Tiger Town
No more blogging today. I'm headed to Detroit to watch the Tigers
[http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=det]. We have a
one-game lead, and the magic number is 3. I'm picking up my father and a friend
this morning,
Eric Scheske
Darkness in Iceland
This is pretty neat
[http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-09-27T190314Z_01_L27148787_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-ICELAND-LIGHTS.XML&archived=False]
:
> Authorities in the capital Reykjavik will turn off street lights on Thursday
evening and people are also being
No Citgo at 7-Eleven
> 7-Eleven Inc. dropped Venezuela-owned Citgo as its gasoline supplier after more
than 20 years as part of a previously announced plan by the convenience store
operator to launch its own brand of fuel.
[http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&feed=ap&
At the High-Tech Convention . . .
Helping nerds date: sexy robots
[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215583,00.html]. How long until these
things put a dent in the world's oldest profession?
I Wouldn't Hold that Head in Public
> A leading opera house [in Berlin] canceled a 3-year-old production of Mozart's
"Idomeneo" that included a scene showing the severed head of the Prophet
Muhammad, unleashing a furious debate over free speech.
I'm shocked that the production lasted three years. Are
St. Vincent de Paul
It's St. Vincent's [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=326] feast
day. By coincidence, I was talking with my daughter Abbie last night about
charity toward the poor, and I tried to explain to her the difference between
the "relatively poor"
Spider Eudemon
From Welborn
[http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2006/09/tragedy_all_aro.html]:
> An enraged girlfriend who fatally shot a Palm Beach County firefighter, then
turned the gun on herself might have been upset about their decision to abort
their baby a few weeks earlier, a witness told detectives
Slow Tuesday
I got up this morning with 45 minutes to surf the Internet and do some blogging.
And what did I find? Nothing, unless you count this: Police "are hunting a man
who stood on a conveyor belt and urinated on a till at a supermarket
[http://www.ananova.com/
I'm Wincing
A "provocative" movie about St. Theresa Avila
[http://www.lolafilms.com/ingles/pelicula_rodaje_detalle.asp?id=393].
Monday Morning Eudemon
This is the weekend I became the techno-addict. Two things happened:
1. I got a large-screen TV hooked up downstairs. A product of my parents's
hand-me-down benevolence, the picture is good but not great, and it won't accept
a high definition signal.