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Written By: Randy on February 17, 2010. Posted in: Current Events, Rochester Sights, Thoughts of Substance 7 Comments
Rochester’s Broad Street

The plans to rip up Broad Street and reconstruct the original Canal Aqueduct over the river are progressing.  I’ve mentioned the plans before and I’ve always thought it was kind of a neat idea but never thought it would get anywhere.  Now that it seems to be getting some traction it deserves [...]

Written By: Randy on December 21, 2009. Posted in: Current Events, Friends, Thoughts of Substance 2 Comments

Too often we act without thinking which leads to unfortunate consequences for ourselves and for those around us.

Several months ago, two of the most influential, kind hearted teachers (Mr T & Mrs T) at my High School Alma Mater were hit head-on in a devastating Drunk Driving Car accident.  Fortunately, they both [...]

Written By: Randy on September 1, 2009. Posted in: Found on the Intarweb, Thoughts of Substance No Comments Yet

Charity Water is running another September campaign.  My birthday is in September.  I felt this appropriate.

Please Donate

It’s hard to imagine a world without clean water.  It would literally change everything you know and every behavior you have.  Water conservation wouldn’t just be about being green it would be about survival.  You wouldn’t worry about [...]

Written By: Randy on April 6, 2009. Posted in: Tech Talk, Thoughts of Substance 4 Comments
Time Warner Has a Problem

The Problem

Time Warner has a few problems.

The first and most important is their bandwidth capabilities.  As my good friend Brion mentioned recently, Bandwidth is a measurement of speed, it is NOT a measurement of consumption.  It’s a simple fact that the speed you get from Time Warner is shared and therefore even though you [...]

Written By: Randy on February 8, 2009. Posted in: Thoughts of Substance 12 Comments
Don’t Replace It

I’ve been seeing these ads a lot lately.  They sort of drive me nuts.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for helping the environment, But ads like these make people think they should replace their old plastic water bottles with new environmental friendly water bottles.

You know what helps the environment?  NOT buying products you don’t need.  [...]

Written By: Randy on January 1, 2009. Posted in: Goals, Thoughts of Substance 2 Comments

2008 for me was all about reduction, trimming the fat.  It was my best year yet.  I got rid of a lot of excess crap and simplified my life and fattened my wallet as a result. My biggest mistake, however, was I did not hold myself accountable for any goals because… I had none.

2009 will [...]



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