piano/voice recorder
Yamaha piano
Epiphone casino
another possibility: piano at best buy
digital voice recorder 37.99 plus tax. Not too bad.
Digital Camera at Target: Samsung 5MP Digimax Digital Camera with 5X Digital Zoom and 2.0" LCD - Silver (A503) PURCHASED!
I want this:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wc…
http://www.artscroll.com/cgi-bin/g…
Records since 2004:
Kerry Wood: 2004 8-9, 2005 3-4, 2006 1-2
Mark Prior: 2004 6-4, 2005 11-7, 2006 1-6
public for a reason
My must watch list on late night shows, because I can't find that entry:
Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Jon Stewart, Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Dan Aykroyd, Sarah Silverman, Natalie Portman, Dane Cook
Epiphone casino
another possibility: piano at best buy
digital voice recorder 37.99 plus tax. Not too bad.
I want this:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wc…
http://www.artscroll.com/cgi-bin/g…
Records since 2004:
Kerry Wood: 2004 8-9, 2005 3-4, 2006 1-2
Mark Prior: 2004 6-4, 2005 11-7, 2006 1-6
public for a reason
My must watch list on late night shows, because I can't find that entry:
Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Jon Stewart, Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Dan Aykroyd, Sarah Silverman, Natalie Portman, Dane Cook
Well...
The next two championship games will be down to earth as far as scoring goes. The Georgia Dome and Superdome are used to hosting college basketball games.
Not much else is new...figuring out which basketball coaches I've yet to request autographs of. There's also which ones, like Tennessee, that I'd have to write via a SASE. Arkansas requires a PDF that I'll print out, scan in, and email back tomorrow afterwork. I can only request one as far as those go so I guess it will be Mike Anderson over Bobby Petrino.
With Lon Kruger, I never had luck with UNLV so I'll try him at Oklahoma. Scratch that...compliance office limits to charities only. Dang it! I forgot I already had Lon's autograph. Silly me!
It's too early to tell with Mizzou. I'm waiting to see who is named as assistants. I heard Jeff Capel, the former Oklahoma coach, may be one of them but don't quote me on that. Okay, that turned out to be a rumor and is not true. I need to retry Leonard Hamilton at Florida State.
I'm resigned to the fact that I'll never get Bruce Weber's autograph because of the Illinois policy.
Mark Gottfried was hired by NC State. Took them long enough.
DWS is the new chair of the DNC.
That's enough for now.
Not much else is new...figuring out which basketball coaches I've yet to request autographs of. There's also which ones, like Tennessee, that I'd have to write via a SASE. Arkansas requires a PDF that I'll print out, scan in, and email back tomorrow afterwork. I can only request one as far as those go so I guess it will be Mike Anderson over Bobby Petrino.
It's too early to tell with Mizzou. I'm waiting to see who is named as assistants. I heard Jeff Capel, the former Oklahoma coach, may be one of them but don't quote me on that. Okay, that turned out to be a rumor and is not true. I need to retry Leonard Hamilton at Florida State.
I'm resigned to the fact that I'll never get Bruce Weber's autograph because of the Illinois policy.
Mark Gottfried was hired by NC State. Took them long enough.
DWS is the new chair of the DNC.
That's enough for now.
DVD
My boss gave me a gift certificate to Borders so I decided to finally get the complete series on DVD after hearing so much about it!
A Public one for a change
If I ever by an electronic piano, I want it to be this one).
It's $600 bucks and someday I'm gonna make it mine.
It's $600 bucks and someday I'm gonna make it mine.
Flunk Bush
September 1, 2004
A couple of college students, Ben and Daniel, have come up with an idea to help college students defeat Bush. You can help in two ways:
Go to the site (flunkbush.com) and order some FlunkBush bumper stickers for yourself and/or your alma mater;
Forward this message to friends and associates you think might be interested in helping two college students make a difference in the election.
Thanks.
Here's the link. General information is below.
www.FlunkBush.com
About FlunkBush.com
FlunkBush.com's mission is to empower the group most affected by the shortcomings of the current executive branch � today's youth. We the youth will pay for many years, literally and figuratively, as a result of Bush's poor leadership.
