I blogged over at Sullivan’s Travelers about newly designated Tropical Depression Three, which has just formed over the Bahamas. It’s likely to become Tropical Storm Bonnie, and to move through the Florida Straits and into the Gulf of Mexico. That expected track virtually guarantees that this storm will get a whole lot of media attention, far more than your average… Read more »
Twitter: RT @USCFootballNews: “The Trojan Family honors and respects the USC sporting careers of those persons whose actions did not compromise their athletic program”
Today’s XKCD reminds us that the biggest rip off is not texting fees, baggage fees, or even the price of gasoline. It’s graphing calculators:
Bob Condotta’s Husky Blog for the Seattle Times continues to be a great source of information on Pac-12 expansion. He was the one who posted the link to updated information on the possibility of the zipper expansion that led to my post earlier in the week. Earlier today he posted another link to an article by fellow Seattle Times writer… Read more »
Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News has a new blog post with updates on the Pac-10/Pac-12 realignment and other conference issues. Particularly interesting are the following: The “zipper” plan is gaining traction thanks to a number of factors, including: – The Northwest schools’ reluctance to give up games in the L.A. area – The California schools’ desire to… Read more »
Unexpected benefit of working late: I just captured this photo (actually a frame from an iPhone-shot movie) of a lightning strike north of downtown:
Hahahaha: Charlotte McCourt…who died July 8 [at age 84] after a long illness…was a homemaker, proud mother and grand mother and wife of 67 years to Patrick McCourt. And she was at one time a loyal supporter of Harry Reid. Her obituary, printed in Tuesday’s Review-Journal, reads in part, “We believe that Mom would say she was mortified to have… Read more »
The climbing roses had trouble at first, but they are clearly making a comeback:
Sunday’s total solar eclipse was, for the most part, not visible from major land areas: you had to go to Easter Island, or offshore of Tahiti, or somewhere else in the South Pacific, to get into the path of totality. But there was one exception: in far southern Argentina, totality occurred just a few minutes before sunset. And that gave… Read more »
Money quotes from former USC reserve fullback D.J. Shoemate, who just transferred to UConn, on his decision: Why did you transfer from USC and how hard was that decision? I saw a better opportunity for myself to play running back. I’m very confident in my abilities. I just really wanted to follow my dream. It was the hardest decision of… Read more »