‘General’ Archives
Happy St. Paddy’s Day! (Get to know your favorite Saint!)
As we approach another St. Patrick's Day I wanted to get up on my soapbox a little. This is always a touch personal for me as Saint Patrick is, obviously, my namesake. While this day has become a celebration of the Irish, of knowing someone who is Irish, wearing something green, or establishing a first name basis with the bartender at your [...]
Diet Coke is the Devil!
I believe that to be 100% true. I have worked in the Food and Beverage industry for more than 15 years. I have never seen one item in the entire pantheon of consumables that is worshiped like Diet Coke. Innumerable times I have provided individuals with more than 10 refills of Diet Coke at one meal! And 3-5 refills of Diet Coke per meal is [...]
cooliris
I just found a new plugin for Firefox which is really quite a bit of fun: cooliris. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579 It's fun just to throw all the 3D images around from the various channels. And I mean "throw around". You have a hand type cursor that allows you to wing the rows of images to the left and right. If you're [...]
Ok… movie news I can truly dig!
A guy from Uruguay scored a $30 million dollar Hollywood contract after posting a short film to YouTube! Que fantastico! Apparently Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spiderman) will produce. If this doesn't give hope to all the would be filmmakers out there, I don't know what will. Awesome is an understatement. Check out the film. It's [...]
Hi! Welcome to Savant Garde.
I have always been encouraged to write. So… here I go. This is just the baby steps. I’m just trying to get the hang of wordpress and of blogging in general. I’m not sure where this will lead. I have many passions in life. I have way too many opinions in life. I have had some pretty interesting experiences in life. I guess I hope to mesh [...]
