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In re: Phelps by .01

Posted on August 16, 2008
Unbelievable finish to the 100-meter butterfly last night with Phelps keeping his quest for 8 golds alive with a miraculous comeback.  Cavic who appeared to have the race one was a hair short of the wall allowing Phelps to complete another stroke and hit the wall...

In re: Good bye WOW, Hello TWC and DVR Expander Fun

Posted on August 16, 2008
So if you read the title you probably don’t have a clue what I am talking about here.  Two things, one is I recently changed my cable provider from Wide Open West (WOW) the budget competitor to Time Warner here in Columbus (and other Midwest cities) back to Time Warner Cable (TWC), who despite having [...

In re: Court says copyrights apply even for free software

Posted on August 15, 2008
The free software movement had a tough choice of whether to appeal a lower court decision that held freely distributed software couldn’t be protected through the use of copyright infringement claims (only contract claims).  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D...

In re: Phelps is also a world champion eater

Posted on August 15, 2008
Phelps kick starts his day and his metabolism with three fried-egg sandwiches…Amuse-bouche out of the way, he throws back two cups of coffee and sits down to an omelette - containing five eggs - and a bowl of grits…three slices of French toast…And to finish: three chocolate chip pancakes...

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In re: Cablevision?s Network DVR Doesn?t Infringe Copyrights

Posted on August 04, 2008
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit just overturned a lower court’s March 2007 ruling, which found Cablevision’s Remote Storage Digital Video Recorder infringed on copyrights. The Second Circuit held that offsite DVRs were not copyright violations (could still head to Supreme Court some think), paving the way (for now) for cable companies [...

In re: Pikes place

Posted on August 01, 2008
Just on the way back from a brief visit to Seattle. While there I was able to make it over to one of my favorite spots , Pikes Place Public Market. While it is packed with crowds of tourists, it is also packed with all kinds of great food, from fruit and fish [...

In re: SF liveblog

Posted on July 25, 2008
Live from SF some pics in front of Hills Bros Coffee (don’t worry I am not drinking any)

In re: blogging from above

Posted on July 25, 2008
So I am sitting (when I write, not when it gets uploaded) here halfway between Dallas and San francisco in seat 13F and I thought why not fire off a post. I am on my way to SF for what looks to be a great weekend, visiting great friends in a really great city that [...

In re: overpacked? Brooks Brothers order a bit wasteful.

Posted on July 23, 2008
So a bit ago I ordered some new work shirts from Brooks Brothers online during a big sale they had (their non-iron shirts are amazing). Anyway I also ordered a replacement pair of the little knotted string cuff links (the only kind I’ll wear generally, a more casual and cool looking I think , just [...

In re: mobile blogging

Posted on July 21, 2008
What’s different about this post? Not sure if you will notice any difference between this post and any of my earlier ones. To keep you from guessing I’ll give you the answer… I am blogging from my iPhone (yeah it’s the now antiquated 1st gen)...

In re: Fighting a ticket with GPS?

Posted on July 20, 2008
Speeding tickets are one of the more annoying things to deal with, there is a certain helplessness that most people feel in terms of the ability to fight a supposed radar gun reading.  An interesting case is taking place out west on the subject where a teen was nabbed for speeding, the only difference between [...

In re: Arrests Real; Badge Was Fake

Posted on June 30, 2008
A crazy story that is just to strange to be fake that is written up in the NY Times.  Basically in Missouri a man  known as ?Sergeant Bill,? went around w/ the local police who he convinced that along w/ him they did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he was a [...

In re: Welcome back and Wal-Mart

Posted on June 27, 2008
Well until I get a few posts strung together maybe I shouldn’t welcome myself back to the blog, but I have had enough complaints about my extended recess to remind me to get back on here.  About to head down to DC for a quick weekend trip so I will keep this first post short, [...

In re: Should I buy a used Geo Metro?

Posted on May 30, 2008
So those of you who know me know that I am all for high gas prices.  Yes you read that right, HIGH GAS PRICES, see I said it again.  Why?  Am I nuts?  Well since I was lobbying earlier for a $1 a gallon gas tax (on the coat tail of an article by Thomas [...

In re: Appeasement is talking?

Posted on May 16, 2008
President Bush has recently been making a lot of dumb statements, some are about his sacrifice of giving up the sport of golf to show solidarity with our troops who are fighting and dying overseas (see story), another unfortunate statement he made was in front of the Knesset in Israel comparing Obama’s pledge (not by [...

