In my recent Wired Magazine which always has great little gadgets and gizmos in it, I came across an brief article describing the Tango by Communter Cars. It really is a neat little 2 seater, which can travel about 80 miles per charge. Thats right I said charge, it is battery powerd, and from the reading has a bit of zip to it as well. One more little tid bit for ya; you can park 4 of these mini's in a space of 1 conventional sized car. Not to shabby, this puppy would certainly save some cabage for brews on the weekend.

Well it has been a while since I last posted, you can understand with the holiday and sorts. I truly love Thanksgiving, a day of togetherness and all that family witty banter. Every year it seems that the fam has new topics to pick on each other with, and let me tell you there is no holding back, no mercy what so ever. Even the wiser ones of the family get a beat down, and trash talk concerning ailments is never off limits. Normally I would partake in my families hardball crosstalk, but this holiday was a bit different to say the least. I wasn't depressed but I did have much on my mind, which made it difficult to concentrate on the events.

Anyway, what else has been happening in the world besides my scattered brain and turkey?
George Bush survived an assasination attempt, and now he is hanging out in Toronto.
The Buffalo Bills, ran all over the Seahawks on Sunday which was awsome to say the least. McGahee became just the third player in Bills history to rush for four scores in a game and the first since Roland Hooks in 1979. We have Miami next week, which (knock on wood) should be a gimmie.

Episode III Revenge of the Sith teaser has been released. Dude it certainly teases, it looks frikin sweet.

You’re like a big bear, with claws and fangs, fangs man. Big fuckin teeth; yeah man with fuckin teeth on ya. She’s just like this little bunny who’s just kinda cowering in the corner. Shivering; yeah man just kinda?.. And you got these claws and you’re staring at these claws and your thinking to yourself with these claws, you’re thinkin now how am I supposed to kill this bunny, how am I supposed to kill this bunny, and your poking at it. Yeah you’re not hurting it, you’re just kinda gently batting the bunny around, you know what I mean. and the bunnies scared mike, the bunnies scared of you. And you got these fucking claws man and these fangs man, and you’re looking at your claws and your looking at your fangs and you’re thinking to yourself I don’t know what to do man, I don’t know how to kill the bunny with this you don’t know how to kill the bunny. Do you know what I mean? you’re like a big bear man.

I dont want you to be the guy in the PG movie that everyone really hopes it happens for...I want you to be the guy in the rated R movie that, your not sure if you like this guy yet, your not quite sure where he is coming from...your a bad man, bad man, bad man.

Sunday, some friends and I went to the Ralph and watched the Bills trounce all over the St. Louis Rams. What a game, 3 touchdowns in the 3rd quarter, 4 turnovers, and a punt return for a TD. We had a blast, and I am so happy that I was able to make a game this season. I almost thought I wouldn't this year. Of course we are going to try and make it to the Cleveland game, since I know we don't have a prayer against the Steelers.

Often I think about going back to school. I mean I was a good student, I got my work done, I always fit in with college people, and hey at the end of the whole thing you have a degree. Well I have thought about going back to get an MBA, figured it would corispond nicley with my MSIT. OR I could go for the highest level of geekdome, and get my Phd. BUt what would I then do with that mark of excelence. My good friend Katie is now in school at UB working on her Phd in biology/bugs, and some time talking to her I get pretty jelous about what she is doing. I mean it would be better than work. My favorite part about school, even though there is a tone more work than at work, is the fredom of creativity, and the learning of new things. I do get to learn new things in the private sector, but at a much slower pase. Well if I could find a school that did't require a GMAT or some other standarized test, I would go for it.

Almost weekly I can find articles in the Buffalo News about web logging and bloggers. After some time I almost stoped reading them, because they always stated the same old thing. But I must admit that the recognition that bloggers and web logs had gotten in this last election was amazing. Many T.V companies would interview some of the more well known bloggers after the debates, and getting their take on the event, and what will be posted into the weblog. This exposure to weblogs is huge for the community. Last night on C-Span there was a lecture on weblogs and there demostrations of knowledge and sharing knowledge. It was titled "The Digital Future". It was given by a profesor speaker from Harvards school of Internet and Society (?) David Weinberger, and I found it very interesting how he focused on the subject of community within the webloggers, which I took to quickly since that was the subject of my graduate thesis. My favorite point was forgivness. He stated that in a magazine publication, journalists have time to proof all their works, there for when mistakes happen they can be very poor. But in weblogs, every article or posting is produced "on the fly" or quicly, so authors tend to make more mistaks, which is forgiven by the readers, since they understand what type of writing is being completed. He continues to note that this type of publishing, allows authors and readers to connect in a much more human way.
Here is a link to a listing of all the topics in the Digital future series. The Lecture is the last 2004 episode.

You know, it's not like I was pouring my heart out on this site or anything, I just simply would add a post here and there that expressed what I was thinking. I don't care who you are or how tough you think you are, breaking up is difficult. Not only do you have to deal with the separation anxiety that occurs daily, you also have to deal with the constant associations that you cross which remind you of things you did together and so on. You see a few friends of mine told me to quit writing about my break up, they saw it as winning, or acting like a "wuss". Well, I really didn't intend for that to be the impact, and I certainly don't think she will ever visit this site; it was all simply putting my current thoughts done on paper so to speak. But since I do think my buds have a valid point, I will continue to do my best, to refrain from writing about this current event, as difficult as it may be.

