<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:45:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Just the curtO things.</title><description>I may blog again...one day.</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/</link><managingEditor>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>162</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-7262644756426723267</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-07T22:21:16.904-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Urijah Faber</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Jens Pulver</category><title>World Extreme Cagefighting - January 25</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/wec38-750360.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/wec38-750305.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Yeah, I know my boy Urijah Faber lost his belt the last fight he had...but I'm sure that will just make him stronger...Regardless, I'm excited for January 25th...Live on Versucks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-7262644756426723267?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2009/01/world-extreme-cagefighting-january-25.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-8866998225976649004</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-03T13:08:30.853-05:00</atom:updated><title>Woooo. Let's go Pens.</title><description>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-710864-710922.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-710864-710918.jpe"  border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Woooo. Let&amp;#39;s go Pens.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-8866998225976649004?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2009/01/woooo-lets-go-pens.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-8229944426240708051</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-01T06:08:57.591-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>2009</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>2008 Winter Classic</category><title>Happy New Year 2009</title><description>This year was not nearly as festive as bringing 2008 in while in Buffalo last year, only hours away from the Winter Classic - which started this whole blog thing.  But none-the-less, still feeling good that 2009 will bring positive things to me and everyone I care about.
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May you and yours have a perfect 2009.
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curtO.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-8229944426240708051?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2009/01/happy-new-year-2009.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-8625100531971204550</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-17T23:02:07.258-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>music</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Charles Hamilton</category><title>Charles Hamilton - "Brooklyn Girls"</title><description>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_wPFskQI56Q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_wPFskQI56Q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-8625100531971204550?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/12/charles-hamilton-brooklyn-girls.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-6019993357030979426</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-05T11:35:30.468-05:00</atom:updated><title>What is wrong with this picture?</title><description>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-730488-730582.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-730488-730571.jpe"  border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;What is wrong with this picture?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-6019993357030979426?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/12/what-is-wrong-with-this-picture.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-8742030875918068951</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-25T00:38:04.580-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>curtO</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>thePensBlog</category><title>thePensBlog jerseys</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/Jerseys-764754.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/Jerseys-764745.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

There is something about these jerseys that is really pretty cool...from &lt;a href="http://thepensblog.com/"&gt;thePensBlog.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-8742030875918068951?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/11/thepensblog-jerseys.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-4845511874988864680</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T20:11:23.353-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Michael Jordan</category><title>What?  Michael Jordan loses 1 on 1 at his camp</title><description>At his camp, Michael Jordan loses to some old fart with a bum knee.

&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5B7U74Dg04k&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5B7U74Dg04k&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-4845511874988864680?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/11/what-michael-jordan-loses-1-on-1-at-his.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-2930029983164328008</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-07T15:44:28.049-05:00</atom:updated><title>Ooh. A poop polka dot Hyundai.</title><description>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-768053-768181.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-768053-768171.jpe"  border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Ooh. A poop polka dot Hyundai.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-2930029983164328008?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/11/ooh-poop-polka-dot-hyundai.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-7538174520503011713</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-12T01:30:02.613-04:00</atom:updated><title>Let's Go Pens. Home opener National Anth</title><description>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-702617-702670.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-702617-702658.jpe"  border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Let&amp;#39;s Go Pens. Home opener National Anthem.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-7538174520503011713?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/10/lets-go-pens-home-opener-national-anth.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-5988315605761910341</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-28T11:04:32.614-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Free Candy Brooks Orpik</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Pittsburgh Penguins</category><title>FREE CANDY from Jefe P</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/Orpik-Pinata-725286.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/Orpik-Pinata-725027.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Over at &lt;A HREF=http://www.thePensBlog.com&gt;thePensBlog.com&lt;/A&gt; Jefe P posted the above pic.  Yes it's awesome showing why Free Candy IS Free Candy...but there is a little more awesomeness that goes into it...can you tell me why?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-5988315605761910341?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/09/free-candy-from-jefe-p.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-1353830208026350408</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-26T19:15:04.944-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sarah Palin</category><title>Really?</title><description>I won't even comment...it's just like, really?

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That is all.  Thanks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-2754801142467879643?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/08/hb-baby.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-8210430665846720392</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-13T22:17:38.572-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Alicia Sacramone</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>USA Olympic Gymnastics</category><title>curtOlympic edition</title><description>This is the first time where I'm actually enjoying more than USA Basketball in the Olympics.  Even though China is 12 hours opposite of us, it is still exciting to see some of these competitions.
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This is Alicia Sacramone, from the USA Olympic woman's gymnastics team, knocking a dude out.  I really think she should have pulled this trick on some of the people that interviewed her after their line of questioning.  Yeah, she turned out to be human and slipped up and cost the Team USA to get the Silver medal.  But kudos to the team for standing behind the 'team aspect' as specific line of questions were asked to try and cause dissension with the team.

