The Browne Blog

1st Annual New Years Swim of One - 2012 (Brrrrr)

2012-01-01T18:15:00.000-05:00

Oh It is HOT again!

2011-12-07T17:01:00.001-05:00

After taking it all apart again, resetting a potentiometer, messing up a HighLimit relay, backing out the thermometer 0.28" and blowing out all the deck's electricity, I finally got it fixed! Sleepless night? Chilled to the bones? Stained muscles? Busy Head? Josh Pinstein Worries? All Gone!! The Hot Softub at Vine Street is Back and Hotter Than Ever!!

The Vine Street Pooch - Found It!

2011-11-18T14:51:00.001-05:00

What do you think? (Not whether or not it is a dog, but...)

Scrambled Bands -- A Misunderstood Art Form

2011-11-17T14:42:00.001-05:00

(DAD: Before reading the following post, take a breath, close your eyes, center your systems and subsystems, find the god inside, and carefully listen HERE) Columbia band banned from home finale By Kieran DarcyESPNNewYork.com NEW YORK -- The Columbia University marching band has been banned from performing at Saturday's home finale against Brown, after poking fun at the Lions' losing

Find The 2 Major Home Improvements and Win!!

2011-11-16T11:12:00.001-05:00

I am not sure what a good prize might be: maybe a round trip ticket to New Orleans or Manhattan, maybe a week in Palm Dessert, maybe free room and board for life at 13 Vine Street? Be the first to identify the 2 major home improvements and you win !! (what, we will decide later)

An Artist's View of the World Series

2011-10-28T20:36:00.001-04:00

The finest scribe to ever put words to paper on the topic of sports is unarguably Roger Angel. Simply put, he is to sport what Pauline Kael was to cinema, an epistolary interpreter of the art inside. This is his actual scorcard from Game 6 (the instant classic) of this year's World Series.

First One of Year!

2011-10-27T13:52:00.000-04:00

Today, November 27, 2011

2011-10-27T13:50:00.000-04:00

Wall Words

2011-10-26T15:55:00.000-04:00

Not sure if the citation is correct, but the message sure is!!

2011-10-21T19:03:00.003-04:00

Download Piper' s MP3's Below (Special Thanks to Alex) "Somewhere Only We Know" Listen or Download "SongBird" Listen or Download "Wagon Wheel" Listen or Download

2011-10-21T13:15:00.003-04:00

Look Up!! Don't Look Down!! A new, smooth, silky and unpainted ceiling!!

2011-10-20T20:45:00.000-04:00

The Mystery of Frozen Pees 2011 VineStreet Warming Project Needs Your HELP!!

2011-10-19T19:57:00.002-04:00

The Graduation Jigsaw (shake rattle and roll) Yields

2011-10-19T18:41:00.000-04:00

Empty Pots May as well start a pot cleaning service!!

The Latest GOP Debate Results

2011-10-19T11:34:00.005-04:00

From the Greater of All Evil's Department Simply Not Electable Paul Likeable, trustworthy, too smart, too bold and too flaky Cane Likeable, trustworthy, but wrong experience base Akin to asking a World Series pitcher to quarterback a Superbowl team. Simply (Painfully) Too Shallow Perry Bachmann Electable but Saddled W/Wrong Strategy Santorum Likeable, trustworthy, but saddled

2011-10-18T19:33:00.006-04:00

Heir's Landing's Angles

2011-10-18T18:22:00.003-04:00

More Chairs Someone Will Step Up!!!

2011-10-18T17:56:00.003-04:00

Hannah Needs To Come HAFH*!! So Pretty On New Jersey!! *HAFH: Home Away From Home

2011-10-18T17:26:00.002-04:00

Sadly Departed I hope the Rooster Rug was Saved!!

2011-10-18T16:59:00.003-04:00

Inexplicably Mysterious "Kesley, my hands have always been this big!"

2011-10-18T16:56:00.002-04:00

ELIZABETH WARREN WHERE ARE YOU??? I am READY!

2011-10-18T16:49:00.002-04:00

Inexplicably Moving A Very Viewed View without Viewers Today

2011-10-18T16:40:00.003-04:00

Windowing Together "Look at Emily. She is so SPECIAL!"

2011-10-18T16:21:00.005-04:00

So Curly Bye Bye Summer!

2011-10-18T13:04:00.000-04:00

--Eli Watch-- The Latest And Greatest (Man this is fun!!) Eli Teplin Figure It Out On The Dance Floor Excerpted from American Songwriter (here) In the age of the electro-funk, auto-tuned club bangers, is there still room for a piano man? Eli Teplin says yes, and if you’re lucky, he might sing something for you, too. The college freshman’s recordings are a refreshing

2011-10-17T22:59:00.004-04:00

A Damn Good Cause!! www.childrenslibrary.org (least we forget)

2011-10-17T22:49:00.003-04:00

A Baptist's Watch Spiritual Influences Behind & to Left and Right

2011-10-17T22:46:00.001-04:00

Artist, like Art, comes in many different forms The Cost of Concentration!

