December 2009
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More communication breakdowns with high school students
- Dan: brockkkk what up man
- Brock: hey nothing much just got back from xmas shopping. how about you?
- Dan: watching this long long long long movie on AMC
- Brock: ahh which movie?
- Dan: right right. i'm watching 'wyatt earp'
- Brock: ah never heard of it
- Dan: but you've heard of wyatt earp right
- Brock: nah whats it about?
- Dan: that's crazy man, never heard of wyatt earp. it's a western.
- Brock: is he a legend in the wild west? haha
- Dan: yeah man he is. gunfight at the OK corral. he has a lengthy entry on wikipedia
- Brock: ohh so he was real? ill look it up
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ANDREW W.K. FAKE? SORT OF? →
rockfeedback.com
My heart is broken today. Andrew WK is not a real person, he was a character thought up by a collection of businessmen. In this interview, all is explained on how this character came to be. RIP Optimism.
I heard the same thing about Bono. Bah, I wish.
Celebrities Kids Know
Tonight at a youth group Christmas Party, we played a game similar to Charades called ‘Celebrities’. Everyone wrote down 10 names on slips of paper and then we mixed them all up together. Then the 6 of us divided into 2 teams. The goal was for 1 person from the team to make the rest of the their teammates guess as many celebrities in a minute by saying anything they wanted except for the celebrity’s name. Obviously, not everyone knows every celebrity, and so if the ‘caller’ picked up a slip of paper with a name they didn’t recognize, they could put it back in the bowl and move on to another name.
This worked okay for a while, but at the end of the game, the names that were left were the names that were consistently passed on by both teams. Not surprisingly, these names tended to be of the 10 that I had contributed. So, what celebrities did my teenagers not recognize?
Bill Murray
Read on to get the complete story!
Pirates sign Left-Handed Pitcher Javier Lopez
I do love the selective stats in this article:
“Among all Major League left-handed relievers with at least 50.0 innings pitched in 2008, Lopez posted the fifth-lowest ERA (2.43) while making 70 appearances with Boston.”
And 2009?
14 appearances, 9.26 ERA.
Hey, whatever, I’m not complaining. It’s nice to see the Pirates gaining pitching, rather than losing it. I’m excited for the day when we’ll have a full bullpen.
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Zombie marchers protest UPMC closing of Braddock hospital →
post-gazette.com
Shouldn’t this headline read, “Braddock hospital definitely still closed”?
3:26:02 PM Nick: i dont get it
3:26:09 PM Dan: get what?
3:26:14 PM Nick: the zombie marchers
3:26:29 PM Dan: so
3:26:39 PM Dan: if you’re on the governing board of UPMC
3:27:09 PM Dan: which of these two things do you care more about
3:27:33 PM Dan: 1. Braddock citizens march to protest hospital closing
3:27:51 PM Dan: 2. Braddock citizens zombie march to protest hospital closing
3:28:01 PM Nick: haha
3:28:05 PM Nick: ZOMBIE MARCH
3:28:12 PM Dan: clearly
There's Always a McNulty
“Officials say an off-duty South Fayette police officer has been charged in connection with an accident that injured two other police officers near a roadblock in Cecil.
Cecil Township police say the officer has been charged with DUI and aggravated assault after a crash involving his vehicle and two two patrol cars shortly before 2 a.m., according to KDKA-TV. Those cars were from Bridgeville, which had sent police to Cecil to respond to a report of shots fired on Millers Run Road.
The Bridgeville officers were trying to block off Route 50 when an H2 Hummer driven by an off-duty South Fayette police officer, identified as Thomas J. Walker, hit one unmarked police car, which was pushed into a marked cruiser, injuring one Bridgeville officer in each.”
