my Desk

After I saw Shane's blog it inspired me to share this.

Blowing up.

Great mouse.

This a picture of my Great Aunt Sarah on an Ostrich.   That Ostrich could run.

A big

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So my bloggging has been about as sparse as seeing a black cat in a Mexican Supermarket on 111th and 41st.  Oh wait. That happened.  And after that happened I bought some of those sugar wafer cracker things that I used to "borrow" from Hy-Vee growing up.    So I decided to post some photos from the past few weeks.

No wheels and tires.  No windows.   I saw this car pull in before I went to the Mets game and park.  I don't think the guy is going to be happy when he gets back.  

Mets panoramica.

Dude's got a monopoly.

Think they need to add Full Size Van to the Window stickers.

So many ads.  

So I had about a 5 hour stall in NYC the other day and decided to take advantage of the free time.  So I drove to an area near Shea that was safe to park and walked to the game.  Mets/Marlins.  After about 20 minutes of scoping the scene I scored this.  My free ticket.   Met a nice NY couple who gave me a ticket after I told them my life story.  

Acela Club is basically a Houston's inside a ballpark.   Nothing to write home about, but I don't write home about private baseball stadium restaurants much.  

Citi Field.  Very Baseball 2.0.

Walk to Shea/Citi.  Metal.  Random but photogenic.

Best pizza in Netcong.  Try to spend 5 bones at this place.  Savant waitress remembers exactly what you had upon each visit.  Rain Man stuff. 

Oldest wagon ever.  Radio Walker.

Speaks for itself.  Collaborate.  Listen.

Strikingly yellow bushes.  My favorite kind of plant life that grows by picket fences.  Seriously yellow.  Like dude from Curious George yellow.  Coldplay Yellow. Old Yeller Yellow.

Let me set this scene a bit.   Alpaca farm, somewhere in NJ.   Just before this picture was taken these two mountain goats were messing about and rough housing and then Mr. Alpaca rolls around and then go rogue.  Nothing.  Pretend to "graze".  

Alpaca with baby sitting by barn post feeding.   Alpacas are deathly afraid of humans until you have carrots.  I've carried carrots in my wallet ever since.

Long Valley Pub and Brewery.  Home of a really old building and across the street from an Alpaca farm.   Somewhere between where I bought Polar Seltzer water and Hackettstown.

LLS Charity Poker Tournament at the Brass Rail.  Gold's sitting pretty.

Seriously?

Double Razorback

Double Razorback.  40 big ones.

Can you say AirplaneCast?

First ever podcast from 15,000 feet to NYC.   

I recordeed this en route to La Guardia today.

Some good tunes and some bad background noise.

http://www.box.net/shared/sezbricesp

Are you ready for this???????????

You are invited to the 2009 Kansas City Poker Championship. A No Limit Hold 'Em Tournament to decide the 2009 Kansas City Poker Champion. Come enjoy the tourney, drink and food specials, a raffle, and an overall incredible time at this amazing event. 

Sunday April 19th

1pm - 5pm

Brass Rail

Leukemia is a malignant disease (cancer) of the bone marrow and blood. It is characterized by the uncontrolled accumulation of blood cells. An estimated 231,461 people are living with, or in remission from, leukemia. Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20. However, most leukemia cases occur in older adults; more than half of all cases occur after age 67. The overall five-year survival rate has tripled in the last 40 years. 

ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO LLS.

Only $20 entry fee if you pre-register via 
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For more details contact Luke at schneby@gmail.com 

Check back regularly for tournament rules, player banter, and updates on the event.

Worst. Boxer. Ever.

Kansas City Poker Championship! You are invited!

You are invited to the 2009 Kansas City Poker Championship. 

A No Limit Hold 'Em Tournament to decide the 2009 Kansas City Poker Champion. Come enjoy the tourney, drink and food specials, a raffle, and an overall incredible time at this amazing event. 

