Jan. 1, 2000: Computers everywhere continued working mostly as expected, so no need to go in on the weekend. Our British corporate masters (who had bought us a year or two earlier) were still trying to figure out what to make of our Pittsburgh office, which was mostly doing DoD/DARPA work and therefore had to have an arms-distance relationship ( Read more... )

Note to self: rent-a-casinos sound like a cool idea for parties, but casino games are designed to be easy to play forever, which means that unless you brought enough seats for everyone, the people who get in first are likely to saturate the games for the rest of the evening. Making people stand at the tables rather than bringing actual seats helps ( Read more... )

I'm back from Pennsic. Yes, I know I'd planned to start August with a post about Seafair's capstone weekend, even once my manager and I concluded I needed to use vacation before it expired - and yet, there I was, a day or two into two weeks of vacation, booking the cheapest fare Expedia could find for me and flying back out east for my first ( Read more... )

I suspect anyone this might apply to has seen it elsewhere, but:
To try and test out the "Everyone in Pittsburgh knows everyone else, eventually," theory, mg4h is asking her Pittsburgh friends to link to this, and see if you can help her find witnesses to her little quandry from Monday ( Read more... )

My buddy greenpear from Pittsburgh is starved for fellow curling fans to yak with. Any chance I have any curling fans reading?

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( NWS Special Weather Statement for Pittsburgh, 9:10 am )

Snow is cold, snow is white
Snow is falling throughout the night
It makes the world so fresh and new
And sometimes closes school down, too.
    - Me, 6th grade

I knew it was going to be fun when I woke up this morning and the hillside out my bedroom window had that beautiful Normal Rockwell layer of snow over everything.

Then I looked at the ( Read more... )

At the moment, I'm (more or less) stranded at work downtown as the streets around me are closed for "Light Up Night 2002 ( Read more... )

Those who follow fiannaharpar's journal may already have seen the latest blow to Pittsburgh schools. But things are far from standing still ( Read more... )