tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57314672008-09-05T16:58:08.323-04:00In the modern electronic world, I suppose this is mostly a forum for my somewhat random philosophilcal musings. Glad you have stopped by. Feel free to add your thoughts to those posted from my head here.Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680269711748939981noreply@blogger.comBlogger1391125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731467.post-62891227837172600562008-09-03T13:12:00.000-04:002008-09-03T13:16:10.258-04:00

I've been thinking about "home" a little bit recently. We were visiting family this weekend who live about an hour and a half from our home. I was thinking about how if we lived there, it wouldn't ever quite feel like home. At least, to me. It would feel like we were always visiting. Never home. A friend of ours is a native of Argentina, but also a citizen of Italy (and lived there for

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I received an email this week from a guy who has designed a little widget that randomly displays a verse from the Bible (16 translations currently) that you can paste to a website or blog... wherever you'd like. It was pretty cool, so I pasted it in the sidebar to the right. The funny thing is, talk about out of context! Sometimes if you just get one verse... it can be a pretty random message!

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Given that I am now employed by Apple, I will refrain from speculating on any of the product or service announcements that will be made, but this invitation went out from Apple this week, regarding an event scheduled for next Tuesday morning (local time) in San Francisco. Looking forward to seeing what they announce! (Believe it or not, even working for Apple, I don't know any more than you do

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NFL football is back! The regular season starts this week with a game featuring the World Champ NY Giants and the Washington Redskins on NBC Thursday night, a full slate of games on Sunday (including the BILLS GAME!), and then a double-header on ESPN on Monday Night. I can't wait!! The Bills are looking really good this year. From the coaches and the offensive and defensive schemes, to the

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Well, I just got back - AGAIN - from Buffalo. We spent the extra long weekend there visiting with Jen's family, and came home pretty late tonight (got the kids in bed around 11pm) to find that I had forgotten my laptop there. An hour and a half away there. And, not only do I have a lot of work to do tomorrow (for which I need my laptop) it is also the only day this week that does not have

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We were looking at old slides last night at my wife's family reunion. We get together every Labor Day weekend, and this time, at Jen's request, Dad broke out the old slide projector and we spent an hour or so looking at old photos. Almost every photo brought laughs along with a funny story or two. Sometimes it took a bit longer to remember a particular story, at least every detail of it. And

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A friend passed this along recently, and I just watched it again. Wanted to share with you. It's old I think, so you may have seen it. He's quite good at all the impressions he does here, but I really love his Bill Clinton! What he says, and his facial expressions! Hilarious! Thanks Chris :-)

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What I have noticed over my five years of blogging is that blogging is very much about the moment. If I try to get to something later, maybe even get a few paragraphs into a draft version here, it never happens. Or, if it could, it doesn't seem relevant anymore. (To either reader or writer.) That's one reason why this blog has been so silent lately. It's not that there are not things to

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This morning, while I was checking email on the laptop and watching the kids play in my in-laws' driveway, Kirstie stopped by to ask me a question. "Dad, how do I stop if I'm going down a fast hill on my bike?" Puzzled by the question I asked, "Well, what do you mean? Why do you want to know?" "I just want to know what to do if I'm going down a fast hill and I can't stop," came the

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Believe it or not, I have been at this "blogging" thing for five years now. Today. August 26th, 2003 was my first post, and now almost 1400 posts later, I'm still at it. (Albeit, quite infrequently this past month or two!) I love this avenue to share thoughts, start discussions, share links and information, and even post photos and family news to the world wide web of internets. I imagine

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I can't believe it's really been a week since I have posted anything here. Not for lack of content, only lack of time (and energy, I suppose). More to come... but for now, enjoy this crazy video above, passed along to me by a friend.

