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Clock For Math Geeks: Can You Figure Out The Time?
I saw this a while ago, but never got around to blogging it. It is quite easy to figure out what number is what because of the standard clock, but it is interesting to figure out. Some of the...
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On The Lot Video – Dough: The Musical
The other day, I started re-watching “On The Lot” videos and “Dough: The Musical” reminded me a lot of “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog“. Shorter and with less of a story line, but still really good....
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Pictures Of My Childhood House, No Longer My House
I have been very busy lately trying to move everything out of my childhood house because we sold it. You never really miss something until it is gone and in the past few months, I have experienced that...
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Jim Gaffigan Preview For Show Next Week; Hot Pockets!
Here is a preview of the Jim Gaffigan show I am going to a week from today. Here is a piece from his show on “Hot Pockets“. It is absolutely hilarious. Enjoy!
View ArticleBarnes And Noble Changed Escalator Directions On Me
My friend Sonya and I went to dinner at Chili’s tonight and decided to go to the Barnes and Noble next door. I started to walk up the escalator while talking to Sonya and realized that I wasn’t going...
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Dustin Pedroia Wins 2008 American League MVP
The 2008 AL MVP race was a very “close” race. People were wondering if K-Rod, A-Rod, Justin Morneau, Kevin Youkilis or Dustin Pedroia would win. It turns out that it wasn’t even close in the voting....
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Best Prank Call Ever: Telemarketer Caught In Homicide
My aunt sent this to me and I just had to share it with others. If you don’t laugh at this, than you have no sense of humor. Tom Mabe, a comedian, takes a call from a telemarketer, convinces him that...
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Verizon Workers Look At Barack Obama’s Cell Records
Verizon Wireless president made a statement today that some of the employees accessed President-Elect Barack Obama‘s cell phone records. No emails/voicemails were accessed, but the people involved were...
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Manage Your Money Trends "Mint"y Fresh
Mint is free fully functional personal budget management system. It allows you to add all your accounts into their secure system and track purchases and watch trends. I have added my checking account,...
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Kevin Youkilis Adds 2008 Jensen Award To Red Sox List
Kevin Youkilis has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Jackie Jensen Award, it was announced by the Boston Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. In addition, the Boston BBWAA...
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Jim Gaffigan Show Tonight – It’s Going To Be Awesome
In about an hour, I am going to take the T into Boston to see the Jim Gaffigan show. I talked about it last week and I was still trying to figure out who to take. I talked with my friend Heather and...
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24: Redemption == Amazing
I know that 24 Redemption premiered last night, but I was DVRing it and watched it tonight. I miss 24 a lot because of how amazing the writing actually is. You are sitting on the edge of your seat the...
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Check Mate: Armenia Retains Title At Chess Olympiad
Every two years, each country competes in the Chess Olympiad to see which country has the best chess players in the world. The Armenian chess team took the title back to back times beating China in the...
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Bush Sends Hanukkah Invitations With Christmas Tree
Way to go “Mr. President”! I know it wasn’t his mistake, but it has his and Laura‘s name on it. It turns out that someone in Mrs. Bush’s staff who sent out an invitation to American Jewish leaders for...
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First Thanksgiving Without My Father
Today was the first Thanksgiving without my father. I know that over the next months there will be a lot of first _____ without him, but it is very hard. The holidays are the time when our family, just...
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Beware Of Stores Closing After The Holidays
The economy is so bad that some of the biggest stores are closing some/all of their stores because they are losing too much money. I wanted to give everyone a heads up that if you tend to give gift...
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Lite-Brite Can Now Be Created Electronically
I was watching the movie “Elf” tonight and I saw the part where he was using Lite-Brite and it got me thinking. I remember sitting our playroom growing up using Lite-Brite for everything. We used it to...
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Facebook Grabbed The Wrong Status: I’m Not A Woman
I went on Facebook to change my status tonight and my status was set to “Timothy is loving the beautiful snowfall and trying her best to focus on her academics“. Now the fact that I am not in school...
View ArticleToday Marks Two Consecutive Year Of Blogging
I have been blogging consistently for the last two years and it has been great, but I have a feeling that some of my content has been fading a little bit. I am going to try to cut back on blogging just...
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Post-Commit Hooks With Subversion On Dreamhost
When I was working at my old job, we started using Subversion (SVN) as our versioning software which I really enjoyed. Now that I am working on my own web application, I am using SVN as well. Currently...
View ArticleScammers On Craigslist Are Fun To Mess With
Don’t be fooled by scammers on Craigslist. I was selling my 1987 Jeep Wrangler hard top on Craigslist and got a reply back from someone interested. When I sent him a reply, this is what I got. Hello,...
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OJ Simpson Sentenced To Maximum 33 Years In Prison
When you hear the name OJ Simpson, what do you think of? Some people would say a great football player…up until June 12, 1994 when he was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her...
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NESN’s Comedy All Stars: Live Taping Review
Last night I went to go see “NESN Comedy All Stars” with my best friend Kristin. This show is dedicated to sports comedy in the Boston area that is sponsored by NESN (New England Sports Network). They...
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Red Sox Meet With Mark Teixeira In Las Vegas
With time running out on making deals with Mark Teixeira, the Red Sox traveled to the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas to try and come to an agreement for 2009. The Angels have just offered the top...