Leukemia is a malignant disease (cancer) of the bone marrow and blood. It is characterized by the uncontrolled accumulation of blood cells. An estimated 231,461 people are living with, or in remission from, leukemia. Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20. However, most leukemia cases occur in older adults; more than half of all cases occur after age 67. The overall five-year survival rate has tripled in the last 40 years. 

ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO LLS.

Only $20 entry fee if you pre-register via 
http://mid.kcmwoy.llsevent.org/schneby (a $20 donation secures your spot in the tournament or a $20 cash/check donation to Luke prior to the event) Entry fee will be just $25 at the door if you do not pre-register with Luke or via website. Please email Luke if you make a donation online to secure your seat.

For more details contact Luke at schneby@gmail.com 

Check back regularly for tournament rules, player banter, and updates on the event.

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Please make a donation.

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MAN OF THE YEAR

I have had the privilege of being nominated by my fabulous wife for Kansas City's Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Man of the Year.

You can donate here: http://tinyurl.com/bxzxvm

My goal is $10,000 at least. Please donate what you can and know that I appreciate every donation.

Stay tuned for many updates on my campaign. I plan on adding a video diary directly to the donation page and my blog.

Also, all you Twitterers, please pass this on, "Would you please Tweet this? Im trying to raise 10K for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.http://tinyurl.com/bxzxvm Thanks!"

UPDATED: I am using Twitter to push my message for the campaign. Even poker superstar David Williams reTweeted it. Please donate!

EVEN MORE TWEETS!

This RT from professional music blogger Pretty Much Amazing

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FOR A HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!

One Year Ago Today.

Grandma just rocking out

Grandma at Spring Training with the Cubs

View from the balcony in Maui.

Grandma shows up in Paia, Maui.

Dolores shows up in Paia, Maui in front of Alice in Hulaland.

Grandma...your Dr. Pepper is about to get wet.

Dolores is in Hawaii this week.  She'll be back next week.

House Passes Stimulus Bill.....

because my Grandma said so!

Where in the world is Dolores?

Little did you know, my Grandma is in a Norman Rockwell painting.

Who can forget this guy?

4 days....

Londres

Seriously?

Yes we can Deer.

Eat this Ultimate Warrior.

Yep.

Lip Dub - Tambureddu HD from Leonardo Dalessandri on Vimeo.

THE DAY IS HERE!

Hint of Lime

I would like to take this time to say that the Hint of Lime Tostitos chips have grown on me.  No, not like an appendage.  But I enjoy them.    They do leave a bit of a residue on your hands, but that is probably so if criminals eat your chips they can be caught.

A couple videos that are greatness.....

1) Perhaps the soundtrack to this video makes it even more cool.

2) And this is just great.

My Dream Realized

So last night was amazing.  A musical dream of mine was realized.  Imagine creating a Bucket List for music.....well as of last night I can cross another one off.    My most recent Bucket List was probably seeing Bob Seger thanks to my lovely wife.  And again I owe last night to her as well.   She had two tickets to the Dancing with the Stars Tour at the Sprint Center.  Bear with me now....

We decide to grab a beer and a burger at ChefBurger prior to the show and head in around 7:30.   A little pre-show amateur dance off ensues and then the real show starts.  We have quite good seats and are soon ready for the show.  The light dim and some "stars" come out and hype up the crowd.  Rhythmic clapping begins and foot stomping.   They announce the "Stars" and dancer pairs and what do you know.....Maurice Greene, Olympic Track star,  some actors,  Lance Bass, and.......wait for it.....Toni Braxton.   Ok.   At this point I turn to Rebecca in childish excitement and say, "Wouldn't it be awesome if she sang Unbreak my Heart"?   

Sidebar:  Unbreak my Heart is my Karaoke song of choice and many of you know that I have mastered the male version of this song.

Ok.  Back to the show.   About an hour of dancing and throwing and spinning goes by and we don't know if it can get any better.   The couple behind us whispered, "Honey, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.  This is amazing."   Oh my, by the end of the night I would agree. 

