December 2008
53 posts
Pittsburghers! Tumblr Meet-Up
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Here’s the deal: Nakama Japanesey Steakhouse (don’t worry if you’re veg, lots of us are, too) at 7pm on January 1st. If you want to go to the Pittsburgh meet-up but this doesn’t sound good to you, PLEASE LET ME KNOW NOW! If it sounds good and you can make it, please LET ME KNOW NOW! I think we’re going to make reservations in the...
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge, who...
– Charles Dickes, A Christmas Carol (via thebronzemedal)
Watching A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott version, of course). My populist leanings may have derived from my mother’s love for this film.
Fallingwater is reviving its winter book club and the first selection is a cookbook — this means a covered dish will be expected, right?
Home from a weekend in NYC. Why is the tree in Bryant Park so underrated?
Research suggests that nostalgia can promote psychological health. Inducing...
– More Than Just Being A Sentimental Fool: The Psychology Of Nostalgia (via somethingchanged)
Hit by Recession, NPR to Lay Off Seven Percent of... →
“Day to Day” was canceled, too.
Viewed the Presepio today. Angels illuminate a busy Neapolitan village and marketplace. Mary and Joseph are 230 years old (circa 1780).
I guess someone burglarized my neighbor’s apartment — he was seriously just on the 11 p.m. news right outside of our building.
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Pittsburgh's Global Links makes the best of a... →
A hospital patient in the United States accumulates an average of 20 pounds of waste per day. Global Links recovers medical surplus and furnishings and sends it to overseas clinics; otherwise, the materials would be discarded and end up in a landfill. It is impossible to overstate how valuable these materials are in saving lives and improving medical treatment in hospitals in developing countries...
“Four Christmases” would have probably been funnier without the stereotypical redneck jokes.
Books make great gifts because people love supporting endangered species.
– Carl Hiaasen (via jessicalindsey)
Journalism’s Battle for Relevance in an "Age of... →
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Mind-blowing:
There are more than 70 million blogs and 150 million Web sites today—a number that is expanding at a rate of approximately ten thousand an hour. Two hundred and ten billion e-mails are sent each day. Say goodbye to the gigabyte and hello to the exabyte, five of which are worth 37,000 Libraries of Congress. In 2006 alone, the world produced 161 exabytes of digital...
A happy Friday morning home from work is watching Sunrise Earth on HD Theater.