It’s been a great day for Dad. A friend of mine asked me today if I know who Wally Szczerbiak is. From the context of the conversation I assumed he was a basketball player, but couldn’t honestly answer yes, so he sent me some photos.
OK. So he’s a hot basketball player. For Boston should any [...]
My youngest is turning 12 in about 6 weeks. She has decided she wants to take up gymnastics. I have mixed feelings about this.
We have known she likely has natural ability as a gymnast almost since the day she was born. She is small, wiry, strong and high energy. She earned the nickname “rigorbaby” long [...]
Being one who has dealt with allergies my whole life, I have been really, really annoyed that I can buy no more than a 10 day supply of decongestant now that government officials have decided that restricting the sale of pseudo-ephedrine, the ingredient used for basement meth labs, is the answer to the drug problem. [...]
Despite doomsday predictions1 by some conservative watchers and the “righteous” efforts of Larry H. Miller2, Brokeback Mountain is doing phenomenally at the box office. Obviously it can’t compete with major studio releases on the weekend. This past weekend it came in at #9 with about $7M in box office receipts compared to Glory Road’s $16.9M.3 [...]
Over at the Independant Gay Forum, Mark Pietrzyk pens an article about a few of the leaders and most public figures of ex-gay ministries. I think this is the crux of the article right here:
It is not unusual for people who lead irresponsible and uncontrolled lives to be deeply unhappy, and one can readily credit [...]
Over at Deviant Art, one of the photographers I keep an eye on is a young guy not too far off of 20 who lives in Austria. His handle on D.A. is coxi. He’s got an amazing eye and I am always impressed with his work. Several months ago he posted several pictures he had [...]
I think there should be at least one class period dedicated to physics in driver’s ed.
Today, boys and girls, we are going to talk about inertia. Can you say inertia? The principle of inertia states that an object tends to want to maintain its current state. In other words, an object at rest wants to [...]
If you haven’t heard of Pandora, check it out. Presented by the Music Genome Project, Pandora is a streaming radio that tailors itself to your music tastes.
Basically you give it the name of a song or a band and it creates a music station with music that is representative of your choice. You can give [...]
That question was posed to me in a somewhat confrontational manner the other night at a party, perhaps because it had been noted earlier in the evening that I am obviously in love with D. Whatever his reason for singling me out, I am not the kind of person on whom you can drop a [...]
The bungling of the Medicare Prescription Plan continues.
With tens of thousands of people unable to get medicines promised by Medicare, the Bush administration has told insurers that they must provide a 30-day supply of any drug that a beneficiary was previously taking, and it said that poor people must not be charged more than [...]