Bryan Strawser

Heather [Dooce] is one of the best weblogs out there. She causes me fits of laughter every time she posts!

Since Heather’s site doesn’t ping weblogs.com or blo.gs, it doesn’t pop up on my new fangled devices and I have to remember to go to the site by hand every so often. It’s probably been at least a month since I remembered and it’s been far too long so I’m posting this as a reminder to myself.

[A Whole Lotta Nothing]

here’s another world inside of me that you may never see.
There’s secrets in this life that I can’t hide.
Somewhere in this darkness there’s a life that I can’t find.
Maybe it’s too far away or maybe I’m just blind, maybe I’m just blind.

So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
Hold me when I’m scared and love me when I’m gone.
Everything I am and everything in me
Wants to be the one you wanted me to be.
I’ll never let you down even if I could.
I’d give up everything if only for your good.

So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
You can hold me when I’m scared but you won’t always be there,
So love me when I’m gone, love me when I’m gone
When your education x-ray cannot see under my skin.
I won’t tell you a damn thing that I could not tell my friends.

Now roaming through this darkness I’m alive but I’m alone.
Part of me is fighting this but part of me is gone.
So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
Hold me when I’m scared and love me when I’m gone.

Everything I am and everything in me.
Wants to be the one you wanted me to be,
Ill never let you down even if I could.
I’d give up everything if only for your good.

So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong
You can hold me when I’m scared, you won’t always be there,
So love me when I’m gone.
(Maybe I’m just blind)

So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
Hold me when I’m scared and love me when I’m gone.
Everything I am and everything in me,
Wants to be the one you wanted me to be.

I’ll never let you down even if I could.
I’d give up everything if only for your good.
So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
You can hold me when I’m scared, you won’t always be there.
So love me when I’m gone, love me when I’m gone.

This is damn impressive. I’ve always been happy with NYC cab drivers, but the Boston cab drives are clearly the worst that I’ve had the displeasure of riding with.

NYC did it right. Looks like we’re finally taking a different approach. Thank god.

BOSTON, Aug. 22 %u2014  Say ìpleaseî and ìthank you.î Dress nice, and try not to run any stop lights or make offensive comments.Those are the lessons that the city of Boston and Democratic organizers are hoping the cityís 5,500 cabbies learn before next summerís presidential convention. []

Been pretty busy over here. Couple parties and gathering to goto, some major real job stuff going on, and some family funnies happening once again. Bloggin will be light through the weekend.

Off for some 6:30am golf tomorrow!

Picked up the iTrip device today at MicroCenter in Cambridge. I had been using a different radio transmitter for my iPod, but this one is so much sleeker and easier to use, I couldn’t resist.

Now my iPod is in the process of syncing with my Mac Desktop G4 instead of my windows computer. Much faster and iTunes provides for better customization of music I think. Sides, I’m pretty much a Mac exclusive user at home now, so may as well do it with the iPod as well.

Drool. I’d love to have one. Then again, I’ve got two G4s… still would be nice

jocknerd writes “Apple is now shipping its G5. The 1.6ghz and 1.8ghz are shipping while the dual processor 2.0ghz will ship at the end of the month.” [Slashdot]

So…. around 4:20 yesterday, the lights around my cubicle got REALLY bright, then fizzled, then went out.  Our building had “blinked” once or twice before, but when the lights didn’t come back after a minute or two, people began to mill around.  We realized that it wasn’t just our floor, it was the building. A security announcement over the P.A. confirmed that.  We went to the windows and realized that the lights in the intersection were out.  then we saw the smoke from the buildings all over brooklyn as the diesel generators kicked in.  Then we saw the same smoke in manhattan.  Then the same smoke in Jersey.  This was going to be an interesting day in New York City.

Some people panicked a bit.  Our building has a 360 degree panaramic view;  the walls were lined with people staring out the windows.  I went to the north side of the building, which faces my neighborhood and the Con Edison plant behind it.  I didn’t see any plumes of smoke or emergency lights, which was a good thing.  my nerves pretty much settled at that point.  [Objective]

Aug. 15 - The official leading the investigation into the biggest power failure in history said Friday that a section of the U.S.-Canadian power grid in Ohio had emerged as the %u201Cprime suspect%u201D for triggering the cascading shutdowns that left as many as 50 million people without power a day earlier. [MSNBC]