2011-10-17T22:39:00.000-04:00

http://thirteenvine.tumblr.com

2011-10-17T22:31:00.004-04:00

Beached Brown

2011-10-17T22:25:00.001-04:00

Beachly Shadows! Who needs the NBA with Elevation like this!

2011-10-17T22:21:00.001-04:00

Swan Ocean With Glasses!

2011-10-17T22:18:00.002-04:00

Dad, I am coming home. I mean doi... Just Pre-Tulane 2011

2011-10-17T22:13:00.000-04:00

I just really really miss you all! Please come back!!

Packering @ Vine Street

2011-10-16T14:57:00.001-04:00

Tailgating Indoors -- Go Pack Go!

Dad!!! Where are YOU?????

2011-10-16T14:51:00.003-04:00

Splish Splash

'...and you know three heads are better than one!"

2011-10-16T14:48:00.000-04:00

Farren's B'day! (Mimi, Sarah and Farren)

The Last Swim of 2011???

2011-10-16T11:06:00.000-04:00

Just before dark -- the fullest of this month's moon. Eagles Head

See It?? Love it??

2011-10-16T10:49:00.022-04:00

What is Sweeeeet in this picture (answer in comments)? The Barn Betterment Program

2011-09-23T14:59:00.000-04:00

Sarah's @ 34 Heirs Landing South Dennis, MA (Select Here For Map) For Emily Some Maps and Bird's Eye Views House, Barn & Guest House @ River's Edge Beach at end of Heirs Landing Location on Cape Another View (minus the neighbor's house) Some Pictures to give you a feel for Heirs Landing House with Bass River at your

Looksee 2 La Qunita Day 3 and 4

2011-02-22T23:10:00.002-05:00

Looksee For Wick, Audition and Simian Experts - La Quinta: Day 1 and 2

2011-02-20T22:05:00.005-05:00

We are posting these pictures for those rare and wondrous individuals whose computer science background does NOT include cellular texting and MMS'ing.

B4 CALLY UPDATE: THIS JUST HURTS - WE ARE NOT GONE 1 DAY!!!

2011-02-20T14:25:00.001-05:00

NEW YORK – Columbia fought tooth and nail against Harvard, which ended the night in first place in the Ivy League. But the Lions could not muster a consistent offensive attack throughout the game, ultimately dropping a 61-42 decision to the Crimson in front of a packed house of 2,616 fans at Levien Gymnasium. Despite a spirited atmosphere from the start, Harvard jumped out to an early 9-0

We're Back - Piper, Kyle and Tim

2011-02-20T13:45:00.000-05:00

We have decided to turn the BrowneBlog back on for duration of the trip, so that Luddites like Catherine/Mom can see the pictures snapped. I am not sure how to do this yet, but I will get a gallery up soon. <>dad

I just Can't Resist Watching This X-Rated Material

2010-07-01T12:48:00.000-04:00

Hard not to laugh until tears!

Writer's Block/Brain Cramp (Word Worthy List 1 Coming Soon)

2010-06-11T16:28:00.001-04:00

1. Kesley's graduation 2. Dad's Visit 3. Emily's Alex 4. Piper's Prom 5. The Broken Main 6. Zipper 7. Piper's Honors 8. Dad and MLB 9. Two Bolts & not a single Grogan 10. Brynn 11. Kelsey's Newton CC Dance Club 12. A Second Stricken Sister-in-law 13. The Chairmanship 14. The voice of the North Shore 15. Berkelee 16. The New School 17. Down from the Mountaintop 18. A Banner Year 19.

100 Years of Being Browne

2010-06-10T20:05:00.000-04:00

I really never know what it will take to get me to frame in the planks and boards of Being Browne with words and verbs and ceiling wax. I know it usually is a simple something that occurs during down times, when I am not feeling low, or running hard. Today, that happened when I happened upon a picture and story that tricked me right! What I saw was the future and it made me smile broadly; a

BC's Hydrants

2010-04-16T09:04:00.003-04:00

I love BC (as I do Northwestern and will Canegie-Mellon). I love everythng that it has provided Kelsey and everything that is has drawn from her. I honestly can think of little more I would have asked from a school to whom I have handed off a daughter. The Eagles have taken Kesley by the wing and flown upwards. So it is was great astonishment (and a serious chuckle, pictureing Emily and Piper

Happy 17th to Piper Browne

2010-04-16T08:33:00.002-04:00

Happy Birthday to Piper, who, together with her sisters, remain the loves of my life! (OK there a few more, most of whom have Browne, Grogan, or Stringer somewhere in their names, but today it is all about her!! (IRS, who??)

