The Symbol of Madrid
The bear and the strawberry tree – the symbol of Madrid since the middle ages.
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Preservation is the way – thoughts following #presconf
ByDerekIt was a great week for Buffalo. The National Trust preservation conference has wrapped, and I’m admittedly still coming down from the “conference high” (the condition where you’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid for a week and reality has yet to set in again) but that doesn’t change the fact that this conference will have a…
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Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls
ByDerekHere’s our in-depth trip report from our mini-vacation to Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
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Higgins says scrap the Southtowns Connector
ByDerekStraight from WNYMedia.net, Congressman Higgins says that the Southtowns Connector project should be scrapped. “The Southtowns Connector project should be scrapped. It’s the longest running, most expensive transportation project in this region that hasn’t produced one public improvement, nor has it produced one construction or trades job. The fact of the matter is it never…
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Bad driving is no mystery
ByDerekRecently, a study was published by some mathematicians using some fancy mathematical models that showed bad drivers cause traffic jams. To this I say, “Duh!” Either you were already aware of this fact, or you are, perhaps unknowingly, one of the bad drivers. To be fair, the study was a bit more in depth. What…
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My album cover
ByDerekI don’t usually get into these blogging meme things, but this one is kind of fun. Create your own totally random album cover! Here are the rules… Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band. Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of…
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The Office, American-Style
ByDerekI’m catching up on my blog-reading and ran across this post on BuffaloPundit’s blog about “The Office”. Personally, British humor just doesn’t jive with me, so when I watched the British version (prior to the American version coming out) I gave it an “eh” and let it go. But I’ve been watching the American version…
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