10 Things I Miss About South Carolina
This past weekend I took a wonderful trip back to South Carolina for some R&R. I’m also about to be a first time uncle as my younger brother is about to have his first child. I thought it was scary enough when my younger brother got married before me, but now he’s about to have a kid. I remember back when I used to drive him to school every day or even further back when we used to play Contra in the yard squirting evil alien bushes with our water guns! Man I’m OLD! So while I was home I started tweeting “Things I miss about South Carolina.” This list built to ten things so just in case you missed out, here was my list. The warm weather, even the humidity. How cheap everything is, especially food and clothes (yes, I went clothes...
Wildside: 80’s Hair Metal Brought Back to Life
Last weekend one of my coworkers at HubSpot’s band was playing out in Waltham. What a great opportunity to support a coworker and listen to some live music! To top it off they are an 80’s hair metal cover band! That’s right lots of AC/DC, GNR, Bon Jovi and the rest of the great tunes of that decade. So if you are in need of a Boston area 80’s rock cover band you should definitely check out Wildside! Don’t believe me check out these short videos I took of the action. The Wildside of Boston Some GNR...
Now is the Future: Streaming Online Video
A while back I wrote about the differences between living in the country and the city. I think it’s time to start expanding on some of those changes living in the city represents. The first change is the availability of FiOS high speed internet. My apartment is wired with the ability to use FiOS internet, which means lightning quick 20Mbps. Needless to say it is much faster than anything I’ve had before! With this extreme speed there are a lot of things I can do with my internet connection. For example, I have the ability to watch high quality streaming video. Hulu, MLB.TV, ESPN360 and YouTube have all been great to watch through the internet connection, but the most enjoyable by far has been Netflix! Netflix has multiple subscriptions but their...