Quieted Keys

2010-03-23T20:09:00.011-04:00

Sunday last, a good guy passed away; a good guy who over that last decade or two got very few breaks. I guy who I think (and what do I know?) deserved more. He was fun. He was smart. He was kind and he was open. He was all this in a way that made a conversation with him move like a fun piano riff set free by his stubby prodding fingers; easy, rhythmic, inquisitive, jazzy and often slightly

2010-03-23T13:38:00.003-04:00

With opening day quickly approaching, I thought I'd share this beautiful quote that I stumbled upon while doing some reading for a history class last night... "It makes human beings out of those who would otherwise be self-centered fops. As a bond of brotherhood it has every fraternal organization ever invented whipt to a whisper, because its scope is wider - the average fraternal organization

An Ithacanian Tear

2010-03-21T12:32:00.001-04:00

I did 3 years in the Big Ten (1 year was spent in Japan @ Waseda in the Rooster League) and 5 years in the Ivy league. Given the realities of the two leagues (strength VS weakness, big VS small, notsmartness VS smartness), I never, ever thought I would be asked to pick between the two in a NCAA athletic match-up of any kind outside of crew or perhaps male cheerleading. NEVER EVER... And yet that

Ireland's Favorite Celebrity

2010-03-17T12:32:00.001-04:00

Happy St. Patty's Day (the orginal Green Day) to my favorite Irishman of them all!! I suspecdt she was always more of a McGill and McConville than a even a Browne --especially as the middle of March came about.

Some Guys Just Get It!

2010-03-14T10:44:00.005-04:00

Blood-selling Packers fan voted to team's fan Hall March 13, 2010 GREEN BAY, Wis.—A man who said his loyalty to the Green Bay Packers helped save his life has been voted into the team's Fan Hall of Fame. The team announced the honor Saturday for 79-year-old Jim Becker. He attended Packers games for 56 years. Becker said he and his wife raised 11 kids, so money was tight. To afford his season

My Old Haunts -- Redux

2010-03-12T11:11:00.000-05:00

From 1986-1989, every school morning, Emily and I (and eventually Kelsey) would run down from our third floor attic apartment in Cambridge, jump into my tiny, fecal brown colored RX-7 and singing the same song head to MIT, where I worked and the girls school'd. I worked at the MIT Media Lab, a research laborory dedicated to computer science, the arts and entertainment (see link), which I helped

They Did Not Win 50 to 40!

2010-03-11T09:05:00.001-05:00

....but they lost with honor! They slept last night as the 2nd best team in their division in the Commonwealth. The Coverage Hornet Get Stung Hornets Fall In Title Game Hornets Succumb Skippers Stays The Course! Skippers Beat Hornets for State Title

It's Piper Time @ The Boston Garden

2010-03-09T10:02:00.004-05:00

Today @ 2:30 (EST) -- The Massachusetts State Girls Baskeball Tournamentt Finals-- Even lying down, a formidable 2 5 point machine

They're Back!!!

2010-03-08T09:16:00.002-05:00

Q. Who is Bill Hanney? A. Bill Hanney is a Massachusetts businessman who has reached an agreement with Citizens Bank to purchase the North Shore Music Theatre property. Bill Hanney has previously purchased closed or distressed properties and successfully revived them. Those projects include Theatre By the Sea, a summer-stock house in Matunuck, R.I.; Fresh Pond Cinema in Cambridge; and Falmouth

Deconstruction of A Headline

2010-03-07T10:31:00.004-05:00

"Whalers, Hornets headed for Garden rematch" -Boston Globe, March 7, 2010 "Whalers" - The essence of an evil super power in Girls basketball from Cohassett, MA. "Hornets" - The essense of a good empire in Girls basketball, from Manchester by the Sea, MA "headed for" - "Having won last's night North Division Championship, the Hornet,

Emily's Eye

2010-03-03T15:13:00.000-05:00

Emily found this today ins the blogosphere.Beautiful and acurate.

Mean Vs Green

2010-02-27T17:25:00.003-05:00

ARTICLE 1 "Delafield — Whitefish Bay Dominican maintained its poise as the Dominican High School Green Knights outlasted the St. John's Northwestern Military Academy Lancers, 64-54, to claim the Central Division title of the Midwest Classic Conference in boys basketball." So many questions: Since when did the White Knights turn Green -do not tell me this is tied to ecological or racial

Geekhood Flowage

2010-02-27T11:28:00.002-05:00

Other than bad luck, there is really littled required (not magic nor expertise) to being tagged a community computer support center. In my case, I certainly do not know much about the innards of a software prorgram and even less about hardware configurations. When asked, i just do the following:

6 = 1,000

2010-02-26T15:10:00.002-05:00

Hard to believe 'izzy will score more than 1,000 points BEFORE she even begins her Senior Year. As you can see, we have had our people keeping an eye on her for some time!

