To Catch a Falling Knife (now with pictures)
I added a couple pictures, made a few minor edits, and converted my recent post about my hand’s unfortunate encounter with a steak knife into a standalone pictorial essay.
Einstürzende Neubauten’s Website and Next Album
If you are as big of a fan of Einstürzende Neubauten as Sandra and I are, you should definitely check out their new website. Neubauten is working on the release of an exclusive album for their paying supporters by their 23rd anniversary, April 1, 2003, without the involvement of a record company. The site has… Read More »
Day 3 of Cabin Ownership and Occupation
Today, I encountered the sultry enchantress called Lola Montez on foot. It’s not the same as upon my faithful aluminum steed, but that will have to wait. Lola was relatively clear, but she had an algae coated mucky bottom. As I had feared, yesterday I ended my bike climb (or more accurately, bike drag) only… Read More »
Day 2 of Cabin Ownership and Occupation
Somehow, I managed to “sleep” at least ten hours in a sleeping bag on top of a thin therma-rest pad on a hardwood floor in the loft. Perhaps so much time was able to pass between when I went to went to bed and when I got up because the luxurious and sensuous feeling of… Read More »
Day 1 of Cabin Ownership and Occupation
October 5, 2002, for the record. C, S, and J met me at the house. Actually, I barely caught them before they headed out to Donner Lake to catch trout for dinner. Next time, I get up at the right time, I don’t screw around packing things at the last minute, and I get lunch… Read More »
First Tahoe Cabin Post
One minor problem with weblog categories is that sometimes you want to have a relatively long introduction, i.e., more than just the one or two line description at the top of this page. The obvious thing to do is to provide an informative introduction in the first post (unlike this post, which so far has… Read More »
Jack Valenti’s 1982 Testimony on the VCR’s Assault on Life As We Know It
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
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 »
Yahoo! Sports: Byron Moreno, ref for Italy-SKorea, suspended 20 games for work in Ecuador’s league
It seems the referee who made so many bad calls against Italy when they played South Korea in the 2002 World Cup has been suspended for 20 games for manipulating an Ecuadorean league game. He added 13 minutes of extra time (while reporting the game lasted the regulation 90), enabling Liga de Quito to come… Read More »
20 Wins in a Row for Oakland A’s
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 »