Archive for August 2008
The monthlies.
Un-Retirement
Through the years, I’ve seen countless professional athletes retire, only to un-retire soon after. Bret Favre is in the news — constantly — because of this, but it really started with Mike Jordan. Um, I mean Michael Jordan. (It’s interesting that his first name was never given nickname status, although I’m quite sure his childhood [...]
pOH
This is something I have been playing around with for some time now. In place of referring to pH when noting a substance’s acidity (a measure of the hydrogen), make note of the substance’s ratio of hydroxide, or pOH. The equation is elementary, and they both reveal the same meaning; same difference. pH + pOH [...]
Failure to Launch
My wife really enjoyed this film, and I can see why. It was harmless, and it contains a love story and a certain amount of safe humor. I can’t really complain, but the casting of Terry Bradshaw as the father was off. I understand that the film was going for a bit of slapstick, but [...]
Too Dangerous and Unstable
“This man [John McCain] is simply too dangerous and unstable to be president.” — Josh Marshall, of Talking Points Memo, in response to reports that the GOP nominee’s advisers are pushing for another Cold War.
Cold War
The priceless breaking news headline on MSNBC.com this morning… “Defense secretary Gates says U.S. does not want another cold war with Russia.” Phew; that was a close one.
Obama VP Revealed?
Newsweek rules out Clinton (duh), as well as Bayh and Kaine, as Obama’s vice-president, citing the DNC speaker lineup… “Obama will definitely choose a national-security expert–like Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden; Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island or Sam Nunn, former Georgia senator and one-time Armed Services Committee [...]
A Woman VP?
Unless something absolutely insane* takes place at the upcoming Democratic convention in Denver later this month — and good news, reyonthehill will be there to cover the festivities, complete with nutso regalia — Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president, the first minority to be positioned for the nation’s top job (from any [...]
GMail
GMail was down for roughly an hour yesterday — which is like forever in internet speed and time. Google, the super-evil company that runs the service, eventually apologized. But that did give me an excuse to play off the ordeal with my Facebook status… Jeffrey needs to learn to cope without gmail. Jeffrey is learning [...]
Silverlight
I wanted to take a moment and thank the fine people at NBC for creating what could be the most obnoxious website (in the web’s short history) for its Olympics portal. And bonus points go to the ad wizard who decided it would be best that every god damn American be forced to download and [...]
Full Sail
Something I should have mentioned about my recent trip to Oregon was the local brew. I have made note of the fine pale ales in Philadelphia and St. Louis, and the southern Oregon offering certainly deserves noting as well. While camping a week ago along the southern Oregon border, I sampled a six-pack of Full [...]
1-888-Bullshit
A funny thing about this 08-08-08 thing that happened yesterday, is that it is not actually 08-08-08. We just began counting up from an arbitrary date. Therefore there cannot be any worldly special meaning to the date since it is utterly meaningless. There are countless calendars. The Jewish calendar considers us to be in year [...]
MBABook
The one admittedly useful thing about Facebook — and I am not talking about the latest and greatest application that is deemed useful (but is everything but) by the good folks at TechCrunch* — is the ability to connect with old friends from college and high school. I recently reconnected with a high school classmate [...]
Kayak
My first stop for travel is Kayak.com, and I am sure I am not the only one. Although I do not truly understand their business model (read: revenue potential), it is singlehandedly the easiest and (most often) best tool for typical travelers. (Look, if you can afford a travel agent, god bless you; just be [...]
Obama Pokes Fun
A great response by Obama to the tire gauge attacks from mindless republicans… (via kos)
The Goonies
It was great timing watching this the day after returning from the rugged Oregon coast. Chunk really makes this film what it is. “I can describe all of them [the Fratellis, to the police].” This is what Chunk says — unknowingly — to the Fratellis as he tries to summon help for the rest of [...]
Barnburner II
The invitation has arrived. Another Bronson barnburner is in the works for the Napa woods this September. The live entertainment…
Colbert on McCain (circa 2006)
Stephen Colbert took on McCain’s “maverick” status during his roast of Bush at the now-infamous White House Correspondent’s Dinner two years ago… John McCain is here. John McCain, John McCain, what a maverick! Somebody find out what fork he used on his salad, because I guarantee you it wasn’t a salad fork. This guy could [...]
Que
“Hey! I signed up for netflix and got our first video yesterday. I also ordered King Kong today and had it put at the top of my que thing or whatever its called.” — My father, in an email from a little over two years ago, and yet another reason for my nascent archive’s existence.
Oregon Thoughts
I spent a few days along the Southern Oregon coast this past weekend. It was unimaginably picturesque. Some thoughts… – The southern Oregon area really is most appropriately described as the State of Jefferson, along with the northernmost parts of California (north of Eureka). There really is more of a southern mindset, rather than, say, [...]
This Morning’s Radio
- There was a report on McCain’s campaign on NPR this morning, with the GOP nominee declaring, “When I’m president, we won’t have $4 gas, because we’ll be drilling off-shore for more oil, right here, right now.” News-flash: Off-shore drilling will not reduce the price of gas at the pump, especially in the near future [...]
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