Early Life Altering Video

2010-02-26T14:12:00.001-05:00

Dangerous Love

2010-02-26T11:34:00.000-05:00

New England was blown partially apart last night with winds topping 70 mph. Turns out the center of the blast was the area between Manchester NH and Beverly, MA. (See map) "The highest sustained wind speeds of over 50 miles per hour were recorded in Beverly, and Manchester, N.H. Wind gusts reached 67 miles per hour in Beverly, and blew over 60 in Manchester, N.H." --Boston Globe I drove

The Strive for Relevance

2010-02-26T10:21:00.000-05:00

This ran atop the Gloucester-Salem Times this morning. Just to be clear, this paper makes the Whitefish Bay Herald look like a mash-up of ALL the world's great Times (New York, London, LA, Financial, Manitowoc, etc.).

The Piper Single Point Machine

2010-02-25T13:16:00.001-05:00

The Pipe, Number 22 belowEVERETT — The Manchester Essex girls' basketball team sent out a message loud and clear last night to other Division 4 teams: as usual, the Hornets will be a tough out in the state tournament. Manchester Essex (10-12) traveled to top-seeded Pope John (17-4) and controlled the tempo from start to finish with an impressive 58-41 victory.... Full Article on the Piper

Still The VERY Best Picture of the Decade

2010-02-25T00:10:00.000-05:00

No Words -- All Image

My hair like Jesus wore it. Hallelujah I adore it

2010-02-24T23:49:00.000-05:00

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzySnaggy, shaggy, ratty, mattyOily, greasy, fleecy, shiningGleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxenKnotted, polka-dotted; Twisted, beaded, braidedPowdered, flowered, and confettiedBangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied! O-oh, Say can you see; my eyes if you can,Then my hair's too short!

The Children Micheal Jackson Wished He Had Had.

2010-02-24T23:37:00.000-05:00

It doesn't matter who's wrong or right Just beat it, beat it Just beat it, beat it Just beat it, beat it

Tals and Spens

2010-02-24T23:01:00.002-05:00

I can say it out loud. I can even shout it with big fonts: "PIPER HAS A BOYFRIEND." There, I did it!! Spenser is a very nice guy who has always stayed well within the lines that define a very strict playing field that is 13 Vine Street. I think I can speak for his obvious brains, poise, good humor and kindness --all of which is clearly on display when he around at 13 Vine. He treats Piper with

Dear Dad (and family),

2010-02-24T22:27:00.000-05:00

I can post! This is fun. But my dear father, for the record, the candidate I'm working for in lovely New Hampshire is Paul HODES....not Hoad. Close.

A Browne Long BLUE Line

2010-02-24T22:12:00.007-05:00

Just so the record is set straight, Here is Emily's line of democrat employers: US Senator Chuck Schumer (NY) 5/2007 to 5/2008 Governor David Paterson (NY) 6/2008 to 9/2008 Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (NY) 10/2008 to 10/2009 Congressmen Paul Hodes (Senate Candidate, NH) 11/2009 - present (See Read More for Picture) ...and here is Kelsey's:US Senator John Kerry (MA) 12/09 to present

Piper Grows a Humor

2010-02-24T21:54:00.000-05:00

Piper's feet at studyPublish Post Two weeks ago, when I was gloating to Piper about being in the Rose Bowl at the BCS National Championship game, she sent me this photo to let me know what she was doing. It is one of my favorites.

EVEN EMILY CAN CONTRIBUTE BLOG MATERIAL

2010-02-24T14:20:00.002-05:00

Blogging has come a long way since the first BROWNE’S BLOG. As time goes by, I think this will be made more clear, but for now, I would like to highlight one significant change: anyone can write for this blog via a simple email addressed to a specific email address. Once set-up, all you have to do is type out your thought(s) and send them to here and ---Voila, they will appear. This means you

It's Back --www.thebrownes.com is redacted

2010-02-24T14:04:00.003-05:00

The time has come to once again take keyboard firmly under palm to tap, tap, tap. As before this blog (redux’d, removed, redirected and republished), it is nothing more than a way for me to communicate with my family. Any non-browne who happens across it will, I suspect in short order, depart bored -- I darn say that will happen even within the confines of the Browne clan. Be all that as it may,