Archive for August, 2002
the Potter influence?
Talking with my friend Trz over the weekend (the type of friend where you pick up the phone and the next thing you know an hour has gone by but it seems like only 10 minutes), and he mentioned a new novel coming out this fall by Michael Chabon. This being news to me, of [...]
wanna be in my fantasy?
Deep into preparations for Saturday’s Fantasy Football draft, and I’m working on the web site, and installing draft and league management software, and putting together the league’s monstrous spreadsheet. With 14 teams and hundreds of players and lots of autosumming and crosschecking of stats and so forth, it’s a challenge. I’m using Excel. I’d rather [...]
propaganda or poached pooch?
Alliterative headline day on leather egg continues with this question: is the "shocking" video seen on CNN the past few days — reputedly showing al Qaeda terrorists testing biological weapons on a puppy — legitimate al Qaeda footage or could it be U.S.-produced propaganda intended to enrage the masses into supporting further military strikes in [...]
botched blogmeets, fond farewells, and legal links
If anyone is considering writing a guide to planning a successful blogmeet, I have a couple suggestions: 1) give your invited guests more than 10 hours notice; 2) the host and guest of honor should not be an hour late. Yes, the Monday night blogmeet was pretty much a wash. We were running late (my [...]
Boston blog meet: tonight
Yes, it’s last minute. Yes, it’s hastily-arranged. But PJ of brucehoax.blogspot.com is in town for a mere 2 days, staying at casa leather egg, and we’ll see if we can’t get a few Boston-type bloggers out tonight to welcome PJ to Beantown before he jets back to Texas. The plan is to meet for dinner [...]
stick a fork in it, part 2
The Major League Baseball player’s union today set a strike date of August 30 if a new labor agreement is not reached. The gun is now loaded, the safety is off, the finger is on the trigger, and the barrel is squarely aimed at their feet. The 1994 strike wiped out the World Series, attendance [...]