http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity Cosmopolitan and Crazy Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:41:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For a multitude of reasons, some ridiculous (I'm still not sure how one can find virtual space to be stifling, but ...), some practical (Wordpress frustrations, not seeing a need to host a blog on this domain anymore), I've packed up my most recent posts and moved over here, to ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2010/08/moved/ Howdy, long time no see, eh? How have you been? Yeah, me too. Crazy about that, huh? Well, okay, in reality things have been pretty all over the place in my personal life, which I'm not going to stick out here all out on the public internets. That's not what I ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/12/samaritans-helpline-boston/ Dear Harvard Vanguard: Thank you for being so convenient and having every specialty I could ever imagine needing under one umbrella and the technology to truly take advantage of such a system. That I could go in and see one doctor yesterday and within 15 minutes have a spot in general ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/08/thanks-harvard-vanguard/ I've been meaning to post this for a couple of days now, but I'd forget, or get distracted, or something, and now here we are halfway through the week. Courant reporter Helen Ubinas is spending a week reporting from Garden St in Hartford. I've been following her on Twitter (@NotesfromHeL) for ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/08/i-heart-hartford/ Michael Jackson has, as most everyone knows, died at the age of 50. I've been trying to come up with some pithy way of summing it up for Facebook and Twitter. Is this what has become of my love of writing? Nevertheless, I failed. Thus, my dusty blog. I really have ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/06/only-because-its-too-long-for-twitter/ Last night I inadvertently broke back into my very first gmail address, which I set up 5 years ago and pretty much never used again. It seems 3 or 4 people have been handing it out as their own since then and I have 91 personal emails in that inbox. Things I ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/06/email-psa/ My finger's been bugging me-- swelling up, hurts to touch, etc. So after a week of this, I headed to the urgent care clinic in Kenmore to make sure I didn't have spider eggs or a fracture or anything. They sent me for x-rays and I, because I'm 12, took the ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/05/fun-with-x-rays/ At the very least I've been selected to save the world from evil. First, when I turned my TV on Wednesday night, I found this image frozen on the screen for no discernable reason: Then, last week I was in the mailroom ripping open a box of dental insurance booklets to distribute. ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/05/i-am-the-chosen-one/ On the one hand, it's good to finally have everything confirmed. The endless speculation and covering up was making me dizzy. On the other, it really, really sucks to be right. Jerry Remy taking an indefinite leave of absence to recover from cancer surgery. Looks like Eck will continue through the homestand, ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/05/get-well-soon-jerry/ There are so many reasons to love Surviving Grady. Many, many reasons. This is but one of them. Trying to get a post explaining the Legend of the Diet Coke up before tonight's game but I'm not sure if it'll happen. http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/05/surviving-grady-have-my-babies/ It's nearing midnight and I'm sitting here shotgunning a fresh can of diet coke. I have to be up in just over 6 hours. Yup. Just another game night. AND IT PAYS OFF WITH A 2-RUN HOMER FROM BAY! Bay has been most receptive to my help this season. Soon I should chronicle ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/05/baseball-monday-in-boston/ Jacoby Ellsbury. Oh. My. GOD. I want that clip uploaded to my brain so I can watch it over and over and over and over. Hope Girardi's been networking. He's gonna need something to do after September. I just ... DAMN. http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/04/the-real-fastest-man-in-the-world/ When the season started, I was still working on a case of cherry DDP, so I had no diet coke with games. And we got off to a lousy start. So when my case was finished, I got a case of Diet Coke, more for the tradition than because I actually thought ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/04/just-for-the-ass-kicking-power-of-it-diet-coke/ It was a bad, bad week. I was in the hospital, we had a death in the family, then a layoff. I'm tired. I've already talked about the hospital, not sure if I'm ready to talk about the death, and legally can't talk about the layoff. That leaves ... ...banging my head ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/02/quick-hits/ Wound up in the hospital in DKA again this weekend. I definitively identified the cause last night when I removed what I suspected to be a bad pump site: Yeah. That's supposed to be straight. It's what puts the insulin into my system. No good. I was released yesterday and am taking ... http://www.blueohana.com/mediacrity/2009/02/weekend-report/