30 October 2007
19 October 2007
say it ain't so, joe.say it ain't so.
12 years.
12 straight runs to the postseason.
6 world series appearances in your first 8 years as skipper.
4 championships in your first five years at the helm.
a record-setting 114 wins in 1998.
second only to joe mccarthy as the winningest manager of the yankees.
8th winningest manager in baseball history (behind #7 joe mccarthy)
6 world series appearances in your first 8 years as skipper.
4 championships in your first five years at the helm.
a record-setting 114 wins in 1998.
second only to joe mccarthy as the winningest manager of the yankees.
8th winningest manager in baseball history (behind #7 joe mccarthy)
10 October 2007
strange how these thoughts from 60 years ago are just as appropriate today. . .
"possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places
who do not have to endure war's savagery
will ever stop blundering to send others to endure it."
who do not have to endure war's savagery
will ever stop blundering to send others to endure it."
from a journal entry of pfc eugene sledge, 1 div usmc
after the battle of peleliu, palau islands, south pacific
15 september - 25 november 1944
after the battle of peleliu, palau islands, south pacific
15 september - 25 november 1944
This is a picture of some of the men in Company K-3-5, 1st Marine Division.
Eugene B. Sledge is in the center of the front row.
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03 October 2007
• • • our third annual inductee
• • • into the bored stiff geeks
• • • hall of fame
here we find some engineers who have entirely too much time on their hands.
07 September 2007
resto nella pace, caro Luciano
Luciano Pavarotti al teatro nazionale in
Santo Domingo, Repubblica Domenicana, in 2002.
immagine dalla pressa dei andres leighton/associated press
legga l'articolo a nytimes.com da BERNARD HOLLAND pubblicata: 7 settembre 2007
luciano pavarotti, il cantante italiano di cui squillando, il suono pristine ha regolato un campione per i tenori operatic dell'era dopoguerra, morto giovedì a suo modena vicina domestica, in italia del nord. era 71.
come enrico caruso ed il jenny lind prima di lui, il sig. pavarotti ha esteso la sua presenza lontano oltre i limiti dell'opera italiana. si è transformato in in un titan della coltura di schiocco. milioni lo hanno visto sulla televisione ed hanno trovato nella la suoi personalità espansiva, fascino come uno bambino e figura generosa un collegamento ad una forma di arte con cui molti hanno avuti soltanto una familiarità gettante uno sguardo.
circa la sua propria alimentazione di disegno, la sua analisi era semplice e sul contrassegno.
"penso una qualità importante che ho è che se accendete la radio e che sento qualcuno cantare, voi so che è me." ha detto. "non confondete la mia voce con un'altra voce."
31 August 2007
30 August 2007
13 August 2007
my vacation was hell on wheels or i'm so tired i feel like i'm firing on only 5 cylinders
what a vacation. oh, it was fun, the family had a great time, no doubt, and it was great to get away from the pressures of work and all, but it's the back-story which left the wife and me so darned exhausted.
let's back this station wagon up and give you the whole ride.
the week before we drove off into the sunrise to our vacation, we had the luxoboat in for a tune-up. you see, it was running rough--had been for some time, and i knew it needed some tlc. the verdict from tom and don (my trusted mechanics)? low compression in cylinder 5.
my options? spend $2 grand on a tear-down to find the problem, and up to $4 grand to fix it. . .
. . .or drive it the way it was.
i was planning on replacing the old wagon queen family truckster in about a year, so i figured drive it the way it was. what's the worst that could happen? crappy gas mileage and a check engine light stuck on.
drive on we did.
5 days into the vacation, the check engine light started to blink and chime at us as we drove through a town near home on our way to the beach, so we turned around and headed for the nearest dealer which sold cars like ours. we asked the service guys to pull the error codes and see what was wrong with our car.
no compression, cylinder 5. not low compression, no compression.
what did this mean for us? what was the worst that could happen?
a seized up engine, that's what.
when? i dunno, 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months. . .
. . .or spend $2 grand on a tear-down to find the problem, and up to $4 grand to fix it, or $6 grand for a new engine. . .
. . .or replace the car.
so what started as a vacation in a concorde which plainly could no longer fly turned into a trip to the local toyota store and a return home in a new car.
and i had just paid off that damn car two months before, proving murphy's law: all warranties expire upon payment of invoice.
let's back this station wagon up and give you the whole ride.
the week before we drove off into the sunrise to our vacation, we had the luxoboat in for a tune-up. you see, it was running rough--had been for some time, and i knew it needed some tlc. the verdict from tom and don (my trusted mechanics)? low compression in cylinder 5.
my options? spend $2 grand on a tear-down to find the problem, and up to $4 grand to fix it. . .
. . .or drive it the way it was.
i was planning on replacing the old wagon queen family truckster in about a year, so i figured drive it the way it was. what's the worst that could happen? crappy gas mileage and a check engine light stuck on.
drive on we did.
5 days into the vacation, the check engine light started to blink and chime at us as we drove through a town near home on our way to the beach, so we turned around and headed for the nearest dealer which sold cars like ours. we asked the service guys to pull the error codes and see what was wrong with our car.
no compression, cylinder 5. not low compression, no compression.
what did this mean for us? what was the worst that could happen?
a seized up engine, that's what.
when? i dunno, 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months. . .
. . .or spend $2 grand on a tear-down to find the problem, and up to $4 grand to fix it, or $6 grand for a new engine. . .
. . .or replace the car.
so what started as a vacation in a concorde which plainly could no longer fly turned into a trip to the local toyota store and a return home in a new car.
and i had just paid off that damn car two months before, proving murphy's law: all warranties expire upon payment of invoice.
