I'll be blogging the conference when I can over at HighEdWebTech.com.
p.s. there's an Apple store just down the street from the hotel, I hope to make a stop in. My money's on them having no 3G iPhones though. We'll see.
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I tried to make mine friendlier by using a web 2.0 logo fade. Click on the pic for a larger version. I feel like I didn't add enough arrows.
P.S. the pop-under ad you have whenever I click on a link is lame.
]]>When Jenny and I saw the Swell Season in Cleveland last month, Damien Dempsey opened for them. I had never heard of Damien, but he was great. I bought a few of his records since then and I keep coming back to this track.
There are a ton of really interesting features in the creature creator, like the animated avatar builder and my new favorite, the feature that lets you record video of your creature doing actions and automatically upload that video to YouTube. Here's some video I made tonight.
All this is just a prelude to the actual Spore game, due in September. I tried to describe it to Jenny as The Sims meet Sim City then multiply that by 1,000.
]]>To those of you lucky enough to be in attendace at the tournament, must you yell GET IN THE HOLE! every single time someone hits the ball? Some one could be hitting their second shot on a par 5, with no chance of making the green and some idiot has to yell "get in the hole!"
Luckily, I can turn the sound off.
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baseball games
Birthday Party
Grilled Food
Hot Weather and Air Conditioning
Model Rockets
Mountain Dew special flavors
Rock Band Playing
Wii Fit Playing
Hanging out with the illustrious Alan Lucas
hardware store trips
A bit of quiet time Sunday night
I was unable to repeat as top moneyraiser in Crawford County. There's a man in Meadville who goes OFF every year and brings in, seriously, like $4,000 and something like $40,000 in the last seven years. I can't argue with that - he's bringing it for a great cause and I only won last year because he took the year off.
The good news is that I was the #2 top raiser in Crawford County. That's pretty awesome. I raised $1,360 with your help. Thank you! And get this - Jenny finished in the #4 spot. Pretty nice to bring some thunder in the top five. I hope we get some plaques :)
This year, we also created a team, lovingly named Team LolCatz. With 6 members, our team placed THIRD among all teams. The only two teams above us were Meadville OB/GYN and Meadville Medical Center. Both of those teams are GIANT, so if you take out those two, we were the top non-corporate team.
It was a great experience, and I have all the CD's ready to go. After this weekend's birthday festivities, I'll get them mailed out. (Ron - you get three. I know I owe you big time! I stink sometimes).
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Happy Birthday, Grady!
It's hard to believe that you are two years old already. You are a ball of energy, smiles, exploration, laughter, crank and wonder. It's hilarious to watch you run around the house after your big brother, yelling "EWAN! EWAN!" as you both tear around and cause all sorts of destruction.
It seems like just yesterday I was carrying you from the delivery room to the nursery, in total contrast to the adventure that was having your brother. You've been a delight and you're only going to be more fun as you grow this year.
Happy Birthday!
]]>Yes, it hurts to lose, but it was an absolutely AMAZING season, the playoffs were amazing and the finals, especially game 5, was intense.
The good news is that we're young, and this will make us even more hungry to win it. We will be back.
Detroit - your team is amazing. It was like they had magnets on their sticks and were in perfect position every time. You deserve to win, but we'll be raising the Cup soon.
Now, off to shave the playoff beard.
http://www.post-gazette.com/multimedia/?videoID=100652
Makes me a little misty.
This video doesn't make me misty, but I lol'ed a bit.
Talbot's Last Second Goal in the third:
Sykora's game winner in the third overtime:
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When the Wings scored that 3rd goal late in the third period, especially after watching the Pens play a strong game up to that point, it felt like the lowest one can feel as your favorite team is 5 minutes away from losing a championship.
It felt inevitable, especially as NBC started showing shots of the NHL official getting the Stanley Cup ready to present to the Wings.
There's two minutes left. You want to puke you feel so awful.
A minute left. You want it all to be over. There's no way Detroit will give up a goal with with Fleury pulled. They've been so amazing defensively, there's no way.
That may be one of the biggest goals in Penguins history.
Overtime.
Detroit dominated the first OT - but Marc-Andre Fleury played out of this mind and stopped everything. We were stronger in the second OT, and finally, finally, in the third overtime, Petr Sykora buried one on a power play.I think I woke up everyone in the house. The series goes back to Pittsburgh for Game 6 on Wednesday.
I am exhausted, and I'm sure many other Pens (and Wings) fans are as well. What a game.
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I'll try to accomplish as much of this as I can.
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It was a great show - we had amazing seats 5 rows back, which obviously was my reward for hitting refresh over and over the moment tickets went on sale. All the extra work and money proved worth it when Glen started the show by coming to the very front of the stage and playing "Say It To Me Now" with no amplification at all and no microphone. 3,000 people were dead silent, hanging on every word. It was magical.
It was a lot of effort to get there on a busy Mother's Day, but it was well worth it, even just to catch opener Damien Dempsey.
At the end of the Swell Season portion, they brought Dempsey back out for a great version of The Old Triangle. Here's a clip to an old version: