Including my sister, the doctor, who is now one of the bloggers on the Park City Mountain Resort “Snowmamas” site.
I’m delighted.
I’m also a little jealous, as she’s already made more off of her blogging than I have in two years.
But that’s not important. If you’re planning a family ski vacation, I strongly encourage you to consider Park City Mountain Resort. I know my sister and her family have been very happy with their stays there.
I’ve been wondering if Roger Ebert was going to review the sequel to The Movie That We Do Not Discuss; after giving a zero-star review to the first one, was there any point in his reviewing the sequel?
Well, he finally got around to it. In keeping with our practice, we note this because it is also a zero-star review. We also question Ebert’s objectivity in reviewing this film. On the other hand, we really can’t work up the ability to be indignant that he chose to review it himself.
Just saying. It doesn’t look like they were good luck for Whitey Bulger.
Seriously, I’ve been meaning to throw up a link to this long and entertaining Boston Globe article about Whitey and his life on the run for a couple of days now. It has everything, including a former Miss Iceland who apparently ratted Whitey out. (My mother also forwarded a link saying that Miss Iceland is going to collect the $2 million reward offered by the FBI. Good luck to her: I hope Whitey’s friends, if he has any left, don’t reach as far as Iceland.)
Various news sites are reporting the passing of Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX and creator of the C programming language.
Edited to add: NYT obit here. LAT obit here.
I’ve closed comments on posts older than 90 days in attempt to keep up with spam.
My blog is nowhere near as popular (or good) as Popehat, where I got the idea, but I was still dealing with upwards of 300+ spam messages a day in the filter. Comments on posts older than 90 days have been closed since Monday, and I’ve seen about a 2/3rds decrease.
If you do want to leave a comment on an older post, you’re more than welcome to use the “Contact the proprietor” link and drop me an email.
Sean Sorrentino is doing a third run of Project Gunwalker t-shirts.
This is great news. As a proud owner of one of Sean’s shirts, I’m considering ordering two or three more. Remember, these shirts make great presents for any major holiday: Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah, Ashura, even Armistice Day (though from what Sean says, the shirts may ship a little late for that one).
Edited to add: Now in pink!
Joseph Hyungmin Son, who played “Random Task” in the Austin Powers movies, is doing time in prison “after having been convicted of torture and sentenced to life in prison without parole in connection with the 1990 Christmas Eve rape of a woman out walking her dog.”
I think that was generally well known. That’s not the WTF moment.
According to the LAT, he’s now suspected of killing his cellmate. He’s been in prison for a little over three weeks now…
Let’s start off this week with a video:
The reasons why will become apparent. (Also, we have a couple of friends who are students of ti kwan leap.) After the jump, this week’s TMQ:
OK, maybe not so much.
Mike Stoops out as coach at the University of Arizona.
41-50 over seven and a half years, and UA is 1-5 so far this season.
(Hattip: Thanks, FARK.)
Here’s the case brief for Chimel v. California. I ruthlessly edited it down to only three pages this time.
Chimel is interesting because it helped to define the limits of a search “incident to arrest”. Mr. Chimel was arrested, at his home, and charged with burglary of a coin shop. After he was arrested, the police searched his entire house (even having his wife move stuff around) without a warrant, and claimed they didn’t need one since their search was incident to a valid arrest.
The Court said, “Nope. Doesn’t work like that. ‘Search incident to arrest’ only covers the person and the area under the person’s immediate control. You want to search someplace other than that? Get a warrant.”
We’re wrapping this class up. Next Monday is the final; there should be one more case brief, too.
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami (bye week)
Indianapolis
St. Louis (bye week)
I am happy right now.
Indeed, I am happier than I have been at any point in the past five years.
No, I am not willing to discuss the reasons why (at least, not in public).
I will, however, leave you with the quote of the day:
And with this music video, which seems appropriate.
I’m a little busy, but I’m taking a break from Chimel v. California to throw some linky-love Lawrence’s way for his “Fast and Furious” posts. Especially this most recent one about Holder, which can best be summarized as:
I always respected the man, mostly for his ability to make Pete Rozelle and the rest of the No Fun League miserable. I don’t expect you’ll hear a lot of “No, that’s God; he just thinks he’s Al Davis” jokes, but if he did make it to Heaven, I hope he has a decent quarterback.
This isn’t going to become the “All Steve, all the time” blog. (“Don’t mourn: build something.”)
But I really liked this piece by John Siracusa, and wanted to point it out. This will probably be the last Jobs related link, barring something extraordinary.
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(Also, you really should be listening to Siracusa’s “Hypercritical” podcast from 5by5 Studios.)