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Packing it up
Moving day is tomorrow, so I'm wrapping up the blog today. I'll post one more time, when I have a Portland blog set up. My thanks to everyone who has been reading and commenting to "Walking? In Houston!?"!
Steve Casburn
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Let's go to the atlas, Bob...
At the West Gray Kroger's this evening, I saw a package in the seafood section that contained "Atlantic Salmon, farmed in Chile".
Sports
Cardinals 2, Astros 0
Two thoughts about tonight's game at Minute Maid Park: The score was 1-0 after eight innings. In 25 years of watching baseball, I have never seen a 1-0 game that was so much of an ass-kicking. The bottom of the fifth inning was the worst
Food
Dasani frightens me
On the label of Dasani's new lemon-flavored offering, it describes the contents as a "natural lemon-flavored water beverage". "Water beverage"? Is that the liquid equivalent of "cheese food"?
Music
Cardinal Pop?
I was looking over a Greek Eurovision page (when I was in Greece, I heard their Eurovision entry about 15 times a day, so I'm wondering how it will do), and I noticed that Andorra and Monaco had entered the contest this year. Which makes me wonder: If
Sports
Astros 9, Giants 0
So my hometown San Francisco Giants just finished a four-game series here at Minute Maid Field. On Thursday, they won. On Friday, they won. On Saturday, they lost, but at least it was to Roger Clemens. On Sunday, they suffered an old-fashioned Texas horse-whipping. Guess which game
Me
Six weeks and gone
In 45 days, I will be on the road to Portland, Oregon in a big yellow moving van, with all of my worldly possessions in the back. Do I know where I will live when I get to Portland? Nope. (Though my sister has a spare basement to loan me
Life
Efharisto Hellas!
I spent last week in Thessaloniki, Greece, visiting a Thessalonian whom I had dated when we were at Ohio State. What a city! What a country! I had a great time. I didn't want to come back. Some random observations: The food in restaurants was fresh, good, and
TV / Film / Radio
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Good movie, though heavy-handed with its anti-capitalist framing. Go see it. (I have to add that it was strange to watch a movie owned by Mark Cuban in a theater owned by Mark Cuban while the Rockets play Cuban's Dallas Mavericks in the NBA playoffs.)
Books
Book-tagged
Mark Hasty tags me as someone who reads. (It's the librarian job that tips people off, isn't it?) You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? I've never read Fahrenheit 451, but I think I understand the question (didn&
Politics
Legitimate grievances
Tom Kirkendall posts Paul Johnson's tribute to Pope John Paul II. One paragraph from it: Not that the pope condoned terrorism in any form. He was never among those clergy in the West who mitigated their disapproval by pointing to legitimate grievances. ...which reminded me of another paragraph
History
Tradition and the Roman Catholic Church
Before Albino Luciani took the name "John Paul I" upon his accession to the Holy See in 1978, the last time a Pope had chosen a name that no Pope had chosen before was in 913. Before the two John Pauls, the last Pope whose name ended in