Category Archives: General
Goodbye Telephone
I recently gave up my landline phone. Sort of. I wanted to upgrade my cell phone to a smartphone, and in order to offset the extra cost of the data plan, I was looking for other places to cut costs. Since I’m often on the go, my home phone gets little use. I make most […]
Staging/Production switch for RIT websites
Sometimes I use this blog as a way for me to store tips and hints that are helpful to me in a place where I can always find them. My general feeling is that, if its useful to me, it might be useful to someone else, too, so I publish it. This is one of […]
The Conedom
The recent Daily Show coverage of Rochester and the Toy Hall of Fame made me think of this classic story, also from Rochester. It’s weird seeing the old local new coverage at the end, too. Channel 13’s old set looks so ancient compared with the one they have now.
Jon Stewart Looks at Children’s Things in his Windowless News Van
Jon Stewart lambasted the Strong Museum of Play‘s Toy Hall of Fame on The Daily Show last night for taking 11 years to induct the ball. We Rochesterians evidently have our heads stuck in our Garbage Plates. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Apparently you can get there from here…
One of our students in the lab mentioned today that Google Maps provides “driving” directions to Hawaii. My ADD kicked in and I, of course, had to try it out for myself. A search from Rochester to Honolulu gives me clear directions from somewhere on Main Street in Rochester to Beretania Street in Honolulu, by […]