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After reading the &lt;a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08209/899985-100.stm"&gt;story about Casey Hampton&lt;/a&gt; and his inability to complete a few running drills in the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp and subsequently placed on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP list), it reminded me of the Pens.
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HOW does that remind me of the Pens you may ask?  Well I'll tell you.
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May 4th 2008, during the Stanly Cup run the Pens played the New York Rangers.  We won, and it was an great game.  You may remember seeing Casey Hampton's picture behind the Pens players celebrating a goal in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
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So what else can you do after watching an afternoon game but do some post tailgating.  So my group of friends are hanging out in the Melody Lot parking lot after the game and we see a cab pull up in the lot right by us.  We didn't understand why a cab was pulling up, but it was quickly answered when out jumps none other than Casey Hampton.  Turns out he took a cab from the game to his Hummer parked right by us.  Maybe he did that because he didn't want to sign 1,000 autographs, but looking back the walk may have been a good idea.
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Lucky for us, he must not have had much to do that afternoon as he stuck around and played beer pong for a while.  Gotta love it...

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Hopefully everything will be back to normal...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-6980458730581481492?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/08/finally.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-6858508239951978117</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-27T18:54:10.166-04:00</atom:updated><title>Method Man, but where is Redman? </title><description>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-750168-750265.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-750168-750258.jpe"  border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-751050-751111.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-751050-751103.jpe"  border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;There.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-6858508239951978117?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/07/method-man-but-where-is-redman.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-1112569702783090003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-04T10:43:39.679-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>CMU</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Randy Pausch</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>curtOview</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>love</category><title>Randy Pausch - changing the world</title><description>I realize not everyone has over an hour to give to watch a video from beginning to end.  Especially when it reminds them of school days in a lecture type format.  But I ask that you keep this video in mind when you need to figure some things out in life.  Take the 1-hour 16-minutes 27-seconds to watch this video from beginning to end, don't skip a second of it, don't skip to the end, and don't finish early.  It may not solve all your problems, or even answer a single one.  But it may just take you away from the stresses of life and put your mind at ease to realize how special life is.
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Randy Pausch died today, July 25, 2008, of Pancreatic Cancer.  This was his last lecture and it moved me far beyond what I thought it would, asked and answered questions about how I am currently living my life, and very well could set me in a new direction to live.  So listen to every word he says, but listen more to the message he is delivering.  Enjoy.

&lt;blockquote&gt;Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit www.cmu.edu/randyslecture. &lt;/blockquote&gt;

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I'll be leaving on Saturday to meet up with friends and do something in DC.  Then Sunday it's the concert.  Should be a blast and I'm going to try and do some mobileblogging.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-3602855117696165896?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/07/rock-bells-dc.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-2876374793591665861</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-22T22:08:57.709-04:00</atom:updated><title>Jimmy Buffett, virgin cherry popped. Ouc</title><description>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-737724-738170.jpe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/bm-image-737724-738147.jpe"  border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Jimmy Buffett, virgin cherry popped. Ouch.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-2876374793591665861?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/07/jimmy-buffett-virgin-cherry-popped-ouc.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-4468159348755008549</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-14T22:57:32.836-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>video</category><title>Have you ever wanted a toy THIS bad?</title><description>&lt;object width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/NTM2Mjc2"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://embed.break.com/NTM2Mjc2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess=always width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=1&gt;&lt;a href="http://break.com/index/little-girl-cheats-at-claw-game.html"&gt;How To Beat The Claw Game&lt;/a&gt; - Watch more &lt;a href="http://www.break.com/"&gt;free videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-4468159348755008549?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/07/have-you-ever-wanted-toy-this-bad.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-9132277255696032299</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-30T01:29:10.908-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Rainbow</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>West End Overlook</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Pittsburgh</category><title>Live every day beautiful</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/RainbowPittsburgh-726362.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/uploaded_images/RainbowPittsburgh-725778.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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This picture taken by me on Sunday 6-29-2008 after the storm from the West End Overlook.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-9132277255696032299?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/06/live-every-day-beautiful.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-5883537836354999015</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-29T01:39:44.731-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Pittsburgh Penguins</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ryan Malone</category><title>Some come, most are going.</title><description>Bugsy-Malone is gone.&lt;BR&gt;
WWGRD-Roberts is gone.&lt;BR&gt;
Orpik-Free Candy on the fence.&lt;BR&gt;
Hossa-Fiesta Mexicana on the fence.&lt;BR&gt;
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Who else will be wearing a different sweater next year?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-5883537836354999015?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/06/some-come-most-are-going.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270964786114616444.post-3354047040871725903</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-17T22:23:49.305-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>video</category><title>Sometimes you just wanna punch a bitch</title><description>&lt;object width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JRTmPovORNg&amp;border=1&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JRTmPovORNg&amp;border=1&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;

Thanks &lt;A HREF=http://spankystokes.blogspot.com/&gt;SpankyStokes&lt;/A&gt;...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270964786114616444-3354047040871725903?l=www.curtophoto.com%2Fblog'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.curtophoto.com/blog/2008/06/sometimes-you-just-wanna-punch-bitch.html</link><author>blog@curtOphoto.com (curtO.)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item></channel></rss>