Blue Line? Green Line? Red Line? Orange Line? Gray Line? Where is the White Line or Black Line or Fuchsia Line?! Read the rest of this entry »

1. Fenway Park is an amazing stadium. Period. So much history, so much awesomeness.

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This is the story of how a t-shirt with one word on it awarded thousands of Clevelanders and others, pizza for only 23 cents. Were you daring enough to stand in line?

Wiz’s Haywood says LeBron should stop complaining about rough play

CLEVELAND — Overrated hasn’t worked. Now one of the Washington Wizards is calling LeBron James another name: Crybaby.
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“I mean, come on man, this is the playoffs,” [Brendan] Haywood said following Monday’s practice. “He wears 23, he wants to be Michael Jordan, I can respect that, he’s a great player. You saw what Mike went through. Mike got fouled way worse than this. No one is trying to hurt him, everybody is trying to play basketball, trying to play tough. Play basketball and leave it alone.”

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Are you really that surprised?

January 31, 2008

Second Best: January

February 1, 2008

February 2, 2008

Everyone thought my previous self-portrait, although very well done artistically, was somewhat angry or sad. Therefore, I set out to do something happy, funny, something not so angry.

Although the photo didn’t turn out as well as I would have hoped, it is a start, and is definitely not angry. I decided to include Little Foot in the photo with me, he makes everything and everyone happy! He told everyone that is viewing this photo that he is available for other photo shoots that you may use him in. However, he does charge a lot…I mean, he is a famous movie star!

Let me tell you a story. Every Saturday, I work at the Cafe at Nordstrom. Every Saturday the day goes by without a story to tell. Today, was not the case.

I remember little, as I was told that I turned into a 10-year old with his mouth wide open, but I will try and relay as much as I do remember. I was behind the counter, as I normally am, when I saw a large crowd entering the cafe. Then before I knew it, I heard someone say, “Hey LeBron.” I think this is when my mouth hit the floor…of the First Level. (FYI, we are on the Third Level.) The LeBron James had just entered the Cafe that I work at!

I looked up to him, yes, everyone must look up to him, he is ginormous. He is younger than me, and yet, he seems to be twice the size of me! Crazy! At this point, everyone from the back of the house, front of the house and customers, were all around, including his entourage. This man commanded the room just by walking in it, how cool is that?

He ordered a Nantucket Nectar bottled juice and a muffin, to go. It was I believe a Half-And-Half, and was definitely a blueberry muffin. Confusion arose over where we were ringing him out and bagging up his stuff. I might have bagged up his stuff, I don’t remember, but I do remember beginning to ring him up. I was handed $10 from my assistant manager, who received it from LeBron, when our head manager told LeBron it was on the house. He took his muffin, beverage and entourage and left the cafe, allowing everyone to exhale.

My head manager then said to me, and the assistant manager, “You were going to charge, LeBron?” Well yes, we were, because he makes more than all of us combined, but it was his call, and so it was on the house. After that, everyone conversed about the man who walked in our Cafe only for a few minutes, but made an everlasting impression on all of us.

What a day at the Cafe at Nordstrom in Beachwood, OH. It is one that I will never forget, even if my mouth has only begun to come off the floor. Thanks LeBron!

Wow, I did not realize how far behind I was in uploading the A Photo A Day photos to my blog. Some have been uploaded here and there to my Flickr account, but there are a lot that need to be shown here. Unfortunately, since there are so many, I will not be writing any stories, I will just marking the months!

Here are the end of October, Second Best October and all of November! Enjoy!

End of October

A product shot of my new hot chocolate maker. What a cool little toy…

Do you see it? Do you see it!?!? That one pumpkin killed the other pumpkin…how sad.

What else are you supposed to do when you are stuck in traffic? Drive?

Second Best: October

Chagrin Falls, gotta love it. I took this picture after I went to work and then realized I had Columbus Day off. Great surprise, even though I already drove 45 min to work and had to drive 45 min back home!

I will always love traffic signs.

I was at the last good thing the Indians did this year, Game 4 of the ALCS, where they won. It was a great season, just hope that next year we can go all the way! It’s Tribe Time Now!

One of the few “Modern Masters” images I could take. I went with mom on a Friday after work. Lots and lots of artwork…I think maybe even too many. Lucky I got this shot in, as another CMA employee told me no photos at all, after one said I could take some. Weird.

This was taken in Burton, OH before we picked out our pumpkins for Halloween, one of my MOST favoritist holidays!! [/sarcasm] Haha. Honestly though, this is probably one of my most-recent favorites!