View ArticleTurkish Intellectuals Apologize For Armenian Genocide
Turkish intellectuals and academics apologized for the Armenian Genocide that took place in 1915. Now this doesn’t mean that the Turkish nationalists agree and they will recognize it as a genocide...
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"Merry Christmas From Heaven"
My mother received this yesterday from the funeral home in memory of my father.
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Nintendo Wii Repairs Produce Quick Turnaround
A few weeks ago (before Christmas), I called up Nintendo to ask about how I can clean my Wii since my discs weren’t being read properly. They told me that I could send in my Wii and they would have it...
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Carly’s Christening: My Role As Godfather
My goddaughter’s Christening was held at the “St Vartanantz Armenian Church” in Chelmsford, MA on January 17th, 2009.
View Article"Her Morning Elegance" By Oren Lavie
Veronica Belmont tweeted about this video and I thought I would share it with others. It is a very creative video and I really enjoyed the cinematography.
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Should A-Rod Be Allowed In The Baseball Hall of Fame?
I will first start off by saying that as a die-hard Red Sox fan, I am going to try and keep this article as close to the facts that I can, but my dislike of Alex Rodriguez is very strong, so I...
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Obama Reverses Bush’s Ban On Funding Stem Cell Research
After eight years of the Bush era, Americans who are pro stem cell research can finally have hope that they can hold onto. President Barack Obama signed an executive order today that will reverse the...
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Hell Explained By A Chemistry Student
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. The answer by one student was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet,...
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Bye-Bye Boston, Hello Portland Maine
I just got an apartment in Portland, ME with my friend Tony. The apartment is awesome and as soon as I move completely into my new place, I will take pictures and post them. Just to give a brief...
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ArmenianEagle.com is on a New Server
Actually, it has been on a new server for 6 months but since I haven’t blogged in about 1 1/2 years, it isn’t that bad. I switched from Dreamhost (Shared hosting) which was great for my “own” server,...
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Rackspace (Server Hosting) Apologizes For Incontinence
At work, we have recently started setting up multiple “Cloud Servers” at Rackspace instead of one massive server like we currently have. I will discuss more about it later once we are fully running on...
View ArticleSetup Pound, Varnish & Apache w/ Multiple IPs & BackEnds
The following is a tutorial in setting up Pound (SSL Wrapper) that is being proxied to Varnish (Cache) which is finally proxied to Apache. This setup also allows for multiple IP Addresses (for SSL...
View ArticleUsing Varnish To Proxy Content Via Firewall
*While writing this post, I realized that Varnish has been updated to 2.1.5 (not in EPEL yet) and this configuration will now break if setup. If you have not yet setup Varnish or don’t understand the...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable Is An Awful Company
Time Warner Cable has made me very unhappy because they make money on screwing over the customer. I have had problems with my service over the past two years and they will not admit that it is their...
View ArticleJoomla, Varnish Caching, Cookies and Heavy Server Load
Recently, we (my company) took over web hosting for one of our clients. On average, they get 500,000 visits per month and a high profile suite of sites. I setup a Cloud Server Farm for the client. One...
View ArticleMy Support Ticket to Hulu
I have worked in IT as a job since 1999 and I have witnessed some of the greatest support tickets. I say greatest, because they were the worst descriptions to the problem and gave no information for us...
View ArticleBypassing Verizon’s Mobile Hotspot Provisioning System
I recently bought an iPad to help with my commute to and from work each day on the bus. I got the 4g version thinking I would buy the data plan from Verizon so I can access the Internet. However,...
View ArticleLet’s Play: Is This A Phishing Scam?
This was an email I received and I am checking to see who can spot fake emails! I’m Barbara Cole, I’m 15 years old girl I live in Bolton UK before my Dad passed away in a car accident 3 years ago, I...
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Meanwhile in Armenia
One of my friends started passing these around last year and I looked up on for Armenia. mmmm
View ArticleThe George W. Bush Presidential Library
Please Donate to the GWB Presidential Library Dear Fellow Constituent: “The George W. Bush Presidential Library” is now in the planning stages and accepting donations. The Library will include: The...
View ArticleBill Clinton Gives Epic “Talk” To DNC and Country
A transcript of former President Bill Clinton’s remarks Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, as provided by the Democratic Party: ___ We’re here to nominate a president, and I’ve got...
View Article“Spaghetti For “Miles”
One of my friends signed up for a race in CT, called “Where the Pavement Ends”. Growing up with Shel Silverstein, one of my favorite poems was “Spaghetti!” With a little research, a little boredom, and...
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Geek, Nerd, Dweeb, Dork, in a Venn Diagram
Geek, Nerd, Dweeb, Dork. Many people use these terms interchangeably, but as you can see, there is a clear difference between them. I fall into the Geek category as I have social skills! I first...
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Penguin, JUST Before Leopard Seal, Meal
A young penguin just before it swam into the the mouth of a leopard seal, in Port Lockroy, on the Antarctic Peninsula. (photographer Amos Nachoun) * Technically this is a “Food and Drink” category.
View ArticleA Pep Talk from “Kid President” to You
This is a very inspiring video about a “Kid President” who his latest video “Pep Talk” has gone viral. If only we could all look at this video and think that this will be the future of our country, and...
View ArticleHitler Parodies: Hitler Uses Git
Apparently, there is a Youtube Channel dedicated to Hitler Parodies. However, “Hitler uses Git” is hilarious if you are a developer. Below is a link to the channel videos. Enjoy!
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