Here is Toni Braxton dancing....

A little Mo Greene.

Costume change.

Then.  It. Happens.   The lights dim for about 5 minutes and the crowd thinks its Intermission.  Someone forgot to bring up the House lights.  Oops.  Wait.  No.   

The voice of God comes on and says, I quote, "Ladies and Gentleman, now performing 6-time Grammy Awarding winning artist will sing her Platimun Selling Single....Unbreak My Heart!"

I lose it.  I get up out of my chair and do a series of Kirk Gibson/Tiger Woods fist pumps and take my chair.  Then it begins.  

Look at this......serious?

Toni is literally unbreaking my heart at this point.

She even speeds it up!  REMIX!!!!!!!!

So at this point I know that evening cannot get any better.  We decide it would be a good time to leave and make our way to the exit.  We head to the escalators to leave the building and at the top of the escalators are handed tickets for the Samsung Entertainment booth in the foyer where we are told we can win prizes and phones.   We take our tickets from the Samsung lackey dressed in Catwoman pants and head over to the booth.   We see a pack of tweens yelling and LOLing about a new phone they have just won.   The Samsung Eternity, which they had been pimping all night long.  Product placement folks.  I walk up to the lady in charge of the Samsung booth, hand her my ticket and ask her where I can win a phone. (Missing the line of people who are playing the touch screen display game.)  She tells me to, "Go over to the other booth and talk to the woman in the cream coat."   I walk over to the woman in the cream coat, Rebecca hands me her ticket, promptly skipping yet another line and say,"That woman at the other booth just told me to come over here to see you and that I should yell, I Love Samsung."  Her response, "You want a phone?  You don't need to yell.  Here you go."

Bam.

The phone.   Sweet.

What a night.

A great find.

So this is the most interesting thing I've read all day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle

Quite amazing.  Do you know who he is?  The top picture looks like an older version of Michael Scott from The Office US.

Hmmm.

Best 2 videos you will see today.

1)

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/08/21_ant_video.shtml

2) Here is Senator Franken

Serious?

Peace out 2008.

2008 Thank you.

Thanks for the music.  These songs in particular but in no particular order.

1 - Feed the Animals (Album) - Girl Talk

2 - Wire to Wire - Razorlight

3 - A-Punk  - Vampire Weekend

4 - Great DJ - Ting Tings

5 - All MIA

6 - A-Trak - All of your remixes

7 - The Jimmy Choo's - Chester French

2008 laughs - 

I owe some good laughs to some people as well.  Primarily to Peter Knerr for the Bernadette anthem at Smith's in Atlanta.  Pool cue microphones are the best.

2008 in general was a great year.  I look forward this year with much anticipation.

Cheers all.  I'll be a better blogger in 09.

6 - 

That's right....winner.

So I won my Fantasy Football League, riding the shoulders of Drew Brees. Thanks, Drew.

The Dark Knight Sequel - Batman chosen!

Spread the joy!

I don't know if any of you have heard about the fabulousness that HP is immersed in right now, but it is inspiring.

1) Read this.  http://mooshinindy.com/2008/12/03/hp-magic-giveaway/

2) Now.   Think, who would you share $6,000 worth of computers with?  

Well the answer came to me in an instant.   My good friend Jonathan Schultz.  Jon is in Burkina Faso as we speak working with the Peace Corps, see his blog here.    Recently Jon received some pencils and supplies for his village,  imagine what a computer could provide.     Jon could use the computers to communicate with other members of the Peace Corps, teach his students and fellow villagers about technology.   I think this could be the beginning of something magical. 

Please take the time to visit Jon's blog and even if we don't win the HP contest, at least you'll know a little more about Africa!

Receipts

Seriously America.  Do you really need 3 receipts?   Come on.   Here's 7 inches of paper to remind you what you have in your bag.

Man.

Greatness.