Never mind for a second that I’ll have to pay to replace the glass you broke.
You must have thought that backpack sitting on the floor was worth so much more than the North Face sleeping bag, or the K2 mountain bike in the back seat, or the stereo in the dashboard.
And I understand why you would think that.
I mean, there could have been a wallet, or expensive textbooks, or maybe even a laptop in there.
But you lucked out. You got biggest possible score you could’ve gotten out of that backpack.
My smelly, dirt-encrusted, 2-year old adidas trail running shoes.
Enjoy.
Even my insurance agent laughed at you when I told her what was stolen.
I almost hate to have the first pick. I mean, sure, I’m going to draft LT. But then I have to wait almost two full rounds before I get to make my second and third picks at 19 and 20. I’m hoping that either Travis Henry, Reggie Bush, or Thomas Jones falls to that spot – however unlikely. Expect more fantasy football musings in this space as the season plays out.
Draft is Saturday afternoon, then I’m headed out for poker night at Matt’s.
I was one of the many riders that got stuck in the Ross Island Bridge bottleneck, and ended up just barely missing the cutoff to finish the St. John’s and Broadway bridges. I probably could have just gone out and finished the ride on my own without the organizers support, but there were just too many negative vibes swirling around after dealing with the chaos all morning.
Next year they’d better do some of the following:
cap the registration total
open more lanes on the bridges
have managed loops on some of the smaller bridges (Sellwood, Ross Island, Hawthorne, and Steel could most benefit from these)
extend the event hours
For my part, I’ll make sure to start as early as possible next year and race to beat the bottlenecks.
I got asked this question during a phone screening this week. It was difficult to me to answer this, for a couple of reasons:
According the the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans change jobs every 3.5 years. Those that are under 30 change jobs every 1.1 years. So, according to the statistics, I’ll be working for a completely different company. Really, I should be asking the interviewer what types of benefits that the company offers to keep their employees longer than the industry average. Keep me from being a statistic.
This is a cop-out question. It indicates that the interviewer couldn’t think of anything interesting to ask me that was concretely related to the job, and resorted to asking the old standby instead.
The future is inherently unknowable. The world will have changed in five years, new technologies will emerge, new problems will come up. So you’re asking me to make a wild prediction when I don’t have all the facts – and only have 30 seconds to think about it? Did you come up with your company’s business model the same way?
Of course, I was too polite to say any of these things to my interviewer, and said something vapid and meaningless instead.
Something about wanting to “learn something new every day”, and to have “bettered myself as a professional”.
Johnson & Johnson began using the red cross design as a trademark in 1887 — six years after the creation of the American Red Cross but before it received its congressional charter in 1900. The lawsuit contends that the charter did not empower the Red Cross to engage in commercial activities competing with a private business.
So J&J waited, oh, 107 years to file a lawsuit? Aren’t we a little late to the party here?
And really, who gets these two logos confused?
One is clearly an international nonprofit organization that helps people in their time of need, and the other is clearly a money-grubbing, litigious, evil corporation.
This is possibly this stupidest lawsuit since this one.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that Barry Bonds tied Henry Aaron’s all-time home run record this week. No news there.
What I don’t get is Bud Selig’s reaction, and subsequent statement issued by his office.
As I said previously…out of respect for the tradition of the game, the magnitude of the record and the fact that all citizens in this country are innocent until proven guilty, either I or a representative of my office will attend the next few games and make every attempt to observe the breaking of the all-time home-run record.
Bud, we understand you’re good buddies with Aaron. We know that you’re not excited about having to follow Barry around while he chases this record. We know that you don’t want to appear that you endorse Bond’s alleged steroid use.
And for all those reasons, you should resign your job immediately.
The commissioner of baseball really has one job to do, and that’s to be an ambassador for the game. You’ve failed at meeting this job description.
To do this job, you have to be enthusiastic about the things that make the game special. The home run record is one of those things.
The steroid era that Selig is attempting to ignore started on his watch, and was ignored by the commissioner’s office for years while players like Bonds, McGwire, Giambi, and Palmeiro used steroids. We all knew there was a chemical advantage at work, the evidence was all there. The consensus is that baseball ignored the evidence under the belief that the game could not survive a second scandal after the 1994 player’s strike.
Selig’s actions in the face of mounting evidence, to refuse to mandate better testing or even acknowledge the depth of the problem, makes him just as culpable (if not more so) as Bonds. His disinterest in the proceedings is that of a guilty man, refusing to go near the scene of past crimes, embarrassed and fearful of being spotted.
In contrast, Selig made sure to personally call and congratulate Alex Rodriguez (a “clean” player in terms of doping perceptions), who earlier in the day became the youngest player to 500 homers. No canned press release there.
Want to improve baseball? Start by having Bud resign. The fans deserve a commissioner that is free from the taint of scandal and can be a real fan of the game, just like the rest of us.
The most telling part of this video from yesterday’s Republican debate isn’t Dr. Paul’s approach to Iraq and foreign policy, but Mitt Romney’s “have you forgotten about 9/11?” outburst about halfway through.
Mitt, Iraq didn’t attack us on 9/11. They never had weapons of mass destruction. We didn’t let the inspectors do their job, and went to war under a lie.
It’s time to admit that lie, apologize for it, and get out of this quagmire. The only people that can save Iraq are the Iraqis, and it’s about time we let them stand on their feet and have their country back.
The Republican field, with the exception of Dr. Paul, just can not let go of this utterly failed Iraq misadventure. Until they own up to the mistakes of this administration and divorce themselves from those mistakes, they simply will not win this election.
