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Just Catching Up
It’s been more then a month since I’ve posted anything. I’m sorry – there’s been a lot going on, and LI in the Summertime is a busy place. So .. here’s the some of the things I’ve been up to: * The BrownStone Brewing Company has opened up not far from me. I’ve had a […]
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Fishing this weekend (for some of the relatives that came with me)
We went fishing for porgies again this weekend. I nabbed 6 and Rosie picked up one. The rest of the crew didn’t do so good.
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Why I use Perl
while this is compelling: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2012/05/why-i-use-perl-reliability.html, the real reason is that I haven’t found a compelling reason not to use Perl. There is little evidence that Python or Ruby do anything better then Perl. In terms of jobs, just take a look at the graph. Perl isn’t going anywhere. For all the negative comments out there […]
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Memorial Day Weekend
I’m a huge fan of three day weekends. On Saturday we went to the LI Ducks Game, featuring Gucci fireworks after the show. We kicked the Bridgeport Bluefish’s butts 15 to 5. On Sunday we shot out to Greenport LI for the Greenport Tall Ship Festival. The town closed down a number of streets for […]
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Annual Memorial Day Post – Part 1
Traditionally, I write about a local hero on Memorial Day – this year I’ve selected Army Sgt. Jason Santora U.S. Army Ranger Sgt. Jason Anthony Santora, 25, a member of the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment based in Fort Benning, Ga., died in Logar province. Santora, a Farmingville native, gave his life in the name […]
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Fishing Season on Long Island
At Last! The boats started going out at the beginning of last month! We’ve been out once already and had a super time on the Celtic Quest. We took one of the night trips and between Rosie and I, we hauled in about a dozen porgies. Here’s a post about us porgie fishing back in […]
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