The Weekend Eudemon
I have a few moments to write before taking Jack (10) to his football game. He
must be there at 7:00 in order to weigh in and make sure he's not over 100
pounds. He weighs only 80, but he has to weigh in every week. They
Eric Scheske
Brews You Can Use
Posting will be light today. I didn't get back from the Tigers game until late.
I'm dragging and behind in life. Luckily, it's Friday. If I can hold on for a
few hours, I have a couple days of rest (subject, of course, to
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,
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/