Archive for July, 2008

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is incredible

I spent most of this post-July-4th week out in the Knoxville area with friends and relatives. Saw of course Dollywood, which was a fun little park. The water rides were excellent, especially the River Battle. On that ride every rider gets a kind of water gatling gun that you pump manually and […]

Whoever close-captions ESPN2 is a hip-hop fan

I was at the gym this morning and ESPN2 was on one of the TV screens. They were talking about the upcoming Safin - Lopez quarter-final match at Wimbeldon. Whoever was doing the close-captioning had gotten the spelling for both Safin and Lopez right, so they knew the guys were talking about somebody […]