Music For Rent

Because I deal with online music services as part of my job, I have used most of them: MusicNet, MusicNow, Napster, iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic and MusicMatch.
MusicMatch, MusicNet and Rhapsody are all mostly-subscription services - you don’t own the music but you can listen to a million different songs anytime you want as often as you [...]

Worst. Name. Ever.

It was like a dream, or I just wasn’t really paying attention, but Sunday night I was either playing with the boy or talking Jen (probably both) and I vaguely remember The Simpsons being on in the background and "Comic Book Guy" was on and I thought to myself "did he just say his name?" [...]

Hunter Stocton Thompson, 1937-2005

I’m still in shock about this and I’m not even sure I believe it yet but apparently, The Good Doctor has taken his own life over the weekend. He was 67.
I’ve never been much of a reader, but thanks to a couple of very good friends (Jason and Geoff, who don’t know each other [...]

Why, do I look stressed?

So, Buffalo is 5th most ’stressed city’ according to this Business First article. Factors like stabilty, poverty, unemployment, insufficient eduction and housing helped determine this study.
None of these things affect me personally but when you add things like the constant barrage of budget talks, losing sport teams (wide right, no goal, etc.) and the exodus [...]

Happy Valentines Day!

To Jen,
We love you.
Jack & Jay
xoxoxo

NY Times article on Blogs

This is scary to me: The Resignation at CNN Shows the Growing Influence of Blogs. Basically, Jordan Eason, head of “liberal media” giant CNN, has apparently been pushed out of his position for implying that US troops were targeting journalists. Now, I find that assertion hard to believe but the fact that so many people [...]

New website!

You can tell it’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog and I’ve been telling myself that I really need to to get back on this thing, so much to say you know… so I finally decided that instead of continuing to support my own “blog” software, I would go with one of the [...]