Baby, it’s cold outside

The past several days in Pittsburgh have been very cold, like below-freezing cold. It was 12 degrees one morning, 7 degrees another morning, and 2 degrees another morning. However, as I was driving to the airport this morning, this is what my car registered as the outside temperature (OK, this isn’t MY car – my phone wouldn’t take a good picture, but my co-worker’s phone did). I haven't been this cold since I was last in Alaska.


When I arrived back to Utah, it was 34 degrees – only 2 degrees above freezing, and yet, 47 degrees higher than Pittsburgh. I didn’t even wear my coat…

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... in January

As you may know, I’m still in Pittsburgh this week. Today, Amanda and I decided we needed a break away from the office, so, in spite of the 15-degree temperature, icy sidewalks, and falling snow, we walked to the Oyster House for lunch. The Oyster House is a local restaurant that serves fish sandwiches the size of your face. Check out the picture! Yes, that's TWO fish fillets.


Pittsburgh still has the big Christmas tree up downtown (yes, I know it’s the 14th of January, what's your point?), so on the way back to the newspaper I thought I should take a picture of it. What’s funny is that as I was thinking about taking a picture of the tree, Amanda asked me to take her picture in front of it. What’s that they say about great minds?

I'm famous

Well, not really. I’m back in Pittsburgh, PA this week and next, upgrading the Post-Gazette to a new version of software. I’ve been to Pittsburgh several times over the past, oh, I’d say 7 years – crikey, has it really been that long? – and I’m pretty good friends with most of the people here. Anyway, my friends Ced and Tim record a podcast once a week called Tech Talk, and yesterday they asked me to join them. It was fun – we just sat around a table talking about different technology-related news articles. I’m not sure why, but Ced assigned the article about on-line dating to me… What does that mean?

You know how when you listen to your voice on a recording (video or audio) and it doesn’t sound at all like your voice sounds in your head? I know it’s me on the recording, but it doesn’t sound like what I think I sound like. OK, I’m rambling now…

So, I’m really not famous (they jokingly say they only have a 3-person listenership – is that a word? Spell check offers "listener ship" and "listeners hip" as alternatives) – but if you want to listen (it’s a little long, so you can fast forward as needed), click here: Tech Talk 01/06/09