Tomorrow marks an anniversary, one that most of you are familiar with by now… 100 years since the Wright brothers first flew. I was watching a documentary on the History Channel last night. In it, they claimed that it was six years before anyone other than the Wright brothers engaged in “heavier than air, self sustained flight”, following that historic day in 1903. Furthermore…
I will go out on a limb and say that the Bucs season is done. They are effectively four games back with seven games to go. Oh, the agony of defeat…
As sweet as a super bowl win last year was, having to hear every sports commentator say, “what’s wrong with the world champs?”, is painful. Just when you’re getting used to the label “world champs”, things…
There has been a story in the news lately which has taken several twists. It involves two families, one patient whose condition is often described as “chronic vegetative state”, the courts, and now the state legislature and the governor. It has prompted many interesting “water cooler” discussions at the office. What is “life support”? What does it mean to be…
It was late at night. The Red Sox had completed their annual tradition of disappointment. A melting pot of emotion was sitting at my computer, typing an entry. Thirteen hours have passed, and it now seems that last night’s entry was the 400th – or so says the iBlog stats. Does 400 seem like a lot to you? I’ll bet it would if you had read them all. (Warning: the author is not…
A dark cloud descends over the land as the evil empire prevails again. Who, outside of New York, wanted to see this again?
If you did, and you are, then you suck. It’s too late (or early, depending on your perspective) to pull any punches. Yankee hatred may be a birthright for the Boston bred, but I think I’m just barely objective enough to say this with deserved conviction. That, or…
Of all the rights we have in this country, free speech is one of the hardest to love. Yet at the same time it is perhaps one of the most important. It is very easy for me to take it for granted. I am accustomed to thinking out loud sometimes, as I’m sure many others are. This would not be possible without a basic right to free speech.
This morning I ran into one of those examples that makes…
Pinellas County Schools, at the urgings of it’s fearless leader Howard Hinsley, has decided to phase out all of the Apple computers and replace them with PCs running Windows. For what reason, you may ask? Well, it wasn’t cost. Many arguments have been made as to wether the upfront savings of a Windows box make up for the down the road savings of a Mac – so I won’t waste…
Does anyone know what is going on in the world today? I’ve taken a bit of a sabbatical from news reading in the last month or so. Gone are the days when I could participate in an informed discussion on current events. The last I heard our country was having trouble keeping the peace in Iraq; a recall election mess was brewing in California; Democrats were fleeing Texas to avoid a vote on…
Another sick day has come and gone. My magical streak of months with at least one sick day has reached three… and the management goes wild! This little bug has given me the opportunity to milk a little more value out of ” HBO on Demand “. Several movies caught my fancy, but I only watched one, a little flick called “In Country”. It is a movie that was released in…