A week or two ago, there was a very interesting and thought-provoking article on ESPN.com about Michael Vick, the city of Atlanta, and the role that racism has played in the public response to the allegations against Vick. It is titled “A History of Mistrust,” but it was the little blurb below the title that [...]
You wanna know what bugs me? People who fling around superlatives like they have no meaning. Example 1: Greg Anthony, a former NBA player and now a basketball analyst on ESPN, was asked who he thought would win the Western Conference Finals series between the San Antonio Spurs and the Utah Jazz. In (correctly) predicting [...]
NOTE: I started writing this several weeks ago, and while I have tried to update all the references to time, I may have missed one or two. So if something doesn’t flow right, that’s why. In mid-June on Sunday Night Baseball, Joe Morgan said the following (paraphrased): You know I think wins are the most [...]
On Thanksgiving morning, the Deseret News published an article about how more and more people are selecting “American” as their ancestry on census forms. The “American” option is intended for people of Native American descent, but, according to the article: The number of people selecting American ancestry is growing. In 1990, 57,268 Utahns reported only [...]
After my brother posted his own custom “On Notice” list and pointed me to where I could make my own, I did just that. Enjoy:
To everyone I have ever referred to Dreamhost for all your web hosting needs, I offer a sincere apology, and I promise to never do it again. I didn’t mean to lie to you. The fact is, for the first 18 months I was with them, they really were great. Sure, their support was slow [...]
mis·no·mer n. An error in naming a person or place. Application of a wrong name. A name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object. A few weeks ago, I was watching Baseball Tonight, and John Kruk said: One of the biggest misnomers in baseball is that left-handed hitters can’t hit left-handed pitchers. [...]
My current pet peeve, as seen at the end of this comment on an article I read: Just my 0.02 cents.
Check out this email I just received from Chase Visa. It is nice to see that once you get past the bureaucracy, Chase really does care about their customers. I don’t know if they really understand my point, but I don’t really care, because they made good on their original promise.
I posted the other day about how Fieldstone Homes and Chase Visa are ripping me off and not providing the services they promised. Here’s an update:
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