If it’s too good to be true

I knew it wouldn’t last.
In October, I blogged about a way to watch my favorite hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, while I was living in New York. Since then, I have taken full advantage of the capability whenever I had the chance, most often with adthe.net, the site with the highest quality video.
The streams [...]

Let it snow, let it snow…

New York City had its first real snow of the season today, and for me, it was the first time it actually snowed outside my house.
While I’m sure by the end of winter I’ll be sick of the powdery white stuff, today I was just happy to walk around as the snow settled on the [...]

No high school sports in San Jose district?

I saw this story out of the Merc today about the East Side Union High School superintendent’s plan for a budget cutting out all high school sports.
I think it’s unlikely to happen, and may be an attempt to drum up some outside funding for athletics, but it would certainly be quite a blow. This is [...]

A positive development in the recession (except for me)

One of the things I was looking forward to when I came to New York this year was that I would stop paying for gas at $4 per gallon. Finally, I’d be freed from the $50 fill-ups, instead just burdened with one monthly fee for subways and buses.
Oops.
Sure enough, about as soon as I [...]

When your favorite team is across the country

One of the things I was disappointed about this year was that living in New York would prevent me from watching my favorite sports team, the San Jose Sharks.
Or so I thought.
While Sharks games are nowhere to be found on TV (my cable package doesn’t even have Versus), I found a way to watch them [...]

How to determine cost of living? The cost of pool

Living in New York, Indianapolis and San Jose over the past year, I’ve learned many factors can determine which locale is most expensive. Rent is perhaps the best example, but I have a new — and more fun — way to do it: the cost of playing pool.
In the Bay Area, my most-frequented pool hall, [...]