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Archive for December, 2008

2009 Is Gonna Be a Tough Act to Follow

By Chris Guy • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

      



Sam Adams Utopias - Extreem Brewing Hit

By Bryan • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Reviews

[Photo Courtesy Zengrrl via Flickr] [Update 12/31] Today realized a few ounces still in the bottle. It’s been closed since Friday the 26th. The extra few days exposed to air has aged the flavors just a bit. I now get a nose of honey after pouring a …



2008 is blowin’ in the wind

By Chris • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Wow! When we left the Myrtle Beach area this morning a breeze was blowing lightly, but before we reached I-95 in South Carolina the northwest gales had arrived. It made for an interesting drive northward, not to mention reducing our gas mileage as I …



The ghosts of New Years Eve past

By COD • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

2007
Free babysitting
So dinner and a movie
is the plan. We suck.
We are real party animals eh?
Update: Got to Bonefish about 6 PM, 1 hour wait for a table. Put our name on the list and went down the street to Caribou Coffee. Came back at 7 PM, got a table, enjoyed an excellent dinner. Left restaurant [...]



13 years of ODonnellWeb

By COD • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

(This is an edited repeat post, because I’m lazy that way)
It was a cold and windy one, that night of Dec 31, 1995. OK, actually I have no idea if it was cold or windy. What I do remember is that my wife was 7+ months pregnant with out daughter, so we weren’t going anywhere [...]



First Night Fredericksburg Events

By Bryan • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Events

Please accept my sincere appology for not publishing this post earlier. For those late revelers, looking for something to do tonight to ring in the new years, here are some of the bigger events around town.For $8 a person, pick up your button at the v…



Random Finds and a New Year

By Mike • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I was editing together an essay about a year with Delta Company, 3-116th Infantry, for the annual photo contests and came across these two pictures. They are not very good photos from a technical standpoint. They are snapshots really, just jogging the memory back to my brief embed with Delta. The first was from the [...]



Fatal fail

By Daryl • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This fail is very sad and cost a young girl her life.  It might also cost her father the rest of his life in jail.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho – The father of an 11-year-old girl who died, likely of hypothermia, after trying to walk 10 miles in the snow on Christmas Day has been charged with [...]



Elsewhere on the Internet (December 30th 18:24)

By COD • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Los Angeles - Triple Word Score: Gaming Philosophy and Scrabular Impotence - LA Daily - LA Weekly -
More Resistance to Free Range Kids - Boing Boing -



Little Willy

By Chris Guy • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I had no idea, but apparently they wrote a song about Bill Howell waaaay back in 1972.
North side, east side
Little Willy, Willy wears the crown, he’s the king around town
Dancing, glancing
Willy drives them silly with his star shoe shimmy shuffle down
Ladies and gentlemen….The Sweet: