Bill Hurd: fifty yards, real fast
Occasionally something remarkable would happen. I once saw Notre Dame freshman Bill Hurd win a fifty yard dash final, against excellent college competition, by several yards. Think about that. Absolutely amazing.
Archive for March, 2004
Filed under Yarns and Tales Posted on March 21st 2004
Bay City?
The Bay City Times is reporting that a minor league team “with a major league affiliation” has approached the city about building a ballpark, probably on the Saginaw River, in time for the 2006 season. By most standards, that has to be treated as a credible rumor. What can we do with this information?
Filed under Baseball CrankSpace Posted on March 20th 2004
From the Ground Up
In my experience, absolutely no bureaucractic entity (yuck, jowo–don’t talk like that!) is truly created from the ground up. There’s always an organizational context, a political context, legacy data, system integration issues, staffing issues–and it’s impossible (and rarely desirable) to remove those contexts and continuities from the new organization’s environment. On the other hand, the usual object is to move the organizational focus, which is nearly always gainful (and painful).
Filed under Bureaucratic Whimsy Posted on March 18th 2004
Syndicates
Agnostic or no, I’ve been watching the continuing debate about syndication. And when Tim Bray and Jon Udell both show up in my aggregator expressing concerns about the shortcomings of the entire breed, I can’t help but notice. The essays are on different topics, actually, and address different issues. Both are well worth reading.
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Dabbler Notebook
Semi-Geekery
Posted on
March 17th 2004
Bob Seger Day: all of Chuck’s Children
Joan and I have rather different musical tastes. Joan mainly listens to classic rock radio; while I’m fairly eclectic, my preferences for bluegrass and baroque music are choices Joan barely tolerates. At this edge–Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp–our tastes touch and we’re both comfortable. I mention this because Joan was in the audience at one of the Cobo Hall concerts taped to make the Seger album. Wish I’d been there.
Filed under Musicks Posted on March 15th 2004
