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Upcoming Stand Up Comedy Shows
I’ll be hosting Louie Anderson May 14th and 15th at the Bayview event center along with special guests Scott Hansen and Pete Borchers. Please come out and see a great night of comedy on a lake. It beats sitting in a boat hoping the fish will bite and the Bayview event center is right on Lake Minnetonka, so you can come right off the lake in Excelsior Bay, enjoy some comedy and go back out after the show.
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November and December Comedy
I’ll be doing a bit of Stand Up Comedy in November and December.
So far, these are the dates I have scheduled:
Friday • November 5, 2010 • 7:30PM
Toys for Troops Benefit
Leo Carey American Legion Post 56 • Albert Lea, MN
142 N Broadway• Albert Lea,MN
General Admission $20.00
507-373-7993Saturday • November 6, 2010
Toys for Troops Benefit
Kraus-Hartig VFW Spring Lake Park, MN
Dinner at 6:00pm Dinner at 7:30PM
8100 Pleasantview Ave • Spring Lake Park,MN
General Admission $23.00 • Dinner/Show $30.00Friday and Saturday Nov 12 and 13
The Laugh Pit @ Market BBQ
9pm Show Start
1414 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN
$10 at door, email me for 2 for 1 ticketsDec 3 and 4, 10 and 11, 17 and 18
The Laugh Pit @ Market BBQ
9pm Show Start
1414 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN
$10 at door, email me for 2 for 1 ticketsDec 31
2 New Years Eve ShowsJan 1
New Years Day ShowI may be doing some more work with Toys for Troops with Scott Hansen and The Stagebenders as well. Would love to see you come out and see the shows. It’s for a good cause.
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October Comedy Roundup
Oct 8th – The Laugh Pit
Oct 9th – The Laugh Pit
Oct 16th – Improv Show
Oct 23rd – The Laugh Pit
Oct 24th – The Laugh Pit
Oct 29th – Cambridge Isanti
Oct 30th – The Laugh PitLots of fun and some great shows. The Laugh Pit opened and crowds are growing. Great place to see new comics and eat some great ribs at Market BBQ in Downtown Minneapolis, MN.
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Stand Up Comedy
For the last 2 months I started doing stand up comedy after taking Scott Hansen’s Comedy Tech Extremely Serious Comedy Workshop and I have been having a blast.
Here is a list of shows I’ve done so far:
July 9th
Maple Grove Art Center, Maple Grove, MNJuly 10th
Maple Grove Art Center, Maple Grove, MNJuly 15th
Opened for Scott Hansen and The Stagebenders
Eagle Room, Silver Lake, MNJuly 16th
Maple Grove Art Center, Maple Grove, MN – ImprovJuly 17th
Welsch Big Ten / Minnesota Comedy Club, Arden Hills, MN – ImprovJuly 23rd
Opened for Scott Hansen and The Stagebenders
Laff Boat, Hudson, WIJuly 24th
Welsch Big Ten / Minnesota Comedy Club, Arden Hils, MNJul 30th
Welsch Big Ten / Minnesota Comedy Club, Arden Hils, MNAug 6th
Welsch Big Ten / Minnesota Comedy Club, Arden Hils, MNAug 7th
Welsch Big Ten / Minnesota Comedy Club, Arden Hils, MNAug 14th
Welsch Big Ten / Minnesota Comedy Club, Arden Hils, MNAug 15th
Opened for Scott Hansen and The Stagebenders
Laff Boat, Excelsior, MNAug 27th
Welsch Big Ten / Minnesota Comedy Club, Arden Hils, MNAug 28th
Opened for Scott Hansen, The Stagebenders and Dave Mordal
Hollywood Sports Complex, Watertown, MNSep 3rd
Welsch Big Ten / Minnesota Comedy Club, Arden Hils, MNSep 4th
Welsch Big Ten / Minnesota Comedy Club, Arden Hils, MNIt’s been a fun and busy time doing stand up and working with some great comics. I even got paid enough to cover travel expenses.
You can see some of my performances on my youtube channel at www.youtube.com/pstew21
I look forward to more opportunities for stage time and refining my act. It’s been a blast so far.
