Oscar M.

Hello. My name is Simon.

This weekend, Staci and I adopted Simon from BREW, a local beagle rescue organization.  Staci saw his posting earlier in the week and pretty much fell in love with the little guy, so we headed to the Adoption Day they were having in Alexandria on Saturday.  We pretty much made a bee-line from the dorr […]

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Stadiums and ticket demand

Soccer-Specific-Stadiums are all the rage in Major League Soccer these days, as a way for the League to control costs (mainly stadium rental) and keep ancillary revenues, Dallas opened their own stadium this summer, Chicago has one on the way for next year, the Metrostars finally decided to pay for their own for 2007, and

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Back from California

We flew in Friday with enough time to grab lunch and get ready for the Rehearsal and Rehearsal dinner. I messed up the google map directions and instead of being on North California Ave we ended up on California Ave, on the wrong side of the Caltrain rails. We were half an hour late to

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Airplane reading

I used the time on the airplane to devour Freakonomics and the Tipping Point. I found Freakonomics a much more informative book, and although the authors claimed that there was no unifying theme for it, all the stories reinforced quite well their notion that looking at datasets in new, unexpected ways can reveal some startling

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Bad DRM poll

EHomeUpgrade is running a quick poll on Digital Rights Management. The questions are interesting but, it must be the poll software they used, some of the questions are really more than one question shoe horned into a checkbox website poll model.  For example, you can check both Would you "rent" DRM protected digital media –

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