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Eric Scheske

Thursday Miscellany

Yikes, I own some MSFT stock: Google Inc., owner of the most-visited Internet search engine, is developing a computer operating system based on its Chrome Web browser, taking aim at Microsoft Corp. in its strongest market [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTd2k.YdQZ.Y]

No Blogging Wednesday

Life takes me in a headlock. No time for blogging. Just one quick thing: Gonna have to read it: B16's new encyclical on ethics and the economy, Caritas In Veritate [http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_

Tuesday

Rolling Stone v. Hudge and Gudge? Interesting stuff over at Rolling Stone: Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again. [http://sites.google.com/site/disclosuredelta/] It features one of the best opening lines in magazine-writing

Monday

The Wrestler I was home by myself Friday night after working eleven hours at the office by myself (office shut down for holiday, but I had a mountain to move). I decided to treat myself with a movie I'd been wanting to see since it came out last

Something for Sunday Morning

"[L]ove is inventive." Francis Fernandez

Brews You Can Use

Best Pilsner Ever? A TDE regular of German descent writes: "This is the local brew that my family quaffs in Kappelrodeck, Germany (Black Forest) [http://ratebeer.com/beer/bauhofer-ulmer-pilsener/40310/]. I might be sentimental, but it's the best pils I have ever drank (and continue

Autobiographical Corner

Autobiographical Corner To be a good coach, you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important. I'm not a good coach. My team won the little league championship last night in a rout, beating the previously-undefeated regular

Baseball Wednesday

Jack and Michael play for the Little League championship later this afternoon. I have a lot to get done before heading over to the fields. No time for blogging. Please pray for our victory. Not just for Jack and Michael, but for the group of neat boys on their team,

Tuesday

Tuesday Twitter Revenge of the Fallen Last week, my older children and their cousins and uncles went to a late showing of Transformers II. Even though I liked the first movie, I stayed behind because (i) they wouldn't get back until almost midnight, which is almost two hours

Something for Sunday Morning

"Strive to acquire the virtues you think your brothers lack, and then you will no longer see their defects, because you yourselves will not have them." St. Augustine