Blog of Josh Hall

Remember when the residents of Pittsburgh’s Hill District burned their own homes and community to the ground in the 60s?  I wasn’t there to remember it, but the people who burned the Luke Ravenstahl’s proposed plan for redevelopment were, but it seems like forgot.  These people are going ego-tripping, power-hungry, and ostentacious.  They’re stuck on […]

"this is what i figure: the higher your activity on facebook OR myspace, the more unhappy you are." – Ashley

I’m a fan of large landscaping.  I just went to Phipps conservatory and there are these huge leaved palm trees that are about 7 feet high and they’re totally awesome.  I’m not sure on whether i want the the house to be tucked away secretly in the woods or just have a big clearing in […]

Took me a while to convert reading a text file to reading from the database, but the highscores for all the games are now fixed!  Tetris, Packman, Snake, and Space Invaders are all keeping high scores now!

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08003/846452-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Looking good!  Hill district getting a grocery store, developing the YMCA, and probably a bunch of good jobs reserved for residents.  This will really help with the new housing assitance law that passed Jan 1st.  People who have no jobs or income were paying $25 for rent at some places, but come 2008, they […]

What the heck is up with all the bank robberies in the pittsburgh area recently?!?!  HOLY CRAP.  I think since they filmed that FX movie with Donny Wahlberg about a bank robbery in the city, there have been nearly a dozen.  It’s ridiculous.  You’d think after the first couple that other banks would be thinking, "hmmm, […]