Saturday, April 24, 2010
Weekend 134.0
(1) Fairfield PAL Kite Flying Contest
(2) Rooney will be fighting fit for Finals
(3) I'm not even allowed in Mexico.
(4) Altidore apologizes for head butt
(5) New Age of Empires on the way?
(2) Rooney will be fighting fit for Finals
(3) I'm not even allowed in Mexico.
(4) Altidore apologizes for head butt
(5) New Age of Empires on the way?
Labels: baseball, disney, microsoft, soccer, weekend
Friday, March 19, 2010
Weekend 132.0
"...stripped of the gauzy romanticism of myth."Sunday, March 07, 2010
Weekend 131.0
Friday, February 26, 2010
Weekend 130.0
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Weekend 129.2
How about some T.S. Eliot?
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
Labels: weekend
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Weekend 129.1
Weekend 129.0
(1) The World's 18 Strangest Airports
(2) I Want It Now! The Fierce Urgency of Videogaming’s Future
(3) What It Looks Like on Saturday Morning
(4) Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven)
(5) Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker
(2) I Want It Now! The Fierce Urgency of Videogaming’s Future
(3) What It Looks Like on Saturday Morning
(4) Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven)
(5) Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Weekend 128.0
Where are the Red Coats going? Not sure. My guess is they are being deployed on this Fung Wah bus to break up a tea party. They could also be touring great battlefields of the American Revolutionary War.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Weekend 127.1 (Video Edition)
(1) "Doggie Dentures" Pedigree Dentastix Ad
(2) Ovi nets 40th on beautiful breakaway (NHL)
(2) Ovi nets 40th on beautiful breakaway (NHL)
Labels: weekend
Friday, February 05, 2010
Weekend 127.0
(1) Good News in the Daily Grind: Your Coffee May Have Some Health Perks, but Can Brew Trouble in People With Certain Conditions(2) Prepare to get schooled in my Austrian perspective.
(2a) How Obama got Keynes wrong
(3) Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
(4) "In essence, the conservative person is simply one who finds the permanent things more pleasing that Chaos and Old Night. (Yes conservatives know, with Burke, that healthy "change is the means of our preservation.") A people's historic continuity of experience, says the conservative, offers a guide to policy far better that the abstract designs of coffee-house philosophers." - Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence
(5) "It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have already attained perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it...forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize..." - Phil 3:8-14
Labels: economics, microsoft, quotes, weekend
Sunday, January 31, 2010
126.0
What Don DeLillo's Books Tell Him (WSJ)Wood Toys by Anna Mezenova
Landon Donovan: First EPL goal at Everton
Labels: books, soccer, toys, weekend
Saturday, January 30, 2010
126.1 (Populist, Ideologue and Slog Rainmaker)
(1) Obama v. the Supremes: Alito wins the oral, and factual, argument.
The President's claim about "foreign entities" bankrolling U.S. political campaigns is also false, since the Court did not overrule laws limiting such contributions. His use of "foreign" was a conscious attempt to inflame public and Congressional opinion against the Court. Coming from a President who fancies himself a citizen of the world, and who has gone so far as to foreswear American exceptionalism, this leap into talk-show nativism is certainly illuminating. What will they think of that one in the cafes of Berlin?
(2) The Obama Contradiction: Washington is sick and broken—and it can solve all our problems.
As the TV cameras panned the chamber, I saw a friendly acquaintance of the president, a Republican who bears him no animus. Why, I asked him later, did the president not move decisively to the political center?
Because he is more "intellectually honest" than that, he said. "I don't think he can do a Bill Clinton pivot, because he's not a pragmatist, he's an ideologue. He's a community organizer. He mixes the discrimination he felt as a young man with the hardship so many feel in this country, and he wants to change it and the way to change that is government programs and not opportunity."
The great issue, this friendly critic added, is debt. The public knows this; Congress and the White House do not.
(3) Don't Rejoice Over Higher GDP Yet: U.S. economy grows at 5.7% clip, but next few quarters will be a slog.
The consumer is essentially frozen, Egan added, and even those with jobs are looking over their shoulder and holding back spending. One of the results is that credit unions are seeing an increase in savings, which inched up a tenth of a point to 4.6% in the fourth quarter, as households look to strengthen their defenses against future crises.
The President's claim about "foreign entities" bankrolling U.S. political campaigns is also false, since the Court did not overrule laws limiting such contributions. His use of "foreign" was a conscious attempt to inflame public and Congressional opinion against the Court. Coming from a President who fancies himself a citizen of the world, and who has gone so far as to foreswear American exceptionalism, this leap into talk-show nativism is certainly illuminating. What will they think of that one in the cafes of Berlin?
