Archive for April 2007

12 Apr 2007 0755H

Pretty freaking horrific

A Sikh American veteran of the first Gulf War and a Bronze Star awardee was allegedly attacked by a Joliet police officer who screamed racial and anti-immigrant epithets during the assault. Obviously my angle on this is the Asian American community in the midwest, particularly Chicagoland, needs to get involved, but one wonders what is [...]

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10 Apr 2007 2027H

Too awesome to not blog

Snagged off Oliver and Junichi’s Poplicks. (This group is Naturally 7, an a capella septet from NYC. Inexplicably more popular in Europe than they are here in the States).

And here’s another version.

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10 Apr 2007 0900H

“Information hunting and gathering” vs. “information farming”

Back a year or two ago, I used to think that there was something to a model of information seeking behaviors that was predicated upon hunting and gathering vs. farming. (I’ve since learned there’s something called information foraging which depends on the “scent of information” and it’s this scent that users pick up on to [...]

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07 Apr 2007 1117H

Transferring old videotapes to iPod with a VCR, a camcorder, and a Powerbook

After accidentally buying a dual vcr-dvd player (I wanted a dual vcr-dvd recorder actually, so I could burn old training videos to disc), my buddy Vinny told me that I could just pass through the video via my camcorder to my Powerbook to record via iMovie HD. That’s pretty much what I wanted to do. [...]

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06 Apr 2007 0835H

Speaking of seducible moments

So back back back a few months I was doing some benchmarking and I ran across this site which caught my attention mostly because of the naked woman in the tub covered tantalizingly by a diaphanous layer of foam. Just the way I like them, actually . . .

And then I read the copy, which [...]

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06 Apr 2007 0752H

Happy Easter

I may go walk the Stations of the Cross. Actually, today is not a holy day of obligation, but Easter Sunday is, according to Canon Law:
Can. 1246 §1. Sunday, on which by apostolic tradition the paschal mystery is celebrated, must be observed in the universal Church as the primordial holy day of obligation. The following [...]

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05 Apr 2007 1830H

Naisy on Chicago Tonight

If my flight back isn’t delayed, I try to tune in to Chicago Tonight, usually on Fridays as a way of recapping what happened in town while I was on the road, but, the Phil Ponce interview with Naisy happened Monday. I don’t even live in her ward and I’m supporting her, mostly because the [...]

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04 Apr 2007 0746H

Notes from Nashville

Favorably impressed with the area, generally. To begin with, the airport is being renovated, which is a good sign, it was modern and rather easy to get in and out from, although only two security gates means potentially long lines during rushes. The Whitt’s BBQ pork sandwiches ($6) with the peppery hot sauce, which has [...]

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02 Apr 2007 2027H

And another thing

Was surprised to see Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline step down today — he was due for retirement, but shall we say it was accelerated — due to the negative publicity around repeated, savage, and very public incidents of Chicago police attacking civilians. (There are parts of the city that might say that once again, [...]

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01 Apr 2007 1248H

Well, crap

UCLA lost to Florida, again, last night. I was online with the Brothers Chan playing Rainbow Six Vegas so I missed the fiasco but it’s pretty painful. Ah well, better luck next year.

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