Category: Life
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Buffalo Homecoming
Stepping away from the NHL draft and other nerdity for a moment, I’d like to point out (both for locals and potential visitors alike) that June 26-29 is Buffalo Homecoming, a yearly event to highlight what there is to like about Buffalo. June 26th is dedicated to the city’s varied eateries, and folks are encouraged…
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Cuteness!
I normally save my kid and baby posting for the forum but I can’t keep this to myself:
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Attention S & R Greenleaf Landscaping
Hi, guys. You don’t know me, but I know you. Specifically, ‘Rob’. Rob left a positively joyous message on my phone, apparently mistaking me for someone who owes his company (the aforementioned S & R Greenleaf Landscaping) money. Trust me, pal, if my yard looked like it does now, and I owed you $240, I’d…
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Live Search Cashback
I read about this at Lifehacker earlier today. The next time you are looking for products online, take a spin over to MS’s Live Search Cashback page and give it a try. It’s a product search similar to Froogle or CNET’s Shopper, with a clean interface. The difference being that all of the particpating merchants…
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She's Here!
You can now welcome Mattie Elizabeth to the world! She was born at 8:05am this morning, and is 20 inches long, 7 pounds, 14 ounces. Mom and baby are doing very well (they just got Jen sitting up when I left to crash). I will have the full story tomorrow, but for tonight, pictures!!! They…
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April 7, 2008
By the time you guys are reading this, my baby will be born! Wish us luck!
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If I'm Not Around For A Few Days…
…it is because my wife is in labor with our second child. :D
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Guess it was a big storm after all…
We got hit pretty hard this weekend with that snow storm, although there were never really enough winds to call it a blizzard. Some areas got more than 2 feet of snow (at least 14-16 inches in my driveway by my back’s calculations). One of my colleagues got stuck in Cleveland thanks to his car…
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Tailrace – Niagara Falls' Hidden Tunnel
the Vanishing Point has a very interesting article on ‘Tailrace‘, a series of tunnels under and around Niagara Falls from a long abandoned power plant built by the Toronto Power Company. It’s 10 stories underground, and only accessible by a trap door set in the ceiling 30 feet above the floor. There are some great…
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xkcd – Duty Calls
As usual, xkcd is right on the money.
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Rough Couple of Days…
Details are on this forum post, but the gist is, wife and unborn baby OK, my Jeep, not so much. Also, insurance companies SUCK.
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Google Search Tricks
You may know some of these already, but Lifehacker has a handy guide for getting more than just your normal search results from Google. Since many of us have Google as our homepages (or use the Google toolbar), it’s a quick and easy way to find out when a movie is playing, check the weather,…