(2) The Obama Contradiction: Washington is sick and broken—and it can solve all our problems.
As the TV cameras panned the chamber, I saw a friendly acquaintance of the president, a Republican who bears him no animus. Why, I asked him later, did the president not move decisively to the political center?
Because he is more "intellectually honest" than that, he said. "I don't think he can do a Bill Clinton pivot, because he's not a pragmatist, he's an ideologue. He's a community organizer. He mixes the discrimination he felt as a young man with the hardship so many feel in this country, and he wants to change it and the way to change that is government programs and not opportunity."
The great issue, this friendly critic added, is debt. The public knows this; Congress and the White House do not.
(3) Don't Rejoice Over Higher GDP Yet: U.S. economy grows at 5.7% clip, but next few quarters will be a slog.
The consumer is essentially frozen, Egan added, and even those with jobs are looking over their shoulder and holding back spending. One of the results is that credit unions are seeing an increase in savings, which inched up a tenth of a point to 4.6% in the fourth quarter, as households look to strengthen their defenses against future crises.
Labels: economics, obama, weekend
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Weekend 125.0
Soccer
Fulham Football Club Provides Update on Clint Dempsey Knee Injury: U.S. Men's National Team midfielder Clint Dempsey will not require surgery on an injured knee, according to a statement from Fulham Football Club following an MRI evaluation.
Donovan open to staying with Everton beyond MLS opener
Baseball
A's prospect leaving baseball for call of the priesthood
64 Things Every Geek Should Know
Fulham Football Club Provides Update on Clint Dempsey Knee Injury: U.S. Men's National Team midfielder Clint Dempsey will not require surgery on an injured knee, according to a statement from Fulham Football Club following an MRI evaluation.
Donovan open to staying with Everton beyond MLS opener
Baseball
A's prospect leaving baseball for call of the priesthood
You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have turned around and thrown the whole world in my lap. You have told me, "Leave all things and follow me," and then You have tied half of New York to my foot like a ball and chain.Segway Polo, Anyone?
- Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
64 Things Every Geek Should Know
Labels: baseball, soccer, weekend
Monday, January 18, 2010
Weekend 124.2
Scanned from A Picture History of Britain by Clarke Hutton.Drawn to Plastocowell by Clarke Hutton and printed in Great Britain by W.S. Cowell LTD. at the Butter Market Ipswich
Related
School Prints 1947-51
"The spirit which pervades the published prints is of quiet celebration: they picture a world reassuring in its familiarities; a world of everyday work and occasional festivity. It is a spirit in keeping with the general optimism of the project. The best of these prints present images of perennial rural and small-town life: they are versions of pastoral."
Harlequinade (1946 England)
Friday, January 15, 2010
Weekend 124.0
(1) The world's flags given letter grades
(2) Dr. Barber
(3) Highly Recommended: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
(2) Dr. Barber
(3) Highly Recommended: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Weekend 123.1
A Namesake Who Reanimated Disney (WSJ)
Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney, was sometimes dismissed within the company as a dilettante. But he successfully fought a series of battles over the management of the entertainment company that bore his family name.
Mr. Disney, who died Wednesday at age 79, served at various times as a board member and an executive of the Walt Disney Co. Though he was often regarded as someone who relied on the family name for advancement, he helped engineer a company turnaround. And he flexed his muscle as a board member and heir to force the company to replace chief executives who he felt were not honoring his family's legacy.
Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney, was sometimes dismissed within the company as a dilettante. But he successfully fought a series of battles over the management of the entertainment company that bore his family name.
Mr. Disney, who died Wednesday at age 79, served at various times as a board member and an executive of the Walt Disney Co. Though he was often regarded as someone who relied on the family name for advancement, he helped engineer a company turnaround. And he flexed his muscle as a board member and heir to force the company to replace chief executives who he felt were not honoring his family's legacy.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Weekend 123.0
It's all over but the screaming and shouting. A country whose citizenry isn't outraged by this (see below) is a country that doesn't deserve what was bequeathed to it. Mark Penn's two firms awarded millions from stimulus for public relations work
A contract worth nearly $6 million in stimulus funds was awarded by the Obama adminstration to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Whoever invented rope...
...was a real a-hole!
(1) Everton in talks to sign Donovan on loan
(1a) Howard: Donovan Will Bring Strength
(2) How to Make GeekKids Watch Sports
(3) Impotent futurism: the design of Allende's cyber-utopian boondoggle (first seen on Instapundit)
(4) From the Greek poet Hesiod:
And I wish that I had no part
in the fifth generation
of men, but had died before it came,
Or been born afterward:
For here now is the age or iron. Never by daytime
will there be an end to hard work and pain
nor in the night
to weariness.