November

Every once and awhile I run out of ideas and you end up with crazy photos like this. However, it does include me so it has to be cool…

Nature is awesome, what more can I say?

The last High School Football game that I went to this season, a first round playoff game. North Royalton Wildcats vs Solon Comets. We won. Then we went on to lose to Mentor, what a shock! At least we scored some points this time…

There were rumors around town that the large LeBron billboard hanging across from The Q was taken down, but no one knew what was put in its place. Now everyone does: a new LeBron billboard. I am not complaining.

When you take A Photo A Day, you start looking for random items around the house, and sometimes you find squishy cows…what can I say?

“First snowfall” on an off-year election, what great timing. However, here is a photo highlighting the weather and well, the night. It really is getting dark earlier now that we changed our clocks back!

Whoa, look at that clean bathroom…and that good looking guy in the mirror! This photo is a follow-up to my dirty bathroom image, where the bathroom was a HUGE mess.

It is Fall/Autumn, and leaves fall often. This was the sight on our back porch one evening…

iTunes Visualizations have always intrigued me. Their so perty!

A Saturday night, a bottle of wine, no wonder the photo is a little crooked!

One night I had taken a picture of my laptop at a distance, with the lights off and just the power cord glowing. It was a cool picture, but it lost out to the pumpkin eating the other pumping which I posted above. I am glad it did. Out of the most recently posted photos, this is one of my favorites. I can’t explain it, I just like it!

A lot of the time when I go to bed, this will be on my computer screen and I will say, “I really should take a picture of this.” Well, two nights ago, I did just that. I am part of the Einstein@Home project for physics, and this is the screensaver that is associated with it. I am not sure what everything means, but it looks cool!

Yesterday evening all I wanted was Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. That is all. Instead, I got lost, got stuck in an accident for 30 min and didn’t even get the game! The accident pictured above is the reason I got home at 7:15 after leaving the office at 5:30. Awesome. Hopefully I will be able to find the game sometime soon…

So first, let me thank you for making it through all of these photos. Hopefully you have enjoyed them, and the little stories attached. Look for more photos very soon! A Photo A Day has become an integral part of my day and even me, that I don’t see it ending anytime soon! Thanks!

It seems as though I enjoy doing bulk updates of my A Photo A Day photos, instead of simply uploading one each night. This way, I am able to add my comments and enlighten you as to the stories behind each photo, instead of just giving you the photo. Look for more bulk uploads in the future.

Friday night football between the Strongsville Mustangs and the Solon Comets that took place on a Thursday night. I believe it was on a Thursday not because of a Jewish holiday (I would know, I am Jewish), but because it was the Game of the Week and on TV. Solon won 24-14, knocking Strongsville out of the playoffs and propelling Solon to a final 8-2 record and home field advantage in the first round.

I am a dork. If you didn’t know this you have no idea who I am or you just haven’t been paying attention. On Friday at 6 pm, Apple released their new operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, 10.5, and being an Apple Dork, I had to go over there right at 6 to see all of the festivities. I did this for the iPhone, which was much more hyped and mainstream, and now did it for Leopard.

The minute I heard that free t-shirts would be handed out, I knew I would be there. Unfortunately, I didn’t really get to stand in line because of work, but I did have a stand-in. My mom went over, braved the rain, and other nice Apple dorks, and was able to get me and herself a nice t-shirt. Her’s is opened and most likely washed at this point. Mine is still in the bag and will most likely stay that way until forever. Who knows, down the road I might need some extra cash and now will be able to obtain it by selling that mint-condition Apple Leopard t-shirt.

This picture was actually my mom’s idea, as a last second thought, as we were headed to Bar Louie for a great dinner!

Sometimes you just have to find things, or pets, around the house to take pictures of. This is the family dog, Sammie, as she lyes down on my bed, most likely asleep. Isn’t she adorable? I think so.

At Beachwood Place the Sunday before Halloween it is Trick-Or-Treat day or so I found out. My mom and I were simply going to the mall for lunch and to look for a nice winter jacket. Instead, we were greeted by princes and princesses and many other costumed youngins. Sunday’s A Photo A Day is taken from the second floor the young Halloween goblins were dancing to Radio Disney. Oh and I didn’t find a jacket…yet.

I have been keeping up with taking the pictures, I just haven’t kept up with writing about them. Here are 6 photos, from the last 6 days…including a photo from Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, pitting the Boston Red Sox against the hometown favorite Cleveland Indians. And oh yeah, I must note that for the first time, last night, I fell in racquetball to my mom. She won, fair and square, and therefore I must give her her dues. Anyways, here are the photos…

The day after the Cleveland Indians defeated the New York Yankees to advance to the American League Championship series, I noticed this flag across the street from my office. GO TRIBE.

