I have a group of friends that I try to go out to dinner with once a week. Last summer we started going to Zips in Covington every Wednesday for their “Burger Madness” special. We could sit outside, eat burgers, drink beer, and shoot the shit. There wasn’t much more one could ask for in life.
Much to my chagrin, our weekly dinners were dubbed “Wednesday Friendsday”. While I can get behind alliteration as much as the next guy, there is something unholy with rhyming. It kinda bothers me, but that is neither here nor there.
As this tradition has grown, we have began venturing out to new eateries. This week was our second trip together to Gordo’s on Montgomery Rd. I think it is technically in Norwood (or Oakley? I can never remember where these arbitrary lines are drawn). Which ever subsection of Cincinnati this place is located, it has good food and booze and that is all that really matters.
I had the Gordo burger, which has Boursin cheese, bacon, poblano, and onions. It is good. Great? no. Everyone liked their food, but we weren’t blown away by anything. Since this was our second time there, you can guess that the food is good enough to warrant a return trip. It isn’t a TTC caliber burger, but I would say it is better than the beloved (for reasons unbeknownst to me) Zips.
I think the highlight of the night was someone from the large group that was there hijacking the jukebox. For the 2.5 hours we were in Gordo’s we heard nothing but jambands. Whoever picked the music gets two giant thumbs up from me. They ran the gamut from Phish to Dead, WSP to YMSB.
These days, there are more and more online identities that we have to manage. We have business identities and personal/social identities. Mynameise.com gives you the tools necessary to manage many of your online identities, and the ability to filter these identities based on which circles you are in (business, social, etc). To me, the service is great. I am able to set up multiple profiles, one for business contacts, one for social contacts, and I can make new cards as needed. Each of these cards contain contact info that I chose for that profile. For example, my business card contains my phone number, my portfolio url, my email, and my Twitter, linkedin, and flickr accounts. My social profile contains my blog url, email, twitter, last.fm, xbox live, and many other social accounts.
The one downside to the service is that it only works if others are using it. To this date, I have yet to find another person in Cincinnati that uses the service. I had tried to give away beta keys back when they were in closed beta to no avail. Just today, the service has moved in to an open state (not sure if they are technically in open beta or in a full launch stage). One of the benefits of the new upgrade in service is the inclusion of many new online services that can be tied to your E account. As you can see, there are probably more options than services you use:
The following video gives a brief overview of what the service is and how it works.
I came across these images via StumbleUpon, and I have to say I was blown away. If more game covers looked like this, it would make the “games are art” argument much easier to make. Here are a few that jumped out at me, but they all look amazing. You can see everything here.
I really don’t get this whole “tea party” thing that is going down tomorrow…
There is one happening here in Cincinnati. I don’t understand what they hope to accomplish. Will this mean we don’t have to pay the outrageous tea taxes any more? I for one hope so, because those stuffy Brits have had it coming….
Ohh, wait. It has nothing to do with unfair taxes. According to the Cincinnati Tea Party home (which is a horrible use of the title tag, BTdubs), the “tea party” is a protest on government spending. The first sentences on their site are
Most of us do things the right way. We go to school, get a job, work hard, raise a family, build a home. Our government takes an ever increasing share of the money we earned, and wastes it on every pet project under the sun.
If these people are so concerned about spending, where were they the past 8 years? It seems to me that the spending by GWB was all fine and good, but the second Obama stepped in to office there was this unacceptable spending that started. I wanted to give them some credit and hope that maybe I was just to cynical. They couldn’t really think that all of the horrible spending was caused by the current president. There had to be a balance of blame on past policy and spending, right? No such luck…
They have a link to suggested sign ideas. One of the first ones listed is “220 Years to Build the Republic, 1 Month to Destroy It”. Really? These people think that Obama has destroyed the country in a month. Wow. It is interesting that people are clamoring to mollify him when he had to step into the shitstorm that was the wake of the past 8 years.
If you couldn’t tell by now, I am not a huge fan of GWB and the way he handled the country. I don’t agree with the way Obama has handled things either, but I am not ready to throw him under a bus just yet.
Maybe I am resistant to the whole “Tea Party” thing because Fox News has been trumping these things up and is sponsoring a bunch of them. It just seems that this is put together by someone with a blatant agenda who wants to play off the fears of the uneducated (which, ironically is how the whole mortgage issue started.. playing the uneducated… hmm).
I have been meaning to get these photos uploaded for a while now, and since I have finished moving my blog, i figured this was as good a time as any to get it done. I would try to describe everything, but I think the photos speak for themselves.
I was angry, because when looking through the official Phish photos on flickr, they had multiple shots of a giant robot, and I never remembered seeing it. However, if you look at the pic of the guy in the panda suit, you can see a part of the giant robot. I just never looked up…
As you can tell from the new URL, I have moved my blog away from my portfolio. I thought it would be a good idea to brand the two separately. The blog is much less formal than I want my portfolio to be, and it only made sense to move this to a unique domain.
The fact that I am at a new url is not the main reason for needing your attention though… As you can see, I have a blogroll dedicated to Cincinnati bloggers. I know you want in, since more links = more gooder. If you are seeing this, you follow me on twitter so here is what you need to do:
Send me either an @ or DM with the link to your blog
Add http://www.awwdip.com to your blogroll (quid pro quo Clarice).
