Triscribe

Time flies… “summer” is about finished in so many ways and the ramp up of the end of year is coming up. There’s a bit of a yearly “corporate life cycle” – the ebbs and flows – and we plan our holidays and other activities around it. This year is happening really fast and I’m [...]

McCain’s pick for Vice president left me a bit puzzled; I mean, all very nice that you picked a woman (and a governor), but the political positions involved leave me uncomfortable and Governor Palin’s experience level left me a little underwhelmed. John Dickerson of Slate summed up with a “Huh?” in his headline; yes, she [...]

As four years previously: we jump from the Olympics to the conventions. I still had some Olympics withdrawal. Oh well. Wrap up of the Olympics: The NY Times’ slide show on the reaction of Chinese-Americans in Flushing to the Olympics. So the US’ NBA guys won the gold (with Duke University’s Coach K), beating the [...]

Kind of not quite looking forward to Olympic withdrawal; in the meantime, some stuff: So, the thing that kind of makes me laugh about beach volleyball as an Olympic sport… well, geez, what’s with the 1990′s music and the DJ’s? (some explanation or analysis can be found on Slate – which was nice, but I [...]

One of the entertaining things about the whole Beijing Olympics is that the time difference of 12 hours makes it confusing as to when what happened; Michael Phelps’ final rounds, for instance, occurred at 10pm EST, but actually the next day 10am local time. At least it was aired live (well, EST anyway; I don’t [...]

The annual picnic on Saturday in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx was pretty nice – lovely weather, delicious kalbi, and Olympic trivia. Michael Phelps is even more The Man, with eight… His place in Olympic history is pretty fixed. The next question is what will he do in the future? Plus, what will this [...]

I came across this nice story on being a happy and successful lawyer from David Maister’s blog: Passion, People, and Principles. Stephen C. Ellis is the managing partner at the law firm of Tucker, Ellis & West. What follows is the commencement address he gave at Case Western reserve School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio [...]

Michael Phelps is The Man. Apparently, Milorad “Mike” Cavic, the guy who won silver (by a mere length of a hair in touching the wall after Phelps) – he’s an American-born swimming for his parents’ homeland of Serbia. If the NY Times is correct, he’s apparently not too unhappy with his silver. Interesting profile on [...]

Slate’s Explainer on how Georgia (the one that had to deal with Russia this week) has been known as “Georgia” and whether this is the same as Georgia (of United States of America) – with the answer being kind of, but not quite (“St. George” being the derivation, but some differences of how this came [...]

A hiatus from Olympics stuff (which has been pretty awesome, by the way). Saturday: saw “Mamma Mia.” Fun movie to help one relax; don’t look for much in the way of brainwave activity. Meryl Streep was fun, overdramatic (it’s a musical) and has an adequate voice. Amanda Seyfried – previously Lily Kane, the murder victim [...]