Video - Satellite Flyby (International Space Station)

Saw this tonight! (Watch this on youtube in HD - looks much better)

Hi-Tech Piano Tuning

My piano tech, Daniel Ene, tuning my piano using computer software.

I Can See! I Can See!

Hello. Radio Shack, may I help you?

(me) Yes, do you have any contact cleaner in the store?

Contact Cleaner?

(me) Yes. a high quality one in the can that won't leave a residue)

You mean for like HDMI TVs?

(me) No, for contacts, electronics --

You mean for like contact lenses?

(me) No man. It's ok. Thanks. [click]

Lesson learned:
Maybe I should have asked if he had Prince Albert in a can? I'm going to Fry's Electronics.

Update (fast forward 2.5 hrs):
It gets better. I go into Fry's...walk into the electronics section. A 20-something dude accompanied by another 20-something dude asks if he could help me.

"Yea thanks. I'm looking for a can of contact cleaner."

He looks at the other guy who shrugs. Then turns around and asks me, "You mean like for contact lenses?"

Lesson #2 learned:
I should've gone to Radio Shack. It's way closer. On top of it, the contact cleaner didn't fix my studio problem.

Blood Sport

I never thought of softball as such an offensive and hostile sport. Then again, I haven't seen this team take the field yet!

Timing is Everything

This vanity plate is even funnier and more significant today than the day this driver acquired it. In comedy, timing is everything.

Yes, We Serve Anyone Here

So male, female, handicap and ...ducks?

The Key to Her Heart - Not.

My wife asked me what's a Meineke. I told her it's the opposite of a Mayjah key. She rolled her eyes. Hey, we're in Boston. I thought it was funny

95 Years ago today...

April 24, 1915: 300 Armenian leaders, writers, thinkers and professionals in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) were rounded up, deported and killed by the Ottoman Empire. It gets worse: On that same day in Constantinople, 5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered in the streets and in their homes.

That wasn't the end of it: 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the Armenian Genocide between 1915-1923. They were methodically massacred, tortured, and sent out into the dessert to die of starvation and thirst. Women were raped and abused; children were also subject to the same vile and inhumane treatment. Nice, huh?

April 24th - a day Armenians all over the world commemorate this putrid, horrible tragedy committed against us innocent humans by our own species.

The United States government as a whole remains the last of many countries to officially acknowledge this as a Genocide. Year after year it comes up in our congress, and year after year it's "not the right time." Why? Because Turkey denies the genocide ever took place and threatens their relationship with the U.S.A.