tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71983862011-04-21T14:42:32.610-04:00I can't entirely rule out the possibility that you might be interested in something I write...Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02088933618393426860noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198386.post-1116390402161797012005-05-18T00:23:00.000-04:002005-05-18T00:28:06.776-04:00

For good or ill, I think I'm going to move the blog to my own site. I've got WordPress set up there and can do some clever controls, including maybe doing a photo blog, that I can't do here. If you just want to read Ultimate thoughts (and who wouldn't), you can do that by clicking that category on the right-hand side. There will also be photography thoughts in their own category, as well as

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The Mixed talk is winding down on Al's blog , but I still play a bastard variant of the real ultimate that Al and Jim like, so...Between the blogs and the beginnings of this year's 6 Trained Monkeys rebirth, I've been thinking a little more on the differences between Mixed, Men's (lets be honest, it's a Men's division at the upper levels), and Women's disc.Read more...One thing a player notices

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Mixed up about Mixed? This, from the (T-)man who once almost completely avoided playing Mixed for an entire year, until the December weather was too bad to golf so he joined his wife at a mostly-hack winter tournament? Sure, he won the tournament, playing almost exclusively point for a team that played exclusively 1-3-3 on the way to victory, but still…Read more...This is also a response to the

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When I started this blog, I figured I'd be talking about photography, and I got quickly sidetracked by trying to write items of general interest, which in turn generated very little interest. As a result, I pretty much stopped. I'm back now. I got into a gallery show! Panopticon Gallery in Waltham is running a show called the "Tree in Landscape", and to fill the show, they opened up

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CNN reports about censorship at the Oscars.

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The winners may well have been chosen with an eye to quality, though most people will never know since the nominated films have to be among the least-viewed crop in Academy Award history. But even if quality determined the votes, clearly the show itself was driven by star power and a desire to reach out to a different audience.Read more...Chris Rock is likeable and he's funny. But his opening to

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My mom gets me a new down jacket for Christmas. [Mountain Hardwear, even. Good stuff.] Oops, they're cut large. No problem; back to REI to exchange for smaller size. The REI customer service person even does a nice thing and returns the first one for a voucher and pays for the second one with the voucher, enabling me to collect the REI rebate on it (thanks, mom!). Yay, new jacket. So, I go

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SI compares the swag that goes into the gift bags received by student-athletes who make bowl games. Most of the responses seem to think that the iPod is the coolest item, but the list includes camcorders, rings, dvd players, and yes, iPods. I don't know how to feel about this anymore. The work these kids put in generates big revenue for their schools, for the bowl games, for advertisers (

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It's been so oft-repeated now as to become cliche: MTV doesn't play music anymore. But think about the kinds of artists they show. As demonstrated by Ashlee, Britney and others, THEY don't play music anymore, either. So why should I care that MTV doesn't show us what they're not playing anyway and we didn't want to listen to in the first place?

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Ok, so there are many people far more expert than I discussing the Pistons-Pacers-Pistons Fans brawl. Many of them have some good things to say, so if you're interested, check out Marty Burns at cnnsi.com or some of the espn.com folks (except Chris Mannix at cnn, who I think overstates the case when he insists that Artest should be banned for life). If you haven't seen the replays, I think

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Voted on my way to work this morning. No lines, no muss, no fuss. Well, one of the poll workers was a little hard of hearing, but it didn't cause much trouble. I won't bother to say who I voted for in the Presidential race - if you know me, you probably already know, and if you don't, you probably don't care. It was a small ballot today. There were two contested races in my district: president

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ABC didn't renew their contract to show the Miss America pageant for next year, after last year's pageant was less than a big success. I suppose "big success" in tv terms is an odd thing anyway; 9 million people watched last year's pageant, and that's considered a failure since it's only 7% of the people who were watching tv. [See the NY Daily News story.] Surely someone else in tv-land will

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Speaking of Sports Quotes, one of the funnier reads on the net is a collection of soccer (football to everyone else in the world) quotes, including the one above, supposedly said by Keith O'Neill, who plays in England. Here's the link. Enjoy. Try not to disturb your co-workers laughing out loud.

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Ok, so I've been hassled recently for letting my occasional forays into blogdom slide. Nothing terribly interesting today, but I will share this quote from Isiah Thomas, who apparently went to New York to manage a sports team and has ended up talking like Stengel or Berra. So, from the NY Times: "Houston and Miami have an interest in Shandon Anderson if he becomes a free agent, but Knicks GM

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Playboy magazine has perhaps done more for the breast augmentation industry than anyone. I don't know the stats, but it seems reasonable to believe that most of the fold-out set are enhanced both in real life and in post-processing. But now, cnn reports that the magazine is reaching out to fans of the truly unreal. Yes, it's true, the fictional women who star in video games will appear in the

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Olympic Soccer Update: damn, Kristine Lilly is a stud. Ok, young Heather O'Reilly finished it off thanks to good build-up from Wambach and Hamm, both of whom put in great performances yesterday, but Kristine Lilly just continues to impress me with her overall play. Brasil looked awfully good in the other semi-final. The U.S. can't be complacent headed into the final just because they beat

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Cruising through Vermont, listening to the radio in the car. Just surfing. A station called "Alice 103" or some such plays its promo, claiming that it's the station playing "Today's Best Music", which apparently is "Come On Eileen". Seems like a searing indictment of everything released in the last 25 years, if you ask me.

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Usually, when I receive my Oberlin Alumni magazine, I do what everyone else does with their Alumni mags: I look at the Alumni Notes section in the back and then throw the thing out. For some reason, I looked through the most recent one and noticed the headline, "Roommate Revolution." The revolution: for years, the people in the room next door might have been men or women, by random chance; but

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Duke U is in the news today because it is giving away free iPods to every incoming freshman!  Don't believe me?  Read it for yourself.  As I sit here listening to Michael Schenker's particular brand of 80's guitar rock on my iPod, I can only imagine the great educational value that Duke's incoming students will find in their shiny new Apple products...

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--I'll talk about Africa at some point, but first, my involvement in the political machine....      I got mail from the Republican National Committee.  It seems that they haven't received my membership "renewal".  Naturally, this concerns me, though probably not for the reason they would like.  My concern is that they think I was ever a member before.     It did remind me of one good thing

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Leaving for Africa in the morning. I looked at a world map this morning and, well, it's a long way from here. No sat phone, no contact with home. That'll be weird for me. If I happen by an internet cafe, I may post something here, though it wouldn't be until after we get off the mountain in about 10 days. If I don't manage to post, don't assume the worst; it probably means I just didn't get

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The CNN article from today makes me nervous about the future of the Grand Canyon. There's pretty good reason to be concerned about environmental impact on all of the great parks of the southwest, as well as pretty much everywhere else. But knowing that there is a government-appointed committee of people working actively on the Grand Canyon in particular makes me think we're doomed...

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Signed up really just as a way to make a comment on a post by Paul Bleicher (pbleic.blogspot.com), and started to think that maybe I'd actually do my own. So, maybe I will...

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