Monthly Archives: December 2007

Happy New Year, Verizon Style

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This year, you can send text messages or pictures which will be shown on the Jumbotron in Times Square. The text-o-thon is sponsored by Verizon Wireless. Here’s how to play:

Verizon Wireless is giving you the chance to make your thoughts heard — er, read — on New Year’s Eve via a Jumbotron in New York City’s Times Square.

Send your text message — from any wireless phone — to 81878 or your picture message to NYC@pix.vzw.com anytime between 1 p.m. Monday to 4 a.m. Tuesday and it may go up on Spotlight Live’s 75-foot Jumbotron overlooking Times Square.

Any wireless device can participate. Normal text message and airtime rates apply.

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[stags]New Year, Verizon[/stags]

Where Else but in Los Angeles?

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Santa in G-String Arrested on DUI Charge
In the Christmas oddities department, from La-La-Land:

A man in a Santa hat was arrested Sunday night for investigation of drunken driving after he was spotted outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood wearing a wig, a red lace camisole and a purple G-string, police said.

And, in a stunning example of police work, this observation:

“We are pretty sure this is not the Santa Claus,” Deputy Chief Ken Garner said.

I’m pretty sure this isn’t Christmas the way I remember it.

-k-

Silent Night

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Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ, the Saviour is born
Christ, the Saviour is born

Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth “

Merry Christmas to All!
-k-
[stags]Holiday, Christmas[/stags]

Artwork from: watton.org

As God is my Witness, I Thought they Could Drive

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Big Rig Overturns; Live Turkeys Dumped
From Bakersfield CA, an incident that brings back WKRP memories.

… a big rig heading westbound on Highway 58 was driving onto the Highway 99 interchange but hit a guardrail and overturned, spilling hundreds of live turkeys onto the road.

Hundreds of turkeys died in the crash while injured turkeys could be seen huddling together.

Too bad about the fowl fatalities, but huddling together beats hitting the ground like a sack of wet cement.

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[stags]Goofy[/stags]

It’s Hard to Rally ’round a Math Class

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While watching NCAA Basketball a while ago this evening, I was struck by the number of players who have been declared “academically ineligible” for upcoming NCAA football bowl games, and who therefore will not be playing.

Without doing any research at all, I’d surmise this is some NCAA final inspection rule prior to the football extravaganza about to unfold. If that’s the case, why?

Let’s just drop the pretense. Many college athletes are in college for one reason only: To get drafted by a professional team and sign a contract. That can be a tall mountain to climb. But let’s not delude ourselves that a college athlete’s indoctrination in some liberal arts program is why they’re really in college from the git-go. These guys just didn’t dumb up over the last week or so, yet they were allowed to play all season. Now that the moment has come for them to showcase their talents on the gridiron and possibly become gainfully employed by an NFL franchise, they’re now academically ineligible? Football fans don’t buy tickets to a differential equation solving contest; the NCAA should understand this, and let the athletes compete.

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[stags]NCAA,Football[/stags]
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Get a TO, Baby!

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Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Dick Vitale, legendary color man on ESPN’s NCAA Men’s Basketball telecasts. He underwent successful throat surgery today, and is expected to be out of the broadcast booth until February.

I love people who are enthusiastic about their work, and back that up with being skilled at what they do. Dick Vitale is such a person. He is to the NCAA telecasts what Darrell Waltrip is to NASCAR’s.

Get well, soon, Dickie V!

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[stags]NCAA, Dick Vitale, ESPN, Darrell Waltrip[/stags]
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A Tweet Trainwreck

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All the three preceding bloglet entries were actually tweets, posted via the Twitter. The Twitter Tools plugin has an option “Create blog posts from tweets”. I tried, I didn’t like, I turned it off. I’m keeping the “Asides” via Twitter in the sidebar.

Tweeting is not blogging, nor is blogging tweeting, even though they share some similarities. In my case, they’re both just typing.

-k-
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