Today’s New York Sports Trivia
By Brian | August 14, 2008
Q:Now that Brett Favre has been traded to the Jets, when will we start seeing New Yorkers walking around with Jets jerseys that have a #4 on them and say “Favre” on the back?
A: Today. Rockefeller Plaza. 9:15AM.
NOTE: Yet another case of “damn, I wish my cell phone had a camera on it…”
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The Beijing Olympics – a never ending source of stupid controversy
By Brian | August 13, 2008
Man…every time I think I’ve done my last post on a quasi-controversy coming out of the Summer Olympics, something new comes up.
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President Bush gets spiked by volleyball team, media
By Brian | August 13, 2008
Jason Bennion directed my attention to these two
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More Fakery in the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
By Brian | August 12, 2008
Just yesterday, I posted about how some of the fireworks in the Olympic opening ceremony were computer generated for television.
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Calling Out Our Leaders on Oil & Gas
By Brian | August 11, 2008
Oh, for a politician who understands the financial markets…
Back in mid-July, President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling
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Familygreenberg.com Health Check – July Edition
By Brian | August 11, 2008
| Metric | June | July | % Change |
| Visits | 1,140 | 2,196 | +92.63% |
| Pageviews | 1,800 | 3,724 | +106.89% |
| Pages/Visit | 1.58 | 1.70 | +7.40% |
| Avg Time on Site | 1:21 | 1:17 | -5.00% |
| Bounce Rate | 82.89% | 74.86% | -9.69% |
| % New Visitors | 89.56% | 87.11% | -2.73% |
Now that I’ve lived through the dark times where my blog wasn’t functional at all, I’m happy to return to my regular self-indulgent feature, the monthly Health Check. If you are not so happy, I totally understand. These are mainly for me, although I suspect there are a few out there who are geek-nation enough to read it anyway.
That said, I can’t help but be pleased with the July stats. Granted, the bar was a low one to jump over, since I hardly blogged at all in June, but I hasten to note that Visits, Pageviews, Pages per Visit and Average Time on Site are all at the highest levels since I began tracking this kind of thing back in May, 2007. Bounce rate is also at its lowest level ever, so not only are more of you visiting, more of you are staying. All of which is, of course, awesomely gratifying.
What was it Sally Field once said? “You like me! You really like me!”
(NOTE: The truly hard core will realize that my other monthly feature, “How People Found Me” did not return this month. That’s because it took me until the 11th day of the month to get the stats together, and by now, the Google results are all stale. Suffice to say, Billy Joel queries are up, given that he performed in July and I blogged about it extensively. Also, there were almost 100 different ways that people Googled “can’t get into Webkinz” and wound up at my site. I’m a public service to those with small children & lots of hi-tech stuffed animals. So proud. So proud. Next month – full-fledged self-indulgence. I promise!!!)
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Fireworks that are really fake (or fakely real)…
By Brian | August 11, 2008
This story raises those kind of technology vs. morality questions that we see quite often these days, as our ability to do things gets ahead of our laws deciding what we should or shouldn’t do.
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Jason Lezak Enables NBC to Continue Hyping Michael Phelps
By Brian | August 11, 2008
I’m not what you’d call a swimming fan, watching the sport only during the Summer Olympics, but what Jason Lezak did yesterday (last night? this morning? the timezones here are confusing enough to drive Doctor Who insane) was amazing regardless of whether you’re a fan or not.
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Billy Joel Confirms Location of “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” Restaurant
By Brian | August 8, 2008
There was a fantastic Italian restaurant on 57th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan called La Fontana di Trevi
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Produce Peripherals
By Brian | August 6, 2008
After extensive research (the last 5 minutes), I’ve reached this (heretofore unreported) conclusion:
If you have a banana with lunch and leave that banana on your desk right next to your mouse, you will grab the banana and move it around the desk expecting the screen’s cursor to move.
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