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I wasn’t going to write a 9/11 post…
… but BuffaloGeek’s heartfelt post made me do it. Mostly because our stories are eerily similar – both involve geeks, wonderful women named Amanda, and an anniversary. Amanda and I had started dating in the late summer of 2001, so we were still really just getting to know each other. Of course everyone was a…
Starting the Easter Traditions
Two of our Easter traditions are going to the Broadway Market and to Galley’s Nursery for flowers. The Market was much more navigable today than on Holy Saturday, when we usually go. We picked up some sausage, pierogis, and a butter lamb from Camellia’s. I’ve always been partial to Wardynski’s, but Camellia’s sausage has a…
O Skyway, my Skyway!
Apparently… ’tis the season to begin ramping up on the Skyway discussion again! Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Well, not really. I knew the debate was far from over. Anyways.. Business First reports on Congressman Higgins’ “impassioned plea” to the Erie County Legislature to back him in his…
It’s a win-win-win-win
Scott Adams, who write Dilbert, also has a blog. Some days, it’s just too damn funny, like today’s entry about the death of al-Zarqawi. This is a classic yet rare win-win-win-win scenario. The new Iraqi government is happy because he’s dead. The Americans are happy because he’s dead. Even his friends and coworkers are happy….
Lights out
Once again, the government’s attempts to fix “problems” they are incapable of fixing will screw us, the consumer. The latest energy bill has a provision to ban incandescent light bulbs. From the Chicago Tribune… “In this bill, we ban by 2012 the famously inefficient 100-watt incandescent bulb,” said Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), who co-sponsored that…