Blog of Josh Hall

Wow, I’m down.  wasting away.  malnourished.  lethargic.  tired.  bored.  unmotivated.  lost.  a perfect time for a personal update entry… work is slow.  money is slim.  someone is breaking into the estate and stealing copper and other crap.  rachel went back to cleveland.  no inspiration to play or write music.  no real aspirations to do anything […]

I hate politics.  I always have and always will.  The bigger the politics, the worse they are, and in my opinion, the less effect they have but they get the most attention.  To quote the movie waking life, "Do you want the puppet on the left or the puppet on the right?" I’m getting sick […]

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 […]

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, […]

here’s an idea for a video game i came up with in the airplane.  I call it "queue."  Basically, it’s a sim crossed with lemmings.  The idea is to manage people in lines in different scenarios.  Each scenario would have a prize for passing it and that prize could assist you in later levels.  Perhaps […]