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2/8/2010
Jenn's Blog: I’ve Moved (3:42 PM)New and improved at jennriffle.com See you there!...
Jenn's Reviews: The Book of Eli (3:01 PM)I didn’t expect much from this movie, what with the horrible review from Entertainment Weekly and Rotten Tomatoes.com. However, the movie exceeded my expectations and I really liked the movie. Simple plot: Post-apocalyptic America. Denzel Washington is the lead as Eli. Eli has a King James Bible in his possession that he reads every night on his...
Jenn's Reviews: Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving (2:25 PM)There is nothing I like more than a long novel, with a good plot. Add in a multi-generational story, and I am hooked in. In that regard, this book did not disappoint. The simple storyline is about a father, Dominic, and his son, Daniel, and their friend Ketchum. One night, Daniel mistakes the local town’s...
2/6/2010
Matt's Twitter (2:23 PM)Cupids & Canines is CANCELLED due to weather. Will be rescheduled. http://papa.org/cupids/2010/
1/29/2010
Jenn's Reviews: Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl, Stacey O’Brien (3:48 PM)As an animal lover, I love to read books about animals. They don’t have to be about cats. They can be about dogs, cats, rabbits, wildlife, etc. When I saw this book featured on the table at Border’s, I picked it up simply on the picture alone. I guess I judged a book by its...
Jenn's Reviews: The Best of 2009 (3:33 PM)I have not reviewed most of these movies and books and probably won’t. The fact that they are on my top of the year list should be good enough. :) Now for my Top Movies of 2009, in no particular order: Note: I have not seen the following movies that are up for all kinds of...
1/28/2010
Jenn's Blog: Cats or Pigs and Vegan Cheese (7:16 PM)I don’t have a heck of a lot to say, but I do have a cute cat story to relate. Maybe its just cute to me. See, I honestly believed that I had cats for pets. They are small, they are furry, they have whiskers and they purr. They also eat cat food, watch birds and...
1/25/2010
Jenn's Blog: I’ve Been Abandoned! (6:19 PM)Yes, its true. The 21-day Vegan Kickstart Challenge officially ended on the 21st of January, and they took the content down. I thought they’d leave it up. I didn’t start on the first day because of travel and illness. But I was wrong. The first time this year. I have a few more credits, so its...
1/21/2010
Matt's Twitter (4:22 PM)If other OS X users find that Firefox italicizes all the fonts in the menus after updating to 3.6, solution found here: http://bit.ly/7lCA6Y
1/20/2010
Jenn's Blog: It’s NOT dog food or Days 6, 7, and 8 (4:32 PM)The last few days, eating wise, have not been exciting. I’ve been eating lots of salads and leftovers. We ate at Eat ‘n Park last night, where I had a veggie burger and onion rings. On Sunday, I did make one new recipe, which is the Vegetarian Swiss steak. This is a seitan based food with...
1/17/2010
Jenn's Blog: Days 4 and 5 and some great news (2:42 PM)We will start with the great news. It’s about my cat Indy. For those who don’t know, I’ll explain the problem quickly. Indy is a big, fluffy black cat, who is 14.5 years old. He always, always eats (with the exception of a 3 month stint of anorexia a few years back) and he never,...
1/14/2010
Photo Gallery: Maddie, Owen, Ginger & Coco (11:45 PM)
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Photo Gallery: Jacob (11:38 PM)
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Photo Gallery: Joey, Nick & Katelyn! (11:37 PM)
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Photo Gallery: Cats (11:16 PM)
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Jenn's Blog: My 21-Day Vegan Kickstart Challenge (6:53 PM)It’s a new year. I thought I would start it off by doing something a little different. Resolutions are boring. I mean, who doesn’t want to get fit, lose weight, get organized, etc. We all do! It’s the rare person who can claim to be all of those. I only knew that I wanted to try...
1/8/2010
Jenn's Blog: Not Shooting From the Hip (5:24 PM)I’ve been experiencing hip pain for about three years now. It first became apparent during training for the Gasparilla Tampa Bay marathon, which was held in February of 2007. But I would just rest and then be able to run. Only a few times has it affected my ability to run regularly. The first being...
Matt's Twitter (12:42 PM)RT @alyankovic With everything else he has to do, I&;m amazed that @BarackObama can find the time to follow over 743,000 people on Twitter.
Matt's Twitter (12:41 PM)There are an infinite number of things to say, once you free yourself from the arbitrary restriction of making sense.
12/16/2009
Matt's Twitter (4:28 PM)Mystery chocolate is still chocolate. It's uncool, though, when assortments don't include a map of what's what.
12/7/2009
Matt's Twitter (6:23 PM)You know you watch too much Forensic Files when you check any hairs that fall out to see if they still have the root.
