VOTE.

If this mom and her daughter can take time to spend their Saturday morning outside a Sarah Palin rally in Tampa, Florida, you can get your ballot in. It’s not just your right, it’s a priveledge and an honor. Now go.

Sunny Day, Everything’s A-Okay

I am a Sesame Street kid. I grew up watching Big Bird stop to chat outside Mr. Hooper’s store and listening to Maria and Luis and Gordon and Bob and the whole crew of multicultural human and not so human beings sing to me about the alphabet and colors and simple math and being nice …


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Reader Field Trip II: LG Action Sports World Championships. No, Really!

And now for something completely different. I know Nerd’s Eye View readers are refined, cultured folks. Readers. Observers. People who appreciate a good cup of coffee, an excellent bowl of pho, a piece of music that evokes far away places. Which is why we’re doing something different. Dude, we’re going to see people on wheels …


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Smoke ’em If You Got ’em

Here‘s a small set of photos from Ybor City, the former – and current – cigar making district just a short streetcar ride from downtown Tampa. Added to Photo Friday on Delicious Baby.

Fish Wednesday, Fish Hugger Goes to Tampa Edition

It probably would have gone better for them if I’d called first. Then, I’d have had a date with the education coordinator and the two desk people and the nice guy who feeds the fish wouldn’t have been put on the spot like that. But since I hadn’t called, it was more of a spot …


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Fish Wednesday: Badgering the Server Edition

From where I sit, there are only a handful of walkable restaurants – the Waffle House, a PF Changs, something called Maggiano’s, a fancy-ish place called the Palms, a Chipotle, something else called Via! and a Mitchell’s Fish Market. I was hungry, we’re in Tampa, it’s coastal. We went with Mitchell’s. No surprises there. Mitchell’s …


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