Archive for August, 2006

Damn Catchy Song

I have no intention of going to see Snakes On A Plane in the theater, but the title song from the movie from Cobra Starship is a damn catchy (and really good) song. I know it’s gonna take weeks for me to get it out of my head.


Gender Determination In India

I had a conversation via instant messenger today with my friend Ravi regarding our families, work, etc. He asked about how my wife was doing with her pregnancy and if we had found out the gender of our child.
I told him that we did not find out because we wanted it to be a surprise. [...]


Pittsburgh’s A Big Loser

No…no….before you start yelling at me for the title of this post — give me a chance to explain! The U.S. Census Bureau just released some population statistics for the years of 2000-2005. Unfortunately, Pittsburgh was the city with the biggest population loss during that time — over 41,000 people!
I knew the “brain drain” [...]


Floyd and Barry

Conan O’Brien recently said one of the funniest things I’ve heard in a long time. He was talking about the Floyd Landis steroid scandal for the Tour de France and he said:
“Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is now claiming that he tested positive for steroids because he had ‘accidentally ingested testosterone from another [...]


Swann Has To Play Catch Up

I’m REALLY hoping that Lynn Swann is our future governor for a number of reasons. Unfortunately, things aren’t looking very good right now for his campaign. I hope that he somehow, some way is able to turn things around. I don’t want to even think about another 4 years of Governor Rendell!


Hurt, Vol. 1

Big props to my boy Lenny! He recently told me about Hurt, a band from Virginia that he thought I would dig. Their first CD , Vol. 1 is absolutely fantastic and one of the best ones I’ve heard this year.
Now if I could just get my cousin Brian to bring them in!