Jack’s Old & Busted Blog

My grandmother-in-law has just begun keeping an online journal (Gerry’s Journal)! Make sure when you stop by to give her a writing assignment.

Colli’s grandmother, Gerry, has had her iMac for two months and only restarted it for the first time today. It didn’t lockup or kernal panic; the browser was just being wonky and that was the easiest over-the-phone fix. If this isn’t testament to the useability, nay, superiority of the Apple product, I don’t know what is. People who recommend peecees to their relatives must be in the computer repair business.

On a side note, we’re going to Gerry’s tomorrow nite for dinner, and I’m going to show her how to set up her own blog. I know she thinks this website thing is mad science, so she’ll be amazed how simple and automagical is all really is (blogger.com).

Colli was a “Notable Neighbor” in this past Sunday’s Democrat-Gazette (368k pdf). I even got a mention as the lucky husband, but they spelled my name right!

One of my former students when I was a graduate assistant just won the bronze medal in the marathon event in Athens.

(Houston Chronicle): “I burst into tears as soon as I heard the announcer say I was in third place,” Kastor said. “When I heard that, I just lost all my emotions. I couldn’t contain myself. The history of the course, the brutality of it, the fact that it’s the Olympic Games - everything about this.”

I remembered Deena because she wrote a lot about running in her journal. Also, she seemed very focused and determined even as a freshman. This is just yet another case of how Writing Good Sentences (amazon) builds champions.

Is there an honest man left? (Washington Times)

I’ll never win an Olympic medal for anything. But if I did, I sure as hell wouldn’t halfway lipsynch my National Anthem during my Big Closeup on world-wide teevee. Either sing the Anthem like you stole it, or stand there obligingly like you’re contemplating your amazing victory. Please. For all of us.

*(Naked Gun, 1988)

More expressive than about half 95 percent of the portraits of people I take (website).