How about Jeff Francoeur continuing his hot streak today with that 3-run homer? Who wants to bench him now? #mets #marlins # No one told me tonight was the MTV Movie Awards! Gee, I hope they re-run it… #mtv # This seems like a move long overdue. RT @NYTimesBats: Mets May Consider Maine for Bullpen [...]

Its World Cup time again, which to most Americans means absolutely nothing. Yet today, there was some palpable excitement about the match between USA and England. Twitter was a abuzz with “fans” asking why the clock counts up instead of down, what the rules are, and how its called soccer and not football. So with [...]

Dinosaur lovers like me have a new attraction to travel to this summer and its called Dinosaur World. Not that the dino park is new, but its definitely new to me! Plus it allows me to live out all of the Jurassic Park fantasies I’ve ever had… I don’t have any immediate plans to stop [...]

The New York Times‘ Standards Editor Phil Corbett had banned the use of the word “tweet” in all articles in print and online because the word is not in the dictionary. Of course, the word will be allowed in articles about birdwatching in Central Park, but only if the birdwatchers aren’t describing the colorful plumage [...]

U2 has announced their huge North American concert tour has been postponed because lead singer Bono has to recover from emergency back surgery. That includes the Irish rock band’s show at the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, which I happened to have tickets to see with my U2-loving family. So much for my big [...]

I came across this screen capture of what Twitter.com originally looked like while reading an article on the History of Twitter. Wow, am I happy they didn’t stick with that Twttr spelling! And good thing they were able to afford a graphic designer for the site too! Makes my early web design attempts back in [...]

Okay, so I missed the MTV Movie Awards this year. Until I caught half of the second immediate rerun and the other half of the third immediate rerun. Overall the show was pretty good, a lot of funny jokes from host Aziz Ansari (“Parks and Rec”) and some typical MTV-ish moments, like Sandra Bullock’s kiss [...]

David Wright cashes in with an RBI-single, scoring Castillo, but Jason Bay got tagged out at home. Bad baserunning there. Sigh. 1-0 Mets # Somebody wake up Jason Bay on the basepaths please. Yikes! Way to kill the rally. #mets #padres # .@gregpomes Yeah, someone get Jason Bay some tape from the 1988 team please. [...]

I guess part of challenging other people to take the NaBloPoMo challenge is that they decide to tag you with things to post about. Or at least that’s what RedLotusMama tells me. So without further ado, and in no particular order, I present ten things that make me happy: 1) Baseball – Namely my New [...]

I’ve really gotten into the song Airplanes by B.o.B. featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore. I’ve discovered about 1000 covers of this song on YouTube, some good and some terribly bad. Here’s the top 5 covers of Airplanes I’ve found: 5) This guy mixed it up with some rapping and singing. Not bad! (ryannarcisomusic) 4) Best [...]