tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67364482012-02-02T16:46:41.037-05:00A blog about This, That, and The Other ThingMattnoreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-2676669011403865522011-08-31T13:18:00.002-04:002011-08-31T13:23:15.263-04:00

Discovered this Japanese jazz group while listening to JazzRadio.com From their website: Formed in Osaka, Japan, in 2005 indigo jam unit consists of Yoshichika Tarue (piano), Katsuhiko Sasai (double bass) Isao Wasano (percussion & drums), and Takehiro Shimizu (drums). Indigo jam unit's full length releases as of April 2011 includes six full length CD albums, starting with "

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Agent: Zednik had lifesaving surgery - Yahoo! News: "By JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer 27 minutes agoBUFFALO, N.Y. - Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik required lifesaving surgery after severing his carotid artery, his agent told The Associated Press on Monday. Zednik was listed in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Buffalo General Hospital, and will continue to be evaluated

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Charles Fawcett - Telegraph: "Charles Fawcett, who died in London on February 3 aged 92, was a film maker and adventurer of great and generous passions that embraced Afghan freedom fighters and the much-married film actress Hedy Lamarr. His unlikely - some would say unbelievable - life was informed by an impulse to stand up for the underdog mixed with a thirst for glamour and adventure. Fawcett

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Mad magazine enlists Pulitzer winners to take on Bush - International Herald TribuneThe "usual gang of idiots," as the editorial staff of Mad magazine lovingly describes itself, produces cultural and political parody every month. For the next issue, however, the gang has recruited some very special help. "Why George W. Bush Is in Favor of Global Warming," a two-page spread that the magazine

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-35791762317286912492007-12-12T21:35:00.000-05:002007-12-12T22:01:13.628-05:00

Snowy weather is headed for the Northeast United States. Let's see what the the farmers almanacs have predicted.The Old Farmer's Almanac: Northeast (Dec. 13-17), very cold then snowstorm. Atlantic Corridor (Dec. 10-14), Flurries, then sunny and cold and (Dec. 15-19) periods of snow and cold.Farmer's Almanac: Northeastern States (Dec 12-15), snowstorm with significant accumulations as far south

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-18400976345233032632007-07-25T17:50:00.000-04:002007-07-25T17:52:34.859-04:00

Oscar the cat predicts patients' deaths - Yahoo! News: "PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live."

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-52733397440093022622007-04-11T17:14:00.000-04:002007-04-13T22:45:48.138-04:00

Here's a video of Bruce Springsteen performing "The River" in Copenhagen, Denmark.According to this site, this occurred in 1988.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-9039369121330844502007-04-11T17:00:00.000-04:002007-04-11T17:12:39.637-04:00

Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out.By Gene WeingartenWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, April 8, 2007; Page W10"HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-43450007978819485582007-03-30T15:10:00.000-04:002007-03-30T15:19:25.231-04:00

This debuted at The 63rd Annual Radio/TV and White House Correspondents DinnerWhat We Call the News | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1139542178796305072006-02-09T22:29:00.000-05:002006-02-09T22:30:22.970-05:00

"There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This list features my personal pick of the 'best of the best.'All the utilities in this list have featured in past issues of my free monthly newsletter 'Support Alert' More freebies are published in each new issue. If you are interested in great utilities and freeware you

Mattnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1133580669546256592005-12-02T22:31:00.000-05:002005-12-09T22:37:47.266-05:00

Metacafe has a video of this amazing Christmas light display in Mason, OH. It is synchronized to the music of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Wizard in Winter".Snopes.com says "This display was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting

Mattnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1133475821424449242005-12-01T17:23:00.000-05:002005-12-01T17:25:21.436-05:00

"A Reading mother, apparently trying to help her son make friends, is accused of throwing a rowdy keg party where she sold teens beer. Police say Kim Caufield, 39, now faces charges of distributing alcohol to a minor and delinquency of a minor. Caufield and her family reportedly moved to Reading about two months ago from Florida. Students speculate she threw the beer bash — complete with a keg

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1132799134515962352005-11-23T21:25:00.000-05:002005-11-23T21:38:03.603-05:00

Skating Rink at Kennedy Plaza, Providence RIBrightridge: "Brightridge is the site of the panoramic photography of Edward Huff. The images are presented using QuickTimeVR. This allows you to navigate the image by dragging your mouse left and right and up and down."

