Posted in Life, Travel on Jul 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
New Yorker and Chicago residents (and to a degree Philly) like to claim the best to everything they do. The biggest buildings, the best food, the best you name it. Well, this week I’m in Chicago for business and as I’ve written before – I have spent a lot of my life working like a [...]
Posted in Life on Jun 11th, 2010 No Comments »
I love LA. Wish I lived here. Every time I come to Los Angeles, I go to eat at Pinks, bar none best hot dogs on the planet. The end. There are a couple of new hot dogs on the menu, and I tried 2/3 of them. Mostly because I’ve never heard of Wendy Williams [...]
Posted in Life on Dec 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Today I got one of the first signs that I am indeed getting old. On the positive side, I did discover a new feature in my Vette! I live in a very nice neighborhood in Orlando. Price of living in paradise is that it’s also a tourist hotspot. There is only one way out, and [...]
Posted in Life on Apr 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Today has been a big cleanup day at Casa de Vlad, I have basically tried to scrub, vacum, scrape and move around every inch of our place. Thankfully, I have plenty of friends to take digital potshots at me and my impending fatherhood. This one made me laugh out loud, from my mentor Albert Churba: [...]
Posted in Life on Feb 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Is it just me or is the parade of geezers getting a little too old for NFL? It’s not really a halftime show anymore… It’s a halftime tribute to people that have managed to survive despite their dependance on heroin. Consider the past four years: Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Prince and Tom Petty. These [...]
Posted in Life on Sep 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Nothing dispells the myth of creationism quite like this brilliant proof of unitelligent design I’ll give him credit for the figurines though, thats bound to attract kids to the car and the tinted windows take care of the rest All jokes aside, this freak has two cars and drives them around I-drive in Orlando in [...]
Posted in Life on Aug 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Today Katie totally burned me in such a quick and effective way that I just had no response. You all know how often I’m speachless, so here goes the conversation from earlier today: Vlad: Hey, want to go to Vegas? Katie: Sure, when? Vlad: January, 6–10 Katie: What’s then? Vlad: CES, the consumer el… <cut [...]
Posted in Life on Aug 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Today is day #3 of the “5K a Day” initiative and while I knew it would be rough I didn’t think I was this stupid. So let’s see. Day one went great. Day two, not so much – I pushed it to 5K and some weights which apparently was just a tad too much. Suffice [...]