tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312718542024-03-19T07:38:15.858-04:00NANOBURGH?Random thoughts on technology, business, economics, new media, politics, local affairs in the Capital Region, music, the collapse of community, the corruption of the American Dream, fighting the evil bastards amongst us and suggestions for fixing this fucking mess.
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"I ain't here to make friends, cowboy; I'm here to tell you the ugly truth. So you might as well get out of that warm bed and deal with it."Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.comBlogger521125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-49099022425850899862014-05-13T13:02:00.001-04:002014-05-13T13:02:17.641-04:00On Apple and BeatsSteven Jobs always had the digital music "buy it" vs "stream it" debate/prediction wrong. Sure, in the short term it made him zillions, but the chess match or longer play game is now showing that streaming is the ultimate champ.
Which is no doubt the reason that Apple is picking up Beats Electronics for a cool $3.2Billion. I mean, come on now: do you really think they are enamored with Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-36077409306101407282014-05-13T12:51:00.001-04:002014-05-13T12:51:18.398-04:00How Much Is It Worth? Well, That DependsA
Value Pricing exercise: A guy was in a panic, with a notebook that
somehow lost its pointer on startup at the worst possible time. Help, he
cried. To the rescue I ran. A simple Safe Boot followed by a System
Restore had it solved in less than 10 minutes. So how should I
charge him? $50 based on my time? Or do we take into consideration the
fact that it allowed him to make his Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-76589785710586882462014-01-20T20:27:00.000-05:002014-01-20T20:27:15.161-05:00Manning vs Brady: Kinda Funny (kinda)Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-37977452196022977732014-01-20T14:35:00.004-05:002014-01-20T14:38:12.918-05:00Net Neutrality: Explained
Q: How would you react if told that the delivery trucks of WalMart, Exxon, UPS, McDonalds and a few others would be allowed exclusive access to the speed lane on the NYS Thruway and an 85mph speed limit? All in return for their writing an annual check of $1m to the road's owner/operator (NYS).
Furthermore -- to make the logistics and safety stats all jive -- all others would be knocked down to Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-1916840104625009362013-12-18T16:58:00.000-05:002013-12-18T16:58:31.564-05:00Radio Radio
Learn how to put a song on itunes at ReverbNation.com
Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-39286571807654706762013-11-07T11:32:00.001-05:002013-11-08T00:41:56.660-05:00Kyle York: This Wheel No Longer Squeaks
His story never seemed to jive; in my mind, at lease. He was supposedly a veteran of the NYC ad agency game, but he really didn't act like a creative type. So maybe he had a job in that industry where he needn't be. Then there he was living in one of those super-expensive condos downtown, yet his local employment in Saratoga included stints as a DPW laborer and a cab driver. A man of Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-56126450227491089062013-11-06T14:03:00.003-05:002013-11-06T14:09:43.456-05:00How can you host a free poker tournament but have real prize money?
It's magic, that's how!
What the heck; we might as well go play here to practice for when the town turns into Turning Stone in a few months. If ya can't beat 'em, you join 'em?
Besides; what else you gonna do on a Sunday: sit in Sports Bar Hell with your Giants jersey on and scream at a TV while burping up cheap chicken wings? Come on, now.
At least this one Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-23107392648701095082013-10-31T21:55:00.002-04:002013-10-31T21:57:12.969-04:00Meet a Real Life Farmer!
... and catch a movie, too!
Info and tickets here
Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-67026907189364377492013-10-31T13:48:00.001-04:002013-10-31T21:40:54.655-04:00It's Riggiween!Holy Mother of Bejeezus!
She's Back. Michelle Riggi
It's Back: Her annual Fellini-esque "Cinderella Hosts Halloween and Tosses $100 Bills to the Local Peasants" happening at her North Broadway Jersey style banquet house
They Comply: As predicted in our last post, the Saratogian bites; hook, line and sinker.
Prediction: The other local outlets will no doubt be "live and on-scene" as well.
Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-42997128235857547992013-10-25T12:33:00.000-04:002013-10-25T12:56:33.299-04:00The Empire Strikes Back: NXIVM Attacks Loudmouth CriticIt's War: Cult Unleashes Legal Army
Dirty Little Secrets = A Touchy Issue
Blogger Shuts Down Site After Search Warrant
"I've Got Nothing to Lose" Motto Put to Test
Free Media Supporters Set to Defend Rights
Well, this one woke us up out of hibernation...
John "That Blogger' Tighe heard a knock on his door Thursday morning. Upon answering, he was handed a piece of paper. From there, Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-43841249172113036022013-09-20T12:15:00.000-04:002013-09-20T12:15:04.099-04:00Tell me how, exactly?The right to vote is not without limits: felons can't vote.The right to free speech is not without limits: not with "shouting fire in a theater" and libel and copyright restrictionsThe right to practice a religion is not without limits: how would a human sacrifice ritual go over, ya think?So what self-professed and self-taught legal expert wants to tell me (again) that he or she has the Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-45085888427474997212013-09-19T11:06:00.004-04:002013-09-19T15:37:17.664-04:00Yea, Stuff is Happening Around Here This Weekend ... (Is that Willie Nelson in Clancy's?)from the news wire..
Saturday: Featuring The Infamous Stringdusters
Official Farm Aid Broadcast, After-Party at
Putnam Den
Saratoga Springs --- With Saturday's 2013 Farm Aid concert
at SPAC having quickly sold out months ago, many regional music
fans were left highly disappointed to be missing out on this
significant, one-time experience. In response, a Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-15136059179992893062013-07-15T08:09:00.001-04:002013-07-15T08:21:36.542-04:00NYRA swings (and misses) againCompare...