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1132020659195239282005-11-14T21:10:00.000-05:002005-11-23T20:07:00.760-05:00

"The Borders Best of 2005 spans a variety of categories, from fiction and history to romance and cooking, from pop music to jazz, from one-disc movie DVDs to TV series box sets. We invite you to sample our selections, revel in them, even disagree with them. After all, a significant portion of the pleasure that comes from books, music, and movies can be found in the act of talking about them,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1116809184252907552005-05-22T20:46:00.000-04:002005-05-22T21:10:34.690-04:00

I once caught a fish this bigEverbody put your hands in the air and say yeah!Man, that burrito was good!

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1111778526465751252005-03-25T14:22:00.000-05:002005-03-25T14:30:55.146-05:00

"Jon Udell, Lead Analyst at InfoWorld's test center, didn't set out to rock the world of library technology. He just wanted to check his local library's catalog while simultaneously browsing through Amazon.com. He soon developed LibraryLookup, a bookmarklet that can be installed on a browser's tool bar.LibraryLookup is a bookmarklet written in JavaScript code that extracts the ISBN from the URL

Mattnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1110996777012994282005-03-16T13:01:00.000-05:002005-03-21T22:08:57.733-05:00

Reading The Big Year A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark ObmascikReading Time magazine, March 21, 2005Reading Blender Magazine, April 2005Reading Men's Journal magazine, April 2005Watching The Amazing Race, CBSWatching Survivor Palau, CBSWatching The Grudge (DVD)Watching Showtime (DVD)Listening to Buffalo Nickel-Longplay 33 1/3Listening to John Hiatt-The Tikki Bar Is Open

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1110942382390721982005-03-15T22:06:00.000-05:002005-03-15T22:27:07.096-05:00

This site contains more than 1900 calendars to use in programs like iCal and Mozilla Calendar.Mozilla Calendar is a project of the Mozilla Organization. This is the group that also produces the Firefox browser. Apple Computer is the developer of iCal. The calendars available at icalshare.com can be used with other programs that support the ical(.ics) file format.Calendars can be imported or,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1110342595140084292005-03-08T23:00:00.000-05:002005-03-20T13:33:06.800-05:00

The internet is great for finding bargains. I use the following sites:Slickdeals describes itself as "The most frequently updated and complete deal site on the web". It usually list four or five deals a day. It also has a very active forum and offers online coupons. I've used this site to get free subscriptions to Men's Journal, Blender, Sporting News, TV Guide, Computer Shopper, and PC

Mattnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1109378765103126632005-02-25T19:46:00.000-05:002005-02-25T19:58:55.926-05:00

Netflix is "the world's largest online DVD movie rental service offering more than two million members access to more than 35,000 titles." For $17.99 a month members rent as many DVDs as they want and keep them as long as they want, with three movies out at a time. I have the original membership offer (from 1999) that allows for four movies out at a time. "Members enjoy free and fast delivery.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1109378188914062942005-02-25T19:36:00.000-05:002005-02-25T19:40:07.020-05:00

"Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first. Topics are updated continuously throughout the day, so you will see new stories each time you check the page. Google has developed an automated grouping process for Google News that pulls together related headlines and photos from thousands

Mattnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1104183443968957362004-12-27T16:37:00.000-05:002004-12-27T16:41:09.250-05:00

Everbody seems to produce a year end list or best of list. I came across this list of lists at Fimoculus. It has list for books, movies, games, gadgets, people, etc. Fimoculous.com defines itself as a blog that devours the filth expunged on the mediascape.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1103331343489069732004-12-17T19:55:00.000-05:002004-12-17T20:01:38.136-05:00

