tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200409032024-03-19T02:22:11.195-07:00Italian SandwichDo good. Be nice. Have fun.
Heart TN-1, Home IL-7.sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.comBlogger254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-57357867331157086722011-06-07T05:31:00.000-07:002011-06-07T05:31:16.651-07:00Fine Print and SemanticsAndrew Ross Sorkin, the author of Too Big To Fail writes in his latest column that Goldman Sachs may not have been “massively short" on the subprime mortgage market because it basically depends on:
how you define ‘massive’ and ‘large’sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-25140297924603863502011-04-27T05:54:00.001-07:002011-04-27T05:54:48.419-07:00US government purpose "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-46380314500754432022011-02-11T22:17:00.000-08:002011-02-11T22:19:28.615-08:00Tebow-NewtonIt would be interesting to follow Tebow's career with the Broncos potentially parallel with Cam Newton's career with the Bengals. The pocket passing era of Manning-Brady is nearing an end.
Cincinnati Bengals
Should the Bengals take Carson Palmer's trade-me-or-I-retire threats seriously and draft a quarterback in the top two rounds? Palmer doesn't strike me as a guy who's playing sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-87056303685501402242011-01-09T20:50:00.000-08:002011-01-09T20:50:17.230-08:00First post of Doggie DiaryEstablished a new routine with puppy. Began crate training in earnest post neuterization operation.
Prior to trip to Acapulco, we already knew he could withstand at least six hours in the crate overnight. During Acapulco trip when he didn't eliminate for three full days, we got a better understanding of his ability to hold it.
So far, he's more annoyed by the lampshade than sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-3329978050311114362011-01-09T15:00:00.000-08:002011-01-09T15:00:54.381-08:00Blunt“When you get shot in the head and a bullet goes through your brain, the chances of you living are very small and the chances of you waking up and actually following commands is even much smaller than that.”Doctor describing Gabrielle Giffords' status after assassination attempt.
sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-30032130936249559872010-10-11T19:10:00.001-07:002010-10-11T19:10:54.386-07:00Why You See 'Free Public WiFi' In So Many PlacesWe took the iPad out around town during the Chicago Marathon trying to locate exactly where the runners were we were tracking.I saw the "Free Public WiFi" connections in a couple of spots and they didn't work.http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/10/11/1738257/Why-You-See-Free-Public-WiFi-In-So-Many-Places?from=twittersanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-91441110728796688922010-09-23T06:45:00.001-07:002010-09-23T06:45:51.673-07:00Neyland Maxims1. The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.2. Play for and make the breaks, and when one comes your way SCORE.3. If at first the game - or breaks - go against you, don't let up ... put on more steam.4. Protect our kickers, our quarterback, our lead and our ball game.5. Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle ... for this is the WINNING EDGE.6. Press the sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-64031528941507755442010-09-08T13:29:00.001-07:002011-03-17T21:34:28.941-07:00"hear the pop"I work with technology folks based outside Boston and they are a funny team.
A guy in Florida emailed a project team asking us to review a document for File X.
One of the guys in Boston responded saying:
2 things-
1. we're implementing File Y
2. try attaching the document
I ping the Boston guy saying I liked his snarky comment and he responded that Florida dude needed to hear the pop once insanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-88846761287149050202010-03-30T21:34:00.001-07:002010-03-30T21:34:16.671-07:00Not abandonedStill posting. First post of 2010.sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-40131960174674197462009-11-12T15:19:00.001-08:002009-11-13T23:07:42.167-08:00Richardson and Jackson dialogue"Man, we need some stuff, let's steal it. Okay, where should we steal from. I dunno. Aight, how about the that crappy gas station right next to campus, you down? I'm in, let's roll. Dude you're still wearing UT gear, apparel they ONLY give athletes. Do you think you should change before we go? Nah man, wearing this shit just makes me run faster."
sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-11263973852628961342009-11-01T14:45:00.001-08:002009-11-13T23:08:30.059-08:00Slip"They'll put their political survival and their political power being gained over anything else. They'll use anybody and throw anybody away in order to achieve it."
