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Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
We’ve made it to my second stop of this trip – Milan. My coworker Mark’s wife joined us in Milan (Amanda will follow a couple days later) so you’ll see her in one of these shots. Our first stop in Milan – the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. Built in 1865, it was the Galleria from…
AMD coming to NY… but at a very high cost
From the WNY Progress Report: I know some will question the rationale in New York giving $1.2 billion in tax breaks and other incentives to a private company, but I think such questions can be easily answered in 2 ways: $2 billion in private investment and at least 1,200 permanent good paying jobs with AMD…
It’s 8am on a Saturday
… and I’m up voluntarily. I realized this may be one of the last times that I am up voluntarily on a Saturday for 15 years or so. We’re in the home stretch of baby brewing time – 7 weeks to go. It’s not enough time! Not because we aren’t “ready” but because we have…
The parking thing
This whole Buffalo parking ticket drama doesn’t really affect me, but here’s my take. I never expect free parking downtown. To be honest, I don’t go downtown that often, but when I do I expect that I’m going to have to pay. Parking is cheap in Buffalo. It’s no big deal. Sometimes I get lucky…
NY’s Jock Itch
Wow… here’s a tax I never knew New York had under it’s belt – the Jock Tax. I believe that professional athletes are grossly overpaid, but targeting a tax specifically on their profession seems even more unfair than the fact that guys that could barely graduate from high school make multimillion dollar salaries to play…
Don’t look back
I was cruising around Club3G the other day, posting up for sale some spare parts I still had laying around from the Eclipse, and I ran across a thread with one of the old Eclipse commercials in it: The commercial was a nice bit of near-term nostalgia, but several of the people in the thread…
I’m sorry that she is sick, but I just love this picture. She is so cute it brings tears to my eyes when I look at her!