Music
Today's iTunes purchase
"TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" by MFSB (I've been on a Seventies music kick lately…)
Steve Casburn
Music
The latest blog quiz
Ten songs from a random iTunes shuffle (entire library)… 1. "I Should've Known" — Aimee Mann 2. "Boy with a Problem" — Elvis Costello 3. "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" — The Isley Brothers 4. "Do You Ever Think of
Houston
Houston is all right; I-45 is all blight
Kevin Whited is right that Joel Achenbach is wrong. I wish, though, that visitors to Houston would have a better introduction to the city than I-45 between downtown and Bush Intercontinental Airport. I have never seen an uglier stretch of road, and it reinforces all of the inaccurate stereotypes.
History
On gathering intelligence
During [the Teheran conference of 1943], Roosevelt had a private talk with Stalin and Molotov for the purposes of putting them in possession of certain essential facts concerning American politics. It was a cause of wonderment to the President that the Russian leaders appeared to be so inadequately informed as
Music
Today's iTunes purchases
"Millennium" by Robbie Williams "New York Groove" by Ace Frehley
Sports
Saturday evening at Autry Court
After work tonight, I headed down to Rice to catch one of the last games that San Jose State, my dad's alma mater, will play in Houston. (Rice and San Jose State will no longer be in the same athletic conference after this year.) The Spartan women'
Media
The patronizing of the "blogosphere"
One thing I never see mentioned in these ["mainstream media"]-vs-blogs stories is how completely positive, ecstatic, and fawning the old media coverage of blogs is. The bloggers' own claims that they are transforming the media, empowering the individual, making the old fogies at the newspapers
Intellect
What is reality?
From a professor I know: This morning I gave a guest lecture about modeling. My slide about the modeling process starts with an amorphous cloud labeled "Reality". Naturally some wise-acre asked "What is reality?". I told him it's that which doesn't
Life
Bending it?
I saw a young Muslim woman today wearing a head scarf and a David Beckham England jersey.
Sports
On the spot
ESPN's "The 10 Spot" actually made me laugh today: 9. As a result of the Patriots' victory over the Steelers in Sunday's AFC Championship Game, Heinz will send 1,200 bottles of ketchup to Gillette employees in Boston as part of a wager
Remarks
Americans and battle casualties
Kearny Panay Roosevelt and Hopkins
Music
The '70s frighten me
Could someone do me a big favor? 1. Find a copy of the song "Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Day (it's available on iTunes). 2. Listen to it closely. 3. Then explain to me how Americans in 1977 liked it enough to make it a