
Yup, I got zero seconds on the first sheep but became a bobbing bobcat by the end. D’oh!
]]>Here’s three pictures of the mini flash flood it caused on my street in Dorchester.
My step-dad asked me if I looked outside and since it had only been raining for a few minutes I hadn’t but that quickly our street was covered in water:
The water came down so quick that the whole street overflowed covering the sidewalk with water going a quarter way up car tires.
A mini-van leaving a wake.
Video:
We really needed the rain here in Boston to drop the temperature and we got a lot of water in a very short time. I heard through the grapevine that it was over two inches in just twenty minutes!
]]>Huh? Was this person asking Google to make them a small dog?
There is a fine balance. One which many strive for but few attain.
Where they looking for a how to? Definition? History?
How much you wanna bet a Fortune 500 CEO is behind this search?
No idea why I’m the first result for this…
College kid trying to convince his/her professor to drop textbooks? Or a principal trying to cut costs? In my opinion, schools do not need textbooks but do need authoritative resources to learn from, whether they be people or e-books or experiences is up to the school or teacher.
OK, time to go Google “Large pile of cash create”.
]]>unpacking the new house
somewhere but not here
feeling sick…
if all you see is violence
food. i love you rachel
life’s good and I wear sunglasses at night.
Skiing in VAIL!
I left out the default “I am away from my computer right now” away message but used all the others messages my IM buddies put up, including my “somewhere but not here” note. How about you? Does your buddy list’s away messages tell a story?
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]]>The posts were broken up by category so you’ll find my top 3 favorite posts, listed arbitrarily, from each category below. These posts were chosen based on personal preference and relative usefulness so don’t be discouraged if your site isn’t listed!
Blogging
Good advice.
I always lose track of comments I made somewhere so these sites are very useful. I tried cocomment once but will have to give it another whirl or try the other two sites.
Be careful using this one!
Honorable Mention: Three Things That I’ve Yet To Achieve as a Blogger by Rhys
Business & Career
Too bad I work for a financial services firm, which does a lot of accounting so this isn’t very applicable. Accounting relies on paper.
Great insight and very true.
Useful information and advice for everyone, even if you’re not looking for a job right now.
Honorable Mention: Top 3 Reasons Why You Have to Work from Home by Alfa
Entertainment
Though I disagreed with the top three (check out the comments on the post for my top three), the idea and writing is solid.
Reading the Declaration of Independence, good advice for any day.
Free + Willie Nelson = Awesome!
Honorable Mention: Three Great Anime Blogs and Maybe Anime? by Carlie
Health & Fitness
Good advice for diabetics, and a good read in general.
I’ve always wanted to run the Boston Marathon, hopefully this post will encourage me.
And this post will motivate me to get in shape for the marathon.
Honorable Mention: The Top Three Reasons Why I hate Diets by Joey
Make Money Online
This category only had 3 submissions, so to be fair to the other categories I’m only choosing one post.
As an economics geek, Pedro’s analysis of the opportunity costs of blogging was a very interesting read.
Technology
Interesting analysis of how the Prius is not the best thing since sliced bread, for some people.
Wicked useful! Thanks Kuanhoong.
As someone who built my own PCs back in the day, this post was cool!
Honorable Mention: 3+3 free tools for moving your life and your stuff online by Tanya
Travel
I’ve always wanted to visit Japan, seems like such a cool place.
Honestly, I don’t have a huge desire to go to Hawaii, but if I do I can go on the cheap!
Great, now add Cyprus to list of places to visit…this list is too big!
Honorable Mention: 3 wonders of the world that designers should have voted for by Mirko
Web Development & Design
Nice, I’ve been considering making a unique style on this blog so look out for some changes.
Very useful tips, especially on javascript compression.
Very handy, I need to implement some icons on this blog so this is very good timing.
Honorable Mention: How I built 10,000 links in 3 weeks
Random Topics
This guy needs a wallet chain wicked bad.
Funny (and useful) phrases women like to hear. Thanks Paris!
Simply awesome.
Honorable Mention: Ten things i didn’t know about the number 3 until now by Blaiq
Good job everyone and thanks to Daniel for hosting this project/contest!
]]>Can you see it?
Yup there’s a strange white orb, floating in the sky. From watching many a episode of Ghost Hunters on the Sci-Fi channel and similar shows, I know the jury is out on whether this orb thing is a piece of dust, moisture, or some sort of paranormal phenomenon. What’s odd is the structure of this orb, at least compared to the examples of naturalistic orbs on wikipedia.org. This particular orb has a circular, cell-like structure.
The level of detail in that photo is amazing. You can clearly see a center with spoke like structures surrounding it. I’m not an expert on dust nor on ghosts, so I won’t make any conclusions [it’s dust], but I think it looks cool either way.
What do you think?
Dust? Ghost? Alien? Moisture? Photo-shopped? Flying micro-organism? Other?
]]>First up are my fellow Tar Heels over at Thrills on the Hill. The fellas over there are posting events going on in Chapel Hill during the summer. As someone who spent a summer on the hill, I’ve got to say it’s a great idea, I had fun during my summer in Chapel Hill, but there were more than a few nights with simply nothing to do.
Going in the complete opposite direction is the guy-girl combo (and 50% fellow Boston Latin School alums) over at I’m Peachy (a.k.a. Impeach Him Impeach Him), with the mission of posting pictures of real Americans who support the impeachment of President Bush. The great twist here, is these pictures are coming from Texas, President Bush’s home-land.
Moving on to less controversial topics, if you like Hip-Hop/Rap music, check out Contak. I used to give this kid a hard time when we were both attending Latin but I’ve got to give the kid credit, he can rap. Check him out and make sure to tell him to send me a free promo CD so I can write up a review!
Last but certainly not least is Random Antonym. Another Latin alum and fellow business partner, Brandon’s site design is wicked nice and unique. Brandon himself will admit the content on his site is still a work in progress, but in the mean time, at least check out some of his pictures from around the world.
Props to all four of you and keep it up everyone.
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