In between all my job hunting activities this week, I put the few final tweaks on my latest project and we pushed it live. If you missed the news on Facebook, I was laid off on Monday. Merry Christmas to me. Or maybe sucks to be me.
Kelli Space is 23 and living at home with mom and dad, trying to pay off the $200,000 in student loan debt she racked up getting a Sociology degree from Northeastern University. If you are keeping score at home, her payments are $900 a month until 2011, when they increase to $1600 a month for […]
We decided to try someplace different for my birthday dinner tonight. So we visited Rodango’s Steak House in Central Park (next to Caribou Coffee). Rodango’s has a small bar in the front and seating for maybe 25 people. It’s got a real neighborhood joint feel to it, although that neighborhood would probably be some where […]
The NY Times has a nifty interactive tool that allows you to pick and choose from among the various proposals floating around to solve the deficit your way. I turned the projected 2015 shortfall of $418 billion into a surplus of $138 billion. I also turned the $1.35 trillion 2030 deficit into a $300 billion […]
This is monthly look at what I was writing about in previous years. 2001: ODonnellWeb was still running on Greymatter. Wow. I didn’t remember staying with Greymatter that long. MY new PC had a CD-RW drive, which led me to write about mix tapes. Was it really just 9 years ago that CD-RW was a […]
This conversation took place while my wife was waiting for a scanner issue to be fixed at the Bloom grocery store. Michelle: How do you feel about a grocery store opening right next door. Store Manager: Aldi doesn’t sell groceries Michelle: Yes they do. Cashier: And I hear they will kill us on fresh produce […]
Dateline: 1860 Location: Republican campaign rally in Manhattan According to the next day’s Times and other papers, things began to spin out of control when supporters of a rival presidential contender, John Bell, charged toward the Lincoln men, “calling them ‘negro stealers,’ ‘sons of b____s,’ &c.” At the corner of 12th Street and Fourth Avenue, […]
This is some scary research coming out of Purdue. A study of a local high school football team showed that kids that took a lot of mild hits to the head over a week of practice and a game show markedly reduced results on mental acuity tests. The study was originally looking to study concussions, […]
A look at what I was blogging about in the other Octobers of this century. 2001: I discovered Wil Wheaton’s blog. I discovered ADDreviews. A few years later I would be writing for them. I wrote about Saving Fenway Park. We won that one. 2002: I wrote a rather long and quite eloquent (if I […]
Long time friend of O’DonnellWeb Lioness is having some completely fracked up problems in Mississippi with her neighbors and the local Sheriff. This is complete and total conjecture, but from her description, it sounds like there is a meth operation on the neighboring property, the local officials are involved, and they’d really like her family […]