06 August 2007
dubious word of the day: stados
Everything is great, couldn't be better, feel great;
Compliment on a job well done.
Hey, Clancy, stados on your last deal.
The Lakers are stados tonite.
Compliment on a job well done.
Hey, Clancy, stados on your last deal.
The Lakers are stados tonite.
05 May 2007
no soldier left behind. . .
under the terms of the president's no child left behind law, if a school doesn't meet benchmarks or make sufficient progress for two years running, federal funds are cut back or eliminated.
here's a thought: apply the same funding principles to the war in iraq?
04 May 2007
25 April 2007
i must be out of my pis-pis-piston head!
at long last, I found this clip of max ranting about being a spokesman for car parts! worth the watch if you are a max headroom aficionado as I am. . .
click the pic.
15 January 2007
this from the guy who
spends four months of the year. . .
on vacation
george w. bush said people should treat MLK day as king's late wife, coretta scott king, wanted it. "it is not a day off," bush said today. "it's a day on."
05 January 2007
you're in the army now
the united states army is lowering its standards for education, and for DUI arrests. this'll help with recruiting. . .well, it's the same way they filled the position of commander in chief.
- david letterman, 5 january 2007 -
04 January 2007
smells like wet dog
a christmas story to share, not that you haven't heard enough of christmas. . .
my 6-year-old came home from school on the day before christmas break with magic reindeer food--a mixture of oatmeal and glitter, compliments of her first grade teacher. the instructions were to sprinkle it on the lawn so that the reindeer could snack while santa was in the house doing his christmas thing under the tree.
when anna was walking down the stairs in her pajamas to go outside, she slipped, and some of the magic reindeer food spilled on the steps and the landing. i told her not to worry about picking it up, because if the reindeer were really hungry, they could come in and snack on the rest of the reindeer food in the house. but i gave her a stern warning: reindeer smell like wet dog, and if she were to smell wet dog in the house in the middle of the night, she was not to come out of her room, or santa and his reindeer would vanish in a blink, because santa was only supposed to be in our house while we were sleeping.
the next morning, anna rushed into our room, and whispered very loudly that she thought she smelled wet dog during the wee hours, but she was a good girl and stayed in her room.
my 6-year-old came home from school on the day before christmas break with magic reindeer food--a mixture of oatmeal and glitter, compliments of her first grade teacher. the instructions were to sprinkle it on the lawn so that the reindeer could snack while santa was in the house doing his christmas thing under the tree.
when anna was walking down the stairs in her pajamas to go outside, she slipped, and some of the magic reindeer food spilled on the steps and the landing. i told her not to worry about picking it up, because if the reindeer were really hungry, they could come in and snack on the rest of the reindeer food in the house. but i gave her a stern warning: reindeer smell like wet dog, and if she were to smell wet dog in the house in the middle of the night, she was not to come out of her room, or santa and his reindeer would vanish in a blink, because santa was only supposed to be in our house while we were sleeping.
the next morning, anna rushed into our room, and whispered very loudly that she thought she smelled wet dog during the wee hours, but she was a good girl and stayed in her room.
15 December 2006
23 November 2006
wacky dictionary entry of the day
prune (v) (also pruned; prun·ing)
(from Latin pro- + rotundiare (around)
1: the act of cutting off or trimming overgrowth, overextension or overreaching parts of a tree, shrub or bush.
(see also 2006 ELECTION)
apologies to merriam-webster online
16 November 2006
13 November 2006
time keeps on slippin' slippin'
slippin' into the future*
an anonymous reader left this comment recently:
"just a question you will probably find annoying, but i must ask. how (and where) do you find time to do all this 'blogging'?"
it takes 15-20 minutes to compose a blog. it's all random stuff. . .not like I am writing a dissertation or anything. just stuff. sometimes yesterday's blog has nothing to do with today's, and sometimes there's a running theme. sometimes these running themes are spread over months or years, so i have to make them obvious by appending the titles with a part deux or somesuch kitsch.
in the two minutes it took to respond to an email on this subject, i could nearly have been finished with the text of this blog, but how, i wonder, do I find all this time to blog when I have all this sorting through fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:emails to do?
someday i'll figure it out.
and maybe, mother, someday you'll get it too.
"just a question you will probably find annoying, but i must ask. how (and where) do you find time to do all this 'blogging'?"
it takes 15-20 minutes to compose a blog. it's all random stuff. . .not like I am writing a dissertation or anything. just stuff. sometimes yesterday's blog has nothing to do with today's, and sometimes there's a running theme. sometimes these running themes are spread over months or years, so i have to make them obvious by appending the titles with a part deux or somesuch kitsch.
in the two minutes it took to respond to an email on this subject, i could nearly have been finished with the text of this blog, but how, i wonder, do I find all this time to blog when I have all this sorting through fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:emails to do?
someday i'll figure it out.
and maybe, mother, someday you'll get it too.
*apologies to the steve miller band
10 November 2006
futile?
rutgers university's football team was known for a long time as an exercise in futility.
no longer. they came out of oblivion and from behind and beat third-ranked university of louisville 28-25 yesterday. . .and they did it in front of a stadium record 44,111 home-field crowd in piscataway, nj. . .and in prime time in front of a national tv audience.
they are now one of four remaining undefeated teams, and are now in first place in the big east conference.
even new york has scarlet fever:
the empire state building was lit last night
in red in support of the LU v RU game
the empire state building was lit last night
in red in support of the LU v RU game
futility? methinks not.
next game: saturday, 18 november.
kickoff time tba.
kickoff time tba.
photo of empire state building
by associated press.
by associated press.
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