Who
Our names are Daniel Makela and Ben Thornewill. We are second-year college students. Daniel attends Centre College in Danville, KY, and Ben attends the George Washington University in Washington D.C. We formed "537 Company" this summer. The name comes from the reported number of votes George W. Bush beat Al Gore by in Florida to win (steal) the 2000 election.
What
Instead of flipping burgers at McDonalds or mowing lawns, we have come up with an idea of having politically active adults support college students, providing students at their favorite university with bumper stickers that expose the failings of the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Ashcroft administration. These will become highly visible advertisements as college students drive around their cities.
Why
College students could make a difference in this year's election. The last election was extremely close (537 votes), and this year's will be as well. Being college students ourselves, we believe we can send a message that relates to other students. The policies of the current administration are very detrimental to college students - (see our Top Ten Reasons to FLUNK Bush).
How
Sponsor your alma mater or another college of your choice by buying bumper stickers at www.flunkbush.com.
A couple of college students, Ben and Daniel, have come up with an idea to help college students defeat Bush. You can help in two ways:
Go to the site (flunkbush.com) and order some FlunkBush bumper stickers for yourself and/or your alma mater;
Forward this message to friends and associates you think might be interested in helping two college students make a difference in the election.
Thanks.
Here's the link. General information is below.
www.FlunkBush.com
About FlunkBush.com
FlunkBush.com's mission is to empower the group most affected by the shortcomings of the current executive branch � today's youth. We the youth will pay for many years, literally and figuratively, as a result of Bush's poor leadership.
Who
Our names are Daniel Makela and Ben Thornewill. We are second-year college students. Daniel attends Centre College in Danville, KY, and Ben attends the George Washington University in Washington D.C. We formed "537 Company" this summer. The name comes from the reported number of votes George W. Bush beat Al Gore by in Florida to win (steal) the 2000 election.
What
Instead of flipping burgers at McDonalds or mowing lawns, we have come up with an idea of having politically active adults support college students, providing students at their favorite university with bumper stickers that expose the failings of the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Ashcroft administration. These will become highly visible advertisements as college students drive around their cities.
Why
College students could make a difference in this year's election. The last election was extremely close (537 votes), and this year's will be as well. Being college students ourselves, we believe we can send a message that relates to other students. The policies of the current administration are very detrimental to college students - (see our Top Ten Reasons to FLUNK Bush).
How
Sponsor your alma mater or another college of your choice by buying bumper stickers at www.flunkbush.com.
Lieberman Honors ESPN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 8, 2004
Lieberman Honors ESPN�s 25th Anniversary
WASHINGTON - Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) yesterday congratulated the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) on its 25th Anniversary in a speech delivered on the Senate floor.
Below is the full text of Lieberman�s floor statement.
�Mr. President, I have the high honor and great personal privilege of coming to the Chamber this afternoon to extend my congratulations to everyone at ESPN. All of us who are ESPN sports fans and viewers and those at the network itself are celebrating 25 years of excellence by this remarkable group of people in sports broadcasting.
�As a sports fan and a Senator from Connecticut, I speak as one who is very proud that this American dream has occurred in our State, located in Bristol, CT, and a tremendous citizen of the State which brought almost 3,000 jobs to Connecticut. We are very proud in a very direct sense and very grateful to ESPN for all they contribute to Connecticut.
�I must say, when I have been traveling, and at the end of a long day when I get to the hotel room and turn on the TV, there is nothing more comforting than turning on ESPN and knowing that signal is coming to me right from Bristol, CT.
�I say this is an American dream story because ESPN was the idea of two people, a father and son, the Rasmussens, who thought originally that they would like to find a way to broadcast University of Connecticut sports events to people around the State on cable. Consulting some experts I believe at RCA, they found they could buy satellite time to do that, and then one of the folks at RCA said to them: Incidentally, it will cost you the same amount of money to broadcast around America and the world via satellite as it will in Connecticut. And that began 25 years ago ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, which is today the worldwide leader in sports. It started small and ended big, going strong, and all as a result of hard work and a lot of innovation.
�I had the privilege of visiting ESPN's studios in Bristol, CT, last week. It is really a campus now. I had the thrill of touring the ESPN new digital center. This was about as good as it gets for someone who grew up not dreaming of being a Senator but dreaming of being a Major League baseball player, a center fielder, for that matter--not a preference for political inclinations, not a left fielder or right fielder but a center fielder.
