This week, I have officially finished my first stint as an Adjunct Faculty at the Pittsburgh Technical Institute. So I’m sort of a teacher now. Like. Officially. It was an interesting line of events that started with a question on the sidelines of our summer softball league and led to teaching three classes of two […]
Jumped Off a Perfectly Good Wharf…
In 2010, I was talked into doing something incredibly stupid to start the New Year. I came back for 2011. And 2012. And never looked back. Well a little bit. I was questioning this year’s Polar Plunge off the Mon Wharf on New Year’s Day. It would be my fourth. I was a little sick […]
Nope. Don’t Need That iPad Upgrade…
One of the toughest things about being an Apple fan is that pressure to upgrade. Apple is always great at making that thing you got last year seem even older. But I told myself to hold out on the iPad, because I took it as more of a computer than a device like my iPhone. […]
Aunt Bee is a Model for our Older Generation…
I was watching an episode of the Andy Griffith Show up here in New York on my blizzard-rescheduled holiday vacation. It was the episode where Aunt Bee was talked into buying a car for herself so she didn’t have to bother Andy for a ride anywhere. She was and older lady finally learning how to […]
Old Media/Social Media throw down at the Post Gazette
From the Sorgatron Media Newsletter from October 4, 2012. Wednesday evening, I had the fortune to record another Evening with Podcamp for Podcamp Pittsburgh. This one was a panel by news people in the Pittsburgh area involved in social media including Kim Lyons and Mila Sanina of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Scott Beveridge of the Observer-Reporter, Scott Harbaugh of WPXI, and […]