(5) Shameful: 83 percent of Americans failed a basic test on knowledge of the American Revolution and the principles that have united all Americans.
(1) Everton in talks to sign Donovan on loan
(1a) Howard: Donovan Will Bring Strength
(2) How to Make GeekKids Watch Sports
(3) Impotent futurism: the design of Allende's cyber-utopian boondoggle (first seen on Instapundit)
(4) From the Greek poet Hesiod:
And I wish that I had no part
in the fifth generation
of men, but had died before it came,
Or been born afterward:
For here now is the age or iron. Never by daytime
will there be an end to hard work and pain
nor in the night
to weariness.
(5) Shameful: 83 percent of Americans failed a basic test on knowledge of the American Revolution and the principles that have united all Americans.
Labels: history, quotes, soccer, weekend
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Weekend 122.0
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Weekend 121.1
Friday, November 27, 2009
Weekend 121.0
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Turkey Eve 2009
(1) A Black Friday tribute: The aluminum Christmas tree.
(3) I'm moving to Japan (or at the very least trying to figure out how to do my Black Friday shopping there).
(3A) Problem solved!
(4) What Facebook Can't Give You: Over 52 Years, These Men Have Evolved Into Movers and Shakers—Together (WSJ)
The aluminum Christmas tree was used as a symbol of the over-commercialization of Christmas in the 1965 Peanuts holiday special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The program is considered a classic amongst Christmas specials,[5] and its mention of the aluminum tree solidified the tree's legendary status while satirizing it as well.(2) The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
(3) I'm moving to Japan (or at the very least trying to figure out how to do my Black Friday shopping there).
(3A) Problem solved!
(4) What Facebook Can't Give You: Over 52 Years, These Men Have Evolved Into Movers and Shakers—Together (WSJ)
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Weekend 120.0
(1) More art from Makoto Shinkai and 5 Centimeters Per Second.
(2) Go BLUE! I'm off to see if the New York Football Giants can salvage their season.
(3) A book review
quote from Randy Stafford...
"Most American conservatives, especially since Sept. 11th, exhibit signs of brain damage. And John Derbyshire diagnoses the problem: too much happy talk, too much optimism and not enough pessimism. There are limits about what man can do with himself and the natural world. Humans are not blank slates that can be remade to fit whatever utopian scheme can be dreamed up. Conservatives are supposed to know this and see things as they are. Liberals are there to take care of the happy talk and wishful thinking."
(2) Go BLUE! I'm off to see if the New York Football Giants can salvage their season.
(3) A book review
quote from Randy Stafford..."Most American conservatives, especially since Sept. 11th, exhibit signs of brain damage. And John Derbyshire diagnoses the problem: too much happy talk, too much optimism and not enough pessimism. There are limits about what man can do with himself and the natural world. Humans are not blank slates that can be remade to fit whatever utopian scheme can be dreamed up. Conservatives are supposed to know this and see things as they are. Liberals are there to take care of the happy talk and wishful thinking."
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Weekend 119.0
It starts when I say so.(1) World's Fastest Superliner Awaits Rebirth—or the Scrap Yard
Out of service for 40 years, the SS United States still holds speed records. But what fate awaits this storied piece of naval history?
(2) Braves' Hudson signs three-year extension
(3) U.S. player Charlie Davies released from D.C. hospital
(4) THE VENTURE BROS.: It's Side 2 of Dark Side of the Moon! He's in a Floyd Hole.
(5) Rebel clubs plan breakaway North American league
(6) Microsoft Protection Center: Win32/FakeSpypro - This is a real nasty bugger.
(7) Bill Gates comments on the folly of government regulation in economic/human activity.
(8) Must Read Book: The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
by Charles GasparinoLabels: baseball, books, microsoft, soccer, weekend
Friday, November 06, 2009
Weekend 118.0
Friday, October 30, 2009
Weekend 117.0
In Soccer, It's Manchester Divided: A Gritty Town Finds Itself With Two of the World's Richest Teams—and an Epic Rivalry (WSJ)Grave Matters: The surprising origins and enduring importance of Arlington National Cemetery. (WSJ)
Labels: books, history, soccer, weekend
Friday, October 23, 2009
Weekend 116.0
Paul Ryan on the Bill Bennett Show. The juicy bits start around 8:19.
The badge with the OBAMA hammer and sickle was posted on LIMESTONE ROOF in June of 2008.
The badge with the OBAMA hammer and sickle was posted on LIMESTONE ROOF in June of 2008.