�The closest I got to that dream is what I did that day sitting at the anchor desk on the brand new, very impressive sports center studio set with none other than the closest thing the sports world has to Walter Cronkite, the honorable Chris Berman. It was a lot of fun and a great treat. I also got the chance to look at the new studio we will soon be seeing on the NFL programming and then next year on the baseball programming. There is a lot of excitement there.
�As we celebrate ESPN's 25th anniversary, I offer my congratulations on a magnificent first 25 years to George Bodenheimer, ESPN's president, and to the almost 3,000 employees of ESPN who have changed our lives as sports fans and changed so much for the better in the life of the greater Bristol community.
�Chris Berman, in addition to my comparison--perhaps a little overstated--to Walter Cronkite, has been the great originator of nicknames. The most famous and the one I love best is when he called a particular baseball player Bert ``Be Home'' Blyleven. I could go on.
�I watched the ESPN retrospective on their first 25 years last night. I did notice in the show that one fan held up a sign that kind of got even with Chris Berman, and it said: ``Chris, beast of Berman.'' Let that speak for itself.
�In any case, probably the best tribute one could pay to this extraordinary network and the people who work at it is that as you look back at the 25 years, to paraphrase Berman himself, no one could have guessed that this network could go all the way. It has gone all the way, and it will just keep on going for the next 25 years, more successful than the first 25 years, and beyond. So thanks and congratulations to all the people at ESPN.
�I think the most fitting one-word tribute I can use to close a celebration on the Senate floor of ESPN's first great 25 years is to say simply and enthusiastically: Booyah.�
September 8, 2004
Lieberman Honors ESPN�s 25th Anniversary
WASHINGTON - Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) yesterday congratulated the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) on its 25th Anniversary in a speech delivered on the Senate floor.
Below is the full text of Lieberman�s floor statement.
�Mr. President, I have the high honor and great personal privilege of coming to the Chamber this afternoon to extend my congratulations to everyone at ESPN. All of us who are ESPN sports fans and viewers and those at the network itself are celebrating 25 years of excellence by this remarkable group of people in sports broadcasting.
�As a sports fan and a Senator from Connecticut, I speak as one who is very proud that this American dream has occurred in our State, located in Bristol, CT, and a tremendous citizen of the State which brought almost 3,000 jobs to Connecticut. We are very proud in a very direct sense and very grateful to ESPN for all they contribute to Connecticut.
�I must say, when I have been traveling, and at the end of a long day when I get to the hotel room and turn on the TV, there is nothing more comforting than turning on ESPN and knowing that signal is coming to me right from Bristol, CT.
�I say this is an American dream story because ESPN was the idea of two people, a father and son, the Rasmussens, who thought originally that they would like to find a way to broadcast University of Connecticut sports events to people around the State on cable. Consulting some experts I believe at RCA, they found they could buy satellite time to do that, and then one of the folks at RCA said to them: Incidentally, it will cost you the same amount of money to broadcast around America and the world via satellite as it will in Connecticut. And that began 25 years ago ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, which is today the worldwide leader in sports. It started small and ended big, going strong, and all as a result of hard work and a lot of innovation.
�I had the privilege of visiting ESPN's studios in Bristol, CT, last week. It is really a campus now. I had the thrill of touring the ESPN new digital center. This was about as good as it gets for someone who grew up not dreaming of being a Senator but dreaming of being a Major League baseball player, a center fielder, for that matter--not a preference for political inclinations, not a left fielder or right fielder but a center fielder.
�The closest I got to that dream is what I did that day sitting at the anchor desk on the brand new, very impressive sports center studio set with none other than the closest thing the sports world has to Walter Cronkite, the honorable Chris Berman. It was a lot of fun and a great treat. I also got the chance to look at the new studio we will soon be seeing on the NFL programming and then next year on the baseball programming. There is a lot of excitement there.
�As we celebrate ESPN's 25th anniversary, I offer my congratulations on a magnificent first 25 years to George Bodenheimer, ESPN's president, and to the almost 3,000 employees of ESPN who have changed our lives as sports fans and changed so much for the better in the life of the greater Bristol community.
