Archive for December 2008

The monthlies.

• Barbados and Baltimore

  An idea I’m working on… This fall on NBC… He’s a fool for love. She’s a hard-nosed cop. Barbados and Baltimore. Thursdays after Frasier Returns. This fall on NBC. I’m not sure if it will be a comedy or drama; to be safe, I’ll classify it as a dramedy.

• Then, And Now

  This is a skill that I have that I only hope to use for good, and never for evil… “And lastly, the Pro Bowl should be played during the off-week before the Super Bowl. Most players that play in the Super Bowl don’t end up playing in the all-star game anyway, especially the winners. And [...]

• MacBook Presser

  I’ve been peppered with a lot of emails since my hinting and then confirming of my recent purchase of a MacBook. And longtime readers have known of my desire to return home for a long, long time. Instead of answering these emails individually, I have decided to host a press-conference on the subject. Here goes… [...]

• Embezzlement

  I’m glad I am not the only one that thinks so (cue Gregg Easterbrook)… Very high pay to Wall Street managers is justified on the grounds that they are financial geniuses with astonishing expertise. Instead it turns out many financial industry managers made basic blunder after basic blunder. The 2008 financial markets crash belies the [...]

• Ski Dream

  An email to friends… I had a dream last night about the ski trip. The place is actually less of a cabin and more of a chalet. And it was summer, not winter; a very dry Tahoe summer. And there is a view of the lake but it is not Lake Tahoe. Looked more like [...]

• 111 Friends

  I do not have 111 friends. I don’t think I’ll ever have 111 friends, nor do I think that I’ll want to. With that being said, for one fleeting moment, I did have 111 friends. At least according to my Facebook account. I think if I added up all of the friends that I would [...]

• MacBook

  I’m back, and it feels good. Image: Insanely Great Tees

• Electors Should Be Replaced By Robots

  I don’t mind the electoral college. I would rather it not be winner-take-all and that the number of votes for any given state equal the number of congressional districts in that state, however it is a workable system. It has only failed four times in over two hundred years. But I do think that electors [...]

• Bisons

  After a fourteen-year run as the affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, my hometown Buffalo Bisons will be a farm club for the New York Mets. Accordingly, the team is ushering in new colors and a new logo… Image: MiLB It’s not that bad; I like the colors, but maybe there is too much emphasis on [...]

• In Transit

  One of these days I’m going to visit Shenzhen; it must be a magical place… Image: FedEx

• Heavenly Google

  Oh, how I try to hate Google; but then the giant does something so terrific, so out-of-the-ordinary,so unexpected, that you just have to give them props. Google Maps now includes ski lifts and trails… Image: Google

• Dot-Me

  Inspired by a heated discussion at work today — on the topic of Jason Kendall, no less, the worst player in Oakland A’s history; I think I won that debate — I am thinking of starting a baseball-themed website. Unfortunately, every domain known to man has been squatted, so I was left with either thenineteenthbestbaseballwebsite-dot-com [...]

• Superbas

  Take that, Wikipedia… Image: Google

• Debunking the Obama Election

  This post is not going to make readers happy (well, most of them anyway), and it is not supposed to. It is time for some real honest truths in response to the truly historic election that we have witnessed. Well, most of us. I was flat-out drunk-and-stupid that evening. Obama won — in record fashion, [...]

• Fixing the Economy

  Well, I am just glad that the struggling economy is finally behind us. This may be some arm-chair quarterbacking, but this is what I would do to right the sinking economy… – Buy the auto companies. Yep, let’s get in the car business. Let’s salvage what they got, and sell them off for parts. GM [...]

• Amazon’s Billions

  This was from an Amazon.com purchase made in 2003 (and I had saved the screen-cap until… now)… Image: Amazon.com What I think is really funny about this is that Amazon threw in an exclamation with “You got free shipping,” and totally disregarded the fact that I had just shy of ten billion dollars of credit. [...]

• Disclaimer

  I wrote this for a project several years ago, but I think it works well for this blog… All writing is intentional and correct, so please refrain from keeping a log of mistakes.

• Breaking

  Tonight on the NewsHour — A lawsuit alleging that president-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to retain the office of the chief executive because his father was not an American citizen was thrown-out by the courts today. Meanwhile, a semi-related lawsuit alleging that Andrew Jackson should be retroactively and posthumously expelled from the presidency because both [...]

• Flickr Pro

  It took me some time, but I finally fell in-love with Flickr. I post all my photos on the website, although they are set to private so that only family and friends can exclusively see them. It is all a part of me reducing my “web footprint.” What about the blog, you ask? Let’s just [...]

• Email

  I’ve been thinking about email a lot lately (I almost wrote “alot;” that would have been a disaster). What it means to me, how I interact with it, how does it fit in my future plans, what is next for this medium. In fact, I’ve been thinking about email too much. I’ve had a lot [...]

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