"MinimizeToTray provides quick access to many of Firefox and Thunderbird's most used features. For Firefox, easily view your Downloads or open a new browser window. For Thunderbird, compose new messages and view your Address Book while keeping it minimized all day to check for new mail." "MinimizeToTray always allows you to send Firefox or Thunderbird to the system tray by right-mouse clicking

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1102711625527464082004-12-10T15:47:00.000-05:002004-12-10T15:51:32.283-05:00

If you were disappointed with the meager showing put on by this year’s Leonid meteor shower, don’t fret. What could be the best meteor display of the year is scheduled to reach its peak on Monday night, Dec. 13. Skywatchers with dark skies away from city lights could see one or two meteors every minute during the Geminid meteor shower. The greatest activity is expected to be visible from North

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1102212042519421982004-12-04T21:00:00.000-05:002004-12-04T21:01:43.813-05:00

"A rare and spectacular event will occur in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Dec. 7 when the brilliant planet Jupiter and three of its largest satellites pass behind Earth's Moon. Astronomers refer to this phenomenon as an "occultation," taken from the Latin occultare, which means “to conceal.” This eye-catching sight will be visible in complete darkness across all of eastern and much of

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1102200032362235012004-12-04T17:40:00.000-05:002004-12-04T17:41:53.046-05:00

National Baseball Hall of Fame - Press Release - November 30, 2004: "World Champion Boston Red Sox to Face '05 All-Star Game Hosts Detroit Tigers in 59th Annual Hall of Fame Game, May 23 Tickets for Cooperstown Exhibition Go On Sale Beginning February 19 (COOPERSTOWN, NY): The 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers, hosts of the 2005 All-Star Game, will meet in the 59th

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1101177157138473822004-11-22T20:53:00.000-05:002004-11-22T21:32:37.136-05:00

Do you need help preparing the big feast for Thanksgiving? Here are some sites that can help. From Americas Test Kitchen and the editor's of Cook's Illustrated comes turkeyhelp.com. It includes a turkey Q & A, 50 foolproof recipes, an illustrated carving guide and much more. Whether it's your first time cooking a turkey dinner or it's been a while since your last holiday extravaganza,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1100290241301539942004-11-12T15:10:00.000-05:002004-11-12T15:11:55.766-05:00

"Next week brings us the return of the famous Leonid Meteor Shower, a meteor display that over the past several years has brought great anticipation and excitement to sky watchers around the world. Solely from the standpoint of viewing circumstances, this will be a favorable year to look for these meteors, since the Moon will be only a thin crescent and will have set in the west long before the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1099192865989255122004-10-30T22:55:00.000-04:002004-10-30T23:22:17.766-04:00

Have you made your choice for President yet? Or are you still undecided? Here are the the sites for the major candidates: Bush and Kerry. Ralph Nader's site can be found here. If you want to learn about other political parties go to the Directory Of U.S. Political Parties. There are plenty of sites that predict the election and track the polls. I like the Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 and

Mattnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1098996459383351112004-10-28T16:47:00.000-04:002004-10-30T23:34:56.396-04:00

Boston Red Sox : Fan Forum : Red Sox Wallpaper: "Show your Red Sox colors! Install Red Sox wallpaper on your computer and let everyone know you're a member of Red Sox Nation. " Click the link above. UPDATE: The original World Series wallpapers were taken down but can still be found here. This the the 1280 x 1024 size. The other sizes are 640 x 480, 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768. No telling how long

Mattnoreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1098805561924899232004-10-26T11:46:00.000-04:002004-10-26T11:50:46.246-04:00

"GasBuddy.com can help you find cheap gas prices in your city. It is comprised of 170 gas price information web sites that help consumers find low gasoline prices" There are two sites I use. The first is for Rhode Island statewide gas prices and the second is for Providence area gas prices.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1098674444719131722004-10-24T22:49:00.000-04:002004-10-24T23:51:50.876-04:00

