Ramblings

Picksburgh N’@

21 December, 2006 (06:59) | Ramblings

wow, what an effing blow to the ribs on the casino license announcement. Personally it stings because i don’t have the guaranteed boom in property value that i did with Isle of Capris (IoC). And the city/fans aren’t guarranteed an NHL team like they were with IoC. If the Pens leave, that’s going to hurt the city big time. Problem with the gaming board is they don’t know the city. The mayor, the casino task force, locals, pens fans, Mario, radio personalities, newspapers, anyone who meant anything were saying IoC. wtf. PITG doesnt even have a temp casino plan, so we won’t see any profits until march 2008. IoC and Forest City had already spent money to acquire the space for their casinos and temp casinos to maximize profits. PITG is also a much smaller operation than IoC. bleh. I’m done. Nothing we can do now. effing polidicks.

on a new topic, 2008 is going to be quite the year for the city. here’s all the things coming in 2008 that i can think of right now off the top of my head:

  • obviously you got the opening of the first gambling establishment on the north shore
  • The Maglev Project has hearing in spring 2007, may have ground breaking in 2008 or so.
  • Hot Metal Street bike trail connecting the south side bike trail with the allegheny trail to be completed in 2008.
  • North Shore Connector to connect the T under the allegheny river to PNC park. (would be nice to coincide with casino.)
  • ongoing downtown housing projects will have nearly 1000 apartments by 2008.
  • the mellon merger will be underway, could mean more jobs
  • could be the first season without an NHL team
  • It’s Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary
  • Point State Park renovations will be done in 2008
  • Bassmasters to return in 2008.

and these are all things that are planned already, who knows what 2007 planning will bring. Also consider all the other events like marathons, arts, musicals, other performances, movie filmings, etc that occur regularly anyway. Despite the BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER with the casino, da burgh still has a bright future in my opinion.

and for me, i should be down with my degree, and ready to get promoted, post-out, or fired with the merger, so new job either way. And if the property values are up enough by then, maybe a move…

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Memorable Quotes

strangers come and strangers go

19 December, 2006 (10:01) | Memorable Quotes

“To the reacquainted friend I say, “Don’t become any stranger.””

– Josh Hall

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Thoughts & Ideas

eat me.

13 December, 2006 (04:27) | Thoughts & Ideas

so, thinking about Speciesism, and i think it’s very easily self-defeated. I usually don’t take such a strong position right away on issues, but i’m not seeing any logic behind it.

they complain that humans shouldn’t kill/eat/abuse animals because it’s being predujice based on species.

so why not stop lions from killing gazelles? Why is it ok for animals to eat other animals?

I certainly don’t think that lions will learn by our example. It’s nature. And to think that we, as a species, should not eat other animals because we have the mind to think that it is wrong, is speciesism itself.

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Personal Update

Inertiatic ESP

12 December, 2006 (01:24) | Personal Update

got the call from walmart saturday and so i went and picked up my 2 60gb playstations. probably post them on ebay this thursday, just in time for some last minute christmas rushers.

I’m slacking on the 1 online class i have…the crappy thing is, not a single grade has been posted, so i have NO idea how i am doing in the class which isnt exactly motivation to try harder, you know? bleh. i don’t think i’ll take classes in the spring. at least not the first half of the semester. I have a few project management classes within work in jan and feb, so i’ll rationalize that as my excuse. Assuming i pass this class, i’ll have 24 credits or 6 classes left. 1 is an open elective, where i have the option to test out of something. Maybe i’ll make that my goal for spring semester too…I’m going to have to pay out of my pocket ~2k to finish in fall 2007, but i think it’ll be worth it than delaying it any further. hopefully i won’t screw myself with having classes not be available downtown, or at all….

why is my room in a perpetual state of dissarray? I don’t even sleep in it anymore, i sleep in the guest room…

family is going to italy in may for a week since keren will be there all spring and they’ll bring keren back with them…i’m tempted to go, but that’s going to be at least $2k…I think i’ll wait for some job certainty before i make any crazy decisions.

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Ramblings

bah.

6 December, 2006 (06:21) | Ramblings

Bank of New York “merging” with Mellon. This is going to impact me personally, financially, career wise, and impact the city as well. How? I have no idea. And if i did have an idea, i still would not be allowed to talk about it. Freedom of speech exists only in the free world, not in corporate america. I was glad to see and hear a lot of announcements related to the news, mellon financial foundation will increase charitable donations from 2 million to 4 million. that should help the area. it also sucks that they’re moving the HQ though. I was glad to see the stock jump almost $3 too. That’s good. Too early to tell with a lot of things. Not what I had been hoping for though. I had been hoping for Mellon to start buying other smaller businesses. I’ll keep you posted.

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Site Update

New songs!

29 November, 2006 (17:04) | Site Update

new songs are up on the myspace page. http://myspace.com/joshuadavidhall

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