I suspect I have never become a hockey fan because I’ve never lived anywhere cold enough for the sport to be played by kids or where a pro team played. Nonetheless, I can appreciate the skill involved (“I’m supposed to control this little rubber disc while skating at full speed? Are you crazy?”), so I …
The bugger came ashore with more of a whimper than a bang, reaching heights of about three feet. This is startling: Hilo Bay is continuing to fill and drain every 20 minutes, said warning center oceanographer Nathan Becker. Hilo Bay is not exactly a small body of water.
As you all may have heard, there was an 8.8 earthquake in Chile overnight. At the moment (10:30am HST) we expect a series of waves to hit Hilo about 11:00am and Honolulu about 11:30am. We’ve got a homeless population that lives on beaches as well as a lot of people who live just across primary …
Here’s a bit of unsolicited advice: Legislation passed with 51 votes out of 100 is called majority rule. Stop using the word reconciliation. Reconciliation is not as easily comprehended and your opponents are trying to make it into a bad word. In the minds of the average busy citizen: Majority rule = good. Reconciliation = …
Ezra Klein: Sen. John Barrasso, for instance, just mentioned that a Canadian premier recently got heart surgery in Miami. Best health care in the world, baby! But presumably that premier either could afford to fly to Miami and pay for the procedure on his own or Canada Health paid for it. How about the counter …
Mad Kane has thrown down a limerick challenge. Go over to that post, then start your limerick with the words “There once was a woman named Ann” Remember that the limerick form is AABBA; the first two lines rhyme; the second two lines rhyme; then the last line should rhyme with the first two. I …
Blurb: Hurley tries to persuade Jack to go with him on an unspecified mission; Jin has an encounter with an old friend. We can surmise that the old friend Jin meets is Claire, since she appeared as Rambo in the last scene two weeks ago. Ryan Alan Sepinwall EW Preview The bad news is that …
Herb Brooks brought the band to play. But how miraculous was the Miracle on Ice? A hedge fund manager and a psychotherapist try to determine what the real odds were on the US hockey team defeating the Soviet hockey team that day. After much modeling, they conclude it might have been as low (!) as …
Please, when purchasing books for your systems, take note whether the new purchase is part of a series and budget for the remaining books as they appear. Also budget to acquire the backlist. I’m reading Alan Steele’s Coyote books, but the library has no copies beyond the first two. Here I am midway through the …
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Ever wonder why some YouTube videos have embedding disabled? Here’s part of the explanation, albeit from a band’s perspective, not a label’s. Essentially, the labels want a cut every time the video is played. A deal was cut giving them a small fee, but the catch is that they only get the fee when the …