Labels: weekend
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Weekend 115.2
(1) Disney’s Retail Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores (2) Inside Walt Disney's World by Ann Landi (WSJ)
(3) The Art Of Epic Mickey/ Epic Mickey
Weekend 115.1
Friday, October 16, 2009
Weekend 115.0
(1) Decline Is a Choice: The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.
(4) Now We Know Why He Passed on the Dalai Lama
American exceptionalism in action!(3) What's Michael Moore Talking About? Government power is the problem, not capitalism.
(2) Texas Campus Hosts 3rd Annual Peace Through Business Initiative
(4) Now We Know Why He Passed on the Dalai Lama
Labels: weekend
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Weekend 114.0
Quoniam probasti nos Deus: igne nos examinasti, sicut examinatur argentum...Transiuimus per ignem et aquam: et eduxisti nos in refrigerium.Labels: weekend
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Weekend 113.0
The Bus Stops Here: Sightseeing in Los Angeles by public transportation takes a little money and a lot of time (WSJ)
Where in the world is Taylor Twellman?
Where in the world is Taylor Twellman?
Labels: weekend
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Burning of Fairfield
On July 7, 1779 the British attacked Fairfield and most of the down town area was razed. This weekend the Fairfield Museum and History Center had a festival commemorating the 230th anniversary of the attack.
Red coats press their advantage.
A costly advance.
Held in reserve.
Other Photos
A soldier's gear
Fairfield's Militia needs you!
Requisitioned
The Union Flag
Red coats press their advantage.
A costly advance.
Held in reserve.
Other Photos
A soldier's gear
Fairfield's Militia needs you!
Requisitioned
The Union Flag
Labels: england, history, weekend
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Weekend 112.0 (Wheels Up Edition)
"I don't need a soccer lecture from a hillbilly!"
- Homer Simpson
Clark leads U.S. past Trinidad & Tobago
Road victory puts U.S. on verge of sixth consecutive World Cup berth
North, Central America and Caribbean Standings
Other Weekend Links
Agency Executives Need to Get Out on Motorcycles More Often
- Homer Simpson
Clark leads U.S. past Trinidad & Tobago
Road victory puts U.S. on verge of sixth consecutive World Cup berth
North, Central America and Caribbean Standings
Other Weekend Links
Agency Executives Need to Get Out on Motorcycles More Often
Monday, September 07, 2009
Weekend 111.2
There was a young man who was bitten
By twenty-two cats and a kitten;
Sighed he, "It is clear
My finish is near;
No matter; I'll die like a Briton!"
Walter Parke
A tribute to Van Jones and all the other Czars (and Czarinas)
What is a Communist? One who has yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings;
Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing
To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.
Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
By twenty-two cats and a kitten;
Sighed he, "It is clear
My finish is near;
No matter; I'll die like a Briton!"
Walter Parke
A tribute to Van Jones and all the other Czars (and Czarinas)
What is a Communist? One who has yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings;
Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing
To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.
Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
Labels: weekend
Weekend 111.1
Random Weekend Links
(1) U.S. overcomes another slow start to down El Salvador
Football Hooligans
(2) The best British Airways' adverts ever
(3) Boxes to help you get organized!
(4) The art of John Berkey
(1) U.S. overcomes another slow start to down El Salvador
Football Hooligans
(2) The best British Airways' adverts ever
(3) Boxes to help you get organized!
(4) The art of John Berkey
Labels: airlines, soccer, weekend
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Weekend 111.0
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Weekend 110.1
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Weekend 110.0
'O Oysters,' said the Carpenter,
'You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none --
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.
- Lewis Carroll
'You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none --
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.
- Lewis Carroll
Labels: weekend
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Weekend 109.0
(1) Three candidates for the new Limestone Roof quote/phrase:
"...between these two kinds of death we are either drowned or slaughtered."
"Like compulsively pressing a bar for food pellets you have no intention of eating."
"A shitload of suffering is what we're really talking about."
(2) ESPN is broadcasting English Premier League matches. The match for Saturday, August 22 is Manchester United versus Wigan Athletic. Manchester was upset last week by Burnley (Manchester United = Yankees, Burnley = Pittsburgh Pirates).
"...between these two kinds of death we are either drowned or slaughtered."
"Like compulsively pressing a bar for food pellets you have no intention of eating."
"A shitload of suffering is what we're really talking about."
(2) ESPN is broadcasting English Premier League matches. The match for Saturday, August 22 is Manchester United versus Wigan Athletic. Manchester was upset last week by Burnley (Manchester United = Yankees, Burnley = Pittsburgh Pirates).
Labels: quotes, soccer, weekend
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Weekend 108.0
(1) I took this picture when I was out-and-about with Burgoyne. It looks like a toy.Related
Honda Scooters
(2) This goal by Landon Donovan comes at the expense of my New England Revolution but it's a beauty. I wish he saved it for El Tri.