One of the most difficult things to overcome, is yearning to share moments with her, and not being able to. This past weekend went by nicely, the hockey game on Friday, spending the night with the crew on Saturday and watching the Bills beat the hell out of the Jets on Sunday; these were all pretty easy to get trough. But for those of you in the WNY area, you might have seen the Aurora or Northern Lights yesterday, which are very rarely seen in this part of the country and I bet this would have been something worth sharing. She certainly enjoys beautiful events of nature, and I can fantasize sitting outside having a hot drink, and just being there together. That is what truly hurts.
It bothers me that now when I am done with my day, I really don't have the person I wanted mostly to hear about it there to talk to. It seems to make exciting news seem rather trivial, or less meaningful.

I found this little article last year at BlogRoots.com, and as I have stated before, I have just been released back out into the wild, and this article makes me think. The write up is all about the new (well last year new) social barriers that are being bent due to bloggers writing about their personal lives for the world to read, and does this broadcasting of ones relationships and issues pose a problem among us bloggers. Will I be one of those people that all of a sudden begins pooring out bad/good whatever, words about my ex-relationship, and the dating woes to come. Well I can't truly answer that question yet, but I do have alot of fun writing in my blog. Check out the articlea it's interesting and pretty funny. It does cover a very real topic of technology and society. Bloggers publishing works that can be upsetting to friends and family, and the increasing influence weblogs have been making on the Internet. When I was first getting into weblogging a few years ago, I read in the book The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog by Rebecca Blood, that you should only write words that your grandparents would be comfortable reading in your weblog. But I don't know about that. The whole purpose of weblogging (to me at least) is expresing ones self, being your self, fredom of the press and all that good stuff. I also feel that displaying your true personality in your weblog will attrack more readers and bring you tighter into the large community of webloggers. So watch out

Check it out and comment on what you think.
Dating a Blogger

Found this on CNN.com

Finally; for years now Anth and I have been searching the Internet, stores and Ebay for the forgotten episodes of HBO's Dream On. And now right when we thought there was no hope, and that this was a show long forgotten, Bam it blesses us with its creation and you can now find it at your local DVD sellers.
Growing up I took to this show in a very personal way, I can honestly say that there has only been a few shows on the tube that have had that kind of affect on me. I can remember crying when the main character Martin Tupper's son Jeremy got laid for the first time. You see I was the same age as the son in the show, and of course I identified with him on a large scale. I also was going through that age when seeking out ways to get into girls panties was the most important thing, you know the sixteen candles, American pie age. Raging hormones and all I truly felt that I was destine to never find happiness between the legs of the fairer sex. I also wanted to be Martin Tupper when I grew up, a neurotic goofy guy that was always getting involved in kinky/entertaining sexual escapades.
Wow unbelievable, what better way to recover from a break up, than to watch Dream On day after day.

Well the funniest thing happened to me the other day, if you can call it funny, it could fall into the category of sad or just depressing coincidence. If you haven't guessed yet, I have recently joined the frenzy of those in the pool of swimming singles. Now of course I am feeling terrible about the whole thing, but I do appreciate irony when it pokes its goofy head out.

I was driving home from grabbing a bite to eat with "me mate" Anthony (I love that so not American slang, any way not to venture off topic) and all of a sudden a song begins to play on the radio. Now I like the band Kiss, and I am always happy to hear one of their rockers come on the air waves, but for Christ sake, the one song that probably hasn't been played on the radio since the 70's all of a sudden, "Beth" by Peter Cris himself.

Then of course the joke doesn't stop there, oh yes there is more. Due to the tune playing on the radio, my comrades felt it incumbent upon themselves to beat this occurrence like a dead horse, then turning to "Better Off Dead" references and tossing the radio out the car door since all it is playing is depressing breakup songs. Then we all remembered that the girl that left Lane Meyer was none other than Beth. Well needless to say we all had a good laugh after that.

Relish; Relish on my Nose !!
If you don't get that, your a loser

What do you do? Well I can tell you what we are doing. A bunch of us are going to check out the Rochester Americans aka the Amerks at Buffalo's HSBC arena on Friday this week. The 7:35 p.m. contest is the first of two in Buffalo for the Amerks during the 2004-05 American Hockey League season. So with no hockey to watch on the tube, and ofcourse in the spirit of keeping myself busy; GO AMERCS !!

Die wunder dieser welt werden dir geschenkt

Well as part of my plan to stay as occupied as possible, the crew and I traveled to one of my favorite cities last night, Rochester N.Y to see one of my favorite bands, KMFDM. This is thier seconed year to play Rochester on Holloween, and I must say it was one hell of a show. The venu was the always punk rock Water St. Music Hall, and even though I have been there many times, I always seem to get a bit lost finding the f@#!n place. But find it we did, and we all had a blast, Buke more so than others, but hey KMFDM is part of that dudes inner sound track.

This was also the fist time I have seen the band with there new chick signer, Lucia Cifarelli. Wow can she belt out a voice, and she is also pretty easy on the eyes.

Well all in all a great time had by all, and I think a few of us are going to head back the day after Thanksgiving to check out Ministry.

Depression is a vicious enemy, and you have to fight back. You may feel like you're not strong enough to fight, but you really do have that strength. You really are stronger than you think.