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As I was putting Julia, our two-year-old, to bed last night, she was looking at my awesome, old-school Sabres shirt, with the vintage logo pasted on the front of it. She was touching it, exploring it, and without looking up she said to me, "Dad, you have two cuts." "Cuts? What do you mean?" I asked, looking down to see what she could mean. "Like we have downstairs. Those are round. You have

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You probably do not need to be reminded of this, but today is the one fun day every year where the day, the month, and the year all match. This one happens to also be the first day of the summer olympics, happening this time in China. It's also the tenth wedding anniversary of some good friends of ours. And, it's just a Friday. The numbers on the calendar don't really matter, but I just

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All kinds of people come into the Apple store. I get to meet and talk with people of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities. That's a pretty fun part of the job, actually. A couple days ago, I got to meet a few guys that were even more fun to chat with, being a long-time (big) Buffalo Bills fan. I was working in the iPhone section, and a couple guys came up to check out the phones. One of

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I just posted an article on this to my Buffalo Bills blog, but wanted to also post here... Brett Favre is a NY Jet! Holy cow. That's crazy. I won't elaborate here (as I already did there) but suffice it to say, our division (the AFC East) has gotten significantly more interesting. Bills first pre-season game in two days! Whooohoo! :-)

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OK, once again I'm a little slow on the draw here, but it's been to crazy around here! AND, I actually do most of my NFL-related writing for our Buffalo Bills site (which we have beefed up a bit this year... if you haven't been over there in a while, check it out! The articles page has a pretty decent list of contributers, and we're going to be doing a lot of special/bonus shows this summer

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I found a cool game via a web link from Facebook, I believe. It's a site that sells lots of games for the Mac, offering a free 1-hour demo of each. I saw this one called Burger Shop at #3 on their Most Popular list and decided to try it... it was a blast! I showed it to the boys and they loved it, too! Basically, you fill fast food orders :-) Jen and I think this was made by the fast food

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It's probably not even accurate, but tonight while I was playing a game of Monopoly with my nine-year-old son, Ian, I couldn't help but notice how the game paralleled life - and how I did not like that. First off, it was just a really fun night. We call them OK Nights. (One Kid Nights.) It's been Ian's turn for a while, but as my prolonged silences here at GregsHead.net demonstrate, there is

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680269711748939981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731467.post-42625972228833246112008-07-31T14:02:00.001-04:002008-07-31T14:03:34.317-04:00

I followed a link to a pretty fun site yesterday. It's called Wordle, and lets you take any text, or URL, or feed from any site and make a random word picture from the text that you give it. Very fun, actually! I did a couple more images. First, when I just took the text and pasted it in, the biggest word was "just". Ha! Guess I just say that a lot... ;-) So, here's the JUST version.

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I got back just a while ago from my first shift at the Apple store. I was really looking forward to it, wondering just how it would actually play out. I know Macs, for sure, but I didn't really know how thing go at the store. I knew I was going to tag along with a more experienced Apple Specialist (that's what I am doing also) so I figured it would just be fun. What happened was great, but

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The past three weeks - maybe four - have been mostly a blur. I've been sleeping even less than normal, and been working much more than normal ... and yet, there is a strange contentment like I have not recently known. For quite sometime, financial pressures have been slowly bearing down on us, threatening to completely crush us. Well, at one point early this month, it seemed they would. We

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As you are well aware, if you have spent any time at all here at GregsHead.net, I am a big fan of all things Apple. I have informally been a "representative" for Apple for many years (often the number one resource for Apple info and assistance amongst people who know me) and was even officially a representative for a year and a half from 2006-2007 as an Apple Authorized Business Agent. Most

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For a while now, my parents, knowing we are fans of the show Monk, have said that we would enjoy the USA Networks show, Psych. So much so that they gave us the first season on DVD! But, as you might already know, life has been quite busy around here, so we have not taken/found the time to watch it. Until last night. Jen and I popped in the pilot episode DVD, honestly, not sure we would like

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My friend Hannah told me a joke this week, and I keep remembering it (and using the key phrase from it) so, I figured it needed to be shared here... "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Tank." "Tank who?" "You're welcome!"

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I just gotta say... Our tomatoes are doing so great! We have gotten a small sampling of the cherry tomatoes so far - and they just taste fantastic. There's nothing finer than homegrown tomatoes! And, oddly enough, I really like the smell of the tomato plants, too... :-)

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