Tom Bradley played for Penn State in 1977 and hasn’t left since:
Nearly three decades later, he’s still coaching the Nittany Lions. As a player and assistant, Bradley has been involved in 79 percent of the games Paterno has coached at Penn State since 1966.
# 2007 Jun 14
The Dallas City Committee is debating a ban on saggy pants:
Most of the nine council members who addressed Mr. Price at the meeting said the idea merits discussion. Some said an ordinance was needed, while others felt a public campaign involving the city, schools, parents and the community would be the way to go. Some of the 14 council members said nothing.
Two who spoke – Angela Hunt and Gary Griffith – opposed using police to enforce a ban.
“I’m not going to be in favor of using police officers to track people whose pants are low,” Mr. Griffith said.
Mr. Price, dressed in a suit, his usual attire at public meetings, said the effort is aimed not only at children, but also grown men who walk around with their underwear exposed.
“We have a problem in our city,” Mr. Price said. He ran a slogan by the council that he’s given to the initiative: “Pull it up, or pay up.”
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Council member Maxine Thornton Reese, who supports the ban, said that if the city can’t create an enforceable policy, it should form a partnership with parents, schools and the community to educate people on why saggy pants are bad.
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Council member Mitchell Rasansky would like to see the saggy issue addressed in large shopping malls. He said he and his wife stopped walking at a local mall because they disliked seeing so many saggy pants.
“It’s absolutely disgusting,” Mr. Rasansky said, adding that switching to another mall didn’t solve the problem. They’re seeing too many droopy pants there, too.
Because, just, wow, I present to you the official unveiling of the patented scotttroyan.com Select-A-Response™ system:
A) Really?
B) Seriously?
C) WTF?
D) Again, seriously?
E) Most of the above.
# 2007 Jun 14
Khoi Vinh on the new New York Times building’s elevator:
At our building, a rider pushes a button on a keypad before getting on an elevator to tell the system what floor she’d like to go to. The system then directs her to a specific car which, in theory, will also carry other riders going to that same floor. The idea is to get riders to their floors faster by ‘batch processing’ them, so to speak, rather than serially processing them.
# 2007 Jun 14
Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and ’60s as “Mr. Wizard” and did the same for another generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died Tuesday. He was 89.
I think we all can admit he was no Beakman.
# 2007 Jun 12
FOIA request uncovers military proposal to develop a dreaded gay-bomb:
As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.”
The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.
“The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another,” Hammond said after reviwing the documents.
# 2007 Jun 12
Would it be too much to import my preferences from the previous version when I upgrade?
I can only set my preferred units so many times before the onset of anger.
That is all.
Would it be too much to import my preferences from the previous version when I upgrade?
I can only set my preferred units so many times before the onset of anger.
That is all.
# 2007 Jun 05
Ex-hippies tell those damn hippies to get off their lawn:
“I used to be a hippie. I wore beads and grew my hair long,” he said. “But my generation had something these kids do not: a standard of civilized behavior.”
In my day, we didn’t shower and did drugs with class.
And at least Hippies: The New Class are honest:
They’re known as gutter punks…who panhandle with cardboard signs that riff on their lifestyles. “Please Help Us Get Un-Sober,” one reads. Another: “Please Give Us Weed, Beer or Money.”
# 2007 Jun 04
English family endures abuse because of their red-hair:
Mr Chapman said: “The abuse we get is unbelievable. It started more than three years ago, when the kids started getting bullied by lads over the colour of their hair.
“They’ve been punched and kicked and thrown over a hedge. Every time they go out these gangs get to them.”
# 2007 Jun 04
From a wonderful interview in TIME:
What was it like being the only woman in the cast?
BARKIN: Exhausting.
CLOONEY: You’re a woman?
BARKIN: I tried to pack 14 of you into just a few weeks. It’s a lot of ground to cover.
CLOONEY: If there’s anybody who could do it…
BARKIN: I started with Carl [Reiner] and worked back from there.
CLOONEY: Only fair. He could go at any minute.
# 2007 Jun 02
Machen’s plan is complex, and it does not even include details like how many teams would be involved in the playoff or when and where games would be played.
The basis of his proposal is to form a limited liability corporation that, much like the BCS, would work outside the framework of the NCAA. He wants to keep the current bowl structure intact and then distribute revenue to all 119 Division I-A schools instead of keeping most of the money for the schools in the six BCS conferences.
It’s complex, lacks details, keeps the bowl “structure”, and makes more money for everyone while distributing it to more teams? Sounds like a winner!
I bet one of the missing details guarantees Notre Dame an automatic playoff spot.
Naturally, the Big Ten and Pac-10 hate it. It’d be nice to have more details, so I can probably hate it too. I don’t care if there’s a national champion. Does that make me un-American?
Or is this just because I’m predisposed to dislike anything coming out of the SEC?
Machen’s plan is complex, and it does not even include details like how many teams would be involved in the playoff or when and where games would be played.
The basis of his proposal is to form a limited liability corporation that, much like the BCS, would work outside the framework of the NCAA. He wants to keep the current bowl structure intact and then distribute revenue to all 119 Division I-A schools instead of keeping most of the money for the schools in the six BCS conferences.
It’s complex, lacks details, keeps the bowl “structure”, and makes more money for everyone while distributing it to more teams? Sounds like a winner!
I bet one of the missing details guarantees Notre Dame an automatic playoff spot.
Naturally, the Big Ten and Pac-10 hate it. It’d be nice to have more details, so I can probably hate it too. I don’t care if there’s a national champion. Does that make me un-American?
Or is this just because I’m predisposed to dislike anything coming out of the SEC?
# 2007 Jun 01
Stewart Copeland:
I stride manfully to my drums. Andy has started the opening guitar riff to MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE and the crowd is going nuts. Problem is, I missed hearing him start. Is he on the first time around or the second? I look over at Sting and he’s not much help, his cue is me – and I’m lost. Never mind. “Crack!” on the snare and I’m in, so Sting starts singing. Problem is, he heard my crack as two in the bar, but it was actually four – so we are half a bar out of sync with each other. Andy is in Idaho.
Nice to know even the best screw-up.
# 2007 Jun 01
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