Archive for November, 2006

Fox to air grotesque O.J. Simpson special

Big media works in some very ugly ways these days. O.J. Simpson has a deal with Harper Collins to publish a book at the end of this month called “If I Did It”. Apparently he discusses how the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown would have occurred, if “hypothetically’ he had actually […]

Widening Hurstbourne Road won’t help

A just-released traffic study is recommending, among other things, widening sections of Hurstbourne Road south of Shelbyville Road. It just seems like that’s not going to really help, it will only mean the road can have larger traffic jams than it already does. Widening Hurstbourne won’t mean the intersections can handle more traffic, […]

Another place I need to visit: Halong Bay in Vietnam

Dammit, the list of places I need to visit before I die keeps getting longer. A friend from when I was working in San Francisco just called and told me about an awesome 3-week trip he took to Vietnam. The big thing was that he was hosted, he had a friend from Vietnam […]

San Francisco will not host the 2016 Olympics

The 49er’s decision to abandon efforts to build a new stadium near San Francisco has had one additional victim–the city’s bid for the 2016 Olympics has collapsed.
I don’t think the city had much of a chance anyway, there’s so many venues they would have had to construct. That increases the risks of any bid, […]

A Sunday with nowhere to run

Today was the first Sunday in months that I have not had a long run scheduled in the morning. It was so weird to be able to just sleep in this morning, rather than having to force myself out of bed and into the running clothes.
I was able to put the extra free time […]

Shouldn’t the 49ers change the name if they move?

So the San Francisco 49ers are moving from the City by the Bay to the city by the south Bay, Santa Clara. Can’t say that I’m too surprised, they’ve been struggling for maybe a decade if not more to get a new stadium deal put together.
San Francisco is a very difficult place […]

Police Squad! not quite as funny as I remember

It makes me feel so very very old, to realize it’s been almost 25 years since Police Squad briefly appeared on television. Very briefly–it ran for a mere 6 episodes before being cancelled.
At the time it seemed uproariously funny to me. Leslie Nielsen was so perfect dead-panning his way thru the most ridiculous […]

And Arnold wins too

The Governator won re-election in California. By an incredible margin, considering how liberal California is. Remember that John Kerry won California easily in the 2004 presidential race.
I voted for Arnold during the special election back in 2003, one of my last acts as a Californian before moving here to Kentucky. In fact […]

Yarmuth wins!

Wow, I’m more than a little surprised that John Yarmuth won the US House seat here in Louisville. I thought Northup’s money advantage was too big a hill to climb. Especially since she was using that money to hammer Yarmuth with so many negative ads.
Perhaps in the end that’s what did […]

I prefer Shot Bloks over Gu

So one of the things I found out during the marathon is that I much prefer Clif Shot Blok over Gu when it comes to quick energy. That’s not to say I did not like Gu, especially the orange flavored one. That was definitely my favorite of the Gu’s I downed during […]