Chicago Olympics
I’m very excited to see that Chicago is the “U.S. bid city”:http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/olympics/cs-070414olychicago-win,1,4731564.story?coll=chi-news-hed for the 2016 Olympics. There’s a long route between now and the pick for the host city, but an Olympics in Chicago would be an incredibly exciting event. I have a few friends involved in the bid process, and I’ve been threatening to [...]
Curt Schilling is blogging
I don’t care which baseball team you root for, if you have any interest in professional sports, you should take a look at Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s “blog”:http://38pitches.com/. His first posts are remarkable. My favorites so far:
On baseball’s “recent deal”:http://38pitches.com/2007/03/09/answering-random-questions/ with DirecTV: “I don’t think there’s any doubt that we are still trying to [...]
Sunday musings
About a month ago I was starting to recognize (OK, Robin was pointing them out) that I was getting a tad burnt out. I was getting to bed after 1am, sometimes 2am (and up at 6); the laptop was starting to occupy increasing amounts of family time (and if the laptop wasn’t nearby, then the [...]
Azizah al-Hibri wins First Freedom award
From the “press release”:http://oncampus.richmond.edu/news/jan07/award.html, here are details about one of my law professors receiving a prestigious award last week:
University of Richmond School of Law Professor Azizah Y. al-Hibri [was] awarded the 2007 First Freedom Award, by the Council for America’s First Freedom, to commemorate the anniversary of the nation’s first law guaranteeing religious liberty.
Past winners [...]
Wii friend code
No thanks to the many technical tools I used to try and find a Wii, we happened to get one last week when Robin got a call from a neighbor who fortuitously bought one from a Toys R Us employee with loose lips. (The neighbor overheard the clerk offer to sell one to a [...]
Loving my new camera
A Nikon D50 was waiting under the tree for me this Christmas, and I’m in love. We’ve been a little stir-crazy the last few days (thanks to pneumonia, asthma attacks and various other kid-related nuttiness), so we bundled everyone in the car and headed north to the “Chicago Botanic Garden”:http://www.chicagobotanic.org/. If you’re in the Chicago [...]
Finding a Wii
Update 1/26/07: Looks like supply is starting to catch up with demand. I’ve seen several Wiis available at Amazon.com over the past few days; go here to see if they’re available. Good luck!
Wow, this is really nuts. I had a chance to get one with “Mike”:http://www.marusin.com/2006/11/19/i-got-my-wii/ when they were first available, but we were having [...]
2 Shot at Quarles & Brady?
Our office is across the street from 500 W. Madison, which houses, among other tenants, “Quarles & Brady”:http://www.quarles.com/Locations/Office.aspx?office=3. The “Tribune is reporting”:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-061208westloop-shooting,0,5479016.story?coll=chi-newsbreaking-hed on the shooting (the building is also the Metra station); according to the DHL delivery guy who was just in our office delivering a package, he was on the 36th floor (Q&B is [...]
Emerging from Sugar Coma, Enjoying Long Or Short
Long or Short Capital is evaluating the burgeoning “candy exchange market”:http://longorshortcapital.com/candy-asset-exchange-rates.htm, thinking about standardizing on the candy corn as the “unit of candy reserve currency”:http://longorshortcapital.com/could-candy-corn-become-the-reserve-currency.htm, and traders are shocked that the peanut isn’t “contributing to a rise in peanut M&M values”:http://longorshortcapital.com/candy-asset-exchange-rates.htm#comment-2559.
This is almost as good as the excess candy I brought in this morning.
(And yes, [...]
Startups and “normal” lives
Scott Converse, CEO at ClickCaster, wrote a “thought-provoking piece”:http://scottsphotolife.blogspot.com/2006/10/early-stage-startups-normal-lives.html the other day about being involved in a start-up as a 40-something.