(3) R2-Q5 on YouTube and Woookieepedia. You can purchase a remote-controlled version of R2-Q5
at Amazon.(4) A very cool distressed version of V.I.N.CENT from Disney's The Black Hole sold at the San Diego Comic Con. The art toy was created by MINDstyle.
(5) Information about the upcoming D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center (September 10–13, 2009). D23 is the first official community for Disney fans.
Labels: disney, robots, soccer, weekend
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Weekend 107.1
"At a time when most homes received just three television channels, more than forty million people watched Disney's forecast for the future...It filled our dreams and fueled our expectations."
- Brian Fies, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow
Jeff Pepper from 2719 HYPERION reviews Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow in Ad Astra Per Aspera. Jeff bottles the ephemeral in his closing sentence...
- Brian Fies, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow
Jeff Pepper from 2719 HYPERION reviews Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow in Ad Astra Per Aspera. Jeff bottles the ephemeral in his closing sentence...
If Disney's original EPCOT film gave you goosebumps, or if you ever emerged excited and energized after riding Spaceship Earth or Horizons at EPCOT Center, you will no doubt be similarly thrilled and motivated by Brian Fies amazing journey across the 20th century.
Labels: books, disney, quotes, weekend
Weekend 107.0
August Recess Reading
(1) Our Angry Aristocracy by Victor Davis Hanson
Scolding Americans for our various sins is proving popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists...Yet these influential prophets of doom do not have lives remotely similar to the lesser folk they lecture.
Do the wealthy and the powerful lecture us about our wrongs because they know their own insider status ensures that they are exempt from the harsh medicine they advocate for others? Or does the hypocrisy grow out of a sort of class snobbery?
Do elites hector the crass middle class because it lacks their own taste, rare insight, and privileged style? Or is the new hypocrisy an eerie sort of psychological compensation at work?
(2) ObamaCare in Trouble by Karl Rove
Polls are turning against President Barack Obama’s health-care plan...The polls are crumbling because of a flood of bad news about Mr. Obama’s health-care proposals.
But the most damaging news came from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf, who said last week that the White House’s health-care proposals would not “reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount.”
Democratic leaders, including the president, are now backing away from a vote on health care before August. But that’s not likely to decrease voter angst. Americans for Prosperity and others are already organizing voters to attend public meetings with members of Congress this summer. My guess is that members of Congress are about to hear a lot from their voters on the government takeover of health care, new energy taxes, the failed stimulus, record deficits, and growing joblessness.
(1) Our Angry Aristocracy by Victor Davis Hanson
Scolding Americans for our various sins is proving popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists...Yet these influential prophets of doom do not have lives remotely similar to the lesser folk they lecture.
Do the wealthy and the powerful lecture us about our wrongs because they know their own insider status ensures that they are exempt from the harsh medicine they advocate for others? Or does the hypocrisy grow out of a sort of class snobbery?
Do elites hector the crass middle class because it lacks their own taste, rare insight, and privileged style? Or is the new hypocrisy an eerie sort of psychological compensation at work?
(2) ObamaCare in Trouble by Karl Rove
Polls are turning against President Barack Obama’s health-care plan...The polls are crumbling because of a flood of bad news about Mr. Obama’s health-care proposals.
But the most damaging news came from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf, who said last week that the White House’s health-care proposals would not “reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount.”
Democratic leaders, including the president, are now backing away from a vote on health care before August. But that’s not likely to decrease voter angst. Americans for Prosperity and others are already organizing voters to attend public meetings with members of Congress this summer. My guess is that members of Congress are about to hear a lot from their voters on the government takeover of health care, new energy taxes, the failed stimulus, record deficits, and growing joblessness.
Labels: dodd, obama, pelosi, rangel, reid, weekend
Friday, July 24, 2009
Weekend 106.0
(1) Airport Check-in: The Palm among new JFK eateries
(2) Another quote from How Rome Fell...
"There were no hordes of barbarians hurling themselves time and again against the walls of civilisation."
(3)
(4) A quote from Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison...
"The northeastern shore of this gulf is noted for the subterranean streams that flow down through the limestone and break out under the sea not far from the shore, welling forth such a volume of sweet water that that swarms of manatee are attracted to quest their thirst, and seamen may fill water casks without the trouble of going ashore."
I'll be quoting from this Pulitzer Prize winning book again in September.
(2) Another quote from How Rome Fell...
"There were no hordes of barbarians hurling themselves time and again against the walls of civilisation."
(3)
(4) A quote from Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison...
