Archive for September, 2004

Late Night TV Viewers Know Their Politics?

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

CNN and others are all laughing up the results of the National Annenberg Election Survey. According to CNN’s headline writers, “‘Daily Show’ viewers ace political quiz”. Well, that’s certainly very impressive. Let’s have a look at the results that led CNN to draw this conclusion: (results printed at end of CNN’s […]

Four Aces

Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

On Saturday (9/25/2004) I took part in my first regatta at the Lanier Sailing Academy. There were 13 sailors out for the gold that day, and boats and crew were randomly paired. I was assigned to West Dog, with Bill as the skipper. It came to light that Bill was […]

Hot House

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

From the Variety Playhouse website: We apologize to any Variety customers who were uncomfortable during Siouxsie’s performance on Saturday night. It was her wish that we didn’t run the air conditioner during her performance. We are sorry but Siouxsie was adamant about this. I don’t know anything about Siouxsie, other than that she is a punker nearing the big five-oh, […]

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Tyler Brown

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

I have some reservations about making this post as it’s not the kind of thing I’m used to writing, but I thought it was important to note the death of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Tyler Brown. Tyler was killed in action one week ago, 70 miles west of Baghdad, at age 26. (Georgia […]

Weekend Update

Monday, September 20th, 2004

I’m sure the neighbors are pleased - instead of taking steps to get rid of that fallen tree I elected to hang out with Kristen, Morris, Nichole, Joe, and Mike this weekend. Today (Sunday) I surrendered after the last guest had left and parked myself on the sofa to watch THX1138, on loan from […]