Daily Archives: May 18, 2008
Hey Batter Swing
Posted on May 18, 2008 27 Comments
Athena’s playing softball again this year; here she is up at bat and letting this particular ball get past her. In previous years, the coaches pitched to the girls; this year the girls pitch, which means lots and lots and lots and lots of walks. Well, I suppose they do have to learn. And it’s […]
Lazy Sunday, Cat Style
Posted on May 18, 2008 11 Comments
No idea where Zeus is. Probably off leaping on something.
For You Europeans
Posted on May 18, 2008 11 Comments
I’ve been led to understand that Bebo is one of the more popular social networking sites over there on your fair continent, and several folks there have asked me to put up a Bebo profile, because the inability to friend me on their social network of choice is causing them unspeakable amounts of angst and […]
Truck Technology
Posted on May 18, 2008 30 Comments
Also in the LA Times this morning (guess which Web site I’ve been reading), a piece on how the trucking industry is now finally pushing itself to get more than five miles a gallon out of its trucks, spurred on by (you guessed it) high fuel prices, which mean that it can cost up to […]
That Activist Judge
Posted on May 18, 2008 57 Comments
Apropos to the discussion of California’s Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage and whether the ruling was the work of “judicial activism,” the Los Angeles Times has a profile on the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, a Republican appointed by a Republican governor (and then later reconfirmed by the voters, as is California’s […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying