Archive for February, 2006


Winter Park

In high school I used to row against Winter Park.  They had, by far, the most attractive women’s crew team at the Stotesbury and Scholastic National regattas.  Every year at these races someone made sure we setup our food tents right next to Winter Park’s, I suppose hoping that all those riled up hormones would make [...]

Wasting Time

I recently signed up for Netflix.  As technically savvy as I think I am, I always endup staying three years behind the trends.  I didn’t get an iPod until this year.   I’ve yet to buy a single song from iTunes.  My first round of movies was Waiting, Tailor of Panama and Corpse Bride.  My second [...]

Terry Tate: Office Linebacker

I was recently reminded of the "Office Linebacker" commercials from a few years ago.  Since Google has everything I found a bunch of the shorts posted on Google video.  There is something so hilarious about watching an NFL linebacker flatten an average office worker for not putting covers on his TPS reports.  Link.

Bachelor Party; Aborted

I’m supposed to be in Mexico right now with six of my friends sitting in a beach-front condo, drinking cervezas, 4-wheeling, lighting off fireworks and being slapped with various adult paraphernalia.  Instead three of us spend 12 hours at BWI airport because of American Airlines complete lack of competence. 
We spent 12 hours at the [...]

Snow Day (really)

So it finally snowed!  I feel some joy that the forecasters were finally right, however cynical I was when I went to sleep last night.  I remember snow days when I was younger – a pack of us roving the neighborhood, sleds in tow, looking for a hill – praying that we wouldn’t see the snow [...]

Ah Directv

I came home today and my Directv was out.  This morning when I left everything was fine, so I thought nothing of the six inches of snow we’d gotten overnight.  I went outside and saw there there was a bunch of snow covering my the dish.  I realized I had a few options:

Wait for the [...]