Archive for May, 2005

Current list of professional sports coaches for whom I do not have any respect

31 May 2005 - 09:16 pm
  • Larry Brown
  • Bill Parcells
  • Hubie Brown (no relation)
  • Rick Majerus

Eco

31 May 2005 - 08:24 pm

Although I am sure that the size of an author’s feet are not relevant to such a piece, the interview with Umberto Eco in the Telegraph is nonetheless interesting.

Fox

31 May 2005 - 07:59 pm

Fox “News” admits its bias - well, sort of.

Don’t ask me to remember a user name for your website, because I am not going to.

28 May 2005 - 08:33 pm

And don’t ask me for that user name just to get my password sent to me. I should be able to give my email address, and you should then send me my user name and password. Or you can send the user name and reset the password if you want.

This year

26 May 2005 - 01:55 pm

At least I’m not sick.

Champions League

25 May 2005 - 03:18 pm

I’m watching the UEFA Champions League from Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı (İstanbul). I has been really entertaining, much more so than the game last year.

I bring you Derek Rae’s greatest hits:

  • “Jaap Stam positioned menacingly inside the area.”
  • “And he finished with some aplomb.”
  • “It was a bit of an agricultural looking challenge.”
  • “who displayed all the persistence of an İstanbul carpet salesman tonight”

I’m losing my edge

24 May 2005 - 11:01 pm

Despite egregious grammatical errors, I don’t have the energy to email “Melissa Ross” at First Coast News. If I did however, I would mention some of the basic rules of comma usage and point out that the second paragraph in her story on the Mathews Bridge isn’t even a sentence.