Bradenton Riverwalk

 

Today was the grand opening of the Bradenton Riverwalk and we decided to check out the festivities after work.  It's spans the riverfront between MMH and Rossi Park and it's really nice.  Amenities include a boat launch for kayaks / rowing teams, a skate park, 2 sand volleyball courts, a playground, a fountain/water park for kids, many covered benches and swings, an amphitheater, a fishing pier and a large dock with 20+ boat slips.

New Addition

We have a new family member!  Wanted to give Chandler a brother and figured we'd better do it now before the wedding planning takes over the world.  He's a pure-bred lab and is just as sweet as can be... although I may be singing a different tune when he eats the coffee table.  Everyone, meet Griz :)

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rules of the road

1) every time you drive like a d-bag because you are reading/writing a text, God drowns a puppy

2) if i honk at you about 1) and you flick me off, you have cemented your d-bag status

3) when the light turns green, it means go.  it doesn't mean slowly roll forward while finishing text, then go

4) if i miss a green light because of 3) you better as hell hope i don't catch up to you at the next red light

5) if you swerve out of your lane and i get up along side you and see you continuing to shove your nose in your phone, i am within my moral rights to beat you to within an inch of your life with a DMV handbook

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Huge Game Trade-In

If anyone would like to give me trade in value for any of these games let me know.  Otherwise, they will be the property of Amazon in the near future.

Auburn is bad, but this is horrible

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=images&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=672&tbm=isch&tbnid=P58Vk8zBUGu3pM:&imgrefurl=http://www.squidoo.com/auburnvsgeorgia&imgurl=http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens1597157module7858608photo_au_logo.gif&w=128&h=112&ei=cBdEUPaiHaLc2AXn7IHIDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=845&vpy=245&dur=1537&hovh=89&hovw=102&tx=86&ty=66&sig=113964616478789947173&page=1&tbnh=89&tbnw=102&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0,i:115

bingiton

http://www.bingiton.com

this was kind of an interesting exercise

basically microsoft is letting you do a blind comparison of 5 search terms of your choosing between bing and google.

my result was a draw, 3 ties, 1 bing, and 1 google.  an interesting marketing idea to try and jolt people out of their usual habits.  my results weren't astonishing enough, though, to stop my fingers from mindlessly typing google.com

crazy bank robbery

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=8798628

i swear i've seen this movie before.

Football is BACK

What a wonderful time of the year.....

FSU rolled over its pansy of a opponent this past weekend. These games are worthless and tell you next to nothing about your team, but at least our O-Line looked better than last year. This week we have an even worse opponent thanks to West Virginia canceling the game we had scheduled. In other bad news FSU lost our starting DE to a season ending injury. While we have good depth at this position losing a 1st/2nd round pick is not something you can just cover up...big bummer.

I watched some of the UF game and was not terribly impressed, but UF won and has named a starting QB and I saw some nice runs from your RB. As I did not watch the game play by play I don't really know how you looked, but I heard it was not great.  Should be an interesting game against Tex A&M this week I have no idea how good A&M will be after losing their starting QB. Should be an interesting game for sure and could really help propel one team or the other off to a good year.

Alex I was really pulling for Auburn in that game as I hate Clemson. What do you see as Auburns biggest issue this year? Did Auburn just play poorly or will they be about as good as last year?

New FB like button

I added some code that puts a FB like button below each post.  Thanks to Ashley for the idea.  Let me know if it works or not (can't test it since I am FB free since '93)

Cool Egg Trick (Ignore audio)

Not sure how old this vid is, but it shows a pretty cool way to separate out your yolks...

Anyone playing Minecraft?

Due to a lack of new stuff on X360 and COD burnout, I've recently started playing Minecraft and I'm curious if any of you guys are playing it as well.   I avoided it for a long time because I didn't understand the appeal. Random web browsing directed me to the "X's Adventures in Minecraft" youtube series and after a few videos I was pretty interested.  Now that I'm pretty addicted and beating single-player to death I'm thinking about multi-player.  Let me know in the comments.

Thoughts on Ryan

What does this largely right-wing audience think of putting Ryan on the ticket?

For me it has taken me off the fence since Ryan seems to be the only cat in town willing to tackle the debt issue head on.

I'm sure Drew will have an interesting take on the matter.

Passing of a great Italian American

My dads father Giovanni "John" DiVincenzo has passed away this weekend. He has been in at home hospice for a couple of months now so this has been a few months coming. He was in peace and it was just his time and to be quite honest necessary so we could all kind of move on and celebrate his life. Just wanted to let you all know since most of you have met him or at least heard the stories during sausage makings. Anyway we will be flying up to Cleveland in two weekends or so. Talk to everybody soon hope all is well.

Nick D.....

PS. If anybody wants me to pick up some memorabilia from Cleveland just let me know :)

Making Moves

So for those of you that don't know, here's an update on what has been going on! I have accepted a new position in Charlotte, NC and am in the process of moving. In fact, I'm being loaded up today and will be leaving Jax in the morning! I resigned from CMC July 16th, so I haven't been working for about a month now....which in reality has been driving me crazy, so I'm excited to get back to work. This is a HUGE opportunity for me and I'm very excited about it! One of my professional goals was to make a certain amount of money @ 30 years old, and this job accomplishes that goal! I'm living in a beautiful area of Charlotte called 'Elizabeth,' and the apt complex is Elizabeth Square. I'm in the heart of ACC country, so no excuses not to come visit! Until next time, Bryan

Happy Birthday to Me

Google Fiber

http://fiber.google.com/about/

Jared turned me on to this today.  Google is offering a pretty amazing service to people in KS.  Check out their pricing.  Ridiculously cheap for what you're getting.  I hope this is successful and gets rolled out to more cities.

Trip to NYC

We spent one night in NYC on our recent vaca to CT.

Checked out the status of ground zero...

Visited Wall Street, NYSE, and the bull...

Lady Liberty in the background...

Jen used her fancy phone and I navigated with my iMap...

Got some delicious Korean for dinner, thank you Urban Spoon...

Stayed at The Times off Time Square...

Checked out the Today Show the next morning...

What's on Ceelo's lap?

Good times, good times.

Glad I brought the SLR

Shot this guy on our vaca in CT... posting it full-res for all to enjoy :)

Juggalo's

Last night Tosh.0 supposedly had Juggalo's on his show, I did not get to watch it but I recorded it. I had no idea that ICP still made music and they still had super fans around. It is slightly embarrassing that I have like 5 of their CD's oh well it was "fun" music to listen to. I can't wait to see all the jokes he makes at the expense of the Juggalo's. I will report back after watching or if anybody has watched just let me know.

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