- Rush Limbaugh, validating Freudsanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-55665082746533688212009-08-20T06:54:00.001-07:002009-08-24T21:12:08.716-07:00Knowledge and Priorities"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important."- Eugene McCarthysanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-79130008692971050532009-08-19T05:41:00.001-07:002009-08-24T21:13:41.179-07:00What if the Right was Right?Authentic and productive."Despite our verbal proclamations to the contrary, Americans (Christian or otherwise) have such a negative visceral association with the concept of socialism that we-thus far-have been unable to have an authentic, productive conversation about whether greed or compassion is the more moral (and productive) incentive for human beings engaged in the social experiment of the sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-48767403598470631652009-08-04T10:16:00.001-07:002009-08-04T10:25:45.227-07:00Cash for ClunkersCash for Clunkers is (was) a success.CNN.com reports that:"The most popular car being purchased under the program, according to the White House? The Ford Focus, which boasts up to 35 mpg."While our clunker-upgraded ride doesn't get quite that high combined MPG, I'm glad that people are choosing to take fuel efficiency more seriously, despite the guy in the article who got a "crew-cab Silverado, sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-32222547290019169072009-06-21T10:39:00.001-07:002009-06-21T10:41:08.233-07:00Common cause?Apparently Islamist regimes and Republicans have gathered around a common enemy: Barack Obama.The AP reports that:"Republican senators criticized President Barack Obama on Sunday for not taking a tougher public stand"and Al Jazeera reports that Ahmadinejad:"has told the US [...] to stop interfering in the country's internal affairs"So, believing both the Iranian regime and the GOP, the Obama sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-45895718314871225952009-05-07T13:04:00.000-07:002009-05-07T13:08:44.546-07:00Straw Man ArgumentMelanie Phillips goes ballistic on American Jews and their support of Obama saying he is preparing "to throw Israel under the bus."Almost eighty per cent of American Jews voted for Obama despite the clear and present danger he posed to Israel. They did so because their liberal self-image was and is more important to them than the Jewish state whose existence and security cannot be allowed to sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-20049835291744856842009-04-28T16:37:00.000-07:002009-04-28T16:41:31.559-07:00Existential debateI have existential debates with myself about random stuff all the time. We caught a History Channel program about the Marianas Trench last weekend and I read an article by Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg. Steinberg wrote about how one way to check whether one is a a zealot or rational person is to try and argue the strongest case for an opposing viewpoint. If one can't argue convincingly sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-90035189406352016272009-04-25T09:56:00.001-07:002009-04-28T16:36:16.714-07:00Gun EducationNYT columnist Bob Herbert lets off a rant about gun violence in an op-ed and concludes:We don't really think about it. If the crime is horrible enough, we'll go through the motions of public anguish but we never really do anything about it. Americans are as blasé as can be about this relentless slaughter that keeps the culture soaked in blood.The education and reflection needs to be on the sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-28307788673396045512009-02-13T11:24:00.001-08:002009-06-21T10:55:14.422-07:00DefinitionFor the etymologically challenged, a refresher:mortgage, equiv. to mort (dead) + gage (pledge). It's a deathpledge, got that?sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-17709876058619968112009-01-21T06:18:00.000-08:002009-01-21T06:19:33.424-08:00TestTest from mobile device.sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-25805567532944976582008-09-19T13:45:00.000-07:002008-09-19T13:56:20.235-07:00ReminderFreedom Democrats has a thank-you note up to Democrats and the media.First, on the topic of the "Wall Street meltdown" I am completely and totally heartless and callous. I don't blame this on George W. Bush and the Republicans. I don't blame this on Bill Clinton and the 1990s. It's the entire system at fault and to lay the blame at any one individual is absurd and just political opportunism. I amsanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-87416984331217534332008-09-16T11:54:00.000-07:002008-09-16T12:25:06.517-07:00Blame gameAn Investor's Business Daily editorial from Monday, September 15 lays the blame for the financial and housing sector meltdown at the Clinton Administration's doorstep. However, they stop short of laying out exactly how the market was motivated to offer high-risk products.But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, thatdictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-14233137508693419072008-07-04T20:24:00.001-07:002008-07-04T20:24:57.997-07:00Personal financial managerMint.com is worth the price. Which is free.sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-52871761400769215112008-07-03T21:25:00.000-07:002008-07-04T20:10:04.107-07:00Cindy McCain was a druggie?It's old news, but offers insight into the dynamics of John and Cindy McCain's relationship.The link is based on excerpts from a private journal of a guy that worked at the charity that Cindy McCain headed. It's an interesting story.sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20040903.post-37784064852710092952008-07-02T17:59:00.000-07:002008-07-02T18:03:54.091-07:00Name change.In honor of Jeff Strabone's landmark decision, the name of this blog has changed.sanskritghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08992048732346451393noreply@blogger.com1