Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Women, Hispanics & Youth Opinions on NFL Teams and Quarterbacks

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Interesting new poll out:
Packers are the real America’s team
It’s probably time to turn the America’s team label over to the Green Bay Packers. PPP’s newest national survey finds that no matter how you measure it the Packers are more popular than the Dallas Cowboys, and in fact the Cowboys are actually America’s least favorite […]

A Toast to Brandon & Whitney Reed

Monday, October 10th, 2011

I’ve known Brandon since elementary school, but for most of that time we weren’t really close friends. We were friendly, certainly, we were the type of friends who talked or hung out only at school. Say a word or two while passing in the hall. But that was mostly it.
We’ve only truly […]

NBA Championship: So Easy a Caveman Can Do It

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Sorry LeBron…

Alexander is Rocketing Up the Charts

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

The Social Security website has a pretty cool feature that shows you popular baby names for each year. It also has another cool feature that shows you how particular names have changed over time. Different names fluctuate in popularity over the years.
For example, when I was born, back in 1981, Alexander […]

The Call Heard ‘Round the World - An Open Letter to Bud Selig

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

http://netdugout.com/nocal/2010/06/03/open-letter-to-bud-selig/
An Open Letter to Bud Selig
Commissioner Selig,
I have nothing but good words for you almost across the board. You have been one of the best Major League Baseball Commissioner in the history of the game. You will probably get yourself a place in Cooperstown one day. You have done some great things not only strictly […]

Proof! Google is Run by Monkeys!

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

I got a rare 500 Internal Server Error while trying to view something on YouTube just now and figured I’d take a screen shot. Interesting first of all to see that on YouTube, a generally reliable site. Interesting also their clever “A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with […]

Some Hometown Pride (and New Town Pride)

Monday, February 15th, 2010

According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, the town I grew up in, Holland, MI is the second best city in the nation! (even though they lumped in those losers from Grand Haven) I haven’t lived there in 10 years, but I still make it back twice a year. I’m always surprised to […]

Germans Win WWII Due to Strength of Schedule

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II
US Ranked 4th
After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
“Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and […]

Yahoo Has Already Called Tomorrow’s Lions Game

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Yahoo’s fantasy football game has inexplicably already called a winner and a score in tomorrow’s Packers-Lions game.

Do they know something we don’t?

My Keynote Address to the Hewlett Model Congress

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

I gave the keynote address at the Hewlett Model Congress in Long Island, NY on April 14, 2000. It was my first major speech, so I wanted to practice it first. I did a practice run at AU with NYRA-AU and my friends in the audience. One of my friends was from […]