Day 856: My New Year’s Fitness Resolution
Posted on December 31, 2007 - Filed Under computing & internet, funny, global, new orleans | Leave a Comment
Uhhhhh. I wonder if the JCC offers this class.
Feliz Navidad, folks! Off to dinner, Fahy’s, a party, Fahy’s, possibly a bonfire (aren’t there other ways to dispose of Christmas trees?), possibly a gumbo-pot-drop, back to Fahy’s … you get the picture.
If you’re out and about tonight, please travel by cab. Safety first, […]
Day 856: Home In New Orleans
Posted on December 31, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, city planning, new orleans, recovery | 1 Comment
Who am I, who has never lived in one of these buildings, with the stigma and hopelessness that have come to be associated with them, to have a say? Who am I, with my own aforementioned and tenuous notions of home, to say don’t come back? Who am I, with my own priveleged […]
Read More..>>Day 856: Sugary Thoughts While Driving Again
Posted on December 31, 2007 - Filed Under federal flood, football, new orleans, recovery | 1 Comment
15,000 Hawaii football fans swarm New Orleans
Almost ran over a couple yesterday on the way to the Bywater. After a two-week interlude of not driving while in Europe, followed by the car wreck and another hiatus from the whole driving thing, D let me borrow his baby, his precious almost-vintage Cadillac, to meet with fellow […]
Day 852: Oil Prices Rise Again
Posted on December 27, 2007 - Filed Under energy, global | 3 Comments
This morning, the price of oil was up because of Bhutto’s assassination and potential super-duper political unrest in Pakistan. Now, it’s due to an inventory decline. Later this afternoon, a butterfly fluttering its wings the wrong way will shoot it up to $100/barrel.
Read More..>>Day 852: We’re Great At Invading All The Wrong Countries
Posted on December 27, 2007 - Filed Under desi / india, government | Leave a Comment
… and placating the leaders of the ones we should go after.
Benazir Bhutto, The First Woman Prime Minister Of An Islamic Nation, Assassinated
The sarcastic, albeit true, party line for why Pakistan was not taken to task by the Americans is that it has no oil. In that case, why didn’t we go after Saudi Arabia, the […]
Day 851: Time Is Like A Rubberband
Posted on December 26, 2007 - Filed Under WTF, football, travel | 2 Comments
A moment is forever when your vehicle needs gas. The same vehicle being T-boned, spun, flipped and spun again in a busy downtown New Orleans intersection happens in a flash. Nothing that happened registers until your cellphone falls out of your purse and onto your head, smacking you into alertness. D credits […]
Read More..>>Day 845: Visions Of Snow
Posted on December 20, 2007 - Filed Under travel | 2 Comments
Off to Wisconsin for Christmas. Back on the 26th. Wouldn’t a month or two with no travel or other excitement be nice?
Happy Hannukwanzasolstimas, all!
Day 843: Monkeys Headed For Grad School
Posted on December 18, 2007 - Filed Under WTF, education, science & technology | 5 Comments
… while humans fight over evolution vs. creationism. I’m not surprised at the results of this study given the requirements for American college entry these days (and how unintuitive our youth have become when it comes to numerical judgments, thanks to the calculator and computer). Were the Duke college students “rewarded” for getting right answers like […]
Read More..>>Day 843: Lambeau Field, Here I Come!
Posted on December 18, 2007 - Filed Under football, wisconsin | 6 Comments
NFL Playoff Bracket (Hey, Saints fans, it was the Bears vs. the Vikings, did you expect me to root for either of them?)
Guess where I’ll be for the NFC divisional playoff game? In Green Bay at Lambeau Field, sitting either right behind the Packers bench (proximity) or higher up by an end zone (better view of the […]
Day 842: Backlog
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under media, new orleans | Leave a Comment
Folks didn’t stop writing or emailing me about New Orleans while I was gone. Damn them!
Blogger buddy, Sriram Gopal, penned a piece for DCist on a recent benefit party held for Al “Carnival Time” Johnson. I will never forget Al singing his favorites at 2005’s Krewe du Vieux ball.
Mike Danahey, winner at Bingo!, writes about ex-Chicagoan Rudy Vorkapic and […]