Del Mar's summer concert series lineup includes:
The B-52's
Steel Pulse
Sammy Hagar
Pinback
Weezer
Meanwhile, NYRA's attempt to copy their West Coast competitor's successful initiative of bringing new blood (and the right kind of new blood) to the sport consists of a single concert by...
Zendaya
(some sort of tween-pop Disney personality)
Keep up the good work, NYRA!
.Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-22396976530661060372013-07-13T11:39:00.002-04:002013-07-15T08:55:33.696-04:00150th? Shoot: I've got the 100th!From the family archives. The Saratoga Race Track (or more correctly: race course) Centennial Parade of 1963.
Enjoy...
UPDATE:
A Reader offered up this link, which is another snippet form the same parade.
.Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-22563564302349338742013-06-09T16:15:00.001-04:002013-06-09T16:19:22.650-04:00Cops, bars and cop barsAnother night, another fight in Dango's involving the Spa City's finest.
I don't know the specifics of this altercation -- all I need to know is that a) it's not the first involving the Boys in Blue; and; b) it's not the first that occurred in this particular bro-bar/meathead-hangout on the site of the former Madam Jumel's on Caroline Street.
What's weird is how police officers tendNanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-83426886365928888012013-05-28T09:43:00.001-04:002013-05-28T09:51:48.626-04:00Innovation: Interrupted
College debt : is it a problem on the economic horizon?
Here is an essay that thinks not.
But the thinking here is that the framing of this argument as it being a form of debt does not meeting the traditional qualifier of an overvalued asset is missing the bigger point: that a huge financial debt load on a young person entering the work force stifles innovation -- and thereby stifles Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-80178115529754991692013-05-26T13:06:00.001-04:002013-05-26T13:06:00.905-04:00Whoops! So it IS Affordable After All?
At least a certain contributor to a certain magazine is published as thinking so ( see link below) ...
Running
the $'s can be mind-numbing, so I don't know the validity of this
author's argument of "guess what? It IS affordable after all!"
But you an take this to the bank: the premiums in the red states WILL be
relatively higher than what has been see in the first 3 states to
publish. SoNanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-39268461413701835672013-05-21T17:31:00.000-04:002013-05-21T17:31:18.558-04:00IRS vs Tea Party
So the IRS supposedly targeted Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny, hmmm? Two points:
1. If an organization has as one of its founding planks its desire to "stop paying taxes", isn't this kind of a tip-off? Not to mention; a good place to start looking?
2. Then again, it could be viewed as the ultimate example of government waste. After all, how many Teabaggers have you met Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-41273062766134708132013-01-22T13:18:00.001-05:002013-01-22T13:18:14.528-05:00So Ya Wanna Get on the Guest List?
The POV of a Rock & Roll Show Promoter:
My floating you a Guest Pass to tonight's show should be considered a longshot, unless you qualify under at least one of the following tests:
1. You are my Current Employee
2. Your are my Current Business Partner
3. You are my Direct Family Member (as in REAL direct)
4. You are someone with whom I Slept With within the past X amount of time (Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-33254149219612560532013-01-14T16:08:00.001-05:002013-01-14T16:08:22.989-05:00WTF Dave?It doesn't matter where you stand on the 'gun' issue, but I think this question should be in play for all observers:
- What exactly does Albany County DA David Soares have to do with the gun show at the Saratoga Springs City Center? You'd think it was McArthur setting foot on the Phillipines.
Did I miss a memo about the city seceding-to or being annexed-by Albany? Maybe I'd better Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-22173689538287375842013-01-13T14:58:00.001-05:002013-01-13T14:59:20.460-05:00The Junk EraWe live in what future historians might call the Junk Era. Junk food. Junk Media. Junk housing. Junk goods. Junk news. Junk music. Junk religion. Junk TV. All of it with a goal of appealing to the lowest desires of the largest swath of consumers.
This plague has entered the intellectual arena. We now have Junk Science, junk logic, junk reason and junk politics. On the latter, this results in a Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-63879794170757325592013-01-08T12:50:00.000-05:002013-01-08T12:50:39.429-05:00Rock vs DJsA good Facebook post I just caught, from a female friend of mine who is involved in a humorous online debate over the relative creativity quotient of club DJ's. Humorous to us here at the 'burgh, at least.
"What you find personally "fulfilling" is not our concern and not really the topic here, is it? It's all art. Just like me doing my white girl dance to a jukebox is art or tapping my Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-41066788291687457202012-12-31T14:05:00.000-05:002012-12-31T14:05:07.352-05:00Happy New Year, poseurs!Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-90030507542918850222012-11-16T12:39:00.001-05:002012-11-16T12:39:25.438-05:00Breaking Up? Not So Hard To Do
This has been floating on the Book of Faces @ the inter-tube and is worthy of a share, wethinks:
Dear Red States,
So you want to secede, do you? We'll beat you to that punch.
We're ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics (like "legitimate rape") so we have decided to leave you.
We in New York intend to form our own country and we're taking the other Blue Nanoburgh?http://www.blogger.com/profile/00204181042019659769noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31271854.post-70571564428936555662012-11-09T10:28:00.001-05:002012-11-09T10:28:18.052-05:00Be There! Where? Here...Looks fun...nice seeing this as a way to support a new local business (the lady doing the catering):
EVENT INFO
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