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Posted on June 30, 2006 - Filed Under
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WikipediaWell folks, I’m off to Minneosota for a long patriotic weekend of drinking & illegal fireworks, along with a rendezvous to celebrate the 2nd birthday of my nephew H. James.
But in the frenzy of this free day off from work, let’s not forget about what the 4th of July is REALLY about: police blowing [...]
Use the force…
Posted on June 30, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“never underestimate the power of Justin Timberlake“
Read More..>>It’s not my birthday
Posted on June 30, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentbut I’ll do this anyway, following Meggan’s lead
Instructions:
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. One holiday or observance (if any).
And the results are in….
3 Events
1825 - The Erie Canal [...]
At this point, I’ll start taking Moral victories from the Royals
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAnd yes, making 13 year old boys cry is a moral victory:
I was at an Orioles game, sitting pretty far back in left-center, right next to the visitors’ bullpen. In Camden Yards, the bullpens are on a hill, so you can look directly into the bullpen dugout. The players are maybe 15-20 feet away behind [...]
I Must Be In The Front Row
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under
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One off my favorite times of year is the NBA draft. Not because I watch the draft, but because Bill Simmon’s draft diaries (from before liveblog was a “word”) are reliably awesome.
And that brings us to our featured attraction of the evening …
“THE KNICKS ARE ON THE CLOCK!”
ESPN wisely works the MSG [...]
Robot Brains Gone Wild
Posted on June 28, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 Comment“Business Intelligence” may be an oxymoron, but surely Microsoft is “eating their own dogfood” at their adCenter labs, to “guesstimate” the sexual breakdown of various web site visitors. As I’ve dabbled in the “BI” as “insiders” call “it” I thought I’d give a few URLs a whirl to get some COLD HARD FACTS.
Advertised on Sports [...]
Rawhide!
Posted on June 28, 2006 - Filed Under
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Tim McMahan does a retrospective of the seminal Nebraska label Speed! Nebraska that launched Frontier Trust, D is for Dragster and now, The Monroes. {with ‘extras’ and last night’s Simon Joyner show review here}
So is the label a real business? Davis doesn’t think so. “(U.S. Rep.) Tom Delay’s office called me and wanted [...]
Forget Jules Verne
Posted on June 27, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWriters for the The Simpsons are the real futurists.
Read More..>>Zing of the week
Posted on June 27, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentA few days late on this review of the Leary biography:
In addition, the book provides a crash course in several aspects of 60’s culture: its often gaseous rhetoric, its reliance on mahatmas and soothsayers, its endless bail-fund benefits and sometimes dubious appeals to conscience, its thriving population of informers, its contribution to the well-being of [...]
Left-Brained Lit: Ladies Left Behind?
Posted on June 25, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWaggish busts out a list of writers favored by “engineers with a literary bent”, culled from his observations with some quick breakdowns of each writer — pretty handy. Not unlike the halls of engineering classrooms, woman are scarce:
There were a few other candidates that I excluded from the list either for lack of confirmation data [...]
Truly, this man wasn’t the son of god
Posted on June 22, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment{via Moorish Girl}
Read More..>>Can you spot the difference?
Posted on June 19, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFlorida dog calls 911: receives award; owner lives. Detroit youth calls 911: gets scolded, mom dies.
Read More..>>Aimee Mann & Seu Jorge Free Concert
Posted on June 17, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTomorrow kicks off this season’s Stern Grove free concert series with Aimee Mann & Seu Jorge. Not too shabby.
Read More..>>Ghana With The Win
Posted on June 17, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentSo lets see if the US can get it done against Italy. Glad to see Beaz on the bench, but wish Donovan was starting in midfield. I’m sure first goal wins this match. My foolish (?) prediction — US with the win 3-2.
Read More..>>Lorem Ipsum Christ-em
Posted on June 16, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentIt looks like the big wheels are turning to reword some prayers, chants and such for US Catholic masses. For example, “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you” becomes “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof”, to which The Almighty responds, “Do you wanna take this outside?”. Whatever, it’s [...]
Read More..>>Processed Meats Saved My Life
Posted on June 14, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“But insight works in strange ways, this time in the form of a fifteen-ounce can of Armour Corned Beef Hash.”
Read More..>>Loose in the ‘Cuse
Posted on June 13, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIt appears that sweat and blood make a workable lube in a pinch.
Read More..>>Cut You Like A Razor
Posted on June 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentListen to the RZA explain it all, at the Commonwealth Club’s extensive online audio archive. Personally, I would have liked to see his talk paired with Camille Paglia’s Break, Blow, Burn conversation. {by way of}
Read More..>>The Job You Save May Be Your Own
Posted on June 9, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBank of America lays off workers to be replaced by overseas employees. If the dead men walking don’t train their replacemetns, ix-nay on the everance-say ay-pay.
Shirley Norton, a BofA spokeswoman, confirmed that while workers aren’t being explicitly told they have to train their replacements or risk losing severance pay, they are being instructed that severance [...]
What is ‘IT’?
Posted on June 9, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI’m still not sure what this is, exactly, but it sounds a lot like some emperor’s clothing to me…
The San Francisco Symphony and KQED threw a fete on Wednesday night at KQED headquarters to celebrate “Keeping Score,” the Symphony’s huge new multimedia project. This could be described as educational, but that’s a pretty dry word. [...]
