Blog of Josh Hall

Harry Belafonte – Jump in the line

This song is stuck in head and I want it out.  RIGHT. NOW.  I have no idea when the last time I’ve ever heard this song, and I don’t even know all the lyrics, i just have the "SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE Señora " part repeating in my head.

So I subscribed to the Pittsburgh Penguins student rush text messages and every day there is a home game, they’ll text message you with how many tickets are available and any special offers there are for the game.  Here’s an average message:

I walked over to the North Side yesterday to play basketball at the Allegheny Center Alliance Church and I walked through the Allegheny Center mall…That place is like walking through the set of 28 days later.  There’s no one there.  Stores are empty.  THIS IS A MALL.  I felt like I was walking through some sort of quarantined area, and it’s 4 o’clock in the afternoon!  The whole area is just dead and creepy.  It’s totally wild to see such a big area completely abandoned.  Even the old Carnegie Free Library has a sign on it that says "Closed indefinitely."  That’s nuts!  What happened here???  It’s almost like this area has a dark secret in it’s past and no one is talking about it.

Maybe all the development on the North Shore will revive that place.  The Steelers are in talks with a west coast developer to bring in some sort of venue/entertainment complex next to Heinz Field.  You’ve got Don Barden’s casino going in.  Another hotel going in by PNC Park.  The North Shore connection with the T to be finished in 2011.  If I were to make a prediction, I’d say that once the river front of the North Side is developed in the next 5 years, the West End/Station square side is going to BOOM.  When I say BOOM, I mean it.  The attraction of that side of the river(s) is that there’s nothing there right now.  Developers will be able to plan huge buildings, not worry about closing roads and such, and have a clean canvas to work with.  I haven’t heard anything about that Pittsburgh maglev project for a while either…

" I feel for you, but I just can’t reach you."

Legend of the Green Dragon is a text based RPG (Role-Playing Game).  All you need to play is a web browser, an internet connection, and a sense of humor and imagination.

I’ve hosted this game before and had 1500+ players from around the world.  I stepped away from the game for personal reasons almost 2 years ago, but now I’ve found the time and desire to get it back to the game it once was.  It’s all PHP based and it’s a ton of fun.  It’s quite addicting! 

I want to own an island.  Pure and simple.  I want to own my own land to do whatever I want with it.  I remember watching TV one day, I think it was RealTV, and some guy in Australia had tied 2 liter bottles and milk jugs and such together for a series of time and he put plywood on top, then stole sand and dirt from the beach, and he built his own island/raft thing.  He had it tied to a dock at a marina, and it was like 30 square feet.  He had a little garden, a little hut with a hammock, and even a cat on the island with him.  He just kept adding on and expanding, and eventually the government made it officially an island.  I LOVE that idea.  I want to be that guy.  Can you see me down on the Monongahela River on my land raft?  SWEET.