Blog of Josh Hall

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, [...]

[where: 15219] Who knew???  Outside.in called Pittsburgh the 3rd most bloggiest city after boston and philly.  I’m a little dissapointed that Philadelphia beat us, but what ever.  Pittsburgh is such a booming place for technology, and I attribute that mostly to carnegie mellon, but also UPMC doing so much research.  CMU has brought in so much [...]

A lot of development going on in Pittsburgh, and a lot of that development is being met with conflict.  You’ve got citizens of east liberty saying that the development going on there is forcing the low-income families out of the city.  You’ve got Don Bardon screaming "stop picking on me!" to all the people that [...]

Just in time for the cold weather, this site will keep track of gloves that people report and hopefully reunite them with their owner.  It’s a cute idea that’s getting a lot of attention.

As of today, Pittsburgh is one of 14 cities to be featured in Google street view.  They missed my street, but went down a perpendicular street where you can see my truck parked on the right.   License plate security risk?  It’s a pretty neat function, being able to visualize where you want to go in [...]

the Bodies exhibition is coming to the carnegie science center october 8th.  If you haven’t heard about it, you need to be a little more cultured.  It’s quite the topic for a few reasons.  The first would just be about the exhibit itself, how remarkable it is to see the human body disected like this in [...]