Feb 28 2010

The Drama Jocks’ Sports Cast #20: Olympic Report & MLB Spring Training

For your listening pleasure, here’s our conversation from Friday evening, the 26th.  We cover the Games, preview a bit of baseball, and the beginning of the NFL off-season.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (28.1MB)

Comments Off   |  tags: , , , | posted in DramaJocks, Sports

Feb 28 2010

Weekly Twitter Digest: 2010-02-28

  • I think watching commercials for HD-DVD on your blu-ray player is funny. #
  • People who think of their local/regional talk radio station as a democratic entity that should afford them certain "rights" are HILARIOUS. #
  • Needed a way to check Firefox for duplicate bookmarks, but my old extension doesn't work anymore – CheckPlaces is a good replacement. #
  • With no cable this summer, is it worth it to get MLB.TV for a hundred bucks for the season? #
  • Watch out for high technology!!! http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/02/24/radio-brings-famous-teachers-to-class/ #
  • listening to a #brewers game from last year. Starting to get primed for baseball… #
  • Dick Pole is still probably the funniest name in baseball. #
  • listening to #brewers games from 09, I feel better re: no more JJ- if we're going to have a slick SS who can't hit, he might as well be fast #
  • I just found out @conanobrien is on this thing now; wonder how many million followers he has in the first 2 days… #

Comments Off   |  tags: | posted in Twitter

Feb 23 2010

We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident

Every time a student tells me they are “declaring independence” for financial aid, I picture that student standing in a small wooden boat, majestically crossing the Delaware.

… Where on the other side, I am waiting with a cannon and a thousand infantry, ready to quell their confused little insurrection.

1 comment   |  tags: , , | posted in General

Feb 21 2010

Weekly Twitter Digest: 2010-02-21

  • Forgot my glasses today. *Preparing for outstanding headache later on.* #
  • Well that settles that: http://bit.ly/b5Asw3 … I will not be buzzing until then. #
  • I wonder what I would have done w/ 21st century web (particularly w/ regard to democritization of media) if it was around when I was a kid. #
  • This status update plugin isn't working that well with my WordPress blog. How do other people push blog posts as status updates? #
  • Ian's on University for lunch. #
  • Being so close to State St really makes one want a beer with lunch. #
  • This university kicks my university's ass. #
  • I wish there was an easier way to sync my cell phone contacts with my Google contacts. #
  • Don't wanna go back to work. #
  • Seems to me if Jacob was basically immortal, he didn't need anyone to take over for him. Hence, New Locke is full of crap. #LOST #
  • The twitters are fairly quiet today. Is EVERYONE out of the office? #
  • Brewers alternate jerseys FINALLY say MILWAUKEE again! http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/84727637.html #
  • I am trying out a new twitter client for Ubuntu. I'm convinced echofon is frakked on Ubuntu+Firefox 3.6 #
  • District 9 was OK, but did I miss the reason that the aliens showed the f up in the first place? #

Comments Off   |  tags: | posted in Twitter