"The northeastern shore of this gulf is noted for the subterranean streams that flow down through the limestone and break out under the sea not far from the shore, welling forth such a volume of sweet water that that swarms of manatee are attracted to quest their thirst, and seamen may fill water casks without the trouble of going ashore."
I'll be quoting from this Pulitzer Prize winning book again in September.
Labels: airports, books, quotes, signage, weekend
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Weekend 105.2
The US MNT defeats Panama 2-1 in overtime for a semifinal berth in the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- With just one regular in the starting lineup, the United States rallied past Panama into the semifinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Kenny Cooper converted a penalty kick in the 105th minute, giving the two-time defending champions a 2-1 victory and a semifinal berth against Honduras, which beat Canada 1-0 in the opener of Saturday's doubleheader.
In Sunday's quarterfinal doubleheader, Guadeloupe meets Costa Rica and Mexico faces Haiti in the first sporting event at the Dallas Cowboys new stadium at Arlington, Texas. The semifinals are Thursday in Chicago.
Weekend 105.1
"He rode hell for leather to escape..."
This is how Adrian Goldworthy describes the flight of Constantine to Britain in How Rome Fell. What a brilliant use of words.
This is how Adrian Goldworthy describes the flight of Constantine to Britain in How Rome Fell. What a brilliant use of words.
Labels: books, history, weekend
Weekend 105.0
Our Radio Flyer ATW wagon goes north. New routes (new memories) and hopefully a refurbishment/overhaul.
Labels: weekend
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Weekend 104.4
Flea Market Treasures
This trading card is from the 1950s. It was produced as part of the Jets/Rockets/Spacemen series by Bowman (Topps). This card is #2 of #108 and titled Seeing a Rocket Built. The set was reissued/reprinted in the 80s.
The back of the card reads:
This trading card is from the 1950s. It was produced as part of the Jets/Rockets/Spacemen series by Bowman (Topps). This card is #2 of #108 and titled Seeing a Rocket Built. The set was reissued/reprinted in the 80s.
The back of the card reads:
While our 6X52 was being prepared for blasting off to the Moon, we dropped in a Hangar "B." Spatial engineers were building a rocket for the regular run between Mars and the moons of Jupiter. Our leaders, Capt. Argo and Dr. Zara, discussed the composition of the rare lunar metals used in the 250-ft. shell. A cosmic crane lifted the atomic motor into place. The engineers began insulating the ship against the motor's radiation and installing the radar equipment.You can view all the cards at Lowell's Place. I also found them at Chuckman's Non-Sports Trading Cards of the 1950s.
Labels: weekend
Weekend 104.3 (GOAL)
Weekend 104.2
One Year, One Nation - Outside the Lines on ESPNMore...
The 2010 FIFA World Cup, to be played next summer in South Africa, means so much to this nation that is just 15 years removed from authoritarian apartheid rule. Bob Ley, host of "Outside the Lines," (Sunday, 9 a.m. ET on ESPN) reports from Johannesburg, Cape Town and Soweto about Africans' passion for soccer and what the investment in infrastructure means -- if anything -- to their lives.
South Africans insist they will be ready
Host Cities for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Weekend 104.1
Bermudan, U.S. Governments Take Hits for Moving Uighurs Out of Guantanamo
MPs should be given a full report on the Uighur fiasco
No Confidence Motion Against Ewart Brown
Four PLP MPs call for Premier Dr. Brown's resignation
"When an American is watching an ad (for Bermuda) it hits my mind as an American, they saw the level of intense media attention, I say to myself, 'Hmm, that's the country that accepted Guantanamo Bay detainees' ... This is a fact, mark my words, tourism will be affected by this."
- Donte Hunt, United Bermuda Party
MPs should be given a full report on the Uighur fiasco
No Confidence Motion Against Ewart Brown
Weekend 104.0
The U.S. MNT plays Haiti tonight at 7:00 PM EST in their final match of group play in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The U.S. is 2-0 in group play.
Updates
¤ The U.S. leads 1-0 in the 20th minute. The match is on TeleFutura.
¤ It's half time and U.S. still leads 1-0. What a sloppy half.
¤ The U.S. has conceded two goals in the first 5 minutes of the second half and now trail 2-1.
¤ It's the 65th minute and the U.S. is still searching for an equalizer.
¤ Holy Crap! Equalizer!! Equalizer!! Equalizer!! The goal, a beautiful strike from distance by Stuart Holden, comes in the waning seconds of stoppage time (90+).
Post Match Headlines
Holden's strike keeps U.S. unbeaten in group play
Late Goal Seals Group B For U.S.
U.S. ties Haiti 2-2, wins Gold Cup first-round group
Updates
¤ The U.S. leads 1-0 in the 20th minute. The match is on TeleFutura.
