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Dyngus Day
Thanks to WNYMedia.net for putting together this video covering last night’s Dyngus Day festivities at the Terminal, and in the whole Broadway-Fillmore area. It was certainly the most “alive” that I’ve seen the East Side, well, ever! The Terminal was cold… so cold in fact that the tap lines from the beer kegs froze a…
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…
Egoless programming
Phigment turned me on to a new site – CodingHorror.com. I especially like this post on Egoless Programming: 1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. 2. You are not your code. 3. No matter how much “karate” you know, someone else will always know more. 4. Don’t rewrite code without consultation. 5. Treat…
Spam of the Week 7/23
This week’s Spam Special comes to us from Shadya Brewer, and seems to be a exceprt from The Hobbit… specially greedy, strong and wicked worm called Smaug. One day he flew up into the air and came south. The first we heard of it was a noise like a hurricane coming from the North, and…
Keep right, part 2
To my complete shock and utter disbelief, the driving habits of thousands of Western New Yorkers did not suddenly improve after my exposé of their faults. Perhaps they felt I was unfairly singling them out, that they had good reasons for driving in the left lane. Ok. Let’s be fair and review some reasons, both…
Springdale Farm
Amanda and I recently stayed at a Bed & Breakfast near Rochester called Springdale Farm. It was small with only two guest rooms and a single open dining/living room, but nice and reasonably priced. Since Deeva was asking about my photography yesterday, I thought I’d share a couple of my most recent photos. Nothing spectacular,…
Wondering why I listened to all those people who told me I would go “early”. Waiting IS the hardest part…….
OMG…Amanda looks so ready…
Doesn’t Tom Petty have a song “Waiting?”