Music for your Friday: Trilok Gurtu & Living Legends
So I was listening to a random stream of music in my iTunes when some funky percussion music starts blaring through my headphones. A quick glance to iTunes reveals the name of the artist as Trilok Gurtu. I didn’t even know I had any of his songs but am glad I do (the perils of […]
Web Quotes and Counterpoints VIII – The Summer Cleaning [toblog] Edition
A while back I started a huge digital cleaning session. My e-mail inbox was well into the thousands, so I started archiving older messages. It’s unbelievable how many random web sites, mostly social network betas, I signed up for that I only used once or twice. The worst is ones where they constantly e-mail you […]
Bill Clinton Drinks Coors Light?
My buddy just e-mailed me a photo from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado of former President Bill Clinton. At first glance it’s a fairly innocuous picture of the former leader of the free world shaking hands with someone. If you look in Bill’s left hand you can see he’s holding a silver can […]
Pictures of My Clean Wheels & Twitter Crash Update
A long, long time ago on a post far, far way I promised to upload more pictures of my (then) new (but used) bicycle. Well, months later I’m here to make good on that promise! I cleaned my bike up a few days ago and took the chance to snap a few photos of my […]
A Few Quick Notes
A few quick notes to let everyone know about some exciting times ahead for myself and this blog. My company My readers who’ve been here from the start, known that I started a company a while back with three of my friends. Well, that company never quite took off but in April of this year […]
Boston Bicycle Film Festival Tomorrow
To those of my readers in the Boston area, check out the Bicycle Film Festival tomorrow at the ICA. Films start at 1:00 PM and continue through the afternoon with the last screening at 9:00 PM. If you go to any of the films between 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM be on the look out […]
Flight of the Charles River Ducks
A little over a week ago I was hanging out at the Charles River shore on the Boston side during a particularly nice and sunny day. While chilling underneath a tree taking in the great view I noticed a few ducks also just chilling a few feet in front of me. After taking a few […]
My 2008-09 Celtics Season Ticket Schedule
A few days ago the Boston Celtics released their schedule for the upcoming 2008-2009 NBA season. Today an e-mail arrived in my inbox from the C’s announcing the release of their half-season schedules. As a half-season ticket holder, I was obviously quite curious to see what games I’d be attending (especially since I thought I’d […]
Ronald Jenkees Throwing Fire
Long time readers here will know of my huge fondness for Mr. Ronald Jenkees and his crazy beats. Well Ronald has uploaded a new video to youtube entitled “Throwing Fire”. Check out the song below: For more Ronald Jenkees beats, make sure to pick up his debut album from Amazon.com for only $8.99! So far […]
Bicycle Lanes in Boston*
As we went into the weekend, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s Gracious Government of the City of Boston introduced two new bicycle lanes into Boston, increasing the number of bicycle lanes on non-state roads in the area formerly known as Boston to two. Here’s a look at a part of the bike lane at Commonwealth […]
Friday Video: A Bicycle Commute in Photos
Check out this cool video Casey found via the Bostonist: Apparently that commute only takes the bicyclist 15 minutes, a pretty good pace for a 3-4 mile trip!
Apple Gave Me a New iPhone!
Apple’s great customer service comes through! A few days ago my iPhone stopped responding to any and all inputs. Even iTunes would not see the device. Well, Darrin, the Apple genius guy, was able to get my old iPhone working but still exchanged it for a brand new iPhone just because of all the issues […]
Get Well Morgan Freeman
If you haven’t heard, the best actor alive, Morgan Freeman, was in a car accident today. Luckily, it seems he’ll make a near full recovery. His publicist Donna Lee stated: Morgan has a broken arm, elbow and has minor shoulder damage but was in good spirits when I spoke with him a short time ago. […]
This Blog Now…
Few quick notes and updates about this blog now! This blog now has better up-time than Google! Check it out, I signed up for a web-site monitoring service called mon.itor.us and received my first weekly report recently: Yeah! This blog had better up-time than Google last week! My host for this blog is bluehost. So […]
My iPhone Died
Yesterday, my iPhone stopped responding to touches or button presses. Now, this particular iPhone (an 8 GB, non 3G) has been acting up almost since I got it but it was never really a big issue. It would become unresponsive for a few seconds and then kick back in. Now, however, it simply does not […]