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What a coinky dink

1 September, 2010 (12:00) | Pittsburgh

When you use google earth, the red dot indicating the Hill District is on my house.  Weird.  How appropriate that I’m the ambassador now.  🙂 http://goo.gl/maps/OwT1

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Time after Time

12 August, 2010 (12:00) | Pittsburgh

Here’s an awesome time lapse video of the new consol energy arena from start to finish! http://penguins.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?catid=19&id=72562

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Wait if everything’s going great

6 August, 2010 (02:00) | News, Personal Update, Pittsburgh

Well, some of you already knew, but now that it didn’t pan out, we’re allowed to talk about it.  Back in April, Chemistry.com (where Kallie and I met) contacted us and wanted us to be interviewed by a “national magazine” about our story.  Turns out it was People Magazine.  So they called Kallie, asked her […]

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It’s not easy being green

14 July, 2010 (12:00) | Pittsburgh

Here’s an update on some Hill District projects: YMCA: This is going in 2 blocks from my house on Centre Avenue. It is currently slated for an early 2012 completion. Should be awesome to have an indoor basketball court and pool so close! Also, it’ll be one of the city’s largest green certified buildings. Post-Gazette […]

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She’s so high

5 June, 2010 (12:00) | Pittsburgh

Check out this great Gigapan of Pittsburgh taken recently from the top of the USS Steel building  (the tallest building in the city).  It has some awesome views from it, as well as confirming that if I had a way onto my roof, like a roof deck, (or tore down the houses behind me), I […]

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The jitney

7 May, 2010 (10:41) | Pittsburgh

When I bought my house in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, my roommate, Jordan, and I noticed that there were always people huddled around this building at the corner of Wylie Ave and Erin Street.  We were unsettled, but also a little curious as to what was really going on there.  Jordan asked my neighbor, […]

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