Daily Archives: June 7, 2008

RIP, Jim McKay

June 7, 2008 – 7:34 pm

The nation’s first sports journalist, Jim McKay, has passed away at age 86. I grew up watching Wide World of Sports on teevee; I have seen countless Olympic Games.
Jim McKay was in all of them. Not doing play-by-play, but bringing an obvious passion and a deep understanding of the sport to the television [...]

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Still Love ya’, Brownie

June 7, 2008 – 7:03 pm

It wasn’t Big Brown’s day today at the Belmont. In spite of the acumen of jockey Kent Desormeaux, who judiciously steered Big Brown to the outside early on, and who appeared to be content to let Big hold in third down the backstretch, there was “just no horse” 1 left coming off turn 4.
Desormeaux [...]

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And they’re Off! (Almost)

June 7, 2008 – 6:30 pm

The Belmont post parade underway. Big Brown looks like he has another day at the office.
Run, big fella. 1-4 odds to win; only way to cash a huge ticket is to bet a bunch.
-k-

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Today’s TWACness

June 7, 2008 – 4:49 pm

I’ve not posted the results of an online quiz in quite a while. I like this one very much.

Still waiting to take this one, which remains to this day the funniest thing I’ve ever encountered on the internets.
-k-

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New Fedora Project Member

June 7, 2008 – 2:11 pm

I’ve done something about getting involved in the Fedora Project. Step one was to create an account, and sign the legalese otherwise known as the Contributor License Agreement(CLA).
I’ve also registered a nick with IRC, generated all the ssh and gpg keys necessary, and uploaded them to my Fedora account.
Now, there’s tons of reading to do, [...]

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