�Chris Berman, in addition to my comparison--perhaps a little overstated--to Walter Cronkite, has been the great originator of nicknames. The most famous and the one I love best is when he called a particular baseball player Bert ``Be Home'' Blyleven. I could go on.
�I watched the ESPN retrospective on their first 25 years last night. I did notice in the show that one fan held up a sign that kind of got even with Chris Berman, and it said: ``Chris, beast of Berman.'' Let that speak for itself.
�In any case, probably the best tribute one could pay to this extraordinary network and the people who work at it is that as you look back at the 25 years, to paraphrase Berman himself, no one could have guessed that this network could go all the way. It has gone all the way, and it will just keep on going for the next 25 years, more successful than the first 25 years, and beyond. So thanks and congratulations to all the people at ESPN.
�I think the most fitting one-word tribute I can use to close a celebration on the Senate floor of ESPN's first great 25 years is to say simply and enthusiastically: Booyah.�
Jimmy Carter letter to Zell Miller
The text of a letter former President Carter sent to Zell Miller over the weekend ...
You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as lieutenant governor and as governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office. By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust.
Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past, including Walter George, Richard Russell, Herman Talmadge, and Sam Nunn disagreed strongly with the policies of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and me, but they remained loyal to the party in which they gained their public office. Other Democrats, because of philosophical differences or the race issue, like Bo Callaway and Strom Thurmond, at least had the decency to become Republicans.
Everyone knows that you were chosen to speak at the Republican Convention because of your being a �Democrat,� and it�s quite possible that your rabid and mean-spirited speech damaged our party and paid the Republicans some transient dividends.
Perhaps more troublesome of all is seeing you adopt an established and very effective Republican campaign technique of destroying the character of opponents by wild and false allegations. The Bush campaign�s personal attacks on the character of John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 was a vivid example. The claim that war hero Max Cleland was a disloyal American and an ally of Osama bin Laden should have given you pause, but you have joined in this ploy by your bizarre claims that another war hero, John Kerry, would not defend the security of our nation except with spitballs. (This is the same man whom you described previously as �one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders -- and a good friend.")
I, myself, never claimed to have been a war hero, but I served in the navy from 1942 to 1953, and, as president, greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way. I don�t believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.
Zell, I have known you for forty-two years and have, in the past, respected you as a trustworthy political leader and a personal friend. But now, there are many of us loyal Democrats who feel uncomfortable in seeing that you have chosen the rich over the poor, unilateral preemptive war over a strong nation united with others for peace, lies and obfuscation over the truth, and the political technique of personal character assassination as a way to win elections or to garner a few moments of applause. These are not the characteristics of great Democrats whose legacy you and I have inherited.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/a…
You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as lieutenant governor and as governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office. By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust.
Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past, including Walter George, Richard Russell, Herman Talmadge, and Sam Nunn disagreed strongly with the policies of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and me, but they remained loyal to the party in which they gained their public office. Other Democrats, because of philosophical differences or the race issue, like Bo Callaway and Strom Thurmond, at least had the decency to become Republicans.
Everyone knows that you were chosen to speak at the Republican Convention because of your being a �Democrat,� and it�s quite possible that your rabid and mean-spirited speech damaged our party and paid the Republicans some transient dividends.
Perhaps more troublesome of all is seeing you adopt an established and very effective Republican campaign technique of destroying the character of opponents by wild and false allegations. The Bush campaign�s personal attacks on the character of John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 was a vivid example. The claim that war hero Max Cleland was a disloyal American and an ally of Osama bin Laden should have given you pause, but you have joined in this ploy by your bizarre claims that another war hero, John Kerry, would not defend the security of our nation except with spitballs. (This is the same man whom you described previously as �one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders -- and a good friend.")
I, myself, never claimed to have been a war hero, but I served in the navy from 1942 to 1953, and, as president, greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way. I don�t believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.
Zell, I have known you for forty-two years and have, in the past, respected you as a trustworthy political leader and a personal friend. But now, there are many of us loyal Democrats who feel uncomfortable in seeing that you have chosen the rich over the poor, unilateral preemptive war over a strong nation united with others for peace, lies and obfuscation over the truth, and the political technique of personal character assassination as a way to win elections or to garner a few moments of applause. These are not the characteristics of great Democrats whose legacy you and I have inherited.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/a…