Continued from (my first baseball game)
So 5 to 6 years have passed since my game winning ball story. I’m no longer a runt, I’m now an average size skinny little kid who can run pretty fast. Perhaps the most important change is I know where glasses. Yes it makes me look like more of a [...]

Despite the fact that I had won the game winning ball I was still a runt and I was still pretty much a spaz when it came to baseball. With that in mind you can understand my adoration and hero worship of people who could actually play baseball and play it well. It was the [...]

While most people think of baseball in spring I think of baseball in October. Ok I’m not a big sports fan, and maybe it has to do with the media hype surrounding the playoffs and the World Series. But I will watch a baseball game in October over anything else. If I’m a fan of [...]

Blogger creator Evan Williams will be Google this Friday. Five years ago he started the company Pyra the company that became Blogger. In 2003 while retaining his head Blogger status the company became a part of Google. Since then he has continued to run Blogger and even start up the official Google Blog. He will [...]

Gordon Cooper died on October 4th 2004, at the age of 77. He was one of the original Mercury 7 Astronauts. He flew the Faith 7 spacecraft which orbited the earth 22 times. While on re-entry the electronics malfunctioned and he was able to pilot the spacecraft into the ocean 7,000 yards from a US [...]

If you watch the reality TV series American Casino, it’s certain you know Michael Tata the, vice president of hotel operations. In a shocking recent episode the storyline made a dark tangent, Michael unexpectedly passed away. This was a horrible tragedy for those who knew him and fans of the show. The show handled the [...]

Have you had to call any customer service departments recently? Maybe your credit card had an billing error, or you needed tech support for your computer. Chances are you ended up speaking to someone in India. A lot of major corporations are moving there customer service centers offshore to save on costs. However from a [...]

Yes I’m not ashamed to admit I watch Trading Spaces. It’s all part of that vicarious unscripted TV attraction (notice I didn’t say reality TV). Last year or so I saw an episode where Doug Wilson redecorated a bedroom in Whitlock Road where he painted the primary wall with four shades of green boxes (see [...]

I’ve been reading some fairly interesting articles from a new company called EYETRACK III. The first article was about online advertising

The so-called “invisibility effect” of Web advertising is no myth. We found among our test subjects that there were often instances when they did not look directly at ads, even for a fraction of a [...]