I have been learning about and using RSS feeds for a few weeks now. RSS feeds are a way to quickly check web sites for updates. You use a RSS feed reader to check for the updates. There are web-based feed readers like Bloglines, Syndic8, and NewsIsFree and stand-alone programs such as SharpReader ,FeedReader and Awasu . Another option is to use the Firefox browser which has LiveBookmarks and

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1098663202120173442004-10-24T20:13:00.000-04:002004-10-24T23:53:11.626-04:00

USATODAY.com - Fall TV offers 19-day football streak Sometimes it seems football is on TV all the time. During an unprecedented stretch of 19 consecutive days this fall, it will be. Football teams play only once a week, but television viewers are under no such restriction. From Oct. 28 to Nov. 15, at least one football game — major college or pro — will be televised each day. That includes

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1094509067779661712004-09-06T18:17:00.000-04:002004-10-24T23:57:23.233-04:00

For some reason I find this animation funny: the_duel (turn up your speakers)

Mattnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1093827072613827872004-08-29T20:51:00.000-04:002004-08-29T20:51:12.613-04:00

The Atlantic tropics have three tropical systems right now. I use the National Hurricane Center for updates on the systems. Hurricane Frances is currently 480 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. Gaston has been downgraded to a tropical depression. Finally, tropical storm Hermine is located 325 miles SE of Cape Hatteras, NC and is moving NW. It is expected to turn gradually to the north.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1086261911500660872004-06-03T06:57:00.000-04:002004-06-03T07:27:09.083-04:00

Here is what I am reading, watching and listening to this week: Book: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Magazines: Esquire (June 2004), Time DVD: School of Rock TV: 10 Days to D-Day (History Channel) Music: Modest Mouse, Los Lobos

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1086146105433682612004-06-01T23:15:00.000-04:002004-06-01T23:15:05.433-04:00

"Tech Support Comedy or TSC, is a website dedicated to providing comic relief for those of us working in the tech support field. In addition to comic relief, it also provides a much needed forum to vent frustrations from a very aggravating job." Categories include tech stories,EUPOTD (end user phrase of the day), customer types, customer e-mails, tech rules, co-workers, and tech songs.Tech

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1085763345733394132004-05-28T12:55:00.000-04:002004-05-28T12:58:10.583-04:00

Paul Harvey has been broadcasting "News and Comment" since 1951. He can be heard on 1200 radio stations and 400 Armed Forces Network stations. He also broadcasts "The Rest of the Story", which delves into the forgotten or little known facts behind stories of famous people and events. I usually listen to him on WPRO or WBZ More information can be found at Paul Harvey - The Voice of the New

Mattnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1085757819436984652004-05-28T11:23:00.000-04:002004-05-28T13:52:39.770-04:00

There are a lot of weather sites that offer radar. The radar on the the Intellicast site is the one I like best. You have the ability to zoom in and loop. The Java loop allows you to set the speed of the loop and also the ability to step through the loop a frame at a time. Click here to see the radar: Providence, Rhode Island Radar by Intellicast

Mattnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1081482922762402432004-04-08T23:55:00.000-04:002004-04-09T23:00:17.950-04:00

My Way is a personalized web portal site with no banner ads or pop-ups. It is very similar to Yahoo!. It also features a Google search on each page. Check out the site here.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1081306606388932332004-04-06T22:56:00.000-04:002004-04-09T00:01:09.170-04:00

I roam the Internet using the Firefox browser from Mozilla. I have been using it for about six weeks now, and I am very happy with it. The browser features tabbed browsing, pop-up ad blocking, and built in Google search. More information can be found at Mozilla Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736448.post-1081271019601672072004-04-06T12:59:00.000-04:002004-04-06T23:09:36.653-04:00

Welcome to my blog. Soon you will see links to the web sites I find useful or entertaining.

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