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June 6, 2007

More Liam

May 8, 2007

Life with Liam

Liam is our new english bulldog. As of today he is exactly 11 weeks old.

June 6, 2006

666

Happy 06/06/06.

Life Lesson: If your boss calls you up on a Saturday morning, 99.999% of the time he probably wants you to come into the office for something. The other 0.001% of the time he wants to know if you're interested in free, 3rd row, center stage tickets to Radiohead. My life is complete.

June 5, 2006

Chicago

I'm a homeowner now. If cutting grass didn't make me feel old, watching the first of my friends from college get married didn't help. Congrats Mike and Liz Burton. Since the wedding was in Rockford, Il, Rita, Jeff, Mark, Alice and I spent a day walking around Chicago, which is alot like New York, only cleaner and friendlier.


Married With Children Fountain	Navy Pier


Oprah's "House"	Wrigley Field


Jeff hearts lego vader	Uno's


Flight of the Navigator?	Theatre at Millenium Park


More Theatre	Our room at the W (fluffy cube included)


Better than my TV at home	Room service


Rita in the Hancock Tower	The wedding scene


Cheng mackin it. Burton married.	Mark and Me

March 29, 2006

6 Month Hiatus

I just completely ignored this blog for the last 6 months. If you visited anytime since January you probably noticed that this page just didn't work at all and got "MYSQL ERROR: blah blah blah". My bad.

Anyways, since I last wrote about FEMA's failure to adequately prepare Pittsburgh for Zombie attacks, I've left PTC and am now working at Prospectiv. I also bought a house, had an APD reunion at Mohegan Sun, became a regular at Gypsy Bar (never had to wait in line or pay a cover thanks to Mike), won my fantasy football league (thank you Sean Alexander), saw Spamalot and INXS (thanks Ruth), became a big fan of Battlestar Galactica (nothing can top Scrubs though) and am trying to unravel the question everyone wants to know the answer to: Is Karl Pilkington a giant retard or a genius? Either way, he has the roundest head I've ever seen. I haven't been to Florida in eight months, that's a record.

Rather than ramble on I'll just leave you with these entertaining links:

October 25, 2005

FEMA Fails Again

We all know that the Bush Administration is always slow to react and prepare for nationwide, emergency situations, but this is where I draw the line!

Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared For Full-Scale Zombie Attack

March 9, 2004

Around the world

I woke up this morning from la-la-land with a random thought in my mind (as usual). The world is all about numbers, so here's a few interesting figures:

My average one way commute: 25 miles
My average daily roundtrip commute: 50 miles
Total Weekly commute: 250 miles
Total yearly commute (52 weeks): 13,000 miles
Circumference of the Earth at 30 degrees latitude*: 34,705km = 21,565 miles

* Equation is [C = 2* pi * r * cos(x)] where pi = 3.14159, r = Earth's equatorial radius, 6378 km and x = angle of latitude, in this case 30 = 34,705km.

So at my pace, I can drive around the world in 86 weeks. This number isn't completely accurate because the world is "fatter" around the waist and not a true sphere, but it is close enough for me. Also, latitude makes a huge difference, if you want to be a real trooper and drive around the largest portion (at the equator, 0 degree latitude), your trip would be 40,074km which is about 24,901 miles ~ 100 weeks.

In about two years of commuting from my apartment in Malden to PTC in Needham I would travel far enough to circumnavigate the world. Just a thought. But let's go one step further:

Gas Mileage when Driving Around the World (24,901 miles)

Vehicle

Fuel Efficiency

Required Gallons

Cost for Gas @ $1.79/gallon

Cadillac Escalade

14 mpg

1,778.6

$3,183.77

Volkswagen Jetta 1.8T

25 mpg

996.4