In re: Foie Gras ban lifted

Posted on May 14, 2008
Chicago has by the same large margin that they instituted a foie gras ban, repealed their ban on the sale of fois gras, something that many, including myself thought was pretty ludicrous.  Why ban foie gras?  well some would argue (and do) that its inhumane, but if Chicago really cares about animals they’d probably be [...

In re: Unassisted triple play

Posted on May 13, 2008
How often does one get to see something that has only happened 14 times in the last 100 years?  Well if your a baseball fan yesterday was just such an opportunity in the second game of the Indians double-header with the Blue Jays (how often do you see double headers?  this one was only due [...

In re: Is it really just the label?

Posted on May 08, 2008
Many of us know that we are influenced by labels, hype, presentation and apparently with wine that holds true as well.  Came across an interesting article in NY Times (discussing a book / study on the subject) yesterday on wine tastes and the influence that price and labels have over how we percieve the tast...

In re: Cinco de Mayo

Posted on May 05, 2008
So while a few of us have celebrated Cinco de Mayo from time to time, maybe had the occasional Margarita and some tacos?  Many of us forget what the holiday is anyway, probably most people would guess that it is Mexican independence, it is not, but since I couldn’t remember what it was (aside from [...

In re: ?Crybaby? is bad for business

Posted on May 04, 2008
In game six of the Wizards v. Cavaliers first round playoff game some Washington Wizards fan’s came equipped with ‘Crybaby 23′ t-shirts, directed at LeBron James who had been fouled hard throughout the series and who Wizards fans was soft...

In re: This American Life - Live

Posted on May 02, 2008
Last night I went and saw a ‘one night only’ showing via satellite of the This American Life stage show being beamed from a New York auditorium to satellite equipped movie theaters around the country. (see story about the event here)  The turn out in Columbus was pretty small - although apparently some locations sold out...

In re: Energy policy? nope

Posted on April 30, 2008
This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country. (Describing the results of putting in a gas tax holiday - resulting in increased consumption) I just mentioned the gas [...

In re: ?This is just to say?

Posted on April 24, 2008
This Is Just To Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast.   Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold.                                                   – William Carlos Williams   This is just to say is a famous [...

In re: Nintendos at the ballpark?

Posted on April 23, 2008
I love baseball and not much could get better than a night out at a baseball game with friends and a few beers.  Nintendo is trying to change all that (for the better - lets remember that Japanese love baseball as much as anyone) by introducing for their hand held video game system the Ninentdo [...

In re: Neo imperialism

Posted on April 19, 2008
So there can be no doubt in anyones mind that the United States has moved into Iraq for a really long time - possibly forever - as the new US Embassy clearly shows. Nothing says permanent U.S. occupation of Iraq more than the construction of the largest embassy in the world, a $474-million compound with 27 [...

In re: McCain?s gas tax holiday = dumb idea

Posted on April 17, 2008
I just heard about this on my drive home today (thankfully while on the subject of gas its only a 5 minute trip), anyway John McCain the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has proposed a summer gas tax holiday, meaning the 18% or so federal gas excise tax would be discontinued for the summer so as [...

In re: Extreme Savers

Posted on April 17, 2008
Uber saver Mike Hegarty, a CPA in Des Moines, Iowa, says he saves $500 a year on meat by purchasing whole animals from local farms. In case you’ve never done it and you’re having a hard time visualizing it in your garage, when you buy a quarter of a cow from a local farm, a butcher [...

In re: ?Monsanto?s Harvest of Fear?

Posted on April 11, 2008
Most Americans know Monsanto because of what it sells to put on our lawns? the ubiquitous weed killer Roundup. What they may not know is that the company now profoundly influences?and one day may virtually control?what we put on our tables. For most of its history Monsanto was a chemical giant, producing some of the [...

In re: What went wrong?

Posted on April 07, 2008
Observers agree that fuel prices were perhaps the single biggest factor in Skybus’ demise, but they disagree on some other points. Some say the company wasn’t managed properly.”  Columbus Dispatch “How could it happen” Skybus burst onto the scene as the newest low cost US airline last year formed in the model of Ryan Air and [...

In re: Spicy Baconator

Posted on April 04, 2008
The Spicy Baconator is an action-packed burger, but part of its success has to go to its hip name. It’s even cooler if you say it with an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent. - Drive Through Gourmet, The Houston Chronicle So for those that limit there extracurricular activites to reading In re: I appologize for my absence, [...

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