I remember many times going to Tigers games when Dan and I were kids.  Dan and I were huge baseball collectors and card collectors at the time so we knew everyone on the tigers in the Late 80's and early 90's.

Some of our favorites were people like Alan Trammell, Paul Gibson,Lou Whitaker,
Chet Lemon, Travis Fryman and Cecil Fielder.

Cecil Fielder was my absolute favorite because there was some hype about him breaking Babe Ruth's home run record.  He did accomplish that and I felt like I knew a star athlete and I was also happy because all of his cards went up in value.

After 1990, many people out did him, but I feel that they did it with drug enhancing help.

I really appreciate my parents being able to take us to the ball game.

I loved the ambiance.  I remember having my parents buy me this huge cardboard tiger arm that we would could use.  There is just something about a ball game that really defines America.

My children will also be going to lots of Tigers . . . Read More..

This one time I did a demo of an online Karaoke Machine that I developed for a competition. The demo was for my Cousin Beth and one of the most beautiful songs that she sings. The song is called "Here With You" (WATCH HER VIDEO).

I used one of her songs off of her unbelievable debut CD which is basically the most amazing piece of artwork in the entire world!. I demoed this web application that would sync up lyrics with any MP3 and would display the lyrics following what the actual singer was singing.

I demoed it in front of all of my Aunts and Uncles. I thought something great would come of it and I even won 1000 dollars in a technology competition.

But memorycrawler is my most innovative piece of work to date.

Happy crawling.

-dave

As I started to become more social in high school, I spent less time at the tree fort and so did Chris Shea. The fort began to fall into disrepair.

One day I was playing video games with some people at my house. I know for sure that Kevin and Jimmy Territo were there; I can't remember who else was there.

Anyway Kevin heard some screaming coming from the fort and saw that someone had fallen off the fort. There were two kids and the one that was not hurt was asking Kevin to call 911. Kevin asked what happened and apparently, the kid had climbed to the fourth story of the fort and started destroying it. I think Kevin was tempted to not give them the phe.

911 was called and the ambulance arrived shortly thereafter. My parents were out and when they came home there was an ambulance in the driveway. They were freaked out but probably relieved that neither of their kids were hurt. The funny thing is that I didn't even realize any of this was happening. I was just in my own merry . . . Read More..

I remember back when I was the first one to drive and I could drive to Dan and Dave's house by myself for the first time. We used to all be in my mom's 1991 Blazer which I called the Tijuana Taxi. One time we were driving down the road that Waterford Mott is on.

At the intersection where there is a gas station and an ice cream store we were stopped and someone wanted to turn right out of the gas station. I think I was blocking them or something.

Anyway, Kevin or Dave gave the driver the middle finger, unbeknownst to me. I turned right and got stopped at the next traffic light. I had the windows rolled down and I was off in my own world listening to Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.

Just before I turned left there was much excitement in the car. They told me that the guy pulled up behind me and got out of his car. He walked up to my car and yelled at Dave and Kevin through the open window. Somehow, I was unaware of the whole thing!

So Today Matt and I decided to grab some lunch while at chimes in Troy and we were initially thinking about going to Pot Belly for a sandwich. But then I mentioned how we still havent gone to Troy High School to randomly eat lunch with some weirdo high schoolers. Bear in mind we are both 24 years old. We figured we could pull it off cause we still look like we are in high school.

So we drive up and . . . Read More..