0 5 for Friday

I'm starting a new feature on the JDC, 5 random thoughts coming straight at you every Friday... 1.  Path might be pretty cool, but I'm not 100% sold on it. So I started using Path which is a Facebook alternative that limits you to around 150 friends.  The app on the iPhone is really slick and reminds me of BBM.  You can share locations, pictures, songs, thoughts and so on with your real friends and not that one person you randomly met as a friend of a friend of a friend that always posts the most annoying things.  It's nice that when I get a notification from the app it means that there is something that I actually want...

0 Yep... that sucked...

The joys of being a Pitt fan... But we will get them next year. As always Hail to Pitt. ...

2 March Loves Driving Pitt fans to Madness

Way back in November in one of my first blog posts, I predicted Pitt would make the Final Four based on the that Pitt had the following: 1. a veteran PG, 2. top freshman that were ready to make impacts, 3. Plenty of depth off the bench and 4. a coach that knows how to win.  Looking back I was pretty accurate cause Tray Woodall was Tray Woodall in a good way, Steven Adams was not quite lottery level but James Robinson was better than even I imagined, Pitt plays 10 deep although Trey Zeigler hasn't been who I thought he'd be and Dixon is Dixon in a Dixon way.  And contrary to what the seeding says, Pitt had a really good regular...

1 Iraq reflections

It's been 10 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq. I was a junior in college and my biggest concern in late 2002 and early 2003 was where was I going to go for Spring Break. I have always been aware of American foreign policy, but I generally have found myself to be indifferent (this applies to much of my life). I remember people talking about the war, vaguely, but my biggest concerns were with partying and studying. College can be a cocoon and part of the cocoon is a tendency to be very self absorbed. Rarely did you leave campus to venture out into the world. Everything you needed was in the self contained bubble. The one memory that sticks out...

0 Blogging update

So I  looking back over the past couple of weeks and blogging appears to have fallen by the wayside. With the Bachelor no longer on, a weekly staple has vanished. Additionally, with increasing demands of work combined with work guilt for writing non-work material on the clock, the only time to write is after hours. This can be difficult because the last thing I usually want to do after spending 8+ hours staring at a computer is to spend even more time staring at the computer. Finally, it's tough to write about something unless you are really interested in it. Writing about 6 year old movies is alright, but half the time I barely remember...

1 Best Movies of 2006

Back with yet another thrilling discussion of the top movies of a year in the 2000s.  As always, feel free to add to discussion in the comments below... Marty: For me, three movies standout for best of 2006.  Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth and The Departed.    All three are great in their own individual ways.  If I had to rank them, it would go like this: 3. Pan's Labryinth.  Guillermo del Toro created a fantastic fantasy world that was parallel to the real world.  Just top notch film making.  2. The Departed.  Scorsese + gangster movie = Always awesome.  Matt Damon undercover...

1 American Idiot: The Musical: The Review

The other day I saw American Idiot: The Musical at Heinz Hall.  Actually, it was over a week ago, but I decided to put an offer in a house in Larryville, which meant by random time to blog was overtaken by stress filled decisions about house buying.  But anyways, a musical featuring Green Day Music?  Hmmm... I thought sure why not, this could be interesting.  It certainly didn't fail to be interesting.   It was beyond over-the-top.  You haven't lived until you've seen a couple dance involving really long rubber bands used for heroin and choreographed to a Green Day song.  Honestly, I didn't have a...