Seven things about me you may or may not know;

1. I used to swim competitively – I swam competitively for about 13 or 14 years. YMCA swim team (Auburn Stingrays), 4yrs of High School (Auburn High School), and 1 yr of College (SUNY Morrisville). I was a distance swimmer. I once was ranked 18th in Section III (NYS) in the 500 freestyle (20 laps). Our High school team was ranked in the top 5 in New York State. My freshmen year we where ranked 1st.
2. I am/was a Band Geek – I did high school marking band for 5 years (Maroon Vanguard) and 2 years of Drum Corps (Junior Corps DCI Rochester Patriots).
3. I hate watching fake TV, I prefer documentaries or non-fiction stories – Really I love discovery channel and the science channel or TLC.  Anything that’s real.  “How They Do That”, “Dirty Jobs”, and reality TV are my favorites.
4. I am the only one in DC that voted for John McCain – Something like 93% of DC voted for Barack Obama. I guess they will see they were wrong sooner or later
5. I didn’t understand Object Oriented Programing (OOP) until my first job – It’s true! I understand it now though!
6. I wear a suit to work everyday and I am a PHP Developer - Don’t you? I work at the Library of Congress. It looks more professional and people take me more serious. I did a little unprofessional study by myself and now i will wear a suit or tie to work everyday including Friday’s.  No JEANS ever!
7. I grew up in Auburn, New York.  Home of the electric chair, Harriet Tubman, William Seward – dude he purchased Alaska home of Sarah Palin, Theodore Case – he put sound to video a thing now called movies, and many more. Oh yea, Auburn also has some of the only original Tiffany glass left in the world.

I guess that’s it.  Now it’s time to tag 7 more people.  Here they are,

1. Jill Spaeth – College Roommate at Rochester Institute of Technology (@innerspaeth)
2. Justin Thorp – Keith already tagged him but he lives two doors down so I can bug him to get it done. (@thorpus)
3. Wes – My favorite bud in Florida.  I worked with him at SONY.  You all know how much I hate Florida but I love my Wes. (@theonlyub)
4. John Croston – if you are a geek in DC you know him! (@jfcIII)
5. Andrew Wirtanen – My liberal friend from RIT. (@awirtanen)
6. Antoine Butler – Simple just a Rock Star. (@aebsr)
7. I’m going out on a limb and going to pick a the smartest business guy on the web – Jason Calacanis (@JasonCalacanis)

The rules:
1. Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

Article: http://rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/SPORTS02/711280342

Press Release1, Press Release 2

One of the local news stations back home where I grew up has some raw video and photos from amazing amounts of snow that fell this week. Some reports have put Central New York at amounts upwards of 50 inches! Yikes that’s a lot of snow. It’s been cold here in South Florida too!

“The next dance, to be held in February, will be combined with an “activity night,” with alternatives such as volleyball and badminton offered. If someone is caught “grinding,” they’ll be asked to leave the dance floor and can join another activity.”

This is just what high school’ers want to do, play volleyball with there friends on a Saturday night while all there friends are dancing. Should we be worrying about how students are dancing? I’m not sure this is an issue that our schools should be worrying about. The school system needs to focus more on education and getting kids to learn. What do you think?