Blog Master G

Data are (and is, now that data as singular has become acceptable in American English) important to me, especially things like photos, financial documents, and the like. I try to be pretty obsessive about backing things up. I don’t lose sleep over our digital photos since they’re all archived on Ofoto/Kodak Gallery — all 10,736 […]

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Mr. Davis came to Saratoga for one night only last night, so we hit the town. Thirteen was the desintation, followed by a brief visit to the Tin & Lint. E-Dawg and I had brunch at the Country Kitchen on High Rock before he hit the town to head back to the DC area today. […]

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Google has quietly begun to compete with everyone’s favorite message board, craigslist, via the new Google Base. Google is taking it up a notch, though, with photos for just about everything, from personals to blogs to coupons. Time will tell how popular Google Base becomes, but I think many of us are already very attached […]

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This Christmas weekend was relaxing, long, and fun. We packed tons of stuff into the three-day weekend. On Christmas Eve we had a quiet dinner at home with my Dad, and watched March of the Penguins, which was an incredible documentary about the migrating, mating, and child rearing of the empire penguin in Antarctica. View […]

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Happy models Jen’s old watch now that Jen got a new one for her birthday from her husband: I’m a model… you know what I mean… I do my little turn… on the catwalk… yeah, on the catwalk! Last night we walked to a fun winter solstice party not far from here. We met some […]

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One of the fun things about owning an old home is hearing the floor creak as you walk around; catching the angle of the glass in the windows that reveals their age in the warps; feeling the solid doors shut; admiring the original fixtures. One of the fun things about owning a WRX is hearing […]

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I don’t shop at Wal-Mart for a number of reasons — it doesn’t treat its workers well (half of its 1.2 million employees are blocked from being eligible for healthcare), it drives small businesses out of town (what choice will we have in shopping before long?), it has a scary amount of control over the […]

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Yesterday marked the start of my 21st season of skiing (has it really been that long?!) when Nat and I, armed with our Price Chopper Family Mountain Passbooks, headed to Gore Mountain for an impromptu afternoon of awesome skiing. One of my goals this winter is to really make an effort to ski as much […]

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Be sure to watch Tom Brokaw’s special on NBC tomoorrow (Sunday) night at 8pm. The clips I’ve seen look very moving — Jon Stewart interviewed Brokaw this week — and the report, “To War and Back,” actually features a National Guard unit from here in the Capital Region — Glens Falls, which is only about […]

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The impossible has happened: Bush has admitted fault! Someone’s approval numbers must really stink (currently at 39% approval and 55% disapproval). Bush: Iraq Invasion My Responsibility: WASHINGTON – President Bush said Wednesday the responsibility for invading Iraq based in part on faulty weapons intelligence rested solely with him, taking on the issue in his most […]

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