Year: 2005

Awe is the only word to describe the Huygens probe landing on Titan this past weekend. I thought I was impressed when I heard that Huygens had landed. Read the Slate write-up, then imagine you’re the guy pitching this project to his bosses over at the European Space Agency. Just try.

Remember my complaint last month about the Cingular/AT&T mess? Well, since then, Denise recorded a podcast about her trials and tribulations of getting her new Sony phone to work on the Cingular/AT&T network. Now this: The merger has been so complex and convoluted that both websites now have serious problems. The Cingular site lists no…

Just in case you didn’t see this: Dear Friends, On Thursday, January 20th, while the President is kicking off his $40 Million display of corporate power, we’ll be having a People’s Inaugural. We will be holding a press event at 12:00 Noon, at the Allegro Hotel. We will need help with with turnout. If you…

Hard to believe the Iowa caucus was one year ago today.

This just made me crack up: Right after jury selection began last week, one man got up and left, announcing, “I’m on morphine and I’m higher than a kite.” It just gets better from there.. Bonus goofy news item of the week: Paris Hilton’s Blackberry was hacked. Quoth the source for this bombshell: “It’s one…

Oh, what a hard thing it is to be a 49ers fan these days. Ray Ratto sums it up thusly: Teams that go 2-14 never get that way with inferior coaching alone. You also need inferior talent, inferior talent recognition, and inferior ownership finding the people to recognize that talent… [A]ny lunkhead can go 6-10.…

I’ve talked in the past about boys only breakfast, a Saturday morning tradition with my kids. We do donuts at Krispy Kreme, and have for more than 18 months, with only a handful of missed days (often due to travel). It continues to be a wonderful treat for the three of us. This past weekend,…

12 year-old Naperville resident Andrew Gieseler found a sack of cash sitting outside the Target where my family shops. Specifically, there was $9,000 sitting on the walk-way outside the store. He picked it up, and making his Mom (and the town) proud, promptly handed it over to the Target customer service desk, who was able…

Received an announcement this morning about The Principles Project, a new coalition of individuals and groups looking to articulate a core group of Democratic principles. There’s an about page that describes the group’s goals in a bit more detail. One of the group’s chairs is David Wilhelm, former DNC Chair. (Other chairs are Jan Schakowsky,…

This is totally unscientific. But it caught my eye, and this is, aftr all, my blog. So there you go. Here’s a rundown on which search terms concerning the Aurora mayoral race are bringing people to this blog so far this month. Note: each of these search terms list this blog in the top 10…