Hi everyone, Sorry I won't be around - we planned our camping trip a while ago, and it just happens to be the this weekend. It should be good weather. Have a good time at your party, and say "hi" to Bruce for me! Oh, and be gone when I get back. And maybe clean up after yourselves this time. - Bryan
I'm watching a little DNC coverage on MSNBC, and I just heard this gem from Chris Matthews: Obama has become the first African-American ever nominated by a major political party in just about any major country. In what other country would an African-American - or any American - be nominated? I realize it's live tv, and everyone is a little excited, but maybe thinking about the words that come out of your mouth before they actually come out isn't a bad idea.
Posted to OnMilwaukee.com this morning, a story about Steve Glynn's "Spreenkler" initiative. In the August edition of Milwaukee Magazine, a sidebar profile on Michael Zirbel's work with Habitat for Humanity and the Habitat HomeStore in Waukesha. Also in Milwaukee Magazine, Chris Chuzzles' band Disguised As Birds gets a photo+shoutout in an article on the rock scene in town. Their new CD is available now. Senator Cody's website was hit with a deluge of traffic when he was linked to from a "national liberal blog". Finally, if this guy keeps losing weight, there will be nothing left - which means he defaults in our ongoing battle for supremacy on the greens.
Judy & I were watching "Deal or No Deal" last night. The recent commercials had implied that someone was finally going to win the $1,000,000. As the show went on, last night's contestant revealed that her dream was to star on Broadway, and if she won the money, she would lose some weight (???). She also went on and on about how she hates it when people take the deal - they should go all the way! So, as the game moves along to the big finish, she's got a choice to make. There are two unopened cases left. One has $5,000, the other $1,000,000. She's been offered $350,000 to walk away. She declines. She gets an opportunity to exchange her case for ...
Did Michael Phelps get a gold medal for a race he lost? - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine. Technically, the question of who touched first doesn't matter. FINA and the Olympics honchos agreed beforehand to use the touch pads; the touch pads require pressure; all swimmers and their coaches should know this. But that technical argument leaves two ugly, unresolved problems. One is that FINA, the timekeeper, the referee, and the media keep telling us, falsely, that Phelps "touched," "arrived," and "got his hand on the wall" first. "In our sport, it's who touches first," Marculescu told the AP on Saturday. Bull. It's not who touches first. It's who triggers the sensor first. Did he get to the ...
i took a blueberry scone with me to work this morning. We bought them on Saturday night at Trader Joe's. The first few bites i dipped into my coffee, which was good - they're a bit on the dry side. Then i tried one straight, and noticed it was slightly tart & bitter. It took me another two bites to place what the taste was... mold. Which reminds me of a quick story. When I was a young'n, I remember waking up early one weekend morning and scrounging around in the pantry for something to eat before my parents woke up. I found a tray of leftover blueberry coffee cake. I cut myself a big ol' slice with the most blueberries and ...
During my morning reading here at home, I saw a link to an article at espn.com: Umps currently cool on replay, boycott conference call with MLB Here's the gist of it: the umpires don't want to be replaced by machines. So they decided that they won't talk to the league office about implementing instant replay. Does David Stern stand for this? No. Roger Goodell? Not in a heartbeat. There are a million things wrong with baseball - see my previous comments on that - but "gutless leadership" just jumped into the top 5. Baseball actually has a chance to get something right*, and yet again the league is going to roll over for a strong union looking out for their ...
I have long maintained that the single greatest athletic feat I've ever seen was Michael Johnson destroying the world record in the 200m at the 1996 Olympics. Usain "Lightning" Bolt did quite a number on the 100m a few days ago, but he says his best event is the 200. This morning, I stumbled across this chart. Rather than link to it and help kill his bandwitch, I've pasted it in here. This chart shows the twenty fastest 200m marks of all time. Each row represents a hundredth of a second. Eyeballing the chart would suggest that the cutting edge of human achievement in ...
Man, if I had been born 15 years later... I shudder to think how fast I could have gone if I had access to this and this in my prime. Plus, they've changed some of the rules since my day - the front-flip backstroke turn? Would have gotten me DQd in a heartbeat. Same with dropping your head under the waterline in the breaststroke. Seriously. You'd all be watching a kid from Bay View shock the world right now. Oh well, things still turned out pretty good.
Call it a downturn, slow, recession, hard times, whatever you want to. Consistently shitty service and workmanship. Cause or Effect? If I pay you to do something, and you screw it up and have to do it again (and again...) - you're not making a profit off me. I'm talking to you, Lenscrafters. I'm done with you. You too, Fazio's.
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