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Alternative title for this post was: “Fred the Baker Meets his Maker”
Michael Vale, aka “Fred the Baker” aka the “time to make the doughnuts” guy has died — he was 83. He outlived the “Where’s The Beef” lady by nearly 20 years. (Who incidentally made an appearance in one of my favorite Fred [...]

The new Mercedes-S class has an embedded screen in the dashboard that displays all data ‘virtually’ — simulating analog ‘dials’ plus it has a nightvision mode that displays everything in front of the car in the pitch dark. Kinda sweet…for an extra $4,000 you can get the option where it’ll say “Right away, Michael” [...]

Ridgemont High School just lost their biology teacher Mr. Vargas — played by Vincent Schiavelli who died the day after Christmas in Italy from lung cancer.
He had an appearance in Buckaroo Banzai and over 120 other TV and movie appearances…now he’s Ghost like Swayze.
(He was also in 1992′ “Ghost” with Patrick Swayze)
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Redskins V. Giants - Xmas Eve ‘05

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Mike, Diedre, new Dad Phil Lobb and I ventured into Redksins country today to watch them destroy the Giants - 35-20.
We sat condescendingly above the peasants in the suite level, courtesy of Doug Ayers — it [...]

Last night was JMU mini-reunion part deux at DC’s Lucky Bar — Mickey & Luke who drove down from Philly, Geoff Wickersham, KT Holstein (who broke down in Bethesda, MD on her way to visit fam in NJ just a couple hours before), George B., Keith Mayo, Chescavage, and Jed were all up in [...]

The SNL “Lazy Sunday” rap (aka the The Chronic of Narnia )has already spawned some homebrew t-shirts.
Market research seems to have proven it’s cool to think your state is lame.

Craigslist has this little section where you can post a “rideshare” — “I need a ride to (local college)! Will pay for gas and provide witty banter!”, or “I need a ride to (neighborhood) on Saturday” are just samples of what some ads can be — yesterday, for example there were 22 listings or ‘requests’ [...]

This was THE highlight from last weekend’s SNL hosted by Jack Black — this clip unfortunately has no JB in it — its’ a digital short by the newly added cast member Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell — The Chronic of Narnia — enjoy. And remember: Mr. [...]

Recently a new prime number was discovered — one with just under 10 million digits. How was this accomplished? The GIMPS project (The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) — where millions of PCs share in processing data over the Internet — creating what is essentially a massive super-mega-duper computer.
Distributed computing is almost as old as [...]

Last night was the premiere of Howie Mandel’s attempted comeback show, “Deal Or No Deal”… any gameshow where it takes you more than 12 seconds to explain the premise is doomed for failure.

I predict the expression “Deal Or No Deal” will be a catch phrase for about a month, then the show will be [...]