Monthly Archives: September 2002

Jack Valenti’s 1982 Testimony on the VCR’s Assault on Life As We Know It

By | September 29, 2002

Cryptome.org has a transcript of federal hearings on “Home Recording of Copyrighted Work”. These hearings took place in 1982 as a result of a decision in the case of Universal City Studios vs. Sony Corporation of America. Universal had sued Sony over whether private individual users of VCRs were infringing copyrights by recording copyrighted television… Read More »

To Catch a Falling Knife

By | September 13, 2002

It’s been nearly two weeks (Monday, Sept. 2) since I had an unfortunate run-in with a suicidal steak knife. Sandra and I were splitting a frozen dinner (Marie Callender’s chicken parmigiana pasta with a marinara sauce, for the morbidly curious). The included chicken breast wasn’t particularly tough, but we were using a steak knife to… Read More »

20 Wins in a Row for Oakland A’s

By | September 4, 2002

Now, I’m happy that Sandra talked me into going to the A’s game tonight. The A’s beat the Kansas City Royals to run their win streak to 20 games. Suhweet! Over 20,000 tickets were sold the day of the game to make for a sold out crowd of over 55,500 people. After three innings, the… Read More »