My question answered
25 November 2006 - 02:15 pm“How long will Olive Street be closed due to construction?”
4.5 years.
Archive for November, 2006
The mother and father of all cop-outs
05 November 2006 - 03:41 pmTIME.com: God vs. Science — Nov. 13, 2006 — Page 3:
DAWKINS: I think that’s the mother and father of all cop-outs. It’s an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now Dr. Collins says, “Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this.” Well, what an incredible evasion of the responsibility to explain. Scientists don’t do that. Scientists say, “We’re working on it. We’re struggling to understand.”
I don’t get it, or Sports Illustrated is run by a band of fools
04 November 2006 - 09:38 pmSports Illustrated wants me to subscribe to their periodical. Moreover, they are offering me several “free gifts” in return for my subscription. The problem, beyond the fact that I have no interest in their publication, is that they are offering St. Louis Cardinals World Series commemorative memorabilia (books, balls, DVD, what-have-you).
Now I suggest that Sports Illustrated really think hard about this promotional policy. They enact it after every major sports championship (with the exceptions of hockey, soccer, and, surprisingly, arena football). Conceivably, the only people who will be interested in this offer are people who happen to ba fans of the St. Louis Cardinals, surely a relatively small percentage of the population. Is Sports Illustrated really that interested in soliciting the Cardinal’s contingent? Or the Miami Heat or the Pittsburgh Steelers? At any given time, they are alienating the vast majority of America (a generous estimate is 29/30 of the nation at any given time). Perish the Cubs fans who are waiting for the Cubs to win the World Series to subscribe just to get their free stuff.
They should offer something that would appeal to everyone, like maybe a lower subscription price.
The irony
02 November 2006 - 07:22 pmA woman in Whole Foods wearing a fur coat.