Category: World Gone Wild

4 Year Old Drummer Rocks the House

As you may have noticed from previous postes here on PhilipNelson.org, I love to see kids doing amazing things. My 9 year old nephew, who is a drummer brought Igor falecki, a4 year old drumming prodigy, to my attention. Little Igor is making some serious waves on the internetand his first You Tube video has […]

Thursday March 27th, 2008 in Entertainment, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

Backstreet Boys & Celebrity Apprentice

Not sure how many of you out there are Apprentice fans but during this weeks episode, Trace Adkins and Piers Morgan were tasked with planning and executing a Celebrity Benefit Concert and Auction featuring the Backstreet Boys.. If you are like me, I was suprised that the Backstreet Boys were even still around. Not that […]

Saturday March 22nd, 2008 in Entertainment, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

The Real Rudy’s – Hell’s Kitchen NYC

In NYC/Hells Kitchen there is a Bar & Grill that has amazing history. This legendary New York watering hole is called Rudy’s. It was made “famous” by The Westies, the Irish Mobsters that worked Hell’s Kitchen starting in mid 60’s.. Legend has it that one of the Westies brought a bowling bag with a head […]

Thursday March 20th, 2008 in NewTek, World Gone Wild | 1 Comment »

American Airlines comes to a Grinding Halt

The rippling problems begain this morning with bad weather in Dallas, Texas causing a few flights to be cancelled. By the end of the day, hundreds of stranded travels were looking for answers in the San Antonio airport. Not only were there weather delays but the entire American Airlines SABRE system went down for almost […]

Tuesday March 18th, 2008 in NewTek, Technology, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

Gas Hits New High – More Increases Expected

Here is an interesting article about current gas prices and commentary about high they may go in the upcoming weeks. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080309/bs_nm/energy_gasoline_retail_dc Current average gas price in America $3.20 / Gallon.. I feel that we are already into the gas price zone that is hurting the average American worker. When it costs $6.00 per day to […]

Sunday March 9th, 2008 in Family Safety, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

Is America acting like a GIANT Ostrich?

Everyone knows the stereotypical behavior of the ostrich.. When trouble comes, it hides it’s head and ignores/hides from the threat… It’s amazing to see the media, our politicians and the average citizen deny the fact that our country is facing SERIOUS problems! The value of the dollar is dropping like an anchor, the price of […]

Sunday March 9th, 2008 in Family Safety, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

-17 Below Zero – Philip Nelson FREEZES

During a business trip to South Dakota, I was fortunate enough to set my person low temperature record of -17 below 0! It was pretty jarring to walk outsite.. The weirdest part was that the air would freeze in your nose as you breath! Very freaky feeling. Fortunately for me, the temp warmed up and […]

Friday March 7th, 2008 in NewTek, World Gone Wild | No Comments »

Bomb Blast in Time Square – The most effective wakeup call.

Last night I was in NYC and was trying to get some sleep before my early morning flight to South Dakota… Around 3am EST… Some idiot set off a BOMB in Time Square.. It echoed through the buildings and since my hotel was one one block from where it happened, I was rattled awake.. Needless […]

Thursday March 6th, 2008 in World Gone Wild | 1 Comment »

Casualty of the HD Disc War

I guess I could only be classified as a Casualty of the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Disc war.. Being an XBox 360 owner, I became an early adoper of HD-DVD as an addon for my X-Box 360.. I loved the idea that many of the HD-DVD discs would also play in my standard-def DVD player.. Other than the […]

Wednesday February 27th, 2008 in Entertainment, Technology, World Gone Wild | 1 Comment »

Your Very Own Topps Baseball Card

I think every kids dream is to one day be as cool as their favorite sports hero and make thier Mom proud to see their son’s face on their very own Topps baseball card. Now Topps is making this dream a reality for kids of any level of ability.. 🙂 I’ve seen photo studios that […]

Friday February 22nd, 2008 in Sports, World Gone Wild | No Comments »