Year: 2005

Love the new Fast Lane blog by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz: Given the industry’s somewhat spotty record of taking concept cars to production intact, your concerns are understandable. … [T]he Sky, of course, isn’t a concept car at all. That is the full, no-excuses, what-you-see-is-what-you-get production vehicle. We’re playing for keeps. Now that’s an…

I got invited to participate in a conference call hosted by BlogPAC with Howard Dean today; the call was on the record, and was focused on his run for DNC chair. Markos, Jerome, Aldon, Zephyr, and Anna were a few of the attendees, I’m sure they’ll have reports up shortly as well. Update: Anna’s live…

We had our caucus tonight, and I decided that if I ask my members to run for office, I should lead by example. Naperville Township is a township that comprises part of Naperville and part of Aurora; Trustees meet two nights a month. For more on township government in Illinois, the Townships of Illinois website…

Interesting — the latest group to advertise on this site is “Stand Up Democrats”, a group that is “determined to do everything within our power to fix the Democratic Party.” They explain: As a first step, we are collecting ideas from December 14th through January 14th. We will take the best 100 ideas and submit…

I need to pick up a webcam, would prefer not to spend too much. Anyone have any suggestions? (I’m on a PC, so no need to recommend the iSight…)

You ever see a phrase pop up overnight — suddenly it’s everywhere, you have no idea what it means? For me it was last week and it was “the long tail”. I saw it in blogs, I saw it in at least one news item, and someone even referenced it on a phone call. “The…

Father Tim Butler was the priest in my diocese (St. Elizabeth’s) growing up in Acton, Massachusetts. He was also in the Air Force Reserves, and sometime after I graduated from high school, he went active duty and started traveling the world as a chaplain in the Air Force. When my wife and I got married…

Went downtown last night to see Spamalot with a group of friends. For those that don’t know, Spamalot is the musical Eric Idle adapted (or, as he says, lovingly ripped off) from The Holy Grail. It stars David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry, and Hank Azaria in various lead roles, but for me the highlight of…

I’ve really been enjoying Engadget’s CES coverage this week, and this post made me laugh out loud: Of course that means that once you get an HD-DVD player and the accompanying receiver, you’ll need enough cable to wrap around the earth’s circumference just to wire a single room. Buy stock in Monster Cable. They’re referring…

If you haven’t stopped by The So-Called “Austin Mayor” Blog lately, you’re missing some great writing. Just today, there was the pointer to what may be the most remarkable “We regret the omission” in the history of journalism, a link to the Democratic Underground (further proof that we have just as many nuts on the…