I think these are the last three shots I’ll post before we start on the Duomo photos. Amanda corrected me on the last post that she was in fact with me at this point in the trip. Otherwise, I may never have bought the chestnuts in the last photo…
I haven’t blogged at all about Hamburg recently, so here’s one that’s been bugging me. What braniac came up with the layout of the new Bed Bath and Beyond at the McKinley mall? Pretty much every store in the mall has an entrance from the mall. That’s kind of the point. Some have exterior entrances…
Do you believe politicians when they say they’re making changes “for the children”? Think again. Our children face a future of rising taxes, squeezed — and perhaps falling — public services, and aging — perhaps deteriorating — public infrastructure (roads, sewers, transit systems). Today’s young workers and children are about to be engulfed by a…
We were unable to catch the Sabres game last night due to having purchased tickets for Spamalot months ago. There was no doubt, however, that the Sabres were on everyone’s mind inside Shea’s. Up until the start of the show I was following the open thread over at bfloblog.com and checking the score at Yahoo…
So, Volkswagen has a concept crossover vehicle along the same lines as the Dodge Caliber that’s been leading my next car [practical] list – the Concept A. The production version should be shown sometime in the next six months and available here in calendar year 2007. Expect pricing to start around $22,000 in the U.S….
USA Today has an article that basically illustrates why young “adults” need better education in personal finance and economics. Read this paragraph: Adults aged 19 to 35 do not believe they earn enough to keep pace with the cost of living, according to the report by Qvisory, a nonprofit online advocacy and service organization. Forty-three…
Ok… not that it ever really closed. But this was our first opportunity to get out and do a little caching this year. For the uninitiated, Geocaching is an activity where an object of some type is hidden at a specific location. That location’s lattitue and longitude are published on a website, along with a…