From the monthly archives: October 2011
In the midst of all the important stuff going on in the world, something REALLY important happened last night on Dancing With the Stars — Maksim Chmerkovsky tried to rescue his damsel in distress from the evil judge Len Goodman and in doing so became overly aggressive and downright disrespectful. The best moment in the […]
A year ago today my true friend Rufo Balicas — a good, humble, and honorable man if ever there was one — passed away unexpectedly, and I spontaneously wrote a post entitled: Remembering My Good Friend Rufo Balicas. Rufo was an amazingly talented, creative, and hardworking grip who could make magic happen on a […]
Well, it’s not smack when you compare it to the ugly utterings of, say, Floyd Mayweather, but make no mistake, for Manny Pacquiao, the upcoming Pacquiao-Marquez 3 on November 12 is personal and he clearly has an edge building up inside him for this fight that has been lacking for quite awhile — perhaps not […]
I have to confess that prior to Nonito Donaire’s championship defense against Omar Narvaez on Saturday night in New York City, I was at least halfway onto the Donaire bandwagon. His string of explosive knockouts had gotten my attention; as had the praise that was being lavished on him by the likes of Hall of […]
Those who drop in around here occasionally know that I’m a mega-happy and lucky husband who finally got one thing right in his life and that’s the most important one — finding the right person to spend life with. From time to time thoughts of how it all ends comes to mind, and Rena and […]
The death of Moammar Gadhaffi is still being carried as “Breaking News” on CNN and the other networks, but already some fascinating details of the behind the scenes details are beginning to emerge. Some of these are just intriguing on their own merit; other details shed light on the “lead from behind” approach to Libya […]
For the last several hours the media has been reporting that Zaneville Ohio police armed with night scopes have killed 25 or more exotic wild animals who have escaped from the Muskingum County Animal Farm — an Ohio exotic wild animal farm that contained bears, lions, cheetahs, leopards, wolves, as well as giraffes and other […]
Manny Pacquaio has a way of being amazing on many levels — but what amazes me more than anything is to watch his rise through the “Power Athlete” rankings that are released each year by Bloomberg-Business Week — a ranking that is based 50% on performance, and 50% on of-field clout. This year Peyton Manning, […]
I’ve gotten to the point in life where anytime there’s a buzz out there in the science community about something that bears on longevity, it gets my attention. And so it was that Wednesday’s publication in the journal Nature of new research on the blind, hairless, naked mole rat came up on my radar screen. […]
As the mainstream media starts to pay attention to the Occupy Wall Street (and LA, and Austin, etc) movement, the effort to figure out what this movement is really all about is intensifying. But rather than seriously attempt to understand it — the mainstream media is instead projecting its own orientation on it and “painting” it in […]
From Steve Jobs 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford: My third story is about death. When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 […]
I’m not someone who thinks a lot about architecture — but this got my attention and tickled my fancy. BNKR design in Mexico City has come up with something that at first sounds a bit on the creepy side — but upon examination is quite oool — a 1000 foot deep inverted skyscraper in the […]
