Archive for the 'Colorado' category
Monday, February 12th, 2007
Winter? Don’t care for it. Spring? Those frigid Chicago springs turned me off on the concept. Summer? Awesome. The hotter the better. Walking back from the grocer yesterday I got an thought, and I’m laying out the start of that thought here. It’s a plan called…
Awesome Summer
The first question is: What makes for an awesome […]
Joe, Ideas, World, Chicago, U.S.A., Awesome, Denver, Colorado, Sane |
Friday, January 12th, 2007
So Denver’s got some Chicago-style wind chills running through the streets, and I’m off to Crested Butte to go visit Mark and Ali for the weekend. We’re up against a couple winter warnings on the drive up, which could make it an adventure getting there. Hopefully not too much of an adventure.
Saturday Update: Had to […]
Joe, Colorado |
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
First, I didn’t know Williams. I’m not religious about football. The guy died 150 feet from where I live, and I guess that makes me feel weird / closer to his passing. Here are some of the things I’ve noticed since his death:
People are definitely, definitely still racist. This event kind of brought them out. […]
Joe, World, Media, Denver, Colorado |
Friday, December 29th, 2006
It was my friend Ali’s birthday yesterday. Ali and I go back to my sophomore year of college, when I was an aspiring newspaper reporter and she was an aspiring young actress. Now she’s totally old. Her and her man Mark own and run a hip movie theater in Crested Butte, Colorado.
Last summer I said […]
Joe, Friends, World, Colorado |
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
This will be my third year in a row in a newsroom on election night. It’s a fun and intense way to spend the evening. This year I’m putting together the Denver Post webcam coverage, with the help of co-worker and tech guy Doug Conarroe. There will probably be links to the webcams starting around […]
Joe, Work, World, Denver, Colorado |
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
I’ve got a new zip code (80204), a new extension at my office number (1057), and a new skyline.
In the past 16 days I travelled 6880 miles (more than half done in my hardy Honda Civic hatchback). This incuded a wedding, a visit with my dad’s side of the family (four separate visits), two stops […]
Joe, Friends, Family, Work, World, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A., Denver, Colorado |
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
In three weeks I start a new job doing development for the Denver Post’s online news team. I’m excited. It’s my first programming gig, which means 1. I get to spend most of my time doing the stuff that interests me about online news, and 2. I have ascended to a new level of computer […]
Joe, Work, World, Winston-Salem, Media, Journalism, Online News, Denver, Colorado |