…and a very Merry Xmas goes out to my friends and family! Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season. Here’s to a great 2009!
Pangers 'n Mash
"Pangers 'n Mash, Pangers 'n Mash, I like Pangers 'n Mash..."
Dec 24
Dec 21
Amazing…and haunting at the same time (I think it’s the masks, heh!). But pretty cool video!
Nov 24
This could quite possibly be one of the charming, if not cutest, videos I have come across on Vimeo - of course, I could be biased because I did take French for four years and, to this day, I love how the language sounds. Capuchine also kind of reminds me of my own five-year old niece, Ashton, though maybe a bit more well-versed.
I’m always amazed at how a child’s mind and imagination works.
Nov 23
Ah, sometimes it’s really interesting to see what kinds of things bloggers and new media folks like Sarah Austin, iJustine and Julia Allison get to experience in their lifestyles and lines of work. Really? Streaming live while flying up in the air? Neato…
reblog from pop17:
Lisa, Brian and Ryan are in the front row of this photo. I am so happy to have been on board this flight! I was live on YouTube.com/Live today from the air, 3500 feet above ground, streaming live for the first time- ever. So fun. Thanks Virgin America!
Nov 12
Cha-Ching! Early Seth Green in a commercial for Rally’s Hamburgers. Good food back in the day!
Blast from the Fast-Food Past...
Wow. If I hadn’t seen it on Late Night with Conan O’Brien tonight, I would never have realized it, but Seth Green was the Cha-Ching guy from the old Rally’s commercial. Interesting…even moreso because those Cha-Ching commercials did play a part in my massive consumption of Rally’s food back in the day…
Nov 05
From President-Elect Obama’s acceptance speech: He talks about 106 year-old Anne Nixon Cooper of Atlanta, GA and the timeless American attitude - “Yes We Can” (courtesy of CNN)
"Tomorrow"
To be a part of history…
There are few once-in-a-lifetime moments, times that you can look back on and say, “I was there,” and where you exactly remember where you were and what you were doing. For me, these times include the Challenger disaster of 1986, the September 11th attacks, and now November 4th, 2008 - the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America!
Though long and drawn out, this was an amazing race. And I’ll give credit where credit is due. I’ve followed the campaign since the primaries, and despite my aversion to what I considered to be an extremely negative campaign, Senator John McCain made quite the run. In defeat, his concession speech was quite good and dignified, and for me, it restored some of the admiration that I had for him back when he ran in 2000.
Obama’s speech, however, was simply flawless. No speech in recent times has given me chills, made my heart skip a beat, and drove me so close to tears as his did. I, with the rest of the country, have a sense of new hope and see great things happening for the US with the new direction that the Obama administration shows promise of implementing.
I think plenty of folks around the country will be sleeping a little easier tonight. =)
Oct 20
So as I was saying about Atlanta...about a month ago...
So it’s been forever and a day since I have blogged. And quite a bit has happened. We didn’t thwump the Bills and after more battles against the Colts, Texans and Steelers, now my beloved Jags sit 3-3. We are playing the Browns this week, so hopefully, we can make something happen. Other things that happened include seeing Barack Obama speak live and in living color, an awesome poster show, and the most recent nGen Works Anniversary party. I may not get to blogs about those things, but you can catch up with some of it on my Flickr and Vimeo sites.
I hope to start blogging more regularly, but for right now, here’s a brief synopsis on what happened the rest of the Atlanta trip in September.
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DATE: Sunday, September 14, 2008
TIME: 6:00 AM
LOCATION: Atlanta, GA
With the sounds of the “Bell Tower” iPhone tone ringing in my ear, I woke up and readied myself for the long trip ahead – back to Jacksonville after two amazingly fun days in Atlanta. PJ’s wedding went off without a hitch, and we topped that off with unarguably the most exciting sport in which I have participated in a long time - WHIRLYBALL! A nice mix of activites in one - part lacrosse, part basketball, part soccer, and all bumper car. Yes, BUMPER CAR, the great equalizer! So fun, and no casualties, except maybe for Marc’s sternum and Nille’s knees.
We rented the court for about an hour, and that encompassed about four 13-minute games of Whirlyball (with a five minute break for beer). In the end, there was a cool Gator vs. Bulldogs battle. It was myself, V-Money, Nille, Marievic, and Neenah (Bobdey in the second battle) for FL against Marc, Adam, Charlie, Nick and Farhad for GA. Ultimately, GA managed to eek out straight victories, but what a way to go. My highlights of the game:
- Bobdey’s stirring rendition of the National Anthem before the first FL-GA faceoff
- My “Napoleon-esque” stance as I scored the first goal of a game unscathed
- My teamwork with V-Money in the games, hasn’t been this exciting since FWO
- The infamous battle cries: Marc’s “All night long, baby”; NIlle’s “Back off, bitch”
- Marievic open for the pass…and not accepting it
Following the game, we headed back to Marc’s for Krystal’s and RockBand. We played until about 4:15 a.m., and now here we are. Back in Jax and headed to the first Jaguars home game of the season. Looking forward to this and the rest of the games this season. It’s nice to be home…
