back to choking the chicken

Posted on March 29, 2007 - Filed Under

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A Half Moon Bay man who shot an ostrich to death after the flightless bird pummeled him and his friend when they trespassed on a coastal ranch was ordered released today after serving five months in jail for animal abuse.
Jonathon Porter, 20 — who prosecutors say killed for revenge after the bird humiliated him in [...]

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Ted Leo/Rx in Concert online TONIGHT

Posted on March 29, 2007 - Filed Under

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Thanks to jizzle for sending me word that Ted Leo’s concert in DC will be streamed at NPR. (7PM Frisco time)

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Breaking Down Crash

Posted on March 22, 2007 - Filed Under

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Joe Posnanski tries to figure who’d be the ‘real-world’ Crash Davis (dismissing Buck Rogers as an unlikely Pynchon reader). Some good analysis in the comments, too, from Devin:
Crash was probably caught in a numbers game. I think he would have been in his prime around the time teams stopped carrying three catchers and during the [...]

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AL Kennedy’s Day

Posted on March 19, 2007 - Filed Under

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Stuart Kelly at scotsman.com lauds AL Kennedy’s latest novel, Day, hailing “virtuoso performances”

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Purr Purr Purrfect Strangers

Posted on March 16, 2007 - Filed Under

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQ0urHjSIk

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good vs. potential evil

Posted on March 15, 2007 - Filed Under

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Reading Tim O’Reilly’s response to [Lauren Weinstein's response to Google's privacy policy change], he mentions that, “balancing the good vs. potential evils is essential” (emphasis mine).
I assume by not qualifying good with potential, possible, or the like he means only demonstrable good. (which would be significantly lower than potential good) and rating that against the [...]

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One Billion Dollars

Posted on March 13, 2007 - Filed Under

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The numbers are in: One Billion dollars is how much it costs to keep America safe. And the only way to do it is to break our TVs. Oh well, guess it’s time to be a patriot and buy a $5,000 HDTV. It’s for the children:
Congress set the deadline several years ago in an effort [...]

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Murder By Death By Robot

Posted on March 12, 2007 - Filed Under

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From the 30 Strangest Deaths (in HISTORY, no less):
Death by Robot
Robert Williams [wiki] was the first man ever killed by a robot. On January 25, 1979, Williams climbed into a storage rack at the Ford Motor’s Flat Rock casting plant to retrieve a part because the parts-retrieval robot malfunctioned. Suddenly, the robot reactivated and slammed [...]

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my other blog - artifactual

Posted on March 12, 2007 - Filed Under

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In case anybody is interested, I’ve decided to start another blog, “artifactual” (A/F). It will focus on software development — despite appearances on this crappy blog, that’s what I do to pay the bills — something I didn’t really want to muck up BMK with. Basically, I’ve decided to divide and conquer myself. I also [...]

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you know who hectors

Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under

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Ted Leo, musician / media watchdog (you feel the rant):
Man, where are the frigging editors out there? I’m talking about every possible publication, on-line and in print. I keep seeing contradictions and bad journalism that’s driving me crazy! In an op-ed in today’s NYTimes, Gregg Easterbrook pulls a classic Fox News “Obama went to a [...]

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done when it’s due

Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under

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Hot on the heels1 of reading a discussion at the AV Club that touched on the “finality” of a song’s composition, I come acrosss An Aquarium Drunkard’s posting an MP3 of the “Nebraska” version of Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The USA. Compared to the version Reagan sampled, it provides a great example of the different [...]

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upon this rock, i don’t build my church

Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under

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Cardinal Ratzinger couldn’t keep JP 2.0 from seeing the Conor Oberst of the future, Bob Dylan:
Pope Benedict, who has labelled rock “the work of the Devil”, said: “I had reasons to be sceptical and still am. I doubted whether it was in good taste to allow such a performance in front of the Pope.”

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Walk-A-Thon

Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under

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San Francisco is the #3 most “walkable” city in the U.S. of A. Omaha checks in @ #25, hot on the heels of #24 Lincoln, NE. Rounding out the top 100 is Newark, NJ.

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Rollin’ Wit The Lynch Mob

Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under

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Bat Segundo marks his 100th podcast with an interview with David Lynch.
Subjects Discussed: Transcendental Meditation, true happiness, contending with stress, fear and anxiety, anger, the relationship between filmmaking and TM, inner happiness, walking vs. TM, Knut Hamsun, Einstein’s Theory of Everything, Dostoevsky’s 1866 publishing deal, on coming up with ideas, the art life vs. the [...]

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(and high school seniors)

Posted on March 8, 2007 - Filed Under

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Why do consultants have such heavy heads?

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with crosses made of pipes and planks

Posted on March 8, 2007 - Filed Under

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I may have to swing by: “Christian graffiti artists and hip-hop evangelists will perform.”.

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new fantasy baseball community

Posted on March 8, 2007 - Filed Under

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I’ve decided to dip my toes in the Ning waters, creating a fantasy baseball “community”*. If you have any perceived or real interest in fantasy baseball, feel free to join. I don’t have any immediate plans for this … but am curious to see if/where it goes.
http://baseballfantasy.ning.com
* what happens when you throw a community and [...]

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You can’t stop progress

Posted on March 6, 2007 - Filed Under

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Some of my happiest hours where logged in the Antiquarium. Not too many more (if any) it seems. Despite the short shrift given by the OWH, this may be the sadddest change I’ve heard coming out of Omaha.So it goes.

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blog updatin’ blues

Posted on March 6, 2007 - Filed Under

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Looks like a wordpress update broke my custom theme. For now, revel in the default.

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welcome addition

Posted on March 2, 2007 - Filed Under

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New to me, Joe Posnanski writes for a blog, The Soul of Baseball — to honor the memory of Buck O’Neil (and also help sell Joe’s new book on the man). Even if you aren’t a Royals fan or aren’t familiar with Joe’s writing I think this would be an enjoyable site for any baseball [...]

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