Explore the Concrete Beach

Yes, it’s a Monday after the Steelers lost to the Baltimore Ravens, and yes it sucks. The Steelers have to win the remainder of their games to have a shot at a Wild Card spot. Is it bad to say I had no concerns for Dennis Dixon going into the game, but was more concerned about the defence?

Oh well, what can you do.

On Saturday I was at the Penguin game at the Mellon Arena where I got to not only see the Pens score 8 goals, but I got to witness a Sidney Crosby hat trick, on hat night and due to the location of my seats had hundreds of hats land on me which I promptly tossed over the glass. It was a fun time indeed.

Some general notes about the site. As you can see our theme is just about set. Link are being added to the side. I still can’t figure out how to change the font so I can get rid of the Comic Sans.

We’re getting there, I know there is issues in IE6, but not too concerned with it as they are minor. If you notice anything out of the ordinary, please let me know.

Thanks!

Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there. As you may have noticed I’m making changes, which is a lot harder than I thought as I am dealing with widgets not working and theme changes. I like the current theme you see here but need to change the font as I can’t stand Comic Sans.

Any help on changing the font?

If you visit this page often, you might notice things are changing constantly. It’s just me playing with different themes and attempting to re-learn css and it’s a pain. Hopefully I get this blog where I want it to be real soon, until then enjoy the archives.

Hey everyone! Just wanted to say I’m moving my host servers and going to update the blog theme. We’ll return shortly with an all new version of Explore the Concrete Beach. I’ve had time to thin and define what I want this blog to be and with the help of some people we are well on our way to re-designing eveything!

I’m excited!

Take care, Mark

It’s been a long long time. Who knew grad school could take so much time out of your life. But it did and it goes all the way thru December.

I plan on doing a complete overhaul on the blog soon to gain some control over the style. Anyone that has suggestions please leave them in the comments.

So quick hits:

I’m going to duck as soon as some Pittsburghers see this. I’m glad Luke Iwonhahanannynannyenstahl (Ravenstahl) won on Tuesday. For all these people crying foul and how Dowd would lead this city yada yada yada… Where was Dowd’s presence? I don’t live in the city so I don’t vote for this, but I would have voted for Lukey.

Why?

1)      Dowd did nothing to convince anyone he existed and when I saw him on TV news all I saw him do was rant and rave about the current Mayor. Zzzzz…

2)      Why have people harassing people downtown on Tuesday walking through town during lunch and after work by people on every corner asking to vote for Dowd. Um… a lot of people who work in the city do not live there. One followed me as I walked up Grant even after I said I don’t live in the city.

3)      I never heard what he would do for the city. I saw no signs, no promotion and face it, all elections are based on promotion. His campaign was a failure no matter what is said. No clear message, just lots of ranting about a half built electronic sign from what I saw. You are what gets picked up on TV.

:ducks from flying tomatoes:

Michael Vick was released from prison. So what. He shouldn’t be able to play in the NFL again, but the NFL is a PR machine and some team will pay an outrageous amount for him. He did something very wrong and illegal, why should he get rewarded with it in the end just because he spent some time in jail? Seriously the NFL wants to make football a family friendly letting Vick back in will not help. It just shows you can do something totally illegal and someone will give you millions once you serve some time. Bad lesson.

I wrote my first complaint letter to Walt Disney World. I never had a problem there before until I received some ghastly customer service because of an incorrectly marked item. I’ll keep everyone posted on that when I hear back from them in “7-10” business days.

Enjoy the 3 day weekend (4 for some) and I’ll be back next week.

This is the best park ever!

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Ready for round 3?

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Watching the American Idol show at Disney Hollywood Studios!

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