Nov 24
Today Ginny announced the campaign that we’ve been conspiring about for the past couple of weeks – an effort to raise $10,000 to get the kids at Children’s Hospital a kick-ass game room and take their minds off whatever ails them, even for a short amount of time. It all kicks off this weekend at her husband’s restaurant Las Velas, with a percentage of the evening’s proceeds being donated to the cause.
My company WearPittsburgh is also doing its part by donating 20% of the sales of any t-shirts to this effort (name/logo forthcoming) until the goal of $10,000 is reached. I’m also reaching out to some contacts I have in the tech industry to see if we can get some new equipment donated for the cause.
While you are out on Saturday, you should definitely check out another great event happening at Altar Bar that is helping to support the efforts of two Ben Avon sisters who risk their lives as VOLUNTEERS to help children at an orphanage in the western hemisphere’s poorest country of Haiti. This is a wonderful cause and please, if you can, drop by and support these two amazing and inspiring women. Both events are on Saturday from 6-9 PM, so go to one for a while and then mosey over to the second.
I’m grateful that I’m able to be a part of this effort with Ginny, who has kept this cause of helping sick children front-and-center and been the real champion getting the Lemieux Foundation and other parties involved. We also had an outpouring of support from people wanting to be involved when we first started thinking about this – you are the reason why Pittsburgh is a great place to live.
We’ll have more details about how you can give if you can’t make the Las Velas event real soon. I have no doubt the kind and generous people of Pittsburgh will help us reach our goal and bring some (Super Mario) Sunshine to those children who could use it.
Tagged with: Children's Hospital • fundraiser • Games • Kids • Mario Lemieux Foundation
Nov 10
So, many of the eyes who have fallen upon these words have also been over to Michelle’s blog or Twitter stream and will not find this to be anything new. For those who haven’t seen it, then it’s new to you!
If there’s one thing I know – when Burgh Baby runs a no-huddle fundraiser to benefit anyone, it’s one hell of a two-minute drill. She takes a cause, even something which should need no convincing to motivate you to donate, and makes it even more meaningful and personal for her and for you.
The cause this time? Getting toys for kids that won’t have anything under the tree – or, hell, might not even have a tree at all.
She’s already exceeded her goal of $1,000 and did it in record time – but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any more kids that could use your help.
Give. Please.
Tagged with: fundraiser • Kids
Nov 09
WoyGirl went and got herself a favorite Sesame Street character. While she loves Grover, she loves Elmo even more.
Whoooo boy.
Tagged with: elmo • sesame street
Nov 05
This week much is being made of Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary. Many might list Big Bird, Cookie Monster, or Ernie as their favorite character.
Mine? Grover. He’s a super hero, he rarely uses contractions, and is known as Gunnar in Norway. As long as he doesn’t grow long blond hair and sing awful songs we’ll be fine.
Happy 40th, Sesame Street.
Tagged with: grover • sesame street
Nov 04
Normally when a new Massive Multiplayer Game (MMOG) comes out I usually don’t pay much notice. It really has been a fair amount of time since I played any sort of MMOG: The beta test of Ultima Online back in 1996. Way, way back I played multiplayer games back when having two-four people on a BBS (bulletin board system) was a really cool thing to do… and I racked up some serious bills playing on some of GEnie’s multiplayer games.
When I see the announcement that Lego is coming out with Lego Universe – it’s the first time in a long while something has given me, my wallet, and my sense of personal time pause.
In reality – I know I won’t sign up for it but it’s fun to imagine – and be scared for a little while.
Bonus fact: This was the first lego set I ever had and it was my absolute favorite for a long while.
Tagged with: Games • lego
Nov 03
Today is the birthday of the 4th Earl of Sandwich (thanks @allthingsnoisy for the heads up!)
Check out Father Spoon’s observance of Sandwich Day.
(Photo above is by Roger Smith – the sandwich in the picture, incidentally, weighs 482 pounds)
Tagged with: holiday • Sandwich • sandwich day
Nov 02
Now that the Sandwich is running again, I thought I’d give you the penny tour of the new template.
- You’ll notice the WoyTumblr – this is the Sandwich, Abbreviated. Here is where I’ll put pictures that are interesting to me – either ones that I’ve taken or others that I Tumbleupon. I hope it will increasingly have more of mine on there as I try to do a little bit more with photography. Lofty ambitions – I’m all about them. I’ll also put interesting links or other items there. I had considered using Delicious but I thought that Tumblr would be nice and versatile – while also being a little bit more fun. I’m curious how anyone uses other publishing platforms to store shorter style content?
- Recent comments – to help give you a feel for the pulse (or lack thereof) of the conversation going on within posts.
- Woy on Twitter – Real live Twitter messages embedded right here on the blog! Please contain your excitement.
I’m still considering making some additional changes to the template – while a clean look, it doesn’t have as many shiny objects to distract you from the dearth of content. Links will make their return at some point, but I’d like to do it so that they are meaningful and/or interesting. A link dump is never pretty and do you really click on them? I’d seriously like to know.
See, that didn’t take too long did it? That’s a penny and 30 seconds of your life you’ll never get back.
Tagged with: Sandwich • tumblr
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