Archive for June, 2006
Monday, June 12th, 2006
I can't claim to be an NBA fan. Even though I was 6' 4" tall by the time I was 16, I didn't play basketball in school - I always found a way to trip on a smooth gym floor. Frankly, I just didn't like the game. As a consequence, ...
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Sunday, June 11th, 2006
My Satudays are usually pretty full with putting together The Roadhouse. I can just figure on 8-10 hours, even if I've managed to pull all the music together late Friday night. I didn't even do that this week, as I was wiped from a tough week from work. But, I ...
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Chris Mihlfield has gone public in the Kansas City Star. As the rumored redacted trainer in the Grimsley affadavit, he states flatly that, "They've got the wrong name on that deal." Of his relationship with Grimsley, he notes that, "He was in baseball 18 years before I got to ...
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
The fallout has already begun from the Jason Grimsley affair.
Redactions offer clues in Grimsley case [USA Today]
"Grimsley stated that ——, a former employee of the ——- and personal fitness trainer to several Major League Baseball players, once referred him to an amphetamine source," the affidavit reads. "Grimsley stated that after ...
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Thursday, June 8th, 2006
I started to realize this week that the iPod's getting a bit crowded. It's a 60 GB Photo, right around a year old. As advertised, they hold roughly 15,000 songs. I've got right at 8,000 with a lot of it at very high encoding rates. I created a smart playlist ...
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Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Al-Zarqawi's gone, along with several of his confidants. I guess we'll find out soon enough if he was the leader both he and the Bush Administration claimed he was. If he actually was the new leader of Al-Qaida, perhaps we'll see some lull in the attacks in Iraq. I suspect ...
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Tom Ball at Political Cortex goes a long way to make this point regarding the recent gesture to Iran:
Some would call it diplomacy and a welcome return to sanity, BUT we simply know the administration far too well to be suckered into that. They don't know what 'diplomacy' is. They ...
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Another report of steroid use in baseball.
Grimsley reportedly admitted to illicit drug use
In seeking a judge's permission for the search, investigators who cracked the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid scandal said Grimsley initially cooperated in the probe. He withdrew his assistance in April, but not before he allegedly made "extensive ...
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Two dark days in US history that continued an horrific year for public figures. Late in the evening on June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He died of his wounds June 6. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by just ...
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Google has release an online spreadsheet app as an invite-only beta. I've got my request in. I've been using iRows as my Web 2.0 spreadsheet app, but I'm always willing to see what Google has to offer (nothwithstanding the Picasa app!). It'll be interesting to see if they break new ...
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