Babe Ruth was a drunken, philandering bum. He was also incredibly devoted to children and always had time to sign and autograph or chat with a kid. I have to wonder how many home runs he would have hit if he hadn’t been playing many games hung over, or…
ESPN baseball columnist Rob Neyer convinced a publisher that they should give him a book advance so he could get an apartment near Fenway, attend every game at Fenway in the 2000 season, and write a book about it.
This qualifies Rob for God like status…
Darwin’s Children is Greg Bear’s sequel to Darwin’s Radio, a book I picked up on vacation last year and skipped all food, drink and bathroom breaks until I was done with it. It was that good.
First of all, I think you must read the first book to enjoy …
Interesting article over at Inc. from a business owner who believes the standard commission compensation structure for sales people is bad. A lot of what he says makes sense. However, since most companies will continue to pay on commission, here are a …
A story about the relationship between Red Sox Kevin Millar and his mother reminded me of my favorite Little League moment with my Mom.
I was 11 or 12. I was pitching. I was not a good pitcher. I was an All-Star caliber catcher in Little League, but I …
I went to bed at about 10 PM last night – with the intent of reading a couple of chapters of Prey to wind down. I finished the book at 1:30 AM.
It’s that kind of book. Crichton wrote Jurassic Park, and the flavor of the book is similar. Man messes with…
Egads, my son turned 9 yesterday. Breck is 1 year away from being 10, half-way to 18, 3 maybe 4 years from really caring about girls, and probably 4 years from starting to dream about the day he gets the car keys.
Heh, I don’t think he is aware of my v…
Still can’t sync the Palm. The problem seems to be that I don’t have permission to access the serial port. I have chmod 777 the port, and I added my user account to the root group since root owns the port. That should have fixed it but it didn’t. I gue…
I’m banished to the basement tonight. The homeschooling moms monthly night out is a pot luck here at ODonnellWeb world headquarters. I watched American Idol, that Marine can sing. I have to think his value as a recruiter far exceeds his value as a comb…
From Linux!! I have spent the better part of the last 24 hours fighting network configuration issues in Red Hat 8.0
I started with a brand new computer, Celeron 1.7 GHZ, 256MB RAM. I installed Windows XP first in a 20 GB partition. It went flawlessly. …
