I don’t know what the sports writers were thinking when they voted for Justin Morneau over Derek Jeter for MVP. It couldn’t have been a strictly numbers thing. Jeter came in second for the batting title. He got his 3rd Golden Glove in a row and he also got he Silver Slugger for short stop.…
mental_floss has a blog entry featuring a whole bunch of YouTube posts relating to Christopher Walken impersonations. They even have one of my favorites, the infamous SNL skit where Kevin Spacey does Christopher Walken does Han Solo.
I had a dream last night that I went back and visited my first elementary school, Macafee Road School, in Somerset, New Jersey. In the dream, the school was entirely different than it is in reality. And I saw a teacher there who was supposed to have been my first grade teacher, but who in…
Monday night is Heroes and Studio 60 night. And in my pre-TiVo days, I’d force myself to stay up to watch them, or I’d miss them and have to buy them from the iTunes store. Tonight, however, I am tired and about ready for bed. And as I type this journal entry, TiVo is diligently…
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Waiting for the train home after work, I noted the sign indicating the arrival of the next three trains had the minutes listed as 2, 4, and 8 minutes, respectively. I smiled to myself because I recognized the pattern immediately and had never seen it line up on the platform like that before: 21, 22,…
The winner of my secret 1,000th comment contest (secret because no one but me knew about it) is none other than strausmouse, who put the 1,000th comment on my blog with this ditty. Eric’s prize is a one-year paid subscription to LJ. Think of it as a “thank you” to all my loyal readers. (Of…
My four-hour chunk of meeting are finally done for the day! And there are 40 minutes left in my workday. It had been my plan to write a fairly elaborate (and elegant) perl script that would parse some data and prepare it for import to a database. Because of my meeting, I got exactly 18…
This morning, I made my reservation with the Dolphin Resort at Disney World for Norm and Vicky’s wedding. I arrive in Orlando the evening of March 21 and depart on Sunday, March 25. I got the basic room, king bed, non-smoking. I still have to make my travel arrangements for flying down to Orlando, but…
Ken Jennings has some amusing things to say on the placement of commas on a Rachel Ray advertisement.