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2013 Super Bowl Ads: GoDaddy, Budweiser, Mercedes, BlackBerry, Samsung and the night’s most interesting commercials. - Slate Magazine

2013 Super Bowl ad rundown.

Web Communications Group has a New Business Address in Pittsburgh, PA

Web Communications Group has a New Business Address in Pittsburgh, PA

New office address!

New York City unveils its vision for micro-apartments under 400 sq. ft. - Quartz

Micro apartments in NYC.

When In a Civil War, Internet Gets Shut Off

When In a Civil War, Internet Gets Shut Off

The idea of turning off the internet is foreign concept for many of us in the USA. But in places like Egypt, and now Syria, it happens.

Rooting My Nook Color

Rooting My Nook Color

Photo by hcl12 [https://stock.adobe.com/images/cameleon-zoo-de-vincennes/64530561], used under license through Adobe Stock.This week, I rooted my Nook Color. I was running version 1.4.3 and I rooted into CM7.2.0 (CyanogenMod 7) with Google Apps on a CWM 3.2.0.1 (clockworkmod)

US 2012 Election

US 2012 Election

Fareed Zakaria's take on the 2012 Presidential Election.

Financial Regulation, Anyone?

Financial Regulation, Anyone?

Financial Regulation reading.

Empty Swings

No one using the park.

Cut the Cord

My wife and I recently agreed to “cut the cord”. We did not go cold turkey. We did, however, drop our Comcast service bundle.

The Shorpy Website

The Shorpy Website

A vintage photography website named Shorpy caught my eye. What a great collection of photographs! Some are user-submitted, in case anyone out there has an old box of vintage gems which they would like to share.

Saying Goodbye to Ray

Saying Goodbye to Ray

We spent the morning in the backyard, playing with water from the hose. He had a big meal of freshly cooked chicken breast & white rice and chased his peanut butter kong down the run between mine and the neighbor’s houses. By 10:59 AM, he was dead.

The Future of Computing: It Looks Like Cotton Candy!

The Future of Computing: It Looks Like Cotton Candy!

I really want to know when I can buy one of these.

Light Solution for Dark Homes!

Light Solution for Dark Homes!

Check out what this clever guy is doing to provide light for folks – he is filling empty plastic pop bottles with water and a little bit of bleach.

The Solar Floating Resort

The Solar Floating Resort

Check out this imagining of homes of the future: a floating, energy independent resort sea home! Pretty radical.

Summer Gardening

Summer Gardening

Summer usually brings with it an unquenchable fever for gardening and all sorts of landscaping activities. This year, though, I have barely mowed the lawn. What gives?

Madame Seriziat

Madame Seriziat

My father has always loved this portrait of Madame Seriziat. Over the years I have come to admire it a great deal, too. Such a subtle, but beautiful woman.

Check out my new theme

Check out my new theme

My personal blog now has a new theme (design). Hooray for me! I got this theme from ThemeTrust. They have a pretty nice selection of WordPress themes at a fair price. Why did I buy instead of make my own?

Movies in the Afternoon

Movies in the Afternoon

When the weatherman predicts 6″ of snow for a Monday morning and instead you get a day-long, cold, persistent rain, should you count your blessings?

2012 CBI Tournament: Pitt Prevails Against Butler; Heads To Finals - SB Nation Pittsburgh

2012 CBI Tournament: Pitt Prevails Against Butler; Heads To Finals - SB Nation Pittsburgh

I want to care, but it is difficult to get really fired up about our chances of winning a tournament that would cement us in the top 130 teams of college basketball.

Coal Mining and the Technologies Reshaping Our World - and Workforce?

Coal Mining and the Technologies Reshaping Our World - and Workforce?

One of the things that piques my interest in the story above is the concept of mining jobs being replaced by robots. This only makes sense – when you can remove the human element from a dangerous situation, do it.

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com

Internet vendors use cookies and behavior tracking to develop sophisticated and refined user profiles. This data is subsequently used to provide users with ads and products that we will purchase, based on our previous behavior or the behavior of people “like” us.

Sweet Pittsburgh Skyline by mastermayhem

[http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/076/1/d/striking_the_skyline_by_mastermayhem-d4t0bj1.jpg] by mastermayhem Found Here [http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/076/1/d/striking_the_skyline_by_mastermayhem-d4t0bj1.jpg]

As the Burgh Turns

As the Burgh Turns

The Civic Arena is looking more like a post-apocalyptic film set than a playoff hockey rink. It’s it hard to believe that I once saw a dog show inside that crater.

Lists of Things For Which Pittsburgh Has Been Lauded

Lists of Things For Which Pittsburgh Has Been Lauded

Lists in which Pittsburgh has been lauded.

McDonald's Presses Pig Farmers to Stop Using Gestation Stalls

McDonald's Presses Pig Farmers to Stop Using Gestation Stalls

It is too bad that it is “news” when a major animal harvester decides to be an iota more humane in the way it procures its product. Shouldn’t people demand that suppliers already behave in humane ways towards the treatment of the animals we eat?