¤ It's half time and U.S. still leads 1-0. What a sloppy half.
¤ The U.S. has conceded two goals in the first 5 minutes of the second half and now trail 2-1.
¤ It's the 65th minute and the U.S. is still searching for an equalizer.
¤ Holy Crap! Equalizer!! Equalizer!! Equalizer!! The goal, a beautiful strike from distance by Stuart Holden, comes in the waning seconds of stoppage time (90+).
Post Match Headlines
Holden's strike keeps U.S. unbeaten in group play
Late Goal Seals Group B For U.S.
U.S. ties Haiti 2-2, wins Gold Cup first-round group
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Weekend 103.0 (Limestone Quote)
Help choose the next quote/phrase for Limestone Roof.
(A) Convenience and frequent repetition do not amount to truth.
(B) The best argument for conservatism, is the real world results of liberalism.
(C) 'More Humble Men.': The Poor and the Rest
(A) Convenience and frequent repetition do not amount to truth.
(B) The best argument for conservatism, is the real world results of liberalism.
(C) 'More Humble Men.': The Poor and the Rest
Saturday, July 04, 2009
July 4, 2009
The vast sweep of an early Revolutionary War battle, with well-trained and equipped British troops on the left and the raggle-taggle citizens' army ranged against them, brings to life a stirring chapter in America's history.
- Excerpt from Walt Disney's EPCOT Center: Creating the New World of Tomorrow. Panorama created for The American Adventure.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Weekend 102.2
The US just defeated Egypt 3-0 in the FIFA Confederations Cup and will move on to the semis! They will play Spain on Wednesday.
U.S. 3-0 Egypt: U.S. headed to semis
USA secure unlikely Confed Cup progress
U.S. 3-0 Egypt: U.S. headed to semis
USA secure unlikely Confed Cup progress
Weekend 102.1
I saw this poster on the subway and did a little research. It was commissioned by the MTA (Arts for Transit) and created by Chris Gall. His work reminds me of something by William Joyce.
Related
Chris Gall: Just Another Day on the MTA
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Weekend 102.0
(1) Blatter: MLS must move season
(2) U.S. far from ready for World Cup
(3) Beasley apologizes to teammates for his mistake
(4) Revs raising game for title defense
(2) U.S. far from ready for World Cup
(3) Beasley apologizes to teammates for his mistake
(4) Revs raising game for title defense
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Weekend 101.0
My BLOG is being expropriated by Burgoyne.
(1) The FIFA Confederations Cup begins tomorrow in South Africa. The US MNT is one of eight teams competing in this WC warm-up.
(2) Jones turns back on Germany to play for USA
(3) Will you marry me at the airport?
"Yes, airports. For many travelers, an airport may be the least romantic spot on earth. But airports have played an important role in plenty of love stories. Many couples first meet while working at an airport. Others meet while flying on an airplane or while hanging around at an airport."
(4) Notable Quotes: "Oh I'm sorry, that's off limits. Now if you'll excuse me for a second, I have to go to the bathroom for about 30 minutes as I eat a lot of meat."
(1) The FIFA Confederations Cup begins tomorrow in South Africa. The US MNT is one of eight teams competing in this WC warm-up.
(2) Jones turns back on Germany to play for USA
(3) Will you marry me at the airport?
"Yes, airports. For many travelers, an airport may be the least romantic spot on earth. But airports have played an important role in plenty of love stories. Many couples first meet while working at an airport. Others meet while flying on an airplane or while hanging around at an airport."
(4) Notable Quotes: "Oh I'm sorry, that's off limits. Now if you'll excuse me for a second, I have to go to the bathroom for about 30 minutes as I eat a lot of meat."
Labels: airports, soccer, weekend
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Weekend 100.0
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Weekend 99.0
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Weekend 98.0
Friday, May 15, 2009
Weekend 97.0
It's not supposed to make any sense.China's National Space Program Copies Star Trek Logo
Some—But Not All—of the Horrible Motherboard Box Art We Found
Baseball/Books
A League of His Own: Late in a storied baseball career, Branch Rickey threw the sport a curve
Labels: baseball, bermuda, books, weekend
Friday, May 08, 2009
Weekend 96.0
(1) Stalin's Lost Railway
(2) Design Tutorial: Creating a Propaganda Poster
(3) 1984
(4) 30 Worth Seeing Stencil Graffiti Artworks
(5) Good vs. Evil Foosball
(2) Design Tutorial: Creating a Propaganda Poster
(3) 1984
(4) 30 Worth Seeing Stencil Graffiti Artworks
(5) Good vs. Evil Foosball
Labels: books, railroads, soccer, weekend
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Weekend 95.0
Horse RacingI'm still handicapping before I drive over to the dog track. Weather will be a factor.
