Archive for February, 2004
Sunday newspaper
Interesting stuff in today’s NY Times:
What does it take to be The Man - in the NBA, that is. Shaquille O’Neal, Kevin Garnett, and Tim Duncan - can they be The Man? Duncan has the championship rings, so does O’Neal - and yet… Or, do they lack the “killer instinct” that it [...]
Posted: February 22nd, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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AirTrain 2004: Truth or Consequences?
Flying out of JFK in two weeks, being something of a travel freak, and having a nice evening with no obligations on my hands, I wanted to figure out the JFK AirTrain to see if it was practical and figure out any problems with logistics. The major question that I had was whether it was [...]
Posted: February 22nd, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Books!
Yesterday, I finished reading the medieval England book that I had mentioned previously in the blog. I enjoyed it, and had read the other book in the series back in January. Both books were good subway reading: “The Queen’s Man” and “Cruel as the Grave,” by Sharon Kay Penman (the books’ Amazon links [...]
Posted: February 21st, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Asian American Idol
‘American Idol’ Reject Idolized by Web (AP)
William Hung, a Real American Idol
OK, so he’s not that good of a singer, but he’s got moxie, and if he can show up Simon, more power to him!
Posted: February 21st, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Ah! Friday in February!
Some articles or news of note:
ABA E-Journal’s latest humorous anecdotes about the legal profession.
While the post-mortem on the Dean campaign has been going on, writer Paul Gastris in his NY Times op-ed illustrates an obituary for the Wesley Clark campaign. I thought Clark had brought a certain edge to the 2004 [...]
Posted: February 20th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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