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Cubist Featured on NECN

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:39:58 -0400

This is the little company I work for. We make drugs that save live. We were featured on New England Cable News last night... a really nice piece.

Charon doesn't make change

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:40:15 -0400

BREAKING NEWS:

Pluto has been demoted. No longer is it a planet. Pluto is dead, long live Pluto. I guess we'll have to refer to it as "the celestial body formerly known as the planet Pluto". Maybe it can get it's own goofy symbol to represent it too.

A Day in the Life of a Solid Rocket Booster

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:22:11 -0400

Today NASA released footage taken by a camera mounted on one of the SRBs during the shuttle's recent mission liftoff. This footage shows takeoff, SRB seperation and all the way back down into the Atlantic. Extremely cool video.

SRB-cam liftoff video

The Hanson Family: Gone 9/11/01

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:27:37 -0400

It's another year gone from 9/11 again. Just like the past few anniversaries, it still seems like yesterday to me. One of the things I find myself doing since then is finding the stories of the local folks who died in the attacks. Most from New England were either on flight 11 or flight 175. Just tonight, I was looking through the passenger list for flight 175, and couldn't help but notice three people with the same last name:

Peter Hanson
Sue Hanson
Christine Hanson

Immediately I thought "this must be a family that was together...". I read into it and I was right. These were regular folks like you or me taking a family trip to Disneyland with their 2 1/2 year old daughter: the youngest victim in the terrorist attacks. I'm having a hard time getting the image of that little girl out of my head.

Please take a minute to read a bit about the Hansons:

Hanson family tribute website
CNN page to Chistine Hanson
September 11th Wiki: Christine Hanson

R.I.P. little buddy

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:45:57 -0400

Gilligan is dead. Long live Gilligan

"He was determined to finish lunch."

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:53:26 -0400

Bull Shark Kills 14-Year-Old Girl in Florida

Star Hellas 2005

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Thu, 26 May 2005 10:43:30 -0400

OK, so admittedly I have a thing for the Greek ladies. *ahem*.

This is Greece's representative in this year's Miss Universe pageant:

Evangelia Aravani

Sssssssss-mokin'!

Just when I thought I'd seen it all.

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:54:38 -0500

Save Toby

Hunter S. Thompson: 1937-2005

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:25:15 -0500

The Good Doctor committed suicide yesterday at the age of 67. If you haven't read The Rum Diary or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas yet; or read his pieces on Page 2 at ESPN.com, I suggest you do so now. You'll see why he'll be so dearly missed.

Watch yo' wallet.

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:33:20 -0500

A word to the wise: be aware of where your credit/debit/ATM cards are. Apparently, my debit card was taken over the weekend in Boston, and some scumbag wiped out my bank account to the tune of a few thousand dollars. They spent it all at wholesale store and gas station in Dorchester. Figures.

We had $11 left in the bank.

Thankfully, I have fraud protection, so I'm getting my money back, but having $11 with Christmas coming and Tina's birthday today (happy birthday sweetheart), things have sucked.

Thanks to mom and dad for swinging us some ducats so we can feed our kids until I get my cash back from MasterCard.

Shelflife?

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:43:13 -0500

Well whaddya know? Seven Hill Psychos are back, at least for a night. On Friday March 12, the band reunites at Erick Godin's fine Sir Morgan's Co.... umm, Lucky Dog Music Hall. (Could there possibly be a more fitting venue?)

From all accounts, everyone who ever played in the band is going to make an appearance. Maybe it'll be like seeing .38 Special. Anyhoo, I've put the 7hp.com website back up too, and it's getting some traffic. Should be a fun time, get down early to heft a few and enjoy the reminiscing.

What is this world coming to?

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:07:15 -0400

I have seen some screwed up stories in my time, but this one really takes the whole freaking bakery. According to this CNN story, a four year old boy (you read it right... four!) shot and killed his five year old sister with a .45, and also critically wounded his seven year old brother.

If you read the story, you'll notice:

The parents had a loaded firearm in the house.
The loaded firearm was kept where a four year old could get to it.
The kids were home alone. Ages 10, 5 and 4.
The boy obviously found shooting people to be a pretty 'normal' behavior.

According to the police, the child is in no danger from a prosecution standpoint. Makes sense... he's only four. They mention that the mother may face charges for leaving the gun within reach and/or leaving the children without supervision.

Am I the only one here who thinks these parents (why no mention of the father being held responsible?) should be strung up by their ears for a public execution? I understand that they are grieving over the loss of their child, and for the irreparable damage done to their son, but this is absolute lethal parental neglect if I ever saw it. What if the child killed was mine or yours?

No doubt that this will be turned into a situation where it's the "gun's fault", and not the poor grieving parents, and all guns should be banned. Bull$*!t!

Christ I am pissed off.

Congratulations are in order.

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:14:25 -0400

Congratulations to Matt and Maureen (Mo) Brambilla (you know Matt as Ralman on coomey.net) on the purchase of their brand new home. Looks like Matt's is going to have to get "re-educated" on the use of a lawnmower and snow shovel. Sucker.

They are just a stone's throw away from the Coomey compound out in Oxford. Big difference from Marlboro, here's hoping they survive. I hear they don't like them city folk out there in "Ox-fihd".

Congrats!

Two years.

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:34:22 -0400

Unbelievable that it's been two years since 9/11. It was one of thos events in which we will always know where we were when we first heard about the attacks. I was working in Burlington at Verilytics, and first heard in my car, on the Mass Pike. I was flipping through the radio dial and happened to catch Howard Stern mention that a plane flew into the WTC. I, like probably thousands of other people, thought it was a small propeller-driven Piper or something. Then I heard that it was a passenger jet. Whoa. I called Tina and told her to turn on the TV. She did. She told me how there was a giant gash in one of the buildings. Then she said "The building just exploded!". She turned the TV on just in time to see the second plane hit the south tower.

I got to work and everyone in the building was in the lobby in front of a bank of TV's, just wide-mouthed watching everything. It was amazing, the entire day was like that. Nobody at their desks to get information, because you couldn't reach any of the major news web sites because they were completely overwhelmed. We actually had a meeting with our new CEO about the events, mostly because we had a sales guy in New York at the time and nobody could get in touch with him. At one point, I looked down at my watch and saw the date on the face: '11 SEP 01'. I immediately knew that we'd never look at that date the same way again. And at the time, it seemed like such an normal, unspectacular date.

Luckily, we didn't know anyone who was killed that day, but I always think of Tara Creamer. She was a TJX employee on one of the planes who lived about 1/2 mile away from us. If memory serves, she had 2 small kids. I don't want to think of what her husband had to tell them.

So, where were you when you heard?

Next thing you know, they're bowling.

nospam@example.com (Shawn Coomey) — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:40:50 -0400

God, I love the Amish.

Simple folk really, with their butter-churnin' and carriage-ridin'. I never knew it, but the Amish like to have fun and play pranks too. It's only fun, however, until someone loses an eye. Or a life.

I stumbled on an article on CNN.com that almost made me wet myself laughing. I won't spoil it. Go have a look for yourself.