• @embly917 Sleep-tweeting? Well, there's a side effect you never hear about in the ads! in reply to embly917 #
• @munchcast It's definitely the salad spinner. in reply to munchcast #
• Just looked at Apple's stock price for first time since I got back from Hampton Roads. Wow, very nice! #

• It's often more interesting watching people look at art than looking at the actual art. #
• It doesn't seem possible that more junk could come out of the basement yet it does and it still looks full! #
• This precipitation would be much more pleasant if it were snow. #
• Carried all my Christmas decorations up from the basement today. Not getting an early start, just cleaning & purging. Gotta love a snow day. #
• My sister Tami e-mailed me to say happy birthday. I don't have a sister named Tami nor is it my birthday, but it's the thought that counts. #

• Embracing my Irish side by seeing "The Irish & How They Got That Way" at the Kimmel Center. Skipping V-Day and going right to St Patrick's! #
• The show (The Irish and how they got that way) was really good. Fast paced & entertaining whether you're Irish or not! http://bit.ly/cjs3Mp #
• That Ted Turner cooks up one tender bison filet. #
• Came home from Atlantic City with slightly more thhan I went with. What a unique occurrence. #
• RT @NBCOlympics: "After 2nd Olympic gold, Shaun White's new goal-get new nickname: http://nbco.ly/bjR8Xw" – Flying Tomato was much catchier. #
• RT @rozsavage: "Americans born after 2000 have a 1 in 3 chance of early onset diabetes. Minority groups? 1 in 2 chance. How scary is that?" #

The medals being presented at the Vancouver Winter Games have the distinction of being “first” in several ways. It’s the first time they aren’t flat. These medals are of an undulating design. Basically, that means they look wrinkled. Personally, I’m still not sure if i like that feature or not.

They also are the first medals that aren’t all the same. Each medal is etched with a randomly cropped portion of a piece of Canadian First Nation artwork representing orca whales.

However, the part that most caught my attention is the fact that the Vancouver medals have technology in them, but not in the way that you think. They don’t have chips in them. They actually have old technology items in them! Some of the metal used to mint the medals came from recycled e-waste. E-waste is a huge problem. I deal with it at work and at home. Old computer equipment and electronics build up at an astounding rate. I know that recycling a small amount of gold, silver and copper and reusing it in Olympic medals isn’t exactly going to solve the problem, but it’s nice to see an opportunity to better publicize the issue. I’m just sorry that I haven’t seen more about this in the media coverage or even on the VANOC website.

You can read more about this on Bloomberg. You can also take a look at all of the past Olympic medals at the IOC site.

I’m finally catching up tonight on watching all the Olympic events that are recorded on my DVR. Some of the things I’m watching are the downhill which featured some spectacular crashes that hurt just watching them. Then I watched the snowboard half-pipe finals where the American women seem to keep crashing.

After watching these athletes work through injuries and wondering how they persevere, I then read about this German luger who broke a tooth biting his silver medal. I guess it takes a special kind of guy to hurtle down an ice track at 90 mph on a tiny sled. The type of special guy that would chomp into a hunk of medal.

It always seems that my blog gets more use when the Olympics are going on. Ironically, I’m very much not a sports fan except maybe for watching the Phillies. However, I’ve always enjoyed watching the Olympics, especially the Winter Games. I think it’s a combination of the fact that you get to see sports that you don’t see very often (many of which aren’t team sports that I find boring) and the fact that for a few weeks people from various countries actually get together and participate in something just for fun without political posturing and other such silliness.

So, get ready to see more blog entries over the next few weeks, and for the first time some tweets as well.

• I can’t believe @Discovery cancelled American Chopper! The show was just starting to get good again. It could’ve made a comeback. #
• No snow day tomorrow. Oh well, can’t have it all. At least we got a snowy weekend. #
• @Pogue What’s worse is CapitalOne Bank says they’ll only support Quicken 2010 soon. Dropped 07 users in Dec but rolled back change for now. in reply to Pogue #
• While I couldn’t care less about football, it’s nice to see the people of NOLA celebrating something positive after a crappy few years. #
• Best response to sleazy pseudo-religious freaks ever! “I have a sign” & “I was promised donuts” are my favorites.LOL! http://bit.ly/dxCGIi #
• Chances are looking good for a snow day tomorrow. #
• Nothing ruins 2 snows days off from work like a slip & fall injury. Oh well, could be worse, I could’ve run myself over with the snowblower. #
• How odd, my credit card company called. They flagged a $20 charitable donation as suspicious. Better too safe than not safe enough, I guess. #
• If this injury has taught me anything it’s that I’ll now have a point of reference anytime I call something a pain in the ass. #

• Best wishes to Captain Phil Harris (@CaptPhilHarris) for a speedy recovery! http://bit.ly/cEXGaa #
• Happy Groundhog Day! Way to go Phil, 6 more weeks of Winter! Yay! http://www.groundhog.org #
• I guess @Comcast will be passing on to its customers the cost of changing its name to something so dumb I won’t mention it here. Thanks alot #
• For those wondering, I have a filter that deletes Facebook invites. But feel free to e-mail, text or call me instead. #idontusefacebook #
• Snowblower fueled, firewood stocked up, staying in for the weekend… Bring on the blizzard! #
• @PhillyInquirer Why would a respected newspaper pass along one of the oldest hoaxes around? (about cell numbers) Seems irresponsible to me. in reply to PhillyInquirer #

• Finally watched Conan’s last show. Very impressed. He was really classy. I wish we could go back to seeing Leno at 11:35 and Conan at 12:35. #
• This is totally a First World problem, but planning a vacation is hard work! #
• RT @MythBusters: “”If It’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing” #mbquotes” – that’s my motto too #
• 14 degrees & snowing. This is what winter is supposed to be like! #

• @frostwoman “WICKED stressed” – you can take the girl out of New England, but… in reply to frostwoman #
• RT @BillGates: “Hello World.” – This tweet alone is proof that it’s really Bill tweeting. Only a true geek would start with Hello World. #
• RT @cnnbrk: “Hillary Clinton says governments should not restrict Internet access. http://bit.ly/8vWEK0" #
• RT @levarburton: #KuntaNation We are peaceful warriors. We oppose oppression, ignorance and bad manners…!” #