Author: JB

If this doesn’t get you pumped to play I don’t know what will…

Michel Camilo – Jazz

This is an entry i posted on my blog, but there isn’t the readership there, i thought i would share it here as well. 🙂

The New York Times has a fun op-ed piece written by Maureen Dowd. The piece is titled Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet.

It is a great article that definately leaned towards the Dems.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsbrusco/2840362008/

The good ol’ starship Enterprise first took flight on network TV on September 8th 1966.

I can’t figure out how to imbed an image… so the link will just have to suffice.

EDIT by matthew: Linkfied and imagified.

Found an interesting article today…

Ripon College, in Wisconsin, has started offering free mountain bikes and helmets to freshmen, who vow not to bring a car on campus. Private donors have driven the $300-per-student program. Ripon’s initiative represents the rising concern for skyrocketing oil costs.

High gas prices and economic troubles have squeezed college students. University and college bike-sharing programs have filled up quickly. Schools see an opening to guide students toward bike riding, while the sting of fuel costs is still fresh.

The environmentally conscious students do no need huge incentives to pick up their bicycles. Schools have scrambles to to revamp biking paths and bike-loan programs. State University of New York-Albany is readying three mile biking path around campus. At Auburn University, the student union has set up bike maintenance shops and bike-loan programs. University of California is renown for their bike riding programs.

Several American college campuses have become the size of small cities. By meeting environmental goals, schools can save money and promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle. Students can also get some much needed exercise.

I am glad that they are taking a look at how they can help be part of a solution. I see the bike offering as more than just savings on gas and the emissions. This offer can also help with the students health. Biking makes for great exercise.

I originally posted this on my blog, but since my readership is primarily my wife and I, I thought i would post this out here as well.

I have been a big Washington Redskins Fan for a long time (going on 23 years or so). When the skins were in the previous stadium (RFK) season tickets were the mythical unicorn. They were left in wills to families, they were difficult at best to get a hold of. Today is much the same, although it is somewhat easier to buy season tickets at FedEx. I have wanted to be a season ticket holder for as long as i can remember. I think it would be awesome to be able to go see the game at the stadium (which I have always liked) – and know the seats you are getting will be the same seats you will have next time. I haven’t looked into how much other teams charge for season tickets, but Danny Snyder has our fans paying through the nose. I received an email from the skins this morning about a ticket offer

“A very limited number of great seats recently became available for our pre-season opener against the Buffalo Bills on August 9th at 7 PM. These seats are located in our Club Level and are only $250 for two seats. This offer includes a premium parking pass* and wristbands to our exclusive Tailgate Club**. The retail price of this package is between $700 and $1200 based on seat location.”

What’s that again? So to purchase 4 tickets (enough for the whole family to go) to a “pre-season” game will run me $500 before food? I don’t know how people do it. I don’t make a lot of money – but in the same breath i don’t make chump change either. I can not comprehend how one would go about spending that kind of money on a weekly basis for a football game. Some quick math shows me that if I were to go to a full 2009 season (Home games only) I would end up paying

$1500 for the 3 preseason (using the offer given above) $15,200 for the remaining 8 home games (using the avg. retail price given above) for a total of $16,700

That is just insane. I guess i am going to have to depend on “lucking” into tickets again. Hasn’t been the best method historically, but it doesn’t cost me anywhere that kind of money.

It’s the 9th annual Sysadmin day today. You know… sysadmins? The people without whom your entire computing network would come crashing down in flaming ruins? According to the System Administrator Appreciation Day website, “on this special international day” you should “give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.” And don’t mess up your damn PC by fiddling with it, for once.

Just had this sent to me by a friend and it is too good not to share.

Bad Day

I have a smart phone that incorporates, among other things, internet explorer. I recently ran across a couple web based applications that can be run from my PDA. The two great applications work with Windows Mobile for mapping and finding locations, and both work with or without GPS. Using Internet Explorer on your mobile device, just go to the following websites. (These links only work on your PDA.)

Google Maps google.com/gmm

Local information, directions and maps

Get Google Maps with My Location and find out where you are. Find the nearest…cup of coffee, late-night pizza or last-minute bouquet. Find out if there is traffic up ahead and how to avoid it. Type your destination and get directions

Windows Live Search wls.live.com

Local information and navigation

Find local businesses and restaurants, and click to call them. Get turn-by-turn driving directions. Explore interactive maps with satellite imagery. View current traffic information and find cheap gas stations. See movie show times by theaters.

I thought you all might find these useful.

Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition! Historians note that Prohibition officially ended on December 5, 1933, with the ratification of the 21st Amendment. But earlier that year, newly-elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt took steps to fulfill his campaign promise to end the national ban on alcohol. He spurred Congress to modify the Volstead Act to allow the sale of 3.2 percent beer in advance of the Twenty-first Amendment being ratified. Thus on April 7, 1933 there was legal beer once again!

Sounds like a good reason to raise a glass today.