June 2009
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Bulletin Board WIN
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WatchJennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of Sugarland Crowd Surfing in Bubbles
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Disney-Pixar Created Up and It was Good
We went to see Disney-Pixar’s latest hit “Up” yesterday at The Lyric in downtown Blacksburg and it was really good. Nic enjoyed it for the brilliant animation, slapstick humor and the talking dogs, while the adults in the theatre enjoyed the jokes to which only adults can relate - such as when Carl Frederickson tells Russell, a young Junior Wilderness Explorer, that they’re...
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WatchA short video I produced for Virginia Tech’s Women and Leadership in Philanthropy and its 2009 Circle of Excellence Conference.
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Iranian footballers who wore green armbands to... →
kaytee:
A follow-up on the guys from this video.
Four footballers who wore green armbands in solidarity with Iranian protesters have been forced to retire from the national team.
Their gesture in a recent World Cup match in Seoul attracted worldwide attention last week.
But the authorities have now taken revenge revenge by imposing life bans on Ali Karimi, 31, Mehdi Mahdavikia, 32, Hosein...
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Phishing Scam Warning: Fake Microsoft Security...
According to our IT team and several security-related blogs, a fraudulent e-mail claiming to be from Microsoft notifies users of a security patch for Outlook or Outlook Express. The e-mail contains the article number KB910721.
If you receive this e-mail, or if someone you know appears to have forwarded it to you asking you to install it, uh, DON’T! It contains spam and/or malware and could...
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HBO Releases Trailer for The Pacific, Follow-up to...
Great news for fans of the acclaimed 2001 HBO mini-series Band of Brothers! Producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have teams up again to produce The Pacific, a 10-part mini-series telling the intertwined stories of three Marines during America’s battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. (Source: IMBD.com)
According to several entertainment Web sites, the...
WatchNic Reading Dr. Seuss
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My Golfing Buddy, My Friend, My Dad.
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there who take the time to be an important part of the lives of their children! And a special Happy Father’s Day to my dad, Billy, who helped me become the man - and father - I am today.
As I grow older (and hopefully wiser) I realize more and more how much my parents truly loved me growing up. I know they still do, but raising kids isn’t...
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The Power of the the (Social) Media Forces Policy...
Earlier this week I saw an article on CNETNews.com about the city of Bozeman, Montana and how it requires job applicants to hand over the user names and passwords to their social networking sites and other internet-based sites like Facebook, MySpace, Google and Yahoo, so the city could do a complete and thorough background check. This practice has been in place with the city of Bozeman for several...
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“Why are you picking on the Post Office? For 44 cents, someone comes to your...”
– Jon Stewart, pointing out to House minority leader John Boehner that perhaps the United States Postal Service is a bad example of government mismanagement, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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“It drives me nuts — the ignorance is overwhelming…”
– Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a noted oncologist turned White House health adviser, Emanuel has spent much of his career battling the that’s-what-we-do-here mentality of American medicine. From the Time Magazine article titled, More Data + Less Care = Lower Cost + Better Health.
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“Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she’ll...”
– I don’t know, but my wife forwarded this to me. Think she is trying to tell me something? (via toddwickersty)
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Finally Got the Car Fixed
For the last several months, my car has been making a pretty loud sound. Naturally I was concerned, but considering I was out of work at the time, what could I do about it? I didn’t have the money to get it fixed. Finally, in March, though I was still without a full time job, I had done enough free lance work to take the car in to the shop.
I normally go to South Main Auto in Blacksburg....
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There was a coconut on my doorstep...
Well, go ahead and add another event to my “that’s a first” list. A coconut came in the mail today. Seriously. There was a coconut on my doorstep when I got home today with Nic. No box. No wrapping. Just a coconut with a USPS Priority Mail sticker stuck on it. I had no idea you could mail … a coconut without a box.
Who sent this coconut? Well, it was Ginger! She is...
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“Where changing your phone’s ring tone meets not answering your phone...”
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Nationals Draft Over-hyped Pitcher with $50...
Usually having the No. 1 pick in any professional sports draft is a good thing, but that might not be the case for the Washington Nationals. The team selected San Diego State pitcher Stephen Strasburg with the top pick in the Major League Baseball draft this week and already, reports are stirring that Strasburg’s agent, Scott Boras, has stated that it will take $50 million in guaranteed...
Twitter to the rescue
toddwickersty:
My trip home from New York on Saturday was delayed due to a power outage in Penn Station. There I was sitting in a dark train waiting to hear the next update over the loud speaker. What was I thinking? I whipped out my iPhone, opened my favorite twitter app (Tweetie), and searched on Penn Station. Within seconds, I became aware of a transformer fire in the station that knocked out...
WatchFor My Mom :)
WatchNic Singing at Preschool
WatchFishing with Nic in High Definition