This week the Charlotte Department of Transportation released compelling video of three collisions that occurred within one month’s time at one particular intersection in Uptown Charlotte. They claim that there were zero collisions at this interection the previous eight months, during which time there were red-light cameras in operation. CDOT goes on to claim that [...]
My family out of town still hasn’t seen our new dog Hobo yet and I wanted to test out Google Video so I I killed two birds with one stone. Here’s a short 18 second video clip of Hobo playing with Boomer that I shot with my digital photo camera.
A few months after dropping my business card in a contest bowl, I was sent an email coupon from Jersey Mike’s. I like Jersey Mike’s subs so I printed out the coupon and tried to use it. They told me that they do accept that coupon but not if it’s a print out. What!? They [...]
I’m a big fan of Google. (Now may be the time to mention that I’m a technology geek.) They do things right. Of course there’s the search engine, Google Maps, and Gmail that everybody knows and loves. Then there’s useful desktop applications like Google Earth, Picasa, and Sketchup, all of which I use. Well they’ve [...]
My sister Amy just landed in Australia on a three week trip around the continent. I don’t have much else to report so I’ll just post this list of places Amy has been to and say “four down, two to go”. North America South America Europe Africa Asia Australia
You feel pretty dumb when you and you’re entire family is tricked by a children’s brainteaser on the side of a Wendy’s kids meal bag. Try this one out and since I’m telling you it’s tricky, don’t over-think it: Kate’s parents are taking their four children to Six Flags for the day. One girl is [...]
While Patty was on a business trip in Charleston, Maegan and I went hiking. We’ve gone hiking several times before, but never this long before. We went to McDowell Park, which we’ve hiked several times before, but this time we took parts of at least three different trails which took us two full hours of [...]
“So you recently started blogging?” Nope. I actually started blogging a long time ago, long before anybody ever heard the word blog and certainly before it became popular. My blogger profile says I started in January of 2001 so I’ve been doing this for five and a half years already. To put this in perspective, [...]
Patty came home with a new puppy, a pug she named Hobo. He’s also known as gremlin and the monster because he’s a tiny four pound terror who chews everything and everyone. Hopefully he grows out of it. It took Boomer a few days to get used to him. He likes other dogs so he [...]