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The Stagebenders
For the last couple weeks I’ve had the pleasure of working with two of the best corporate improv specialists in the business. Gust and Kim, The Stagebenders. These guys do improv better than anyone else I’ve seen.
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GUA 2009 – Orlando, FL
Opening day at GUA 2009 in Orlando Florida. For those that don’t know, GUA stands for Graphics Users Association and is the annual North American conference. This years conference is taking place during one of the toughest times printers have face in modern history. The 180 or so attendees are a testament to the strength and power those in the printing industry willingness to grow and improve their services and capabilities to survive and succeed in spite of the economic environment
Tom Clifford, GUA President, kicked off the morning with a quick presentation talking about focusing on the good and not the bad. Not the 8.4% unemployment but the 91.6% employed people. He emphasized that the GUA is about its members and their input.
Michelle Laird-Williams, executive director for GUA took care of some logistics and thanked her team for a wonderful job of preparing the event. They all did a great job in getting things ready. Hat’s off to her team for getting a complex event like this done and making it look seamless.
Dave Wigfield, Worldwide Sales and Operation Director Business Solutions and Services Group – Eastman Kodak took the stage and talked about the changing printer and their split into two distinct groups. Those that make the move upstream and become marketing service providers or those that focus on cost, efficiency and become the best supplier of print within the supply chain.
Andy Popparrozi VP and Chief Economist NAPL then took the stage to deliver his keynote on the state of the printing business. He talked about the last quarter being one of the worst NAPL has surveyed but April showed promise. Talked about sharing success and communication. In fact, he used something I’ve been saying for years, printers are in a communications business. Share your successes with the world, no matter how small. Visit http://www.napl.org for more information.
Great morning at GUA 2009, now time for some breakout sessions and lab time.
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Happy Mother’s Day
It is with a sad heart I celebrate today’s Mother’s day. One year ago today, my mom past away from her 3 year battle with cancer. It is very hard to put into words how much moms matter in this world. So, with that, celebrate your mom, the mom of your kids, grandkids, grandmother, great grandmother or any mom you know.
Being a mom is a tough thing, I watch my wife do it as a full time job for our 2 daughters, and it amazes me the patience, determination, willingness, thoughtfulness and much more it takes to be a mom. There is no training manual, just instinct and a memory of how you’d do things differently as a parent.
So to all the mom’s out there, Happy Mother’s Day! Enjoy it and for all those that have a mom, clean up your room, make your bed, brush your teeth, and clear your plate.
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Netbooks, Good or Bad?
Well, I broke down and bought an ASUS 1000HE for work and I have to say, I love it. I have a normal laptop, Lenovo W500 which I do all my programming and web work on. So why did I need this netbook?Well, for one, I love the size, it is only 1024×600 native LCD, but it is perfect for watching video tutorials or testing or reading PDFs.
The other main reason was that the 1000HE brags about 9.5 hours of battery. I figured if I could get half this, I’d be happy. I can say that under normal usage, you can easily get 6-8 hours. I haven’t loaded any movies on it yet to find out how it performs under movie watching conditions.
I did do two upgrades to it, I added a 2 gig ram stick I had from another laptop, but found out I should have spent the 22 bucks to get a faster stick to overclock with. I ordered one and should be here later this week.
Second upgrade I did was to throw a 200gig 7200rpm hdd into it. I didn’t spend enough time with the 160gig 5400rpm it came with, so can’t tell you if its faster.
Lastly, I decided this will be my test laptop, so I threw Windows 7 RC1 on it and got most of the drivers worked out. Everything works, I really like the size and weight of it, and you can’t beat the battery life. It could never be my primary computer, but for the “around the house” or second laptop, it is amazing, especially if you travel.
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To Blog or Not To Blog
Is blogging dying? Dead? For me the answer is pretty simple. Most likely. With Twitter and Facebook, most people are using those social networking sites far more then a blog.
What is the answer? Should blogging be expanded, encouraged? Should it be eligible for some sort of government bailout 🙂
At the end of the day, it comes down to time. Facebook and Twitter are easy to use, and users will always gravitate to what is easiest.
So I haven’t given up on blogging, just haven’t had a lot to say lately. At least not anything I want to say publicly 🙂
