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Nine years ago today

// February 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // General musings

Saw this linked a few places today and wanted to place it here. Seems like it’s been much longer, but it’s only been 9 years since Three Rivers Stadium was imploded. I watched this on TV and own a VHS copy sold by one of the local news stations.

I spent many nights at that stadium watching everything from Pirates games to Monster Truck races. Nothing beat $6 general admission seats to Pirates games, especially when you showed up for batting practice and left with a dozen baseballs and autographs. And I’ll never forget the summer of 1997 that the freak show Pirates gave me. Good times.

Notice the cheering in the background. The cheering was more for the progress of the City of Pittsburgh. We received new homes for football and baseball — you can see Heinz Field on the left in this shot (it was very close to Three Rivers Stadium). This was a time of joy for the city. Little did we know that in these 9 years, the Steelers would have already celebrated 2 Super Bowl championships. As for the Pirates, well, we love the Pirates, too.

Reviews of Apple’s iPad

// January 27th, 2010 // No Comments » // General musings

I’m still gathering all the information I can and reading my fair share of reports before I write my own review, so until then, here are some links to general reports.

Mashable:

TechCrunch:

CrunchGear:

Crackberry:

Gizmodo:

You can watch today’s entire press event here, as always. Like I said, I’m doing some reading on it. First impressions are that it is not a game changer in any way. I thought I’d want to buy this instantly, but now I don’t think I’ll make the effort to save the money. As hype dies down and I gather more facts, I’ll write a complete review here.

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