Archive for August 10th, 2010

DEFCON 18 updates.

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

I’m actively going back and adding links to my original DEFCON 18 posts as they become available and/or I find them.

However, I know some people use RSS to read WCD, and don’t automatically get updated posts in their feed.  So I’m also going to try posting lists of updates I’ve added, at least for the DEFCON 18 stuff.

DEFCON 18 day 1:

DEFCON 18 day 2:

If you’re aware of links I’ve missed so far (and by the way, thanks Gremlin), or if there’s a talk you saw that I haven’t covered, please feel free to leave comments.

Firing watch.

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

The Seattle Mariners (43-70) fired Don Wakamatsu, their manager, yesterday. As the Seattle paper notes, this took place right before the Mariners’ celebration of Japanese heritage day, and Wakamatu’s firing was just the latest in a long string of odd incidents this year.

Missed this on Sunday, but the Pirates fired their pitching coach and bench coach.

And the city of Maywood (remember Maywood?) is considering firing the city of Bell, due to the ongoing salary scandal in Bell.

Not exactly a firing, but I’m going to throw this in anyway: LA County Sheriff Lee Baca is refusing to release records involving the death of Ruben Salazar. Salazar was a television journalist covering an anti-Vietnam war rally in East LA on August 29, 1970; he was killed when a sheriff’s deputy fired a tear-gas grenade into a bar and hit Salazar in the head.

The LAT doesn’t mention this aspect of Salazar’s life, but I will. I’ve been interested in Salazar ever since I read The Great Shark Hunt and discovered Salazar was a close friend of Thompson’s. Actually, more than just a close friend; the “300-pound Samoan attorney” in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Salazar (who, according to Thompson, was somewhat upset that Thompson chose to conceal his identity).

Edited to add: Whoops, I was mistaken. I had Salazar confused with Oscar Zeta Acosta. That’s what I get for relying on my memory while I was at work, and not waiting until I got home to check my sources. HST did write about Salazar in The Great Shark Hunt, though.