Friday was a beautiful day for a ride. I rode into Santa Rosa, stopped downtown for a soda, then started home. I was riding up Old Redwood Highway, wanting to get to my son’s Geometry class (the last of his difficult summer school session) before it ended, so I could surprise him. I started to make a right-hand turn onto Angela Drive, but realized at the last second that I […]
Even the world’s best pros are so consumed with avoiding bogeys that they make putts for birdie discernibly less often than identical-length putts for par, according to a coming paper by two professors at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. After analyzing laser-precise data on more than 1.6 million Tour putts, they estimated that this preference for avoiding a negative (bogey) more than gaining an equal positive (birdie) — known […]
Deux versions — le premier en français, le deuxième (le même chose) en anglais. Enjoy! Download now or listen on posterous Podcast Francais 06-0602009.mp3 (5031 KB) Download now or listen on posterous Podcast in English 06-06-2009.mp3 (4479 KB) Posted via email from ssshupe’s posterous
In 1997, I almost went to work for this man and his company. Some of my colleagues did go to work there. Now the company's gone under, and he's charged with fraud by the SEC. After my visit to his operation, I can't say that I'm surprised. It was a testosterone-infused money-money-money operation that left me feeling ill at ease. One time in my life when my gut instincts steered […]
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Well, yes, laugh on, laugh on, but the fact is that tomorrow we start our French classes, and have to be at the school at 8:15, which means no more sleeping in, and using our brains, and doing homework. One of the most wonderful part of this trip has been getting all the sleep I want almost every day. I’ve been contemplating the effect on my body of the fact […]
I’m trying out a new blog style today. It seems cleaner and more readable. Reader input is appreciated. An entry about our interesting day at the Northern Ireland Assembly is forthcoming.
The WordPress site has a limited suite of statistics you can see for your blog, including total views per day. I’ve noticed that rather consistently the number of visits is consistently higher during the week, and drops off on the weekend. To me this says that my readers are happy enough to take a look at my posts on work time, but not interested enough to fire up their own […]
It’s rained off and on since we arrived in Ireland, but it’s never stopped us from doing anything until today. We had planned on driving back up the Antrim coast (we considered a trip to Derry/Londonderry, but decided the drive was too long. We started out a little before noon in a light drizzle/mist, which changed into a medium- and then a heavy drizzle/mist. We were searching for the cliffs […]
We had a fairly restful day touring yesterday. The weather was mostly sunny, but it was extremely windy. We went southeast of Belfast, down and around the Ards Peninsula. Bound on the east by the North Channel and on the west by Strangford Lough, it is a fertile, relatively flat land. Suzie read somewhere that at some time in the past the residents were offered extra incentives to build towers […]