Archive for April, 2005

I set up an English version of my little high-level state-by-state-data from the U.S. 2000 Census. You can use it to easily compare states side-by-side, or just quickly pull up some data for a particular state, all without having to slog through the Census Bureau’s interface (which is set up to handle vastly more detailed [...]

…in Sunday’s NFL Europe game against Hamburg. It is time for the New England Patriot to step up. He’ll be facing a motley crew, including former Nebraska quarterback, now Sea Devil wide receiver Eric Crouch. Pats’ Ricky Bryant is also on Hamburg’s receiver corps. 1 p.m. ET, Sunday.

This picture is from last year, but you get the idea. Update: Ok, I picked an unusually bad day to celebrate the arrival of summer. Sorry.

I admit to not having read Tom Friedman’s book “The World Is Flat,” but judging from his columns, this review seems reasonable: On an ideological level, Friedman’s new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. If its literary peculiarities could somehow be removed from the equation, The World Is Flat would appear [...]

It turns out that yesterday’s grievous snub was both tolerable and forgivable. Me and the missus went to Petit Robert Bistro tonight and it was a most pleasant experience. You won’t be disappointed if you go with the steak or the lobster bisque. My choice of wine was slammed by Loic as “simple,” but it [...]

The neighborhood’s newest eatery, Petit Robert Bistro, has its opening night tonight, and I am not invited. This intolerable snub shall never be forgiven, but marginally more important to PRB is probably that another bistro is opening in the Commonwealth Hotel building next month. I’d say both ventures seem risky, as Kenmore Square basically serves [...]

A few years ago Swedish blonde-ish Playmate and aspiring actress Victoria Silvstedt complained about an interview with a group of entertainment scribes who, according to her, did little more than ogle her frontal assets. How could they have been so insensitive and narrowminded?

Massachusetts’ pride, Suffolk County, is possibly losing people. How does it compare to America’s fastest growing county last year, Flagler County in Florida, according to the 2000 Census?   Suffolk Flagler Population 689,907 49,832 White 52.1% 83.6% Black 22.2% 8.8% Hispanic 15.5% 5.1% Foreign-born 25.5% 9.9% Other than English* 33.8% 11.2% Median Family Income $44,361 [...]

I caught glimpses of two of New England Patriots’ players allocated to NFL Europe in the second half of Sunday’s game between Frankfurt Galaxy and Cologne Centurions. Kory Chapman amassed 44 yards on 12 rushes as runningback for the victorious Cologne, generally running hard but mostly with little break-away ability. Frankfurt’s linebacker Grant Steen struggled [...]

On April 14, Boston Herald reporters Michele McPhee and Laurel J. Sweet mentioned something that I had never heard before, namely that “Adidas” is short for “All day I disrespect all slobs” among Crips members. Theirs is actually the only newspaper article that turns up if you google “all day i disrespect all slobs.” I [...]