Archive for January, 2009

Another quality Monk

Posted: January 13, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff, personal
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Everyone has heard of USA’s series Monk staring Tony Shaloub. It is a first rate TV show and worth your time.

However a monk you might not have heard of is Ed Monk a Virginia high school teacher and playwright writer of short plays.

My oldest’s High School will be performing Monk’s play
Day 6 later this month as part of their competitive plays. I was going over the script with him and it is simply hilarious.

I would strongly suggest that if you like a good short comedy find a local high school that is preforming it and watch it. If it is performed half as good as it is written then it will be great.

Cause and effect

Posted: January 13, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Effect:

San Francisco’s surveillance cameras in high-crime areas do not prevent violent crime, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California.

This would see counter intuitive but lets not forget this is San Francisco.

Cause:

Mayor Newsom began the program four years ago, but out of concern for people’s privacy, police are not allowed to monitor cameras in real time. Investigators must wait until a crime is reported before looking at footage.

Hey they voted for him, via Glenn.

Men 6 Hours, Woman 7 hours, Cowards 8 hours

Posted: January 13, 2009 by datechguy in personal, Uncategorized
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I don’t care what Napoleon said there is something to say for just going to bed and getting a solid 8 hours sleep. Might as well do it when I get a chance.

It’s Henderson and Rice

Posted: January 12, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
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Rickey Henderson in his first eligible year and Jim Rice in his last have both been elected to the Hall of Fame.

Henderson snagged 94.8% showing that Corky Simpson was not alone and should have taken my advice.

Rice made it in with 76.4 eeking in by 7 votes. This mean that other the war years Boston Red Sox had a Hall of Famer starting in left field in Fenway from 1939-1987. (Williams and Yaz being the others) a period of 43 years.

If you include Manny (who will certainly make the hall) that for the last 70 years 1939-2008 the Red Sox primary starting left fielder was a Hall of Famer 73% of the time(51 years). It would be interesting to see if any other team had a Hall of Famer for such a sustained period at one position.

Tommy John will have to wait for the Vets committee.

Update: Baseball musings mentions something about Rice that drove me nuts too:

but he would also drive me nuts in the following situation. The pitcher would be wild, walking Boggs and Barrett on eight straight pitches. Rice would come up, and he had to be thinking, “This pitcher has to throw me a strike.” He’d swing at the first pitch and ground into a double play. I really wanted him to let the pitcher fall behind in the count first, but Jim liked swinging early in that situation.

Yup that’s why I think it took the 15th ballot.

Baseball crank has thoughts and hopes it doesn’t help Dawson. I think the gold gloves speak volumes for him.

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