By floor9 on Sep 29, 2008 in Central PA | 7 Comments
I know there’s a lot planned for the village, but I have one simple question: What in the hell is wrong with that traffic light at the intersection of Linglestown Road and Colonial Road?
You know the one; at the corner with Sheetz, Weis, and KoKoMo’s Aroogas. Whenever I’m travelling from Harrisburg, that light turns red. [...]
By floor9 on Sep 27, 2008 in Downtown | 7 Comments
First, I love Privado. It’s about the only unique place left on Second Street these days. Sure, I enjoy Molly’s and Pep Grill and Ceoltas. I’ve even occasionally been dragged into Spice. But Privado, despite the best efforts of some of its former management, has largely remained my favorite spot. So I’m understandably frustrated that [...]
By floor9 on Sep 18, 2008 in blogHarrisburg | 0 Comments
Let’s see if I can recall this all from memory: @andreacecil, @VickyKH, @KathleenLD, @bydanielvictor, @sarabozich, @jak440, @aaronwinborn, and Roxbury News. A lot of the regular attendees (including @jerseymike, @yoshua, @Bone_, @billbostic, and @EdGrohl, among others) weren’t able to make it out for one reason or another. Looking at the Twitter timelines, it looks like it [...]
By floor9 on Sep 3, 2008 in Blogging | 2 Comments
Not really, but this would easily be the single best invention ever to hit the Internet since ethernet:
YouTube Comment Snob
Basically, YCS blocks comments that are too stupid to live. I’m not talking about comments that you may or may not disagree with; I’m talking about comments that should’ve been aborted long before they ever came [...]
By floor9 on Aug 28, 2008 in Hollywood Casino | 0 Comments
It’s 8:30pm. I’m sleeping because all the overtime I work to pay down my student loans nine years early has the unfortunate side effect of occasionally requiring me to live on four hours of sleep. My phone rings with a phone number I don’t recognize.
717-469-2211.
That’s Grantville. I don’t know anyone in Grantville, let alone anyone [...]
By floor9 on Aug 28, 2008 in blogHarrisburg | 1 Comment
@sarabozich gave us the local blogging & Twitter community a writeup in today’s Patriot News. Specifically, it touched on the phenomenon that the blogHarrisburg Tweetups have become:
By floor9 on Aug 25, 2008 in Movies / TV | 1 Comment
How did I miss this? Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame is touring the Lebanon Bologna factory for a future episode. No word on whether or not he stopped by the puppy mills since he was in the area.