A week and a day ago, I went to the Solon High School football game with my dad. I took my camera, hoping to snap that day’s photo. I took a good amount photos, with there being at least one that could be become Friday’s photo. The game was a blow-out, and so dad and I called mom, who had dropped us off and done some errands, to come back and take us home.

That night, I was having some friends from college in from out of town. They were coming in late, so I went to lye down and watch tv. I decided to rest instead of look at tonight’s football pictures. The photos remained on the card, and in the camera. That was a mistake.

The next day, I hung out with my out of town guests, and my girlfriend. It was great for everyone to hang out together, see the city and do some shopping. Yes, even though I am a guy, I really don’t mind shopping! Ha. Anyways, after the shopping we came back to the house to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, that was the “reason” my friends were in from out of town. After getting all situated, we went in the background to decorate the Sukkah with apples, corn husks, fake fruit, and newly designed paper plates.

I took out my camera to take pictures of my friends, and the sukkah. As I normally do on a new photo day, I erased all the old images. At that point, I had no idea what I did, and went on taking pictures. I took more photos that evening, and the next day when my friends and I took a walk to the ponds right down the street. There, we fed the ducks old popcorn and stale bread. The fish loved it, and then eventually the ducks did too.

My friends left in the early afternoon, and I went to shower and just crash. Later that night, I decided I would go through the photos from the weekend, and start choosing each A Photo A Day. I attached the camera to the computer and started importing. Upon completion, I noticed some photos missing. I looked on the camer, same thing. I had then realized what I had done, and started to cry and scream. Up until that point, I had no idea much this project meant to me.

That Saturday afternoon, when I erased the old photos on the camera, I erased all the football photos from Friday night, since I was lazy, and decided not to look at them that night. They were gone, and I had no photo for Friday’s A Photo A Day. I had worked on this project for 5 months, and it almost came crashing down in front of me. I searched the internet high and low for any program that would restore data off a camera card. There were a few, but none of them were truly free.

Sunday, and Monday, I tried out these programs, hoping, praying, that one of them would find just one photo from Friday night; didn’t matter if it was blurry, clear; interesting or boring. I just needed one photo from that night. Monday, since I was working late, and having no luck, I was forced to take a picture on the card I was trying to restore. I told myself I could only take one picture, as to not overwrite any old images, however, I took 2, of my sister’s room. The photos turned out slightly dark, but I still had a photo for Monday. That night, Monday, I stayed up past 1 a.m. trying to find just one program that would bring my old images back to life. It was taxing, and almost left me hopeless.

MediaRecover, the main program I tried and paid $30 for, recovered a ton of photos, old ones and new ones. However, the old ones were corrupt JPEGs. I couldn’t get any image editing program to open them. I started to believe, this project, A Photo A Day, was over. However, I started to search for programs that could un-corrupt corrupt JPEG files. In that search, I found the greatest program known to man, PhotoRescue.

This program gave me hope that one photo, from that Friday night would be found, as it was viewing photos that no other program saw. I used the program to save an image of the card, and then the next day, Tuesday, at work, I scanned it. PhotoRescue found approximately 4-6 images from that Friday night, all of the band. I was hoping for actual football photos, but at this point, beggars couldn’t be choosers. Later that night, after playing tennis with the mom and taking a photo for Tuesday, I spent another $30, and had my photo for Friday, September 28.

A Photo A Day had lived on. The project would not stop at 5 months, but would continue on, for at least a little while longer. I would be the judge of when A Photo A Day would end. The fact that I was so upset when I realized I had deleted photos from that Friday night, says a lot. The fact that I paid $60 for two programs to recover one image says a lot. This is my project, and I love doing it…I just hope everyone loves looking at the photos.

Speaking of photos, onto them. Below are all the photos, including the infamous Friday night image, as well as the bedroom image that had to be taken. A Photo A Day has returned, so look for more regular updates.

Friday, September 28 – The Football Shot

Saturday, September 29

Sunday, September 30

September’s Second Best

Monday, October 1 – The Bedroom Shot

Tuesday, October 2 - Rescheduled Tennis Night

Wednesday, October 3 – Simcha Torah (Sp?)

Thursday, October 4 – Cleveland Indians ROMP New York Yankees in Game of the ALDS

Friday, October 5 – Cleveland Indians come from behind to beat the New York Yankees, 2-1, in BugGate

Thank you for reading, and viewing. I hope you continue to return, A Photo A Day can only get bigger and better.

Stay dry.