Archive for April, 2004
Friday, April 30th, 2004
Buh bye, TextAmerica
Well, after TextAmerica went and broke their RSS feed again a few weeks ago, breaking my homepage display of the latest moblog image, I finally got motivated to change services. I’ve had a few run-ins with them before. One of their bizdev dudes took offence to my posting code to parse their RSS [...]
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Thursday, April 29th, 2004
Medium updates
A bunch of things have happened in the last few days since my original post. Here there are in no particular order (some of them I already put into updates in my original post):
The next issue of The Medium contained an apology. The issue is archived here.
According to the emails I’m still getting [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Current Events by mattcomroe
Thursday, April 29th, 2004
MPT Week #2
Another fun night on the MPT last night. We went to Jason house, which is in the middle of East Nowhere, but still a nice spread. My play was ok; I got better cards than last week, but also played a bit looser. I was up about $10 early in the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Poker by mattcomroe
Tuesday, April 27th, 2004
Missed opportunities
You ever have those golden moments; the ones that as soon as they pass you by you find yourself wishing you had done/said/not done/not said something? I had one of those at the store tonight.
I had to stop by and pick up a few essentials (how the hell do I go through so [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Monday, April 26th, 2004
The Medium, in the news again.
As a former editor for the fishwrapper that was The Medium (the “independant” campus paper; site currently down / slashdotted / farked), I always sit up and take notice whenever they cause outrage or “ire” (a favorite word used by the “legitimate” Daily Targum). Last year it was sort of indirect heat, as they [...]
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Friday, April 23rd, 2004
Ow, my ass…
I’ve decided to try and kick up my game a little bit with the cycling. I’m going to try and do the 62-mile course for the Pedal Pittsburgh ride in about 3 weeks, and then attempt the Escape to the Lake in June, which is 150 miles over 2 days. Apparently lots of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Bike by mattcomroe
Thursday, April 22nd, 2004
Poker night!
Last night was the first of what I hope will be the weekly friendly poker night. There were only 4 guys in attendance, which is a little light, but there’s enough interest from enough people that I’m thinking on any given week we should have at least 5 or 6.
We started a bit early [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Poker by mattcomroe
Wednesday, April 21st, 2004
This week’s Onion
The Onion this week has some of the funnier throwaway headlines I’ve seen them have in quite some time:
Cheney Wows Sept. 11 Commission By Drinking Glass Of Water While Bush Speaks
Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department
New AnTiVo DVR Only Records Shows It Knows You Hate
Hahahaha! Great stuff. The Onion and The Daily Show continue [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Humor by mattcomroe
Tuesday, April 20th, 2004
Top five reasons why my work is like a fraternity house
Only guys work at my office. Not like it’s a sexist thing, and women have worked there before, but at the moment it’s only us Y-chromosomes folks.
Any day that it’s nice we grill lunch out on the back patio. Yesterday was turkey burgers, today was hot dogs!
Another thing that happens on nice days [...]
No Comments » - Posted in .Nizzle, Work by mattcomroe
Monday, April 19th, 2004
In control
It’s been a trying last 4 weeks or so. A month ago, I thought today was going to be the first day I woke up in a new state. Now everything is different. It’s been a stressful experience, to say the least. Last week I started experiencing physical manifestations of that [...]
