October 22 night baseball is wrong
Once again baseball will play its showcase event at night. Forecast for Chicago this evening? Oct. 22 Houston Astros @ Chicago White Sox U.S. Cellular Field – Chicago, IL 43?F 40% chance of rain Idiots.
Archive of entries posted on October 2005
You thought Iraq was dumb?
Here’s the full transcript of Col. Wilkerson’s speech I mentioned yesterday. Billmon discusses some of it at his place. One of the things that he cites is this startling paragraph: The other thing that no one ever likes to talk about is SUVs and oil and consumption and, as one little girl said yesterday at …
Bookgiver’s remorse
While fiddling around with book cataloging I remembered old books I used to own but gave away rather than pack them for moving. Those include juveniles like The Hardy Boys, the Rick Brant stories, a few Nancy Drews and Trixie Beldens, and a bunch of mystery and science fiction books. The latter included Doc Savage, …
Cheney – Rumsfeld cabal
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, gives us his observations in four years working at State (partial transcript here). “What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not …
Dodged a bullet
Day Seven of my Arbitron diary-keeping coincides with Day One of the local semi-annual public radio pledge drive. Good thing there wasn’t more overlap, or I’d have been switching the dial all week.
Bad music
Michael B?rub? has a question: What is the musical Oldie Too Hideous To Acknowledge? So far there are 145 comments, with some overlap due to timing differences. It’s quite a snapshot of musical drek from the 70s, most of which I remember with varying degrees of shame or amusement. My sole nominee was Tom Jones’ …
Washup
$110.00 You know what was weird? I got these at Lowes, but I had a heckuva time getting to the shelves because there were about a dozen Japanese tourists in the aisle, filling up shopping carts as fast as they could. I asked one of the salespeople, and she said they saw a lot of …
Library Thing progress report
Phew. 945 books entered into my catalog so far, which is probably about 2/3 of the collection. The designer/programmer has continued to tweak it; you can now import from several different varieties of files and databases, and you can search some 31 different libraries for your titles. The tricky thing is that the ISBN system …
USC – Notre Dame
It must be USC’s year again. If Leinart doesn’t lose the ball out-of-bounds, he’s stopped, time runs out, and ND wins. What a finish.
Voice mail bypass
Mr. Pogue has given us another useful tool: a master list of bypass codes allowing you to get to human beings at various retail, banking, and cellphone companies when you’ve got a gripe (or a compliment, I suppose). Found at Kos.