The Armenian National Anthem

sung by the students of St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School of Watertown, MA Tonight was the graduation ceremonies for my nephew and their rendition of “mer hayrenik” was quite moving so I thought I’d share it.

Lasagna (a possible recipe)

1 Box Lasagna Noodles (pick a brand)
1 lb of lean ground beef
a few cloves of garlic (to your tolerance)
olive oil
2 28oz cans from crushed tomatoes
Some fennel (maybe 2 pinches)
Salt
Pepper
Oregano
Basil
Cayenne Pepper
1 big jug of Ricotta Cheese
1 egg
about a 1/4 cup of dry parsley
brick of Mozzarella Cheese
Parmesan Cheese
Sauce making hint:  I don’t give exact amounts of spices [...]

Reviews of my book…

AHS/Arlington Food Pantry 5K run

Today we took part in the AHS/Arlington Food Pantry 5k Run
As the article in the link above points out, the guys in the AP history class did this as a final project to raise awareness for a local charity.  Other teams are doing other events and concerts for the rest of the month.  Although Daniel [...]

Canobie Lake…

Visited Canobie Lake Amusement Park yesterday.  We had our 2 and their 2 cousins along with us.  It was a great day.  The kids got soaked, we enjoyed the hot sun and ended the day with a great meal at the Chateau Restaurant in Andover…

The Flume was great also:
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Startups and the Cloud

If you want to know what was happening minute by minute, please go search the twitter hashtag #SandCloud.  There are pictures, video and commentary there…
That being said there were some interesting things I listened to today:
1) Scott Cook’s take on creating a startup…he had an especially poignant story on having to let employees in his [...]

A rabbit in my backyard…

So I was looking outside my window this morning and I saw the neighborhood rabbit…this is probably the 3rd sighting for me and on this overcast day, watching him chewing on tall grass in my backyard I got all philosophical.   Several thoughts popped in my head…
1) Maslow…wondering if this rabbit is self-actualizing…
2) What a life, [...]

Second life…I’ll stick to my first life…

So over the past couple of weeks I’ve played with “Second Life“.  How did I get in there?  I saw that a LinkedIn contact had connected his LinkedIn profile and his second life profile.   So being the type that will try anything once, I signed up, downloaded the software and created my avatar.  Being a [...]