From the monthly archives:

January 2005

Pardon my dust

January 23, 2005

New look in progress….hoping to be close to fully operational by the end of the evening, assuming Arrested Development doesn’t make me laugh too hard to continue.

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Props

January 23, 2005

Tiffany Evans, the young girl (15 years old I believe) who sang the National Anthem at the Steelers-Patriots game in Pittsburgh just delivered the most touching, stirring rendition of our National Anthem that I’ve ever heard.
Thanks Tiffany….you just made me feel all warm and fuzzy about being an American.

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Rest in peace, Mr. Carson

January 23, 2005

You’ve probably heard by now, Johnny Carson passed away last night.
As someone who only caught the tail-end of Mr. Carson’s television legacy, I can’t begin to properly eulogize him and all he contributed to the media-dominated world we live in….but here’s a few folks who have done a pretty nice job of paying tribute:

Jeff Jarvis [...]

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StormWatch ‘05

January 10, 2005

First those crazy water twisters and now 25-foot high boulders?  Why does this just keep looking more and more like a Roland Emmerlich movie? 
Mother nature….whatever we did, we’re sorry.
{via Yahoo! News}

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Gates calls Free Culture fans commies

January 5, 2005

Prediction: this Boing Boing post is going to be the first of many you’ll hear in the blog world about Bill Gates’ latest comment:

Q: "In recent years, there’s been a lot of people clamoring to reform
and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a
few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates [...]

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What’s in a name, anyways?

January 3, 2005

Well, they’ve gone and done it now:
ANAHEIM — Angels Baseball Monday announced the team has changed its official name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. 

I understand the desire to make the team more LAish, to try to increase the appeal to the vast Angeleno audience; but the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim?  This [...]

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Tsunami/quake relief info

January 2, 2005

Here’s a semi-comprehensive list of relief and aid information about how you can help with the relief efforts in Asia.  And if you have a blog, you can post this list below, and Anders Jacobsen will donate $1 in your name to the British Red Cross:
International aid organizations:
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)United Nations’ World Food [...]

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Rose Bowl ‘05: An Instant Classic

January 1, 2005

I’ve been to many a football game in my years….I’ve never seen anything as crazy as the last 6 minutes of this football game.  The only thing this game was missing was some harsher inclement weather…..if there had been some rain or fluke Pasadena snow flurries, it’d be an immediate inductee into Top 5 of [...]

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