12/6/2009
Matt's Twitter (11:43 PM)Travel rule : if you drive up to your hotel/motel and the sign is advertising "Color T.V." -- just drive on by and stay somewhere else.
12/1/2009
Photo Gallery: Ben & Sydney (10:38 PM)
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11/27/2009
Matt's Twitter (12:00 AM)RT @alyankovic Decided to celebrate Thanksgiving the traditional way this year (i.e. handing out smallpox blankets to the natives).
11/16/2009
Matt's Twitter (9:02 PM)A sad day -- Ken Ober has gone "off the air" for good. :(
11/13/2009
Matt's Twitter (11:06 AM)RT @gtdguy Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them.
11/11/2009
Jenn's Blog: Spirit of Pittsburgh Half Marathon 2009 (Inaugural) (5:05 PM)It was a dark and stormy night. Okay, not stormy, but it was dark and cold and night when I woke up on the first day of this November, to run this race. Oh, I was so tempted to stay in bed. The temperature: 37. Brrr …. really, that’s too cold even for early November. But...
11/10/2009
Matt's Twitter (7:12 PM)I guess Stephen King is too big to need jacket copy now?
11/8/2009
Matt's Twitter (3:01 PM)An extremely well-thought out article about "social news" in light of the Ft Hood tragedy. http://bit.ly/3cPDm6
11/6/2009
Matt's Twitter (1:07 PM)Never bring a spatula to a lightsaber fight. http://twitpic.com/oi000
10/30/2009
Matt's Twitter (4:54 PM)The Spirit Of Pgh 1/2 marathon should be glad its date/location are great, or its horribly mismanaged packet pickup would be a deal-killer.
Jenn's Twitter (10:35 AM)Drove 55 in a 40 zone, yet passed by 5 other cars. How much faster did they want me go? It was already highly illegal.
10/27/2009
Photo Gallery: Kayla (11:20 PM)
Recent album activity (8 new items). Visit Kayla...
Photo Gallery: 10th Anniversary Party (11:19 PM)
Recent album activity (9 new items). Visit 10th Anniversary Party...
Jenn's Twitter (9:14 PM)Wonders where all the Peanuts' parents are? Maybe if they were around, Charlie Brown could get a break?
10/23/2009
Matt's Twitter (11:44 AM)Amelia has a lower Tomatometer rating than Saw 6. It's 3% above The Stepfather though, so even if Swank's Oscar chance is gone, there's that
10/22/2009
Jenn's Reviews: Julie & Julia, Julie Powell (5:01 PM)I really wanted to like this book. I read it when half asleep on my flight to Kauai, when I wasn’t sleeping. I thought once I landed and had some sleep it would get better. But it didn’t. I must explain why I didn’t like it. I expected this to be a book all about cooking...
Jenn's Reviews: Homer’s Odyssey, Gwen Cooper (4:43 PM)Sometimes, the unexpected turns out to be the best gift ever. That summarizes this book perfectly. Many of us multi-pet owners have animals we didn’t go searching for, but instead, they found us. And it happened to Gwen Cooper. We first meet Homer as a little three week old kitten, who was taken to the veterinary...
10/21/2009
Matt's Twitter (9:38 AM)I now own every cool Mac writing app: Scrivener, Story Mill, Ulysses, WriteRoom, myTexts, Mellel, Schreiben. Maybe I should write something.
10/11/2009
Jenn's Reviews: Lost & Found, Jacqueline Sheehan/Good Grief, Lolly Winston (11:18 PM)Two books. Same underlying premise. But very different. The premise being woman’s husband dies, she has grief and the way to get over that grief is to move north, get a simpler job and fall in love again. Jacqueline Sheehan’s Lost & Found takes place in Peak’s Island, Maine, where the protagonist, Rocky, a psychologist, moves...
10/10/2009
Matt's Twitter (12:03 PM)Sorry sliced bread, but the saying is now "The greatest thing since Nugo Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip bars." http://j.mp/4ot3yg
9/23/2009
Matt's Reviews: The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown (11:08 PM)With The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown supplants James Patterson (*) as king of what I call the “popcorn books” — books that work best when read straight through in as few sittings as possible, with no reflection on what’s come before as you plow ahead. Whether you’ll like the book or not depends on how...
9/21/2009
Matt's Reviews: Kauai – Adventures (9:50 PM)I recently returned from a vacation on Kauai, one of the islands of Hawaii. I’ll be doing a series of posts reviewing the places we went and the things we did, to help out the next person who comes along trying to Google them, as I had before we left. :) Today, it’s...
Jenn's Blog: One Beautiful Island, Part 3 (2:31 PM)One of the problems with blogging about something that happened in the past is that you tend to lose of the detail. I’ll try to remember the important things as I go. Fortunately, two of the last four of our days were relatively low key. MONDAY: We went on the Kilohana Plantation Hike. This is the same...
