In the old days, i.e., when kids had to dress “appropriately” for public school (i.e., shirts and ties for boys, dresses for girls, shoes for everyone), teachers ruled the roost. If you did poorly in class, it was your own damn fault. There was very little in the way of recourse. Your parents usually sided [...]
Entries from February 2006
February 24, 2006
Book review: Last Dance (By yours truly)
LAST DANCE: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four, by John Feinstein on Bookreporter.com
February 22, 2006
"Out of the mouths of . . . " or "Let George do it."
(Remember the old Rocky and Bullwinkle Show? Each episode had a cliff-hange ending with two titles. Just so you know….)
We baseball fans had it too good too long. We should have known it was just a matter of time before George Steinbrenner, dissatisfied with leaving well enough alone, with remaining a good quiet owner, decided [...]
February 22, 2006
“Out of the mouths of . . . ” or “Let George do it.”
(Remember the old Rocky and Bullwinkle Show? Each episode had a cliff-hange ending with two titles. Just so you know….)
We baseball fans had it too good too long. We should have known it was just a matter of time before George Steinbrenner, dissatisfied with leaving well enough alone, with remaining a good quiet owner, decided [...]
February 18, 2006
Hey, look me over!
Joe Klamar/Agence France-Presse  Getty Images
Lindsey Jacobellis appears on a Visa commercial. Her “coach” is trying to psych her up, but nothing seems to work, until he tells her to pretend someone has just stolen her card. Perhaps that’s what her real coach should have told her. Perhaps then she would have made a [...]
February 16, 2006
You better watch your A****
The Feb 16 Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is planning a music service to rival iPod, to debut as early as this summer.
“[T]he world’s No. 1 online retailer, is in advanced talks with the four global music companies about a digital-music service with a range of features designed to set it apart. Among them: [...]
February 5, 2006
One bad Apple
Although I love technology, I’ve never been to run out and buy the latest toy. I was one of the last adults I know to get a cell phone. I still have to ask my daughter what my number is, since I hardly ever use it.
The computers we’ve bought over the years — usually from [...]
February 1, 2006
That explains the $300 bill for cat toys
This piece from the Jan. 31 issue of Editor and Publisher:
“Two Massachusetts newspapers, The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, said Tuesday that slips containing the names and credit card numbers of tens of thousands of customers were accidentally delivered with bundles of papers on Sunday in Worcester.”
Kind of like the line from [...]
