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Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Despair.com "Greatest Hurts" Collections
Despair.com, creators of 'demotivators,' has its holiday stuff available. How about a mug that says:
Ambition: The Journey of a Thousand Miles Sometimes Ends Very Very Badly
or
Meetings: None of Us Is As Dumb As All of Us
or
Procrastination: Hard Work Pays Off After Time, But Laziness Always Pays Off Now
for your co-workers?
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. --Publilius Syrus
Monday, October 25, 2004
If You Hate Cats.....
If you hate cats as I do, go see this movie (2.2 MB quicktime movie). It's an Air Force movie of a cat being tossed around during zero g. (I'm sure that tomorrow Kerry will accuse Bush of rank incompetence for allowing this sort of thing).
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. --Friedrich Nietzsche
Sunday, October 24, 2004
The Professor of Baseball
In a prescient July 2003 New Yorker article titled The Professor Baseball, the genesis of the Red Sox that just beat the Yankees is made clear:
"The Boston Red Sox really want to beat the Yankees. The team’s president and C.E.O., Larry Lucchino, has declared the Yanks an “evil empire,” and the principal owner, John Henry, speaks of being “destined to knock off Goliath.” Last winter, after a season in which the Sox won ninety-three games—but nonetheless fell short of New York for the seventh straight year—Boston installed a new general manager and replaced more than forty per cent of its roster. Perhaps the club’s most significant personnel move was the signing, to a one-year contract, of a big, lumbering fifty-three-year-old right-hander from Kansas (six feet four, and well over two hundred pounds) who spends far more time on the Little League diamond, where he keeps the stats, than at any big-league ballpark. He is Bill James, a former boiler-room attendant who, almost thirty years ago, set out to debunk the conventional wisdom proffered by television and radio commentators—“baseball’s Kilimanjaro of repeated legend and legerdemain,” as he called it—by using statistical evidence."
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. --Publilius Syrus


