Friday, November 11, 2011 at 7:19 am
By Josh
So we’re at the Birthplace at Mercy, working on having this baby. It’s been an uneventful 11 hours so far.
Last night, while Liz was watching Grey’s Anatomy I watched the 2004 Red Sox video “Faith Rewarded”.
You might recall how Kevin Youkilis was on that team, but barely played. In fact, he was one of the handful of players who came to the parade in Portland. I believe, at the time, I made the joke, “Kevin Who-kilis?”
Anyway, it was funny to see him pop up in the video last night, more often than I would have thought, too.
Although, oddly, I found a commonality to all of the Youk sightings. See if you can notice it:
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 5:41 am
By Josh
Last winter Liz and I had a wonderful weekend getaway to Boston at the Omni Parker House.
That’s not likely this winter, though. I just saw this Yankee Magazine recipe for Parker House Rolls. That might need to be our getaway instead …
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 7:23 am
By Josh
There’s a new story over at the Greason-Edwards Family blog … Check it out!
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Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 9:04 pm
By Josh
I haven’t had the official word from BU yet, but it appear from my student record online that I earned an “A” in my first class in Boston University’s Online Master of Science in Health Communication program!
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 1:31 pm
By Josh
I hadn’t heard this: “Newsweeklies Plan Special Steve Jobs Coverage In rare move, ‘Time’ stops presses“.
Key quote:
Time’s regular weekly issue, which goes on stands Friday, will devote its whole feature well, 21 pages, to coverage of the Apple co-founder and software giant. (Time was closing the issue when the news broke, forcing it to stop the presses for what was believed to be the first time in at least 30 years.)
Tags: adweek, Apple, Steve Jobs, Time
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:39 pm
By Josh
Lately I’ve been reading, or re-reading, the short stories of Dashiell Hammett. They’re all reading the I have time for as my BU grad class is taking a good amount of time.
Anyway, while many people generally don’t praise the prose of early 20th Century crime fiction, I’m rather fond of it.
I just read a great line in “Afraid Of A Gun” describing the antagonist Rip Yust:
Yust was not possessed of the clearest of minds; he was not fitted, for all his patience and deliberation, to unerringly sift the false from the true.
Pretty clever …
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:48 am
By Josh
How did I miss this story over the weekend?!?
“Disney CEO Robert Iger to Step Down as CEO in 2015.”
Huh.
Tags: Disney, Wall Street Journal
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Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 6:43 am
By Josh
I have too many things to say, so many memories to share, but I’ll start with a simple “Happy birthday” to Walt Disney World in Florida.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 7:52 am
By Josh
Well this Bangor Daily News article got me a little riled up: “UMaine picked to finish fourth in Hockey East coaches poll“.
Boston University is picked to come in second place this year … after Boston College!
Argh!
Tags: Bangor Daily News, Boston, Boston University, hockey
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Monday, September 26, 2011 at 7:57 am
By Josh
I just read a fun quote on an unofficial Apple blog that I had to share:
From an upstart outsider to the most profitable cellphone manufacturer. From a PC also-ran to the laptop of the future. In less than two years, revitalizing an entire device category and disrupting just about every media business you can name. Not only becoming the world’s most valuable company, but seeing the stock continue to rise even after the exit of the company’s visionary founder.
For those of us who lived through the lean years of Apple, being around to witness all this is a bit strange. It’s as if we had been diligently preaching the benefits of a meat-free diet for years, only to wake up one morning and discover that everyone we knew had gone vegan overnight. Dealing with success is certainly better than the alternative, but some may mourn the passing of the special minority status we enjoyed as the Mac Elite. Now we have to figure out how to avoid saying “Yes, we told you so!” every five minutes.
I like the image of everyone I know going vegan overnight, that’s exactly what it feels like.
Tags: Apple, TUAW
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Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 9:01 pm
By Josh
We just watched the new NBC show “Up All Night” and got a look at our life in about three months …
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Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 3:25 pm
By Josh
I just read that China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile phone carrier with 600 million subscribers.
In perspective, the United States has a population of 312,220,705 …
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Monday, September 5, 2011 at 10:27 am
By Josh
Neat article about my brother-in-law in today’s Portland Press Herald: “A steady climb for Greason“.
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Friday, August 26, 2011 at 11:52 am
By Josh
Interesting article from Reuters: “Saudi Arabia discovers 9,000 year-old civilization.”
Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country’s antiquities expert said Wednesday.
The conventional wisdom is that horses were domesticated 5,500 years ago in Central Asia.
Tags: history, horse, KSA, Reuters
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Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 10:31 am
By Josh
We’ve been getting into the weekend Bangor Daily News lately (especially since the Press Herald is pretty redneck, racist and Republican).
Luckily it’s a great paper, having recently hired a former New England Journalist of the Year as well as a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer to cover the Portland area. I’m all for that!
This weekend they had an interesting story about St. Croix Island, in the St. Croix river between Maine and New Brunswick, that was settled by the French in 1604 – three years before Popham Colony and Jamestown Settlement.
Check out, “An island prison: Rugged St. Croix Island brought ghastly death to early settlers“.
Tags: 1604, 1607, Bangor Daily News, Jamestown Settlement, New Brunswick, Popham Colony, Portland Press Herald, St. Croix Island
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Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 1:10 pm
By Josh
I stole this from the BU website, who in turn stole it from Healthy People 2010:
“The art and technique of informing, influencing, and motivating individual, institutional, and public audiences about important health issues.”
“The scope of health communication includes disease prevention, health promotion, health care policy, and the business of health care as well as enhancement of the quality of life and health of individuals within the community.”
Sounds good.
Tags: Boston University, Health Communication Masters
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Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 12:11 pm
By Josh
Good news!
Last night I was admitted into Boston University’s Online Master of Science in Health Communication program!
I’m going back to BU, baby!
Tags: Boston, Boston University, college, Health Communication Masters
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 4:49 pm
By Josh
It’s a little weird that the Jerusalem Post - an Israeli paper – is taking umbrage with the most holy of Muslim holidays, but it raises a fair point, so I’ll allow it: “Ramadan in Dubai: a month of soaring food waste?”
Despite the hours of preparation put into the often vast displays of food, waiters at top hotels in Dubai say much of the food left over goes straight into the waste bins.
The amount of food thrown out in the emirate jumps considerably in the holy month – by as much as 20 percent according to Dubai Municipality, with most of the waste comprising rice and non-vegetable foods.
Around 1,850 tons of food were thrown out on average per day during Ramadan in 2010, roughly 20 percent of total waste in the emirate during the holy month, it said.
Dubai wasteful? Huh.
Tags: Dubai, Islam, Jerusalem Post, Ramadan
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Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 7:16 am
By Josh
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention this – the first website went live just over 20 years ago (August 6, 1991 to be exact).
info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first world wide web page and server. (.ch is the internet country code for Switzerland, where CERN is).
As for me personally, I downloaded Netscape Navigator in late 1994 or early 1995 during my freshman year at Boston University. I was the first person on my floor to have an internet browser.
Of course, finding web pages was difficult back then, pre-Yahoo and Google … but we made due.
I’d like to find an estimate of how many active web browsers there were on January 1, 1995. I bet it’d blow your mind …
Tags: Boston University, history, internet
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Friday, August 12, 2011 at 1:22 pm
By Josh
Ugh. I feel that I can smell this from here, “Trouble in paradise as plumbing problems hit Dubai’s Palm island“.
Glad I don’t live on the Palm Jumeirah …
Tags: Dubai, Palm Jumeirah, telegraph.co.uk
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