Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Days Inn, Walker Center, work travel on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Back to the Eastern Shore, staying at the same Days Inn for the night. I swear, they stuck me in the same room as the last time, with the same view of the parking lot (which is made even better by the dreary weather outside… if I’m not mistaken, it’s now been raining since [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby names, Emily, Jacob, Social Security Administration on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Every year over Mother’s Day weekend, the Social Security Administration releases the top 1,000 names given to children in the United States the previous year. Some interesting notes about the 2007 list, released last night:
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, Christmas haters, Christmas music, Christmas trees, Halloween, holidays, neo-yuppies on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
It might be 228 days until Christmas, but really only 114 days until Christmas season. Yeah, I’m that person who breaks out the Christmas music and decorations in early September (unless the impossible occurs, and the Orioles are actually in contention, in which case Christmas season bumps back to the end of baseball season.) I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby names, England, laid back, scruffy, suburban on May 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A couple of months ago, I posted about baby naming trends, and also listed my favorite names:
Personally, I like Nell and Rosie for my daughters, and Gus and Mack for my sons. Most of these would have formal versions (Eleanor, Rose, and Augustus… I think Mack would stand alone), but they would always go by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged country clubs, Libertarians, Nevada, onions, Red Sox, The Ladders, Yankees on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Script for TV ad for TheLadders.com job search website:
Scene: Mobs of “average people” storm a tennis court, swinging at tennis balls with their briefcases, preventing the “serious player” from playing the game.
Narrator:
If you think about it, this is a lot like most job search sites. They let everyone in, so the best people can’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged business, Foosball, McDonalds, Starbucks on May 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are few things in life I find less interesting than business news. One of the many advantages of Tivo is that it allows me to fast forward the business updates that break into my otherwise engaging political shows. But I do like studying trends, so when I, despite all of my efforts [...]
Posted in Baseball, Media, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Andrea Mitchell, Baby Boom, baby names, Big, Bill Safire, caller ID, cell phone, David Gregory, demography, Howard Kurtz, Jon Stewart, MSNBC, Orioles, pet peeve, post, Secret of my Success, Stephen Colbert, Tucker Carlson, White Sox, Working Girl on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a series of random thoughts from today… some things that I wish, and some things that annoy me:
1. Watching Howard Kurtz talk to Bill Safire on Reliable Sources is like watching someone trying to respectfully quiet his elderly grandfather when he starts talking about life during the depression. That said, as much [...]
Posted in Media, Uncategorized, tagged Bill Moyers, Jeremiah Wright, Joe Lieberman, PBS on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t watch a lot of PBS, but all morning, I’ve been watching that clip of Reverend Wright on Bill Moyers yesterday, and something started annoying me about Moyers. Something visceral. Could not figure out what it was — I mean, I like the guy. But here’s the thing: he kinda looks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Apples to Apples, Atlanta, Boston, Chardonnay, Days Inn, New York, Philly, travel, Walker Center, work on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In my old job, I was always on the road… buses to New York, driving to Philly, flights to Atlanta and about a half dozen trips a year to Boston. There wasn’t any money for hotels, so I just stayed with people who worked in each city and hoped they had a couch or something. [...]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, whiskey on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Alright, so that video of Hillary downing a shot of whiskey and drinking a beer in Pennsylvania has made the rounds of cable news and the late night shows, and to me, it looks as odd as an elephant riding a bike. We have now had 16 years of teetotaling Presidents — maybe more, I [...]