9/19/2009
Photo Gallery: Kauai 2009 (3:20 PM)
Recent album activity (93 new items). Visit Kauai 2009...
Jenn's Twitter (2:22 PM)being on Hawaiian Standard Time is great in Hawaii ... in Pennsylvania... not so much.
9/15/2009
Youtube: Kauai Plantation Railway (1:16 AM)
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9/14/2009
Jenn's Blog: One Beautiful Island, Part 2 (3:04 AM)Thursday was a mellow-er day for us. We were up early again, around 7:00. Not sure if I like that or not. I am not pleased with being sleepy at 8:30 at night. But I am happy that we are still awaking so early, because if we became night people here, well, our...
9/12/2009
Youtube: Ziplining Matt (3rd Person View) (3:26 AM)
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Youtube: Ziplining Jenn (3:19 AM)
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Youtube: Ziplining Matt (1st Person View) (3:13 AM)
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9/1/2009
Jenn's Twitter (6:36 PM)I've had a little faith restored in humanity today.
Jenn's Twitter (1:31 PM)It turns out that running in walking shoes is not a good idea.
8/30/2009
Jenn's Reviews: Ponyo (10:19 PM)I have to admit right off that I am a big fan of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. They are responsible for such films as Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. I am always excited to hear about a new release. And Ponyo did not disappoint me in the least. It is a retelling of...
Jenn's Reviews: Introduction (9:56 PM)This is where I will be reviewing things. This blog started after stating a desire that I would like to be a professional book reviewer. I don’t know how to go about doing that, but in the meanwhile, I’ll blog here. I’ll be blogging about movies, books, cat products and the occasional “CD” or household good. Thanks...
8/29/2009
Matt's Reviews: G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra (3:55 PM)Let’s face it: you probably already know if you want to see this film or not. Go with your first instinct. End of review. Oh, you’re still here? Okay, here’s something else — if you’re a child of the 80s and you hated what they did with Transformers, then skip this movie. If you were at least...
8/28/2009
Jenn's Twitter (6:35 PM)Did the world stop spinning? I received a phone call from the handyman. Of course, I wasn't home, but hey, its a start!
Jenn's Twitter (12:18 AM)Why won't service pros return my calls?Thought it was recession and they need business. Not mine, apparently.
8/23/2009
Matt's Reviews: The Birthing House – Christopher Ransom (1:25 PM)The Birthing House is the debut horror novel from Christopher Ransom, a writer whose promise shines through about the first two-thirds of the book, after which it falls apart a bit. The setup is compelling — let me just quote from the inside jacket copy: Conrad and Joanna Harrison, a young couple from Los Angeles, attempt to...
8/17/2009
Matt's Reviews: Ponyo (12:37 AM)Ponyo is the new film by anime master Hayao Miyazaki, director of such films as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle. It offers Miyazaki’s own unique take on the old Little Mermaid story. The story in a nutshell involves Ponyo, a little girl who is more like a fish (the humans refer to her...
8/15/2009
Jenn's Twitter (12:10 PM)Real summer finally arrives. Just in time to start marathon training. Goody.
8/11/2009
Youtube: Jungle Fever - Tiger Style (Part II) (10:56 PM)
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Youtube: Jungle Fever - Tiger Style (Part I) (10:54 PM)
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Photo Gallery: Las Vegas 2009 (10:46 PM)
Recent album activity (36 new items). Visit Las Vegas 2009...
8/2/2009
Youtube: Baby Sea Lion at the Pittsburgh Zoo. (11:50 PM)
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Youtube: Frollicking Sea Otters (11:47 PM)
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Youtube: Extreme Tail Wagging (11:45 PM)
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7/31/2009
Photo Gallery: Pittsburgh Zoo 2009 (10:10 AM)
Recent album activity (96 new items). Visit Pittsburgh Zoo 2009...
Photo Gallery: IMG_2954.JPG (9:57 AM)
New photo added to Penguins Can Paint.
7/29/2009
Jenn's Twitter (2:36 PM)I am downloading Turbulence Training Vegetarian Meal Plans while fighting off a migraine. Where's my inner ninja?
7/21/2009
Jenn's Twitter (6:44 PM)I was able to get earbuds to stay without holding them in. Then I moved. Who uses those things anyway?
7/15/2009
Photo Gallery: IMG_3309 (12:14 AM)
New photo added to Seattle 2009.
7/6/2009
Jenn's Twitter (11:45 PM)Wondering if, should the need ever arise, I could outrun someone in low rider pants, even while wearing flip flops.
6/19/2009
Jenn's Twitter (3:31 PM)Something everyone can do: http://www.supportmfm.org/
6/10/2008
Youtube: Insanity at Stratosphere (6:21 PM)
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Youtube: XScream at Stratosphere (5:43 PM)
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11/15/2006
Youtube: Ted and Morgan Get Down (6:50 PM)
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