My fellow Stamford area bloggers couldnt care less about all my techie talk, so I figured I would help round out today’s AppleFest with a traditional rant about something local - Stamford Town Center.
I hate it.
Once you get to Stamford Town Center, you are met with a horrifically complex and poorly signed parking garage which [...]

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I could not live without my Garmin Nuvi GPS unit.
When I originally got it, very few people had aftermarket GPS systems - now I see them stuck on windshields all over Fairfield County. Starting with the Nuvi, GPS systems got a hell of a lot easier to use, and are now about half the price [...]

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I live close enough to the Stamford Train station that I could use it to save a little time by grabbing one of its many express trains once in a while - but I don’t.
First off, the exit for the Stamford Metro-North station is the *first* exit where I-95 traffic officially comes to [...]

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Last week, I was interviewed by phone and in person by Elizabeth Kim of the Stamford Advocate, as part of a story on Stamford-area bloggers.
We were all looking forward to the story, which was published on the frontpage this morning.
Unfortunately, the reporter chose to (accurately) pull a quote from me which I totally regret.
When [...]

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Sorry, once again I have less than 24 hours notice about the appearance of the M-8 Railcar interior mockup.
Tommorrow it will be at Stamford Metro-North Station at slightly more generous hours than the ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ hours at the New Haven demo - 7 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m.
Until [...]

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Farlander’s, one of the new movies filming in Stamford this summer, was shooting at The Dragonfly Lounge and Remo’s in downtown Stamford last Friday. But don’t get too used to the star sightings and traffic jams - Farlanders is scheduled to pick up and move to Tuscon on June 1.
Remo’s was being covered up in [...]

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Last Wednesday a 10-lb piece of oblong metal, which may have been a piece of bracing used when pouring concrete, fell 25 stories from the Trump Parc Tower construction site in downtown Stamford, pierced the roof of a Crystal Rock water delivery truck, and struck its driver in the arm.
The driver was treated for minor [...]

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