cape Cod 2008 Trip Photos

Back on Memorial Day weekend we went to the Cape. The Cape is always a beautiful and peaceful destination, and this time was no different. However, we did bring along a new friend with us… the Canon PowerShot G9 - the most powerful point-and-shot digital camera you can buy (pretty much). We [...]

Critical Eye Should Be Applied to Local Benefit Concerts

Critical Eye Should Be Applied to Local Benefit Concerts

There is currently a discussion on Albany’s local music blog, operated by CRUMBS.net, over the recent surge in local benefit concerts. It was local music promoter and blog contributor Bill Bucher - a fifth generation firefighter - who weighed in on the topic.
Of the suspect benefit concerts there was one that stood out. [...]

Celtic Pride!

Celtic Pride!

The Boston Celtics just won the NBA championship against in the Los Angeles Lakers! The Finals Series played out - and ended - spectacularly. The Celtics in Game 4 pulled off the biggest comeback in any NBA Finals game ever, and this final Game 6 was a complete dismantling! I love it [...]

Goodbye Personal Responsibility

Goodbye Personal Responsibility

Girl (18 years old) goes to Hawaii on school trip. Girl drinks. Girl drinks too much. Girls falls off balcony. Parents sue the chaperone. Parents win. Chaperone must pay parents nearly $700,000! Whiskey tango foxtrot?! Lawyers are the devil.

On the edge of my seat for Battlestar Galactica!

On the edge of my seat for Battlestar Galactica!

Last night I watched what is considered the “mid-season finale” of Battlestar Galactica. The episode was crazy delicious! I was jumping off the walls as secrets were revealed and drama played out. At the end of the episode I was drooling for more… so I hit the electric ether to find out [...]

School: 1958 vs. 2008

School: 1958 vs. 2008

I just got this in an email forward. I’m sure most everyone has seen it before, but I hadn’t and I found it to be cute, pithy, and too truthful.
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1958 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, [...]

Ebola, Arsenic, Peanuts, Cyanide… Killers! (whatever)

Ebola, Arsenic, Peanuts, Cyanide… Killers! (whatever)

Compassionate Disclaimer: Jesus loves everyone mentioned in this post.
So what’s the deal with these lethal peanuts? Not to sound old and cranky, but when I was growing up there was never such a thing as a so-called “peanut allergy”. No student was ever punished for bringing a PB&J sandwich [...]