Baseball
Zack Greinke is in Total Control (Sports Illustrated)
"Off the field it was worse. The simplest tasks overwhelmed him. He dreaded coming to the ballpark. Greinke talked with friends and family about becoming a full-time position player so that he could get to hit or, perhaps, taking up professional golf. He often talked with his family about it being another gray day."
Red Sox pondering Smoltz's next step (mlb.com)
‘Less emotional,’ Glavine not hanging it up yet (ajc.com)
Soccer
Sleeper In Seattle: With a winning record and big, boisterous crowds, the Sounders don't look anything like an expansion franchise
Sports Related Ads
Now my job is way less soul crushing. (ESPN 360)
His reputation is expanding faster than the universe. (Dos Equis) - These ads remind me of The Venture Bros. on [adult swim].
Labels: weekend
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Weekend 93.0
Derelict - Vessel abandoned at sea by her master and crew, without hope of recovery.The Visual Encyclopedia of Nautical Terms Under Sail
Quotes from The Fellowship of the Ring:
"He was interested in roots and beginnings; he dived into deep pools; he burrowed under trees and growing plants; he tunnelled into green mounds; and he ceased to look up at the hill tops, or the leaves on trees, or the flowers opening in the air: his head and eyes were downward."
"Light, light of Sun and Moon, he still feared and hated, and he always will, I think; but he was cunning. He found he could hide from the daylight and moonshine, and make his way swiftly and softly by dead of night with his pale cold eyes, catch small frightened or unwary things. He grew stronger and bolder with new food and new air."
long may Peace reign here for sure god never intended any war should be carryed on by any other beside the natives for the soldiers are wrought like horses & the officers can acquire no honour in a Country where as the New England people says, every Tree is a fort and every man a Gen[era]ll.
- Redcoats: The British Solider and War in the Americas, 1755-1763
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Weekend 92.1
Playmobil LinksMonkey Pox
Adventure beckons
Shovel Ready
A whale of a tale
...until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more.
Labels: weekend
Weekend 92.0 (Easter 2009)
ArtistsGreg "Pnut" Galinsky
Miroslav Sasek
Mary Blair
Airlines
Virgin America (VirginAmerica) on Twitter
JetBlue on Twitter
Blogs
ColourPost - Color Ideas, Inspiration & Happiness
Conversion Diary - The diary of a former atheist
Books
The Book of Bamboo: A Comprehensive Guide to This Remarkable Plant, Its Uses, and Its History
How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America
Limestone Roof is now 120% less beholden to parochial concerns and less attracted to filthy lucre.
Labels: weekend
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Weekend 91.1 (Commerce Edition)
(1) Sunday, March 29, 2009
Weekend 90.1 (Compare & Contrast)
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Weekend 90.0
(1) U.S. Men's National Team Heads to El Salvador For FIFA World Cup Qualifier
(1A) U.S. Posts Remarkable Come-From-Behind Tie in El Salvador as Altidore and Hejduk Score to Erase Two-Goal Deficit
(2) Umbro Launches New England Football Shirt
(1A) U.S. Posts Remarkable Come-From-Behind Tie in El Salvador as Altidore and Hejduk Score to Erase Two-Goal Deficit
(2) Umbro Launches New England Football Shirt
(3) England 4-0 Slovakia (International Friendly)
Resplendent in a new white shirt, nicely designed but at odds with the mud-heap on which he must perform, the Liverpool skipper, roaming inside at will from his left-side station, evaded capture with a magnificent drag back before drilling a low cross to the near post.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Weekend 89.2
I had two optional titles for this photograph:(1) Crowded out
(2) We Are All Socialists Now
Labels: economics, playmobil, weekend
Friday, March 20, 2009
Weekend 89.0 (P 22 05 525.0-15)
It's NOT my badge number for the ACORN run re-education camps. If Ace keeps writing like this he's going to end up in one of those camps.
Obama had a choice between big-government spending and liberal vengeance and actually fixing the economy, and he chose the former. Indeed, it seems as if it wasn't even a close decision for him.
Labels: weekend
Friday, March 13, 2009
Weekend 88.1
ADD OCD DIY? Organize and Shelve Books by ColorA Weathered Apple
Playmobil Chromatic
Disney's Wonderful World of Color
More Playmobil
Crash!
Flight 1021
Football
Kasey Keller back home in Seattle to finish career
Revs train in Austin
Robots
Coca Cola Robots
Other Stuff
The History of Vans (Sneaker Freaker Magazine)
Labels: disney, playmobil, robots, soccer, weekend
