I saw the most confusing thing today. A student was wearing what appeared to be a Dodger-blue Mets hat, although the “NY” logo looked a bit… wrong. When the student turned around, I saw “Yankees” and a bat logo written across the back. No wonder the “NY” looked wrong! Which leads to this thought: Why [...]
Posted on November 30th, 2005 by Chris
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I received a letter recently from a SUNY campus – I won’t tell you which one, but they’re west of Rochester – hoping I’d recruit my students for a new degree program they’re running. Near the end of the letter, though, they mention, and I quote: “The number of college graduates in American [sic] is [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2005 by Chris
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I would still be amazed if anyone besides Skadz is using my RSS feed, and so this entry is pretty much just for him. Sorry, Skadz, but I updated my RSS code again. Now it looks nice in my RSS reader (which is awesome), with line breaks where they should be. I know this probably [...]
Posted on November 12th, 2005 by Chris
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You can’t fault Gary Cohen for following the money, as I’m sure his new contract with SportsNet New York, announced yesterday, will probably allow him to rake in some fat cash. Besides that, most of today’s really well-known baseball announcers work in TV, where you can put a face to the voice. And Ged knows [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2005 by Chris
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Last night’s rehearsal went great. We were able to completely play through the following songs, from start to finish: Chasing the Squid Fun House Three Days Before Inside Joke (in Cm) Locus Ceruleus Carouxtia Minor And this was Rich’s second rehearsal! I spoke to Rich briefly at school today, and he’s really looking forward to [...]
Posted on November 7th, 2005 by Chris
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Sunday night was great. It was our first opportunity to hear Rich play our stuff (after he’d been listening to it for almost a month), and he was just about spot on. The songs really seemed to take on a new life with him behind the kit. Charlie and I are even considering adding an [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2005 by Chris
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