Sokolovic Wins Nobel Prize A good tongue-in-cheek commentary on Obama’s Nobel.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Barack "Nobel" Obama
I saw the news this morning while I was eating breakfast and did a typical Bill “Meh” Tweet: “Obama won the Nobel for Peace. Eh? That seems weird.” Since these tweets also get posted to my facebook page, there’s been some response, all neutral to negative. And! All (and I mean ALL) of the blogs …
Song Eviction
It’s a sad day. Very sad. Several songs had to be evicted from my running mix. They are: Bad Moon Rising – CCR Flower – Moby But I added: Mirilou – Dick Dale & his Del Tones
Wasteful Government Spending?
The Heritage Foundation lists 50 examples of government waste. I think you could easily argue with a number of these as to whether they are “wasteful.” One that popped out at me was number 18: “Despite trillion-dollar deficits, last year’s 10,160 earmarks included $200,000 for a tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, California;…” I remember …
Politics Through the Lens of Statistics
If you’re into politics, you should read FiveThirtyEight. It is an excellent resource for poll compilations and is especially interesting if you have any interest in statistics. The writing the website is non-partisan, most of the time, and it does not seek to espouse any particular political position. What it does is to analyze other …
New Favorite Exercise Clothing
My new favorite piece of exercise gear is right here in this photo. Can you guess what it is? It’s not the shorts. Or the hair. It’s the arm warmers! Those things rock. I bought them last week in order to wear them on the bike ride Saturday, which I may have alluded to before. …
Ironman Ugh
Some weeks are better than others. This is true in all aspects of life, especially endurance race training. The flipside of that statement is that some weeks are worse than others. Some weeks make you wonder what the hell you’re doing attempting something like this (where “this” can be defined by any sort of breakthrough …