I can’t tell you the number of people that have sent me the latest article from Travel and Leisure which states that Philadelphia has the ugliest people in the US. Clearly it isn’t true based off the picture that they used in the article…. I mean, first the Phillies, then the Eagles, and now this. …
After spending Saturday tailgating for the UW Huskies game and having a great time, I had to laugh when I saw these Green Bay Packers tailgating photos of Justin Timberlake, the guy from Dawson’s Creek, and Jessica Biel. If you look at the pictures in progression, make sure to look at the person in the…
What great news I got this weekend when I received an email alert from the Washington Post that Greg Monroe has decided to sign with Georgetown over his hometown school, LSU, as well as cancel his recruiting trip to Duke — despite the fact that he was Coach K’s #1 player this year. I couldn’t…
After working with the Windows Live Spaces Program Management and Development team for the last 3 months on the latest release, I am happy to say that as of last night, it is finally here. I wrote a blog entry on it on our Spaces team blog but the highlights are: What’s New Feed which…
The Onion is a phenomenal website. Except when it parodies Donovan McNabb and my Eagles twice in three weeks. The first one was on 9/17: Eagles Fans Give McNabb Three-Week Deadline To Win Super Bowl and then there was one this week after the loss to the Giants: Umenyiora comes out of nowhere to sack…
I was reading the WSJ the other day and I saw this article written about a speech given by a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who is dying of pancreatic cancer. The question that he posed to the people in the audience was: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it…
Last summer after graduating from school, I spent a month traveling around South Africa by rental car. What a fantastic country. One of the places that I visited was Gaansbai which is about 90 minutes north of Capetown. Gaansbai, South Africa known around the world as the capital for great white shark diving. So…. given…
I just read this story in the news about a Thai budget airline called One-Two-Go which crashed on its way to Phuket, a Thai resort island. Having traveled all over Southeast Asia on budget airlines like this, I definitely had some scary experiences but this is just horrible. 88 people died in the crash. Sad…
This weekend I am going to check four more boxes off in my goal to play the "Top 100" public golf courses in the country. It is going to be an amazing weekend of golf and fun to catch up with friends from all over the country (there are 11 people joining me on this…
As those of you that actually read my space know (which doesn’t feel like many since no one leaves me comments or messages…), I don’t tend to write about Windows Live Spaces or Microsoft because I want to maintain the blog as a personal endeavor not a work endeavor. That being said, we released a…