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Yes

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Ignore this  

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Ignore this  

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1103679479528490412004-12-21T20:37:00.000-05:002004-12-21T20:37:59.526-05:00

Relax, it's a test post

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1099927770656608652004-11-08T10:29:00.000-05:002004-11-08T10:29:30.656-05:00

OK, I'm more convinced now that Jessica Pivik is taking herself seriously (or maybe just using her column to research her own personal issues). Her column in this week's LSU Reveille is another "exploration" of medical issues rather than a (poor) attempt at shocking sexual humor. Rather than bore you with a link to her column, I'd like to suggest that you re-visit the best On Top column ever

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OK, so the wife and I have post-election coverage on this morning. I think everybody knows that CNN is refusing to call Ohio for Bush, but in flipping around, we noticed that even discounting Ohio, CNN has a different elector count than the other networks. So I went on line and checked out the red/blue maps. In Ohio, which CNN says is "too close to call", Bush has a lead of 136,000 votes,

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I spent a full hour at the polling place this morning in order to vote. And, if polls are to be believed, the only real meaningful vote I may have cast was against the Jesus-lovers' anti-gay-marriage amendment here in Georgia. And that'll probably pass anyway. If not for the responsibility I feel to stand up for gay folks (and against Christians), I probably would have bagged it. But I stuck it

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1099340466230715882004-11-01T15:20:00.000-05:002004-11-01T15:21:06.230-05:00

That's right. Hard-working, steadfast Ohioans can't get enough of the cornhole. In fact, the cornhole craze is catching on across America. Looking to get into cornhole? a Google Search is a good place to start. And if you want to see some folks enjoying cornhole, a Google Image Search can be quite helpful. IMPORTANT NOTE: This link will launch a Google Images "safe search on" result set. The

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There's a lot of stuff that comes across my RSS reader every day, and for reasons known only to my human friends, many of them concern Google. So a couple of minutes ago, a Yahoo! News-delivered press release was picked up because it mentions Google. Here's the release: Simply Wow(r) Achieves Top Ranking on Search Engine Placement Results at Google.com IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 1, 2004 (

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Well, it's good to see Jessica Pivik is taking the journalism advice of The Cap'n. In this week's wonderful article on "jelqing", Jessica gives full attribution to all of her Googled "sources". Well done. But she writes about the "jelqing" technique with what appears to be first-hand (so to speak) knowledge. I'd imagine she lifted the details of the process from Google, but what if she really

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1099242578005277692004-10-31T13:09:00.000-05:002004-10-31T16:29:57.766-05:00

The wife and I braved a swarm of costumed, underage, commercial radio listeners last night in order to see Jet live. The dirty Aussie lads have played precious few gigs in the U.S. this year, so the 99X Halloween show was our only sure shot to see them. If you don't know Jet - they are some serious rockin' mofos. And herein lies my problem with the show last night. Somebody turned down the

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I'd never really noticed the little area of Tiger Stadium's student section where everybody sits down during the game. But my buddy Scott pointed it out during the Troy game last weekend. Sure enough, while almost all of the student section (the northwest part of the stadium) is a stand-on-the-bleachers-the-whole-game kind of place, there was a little patch in the back of the endzone where

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1098977624059616522004-10-28T11:33:00.000-04:002004-10-28T11:33:44.060-04:00

So there's this new CDC study out today that compares the average height and weight of Americans in 1960 to those in 2002. Of course, Americans are much fatter and only a little taller now. But here's the stat that really floored me: The average American woman is 5'4" and weighs 164 pounds. Damn! Since when did Star Jones become the standard-issue American woman? I know you ladies all weigh

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1098970313605471092004-10-28T09:24:00.000-04:002004-10-28T09:37:01.110-04:00

The wife and I busted the seal on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas last night, and as she mentioned, Lieberman is going to freak. With about two hours of gameplay under my belt, I've discovered the following: • The dialogue (Samuel Jackson is among the voice talent) goes way out of its way to drop F-bombs whenever possible. • The soundtrack features every rap song ever released that has F-bombs

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Back up the U-Haul, friend. The Wisdom is moving. That's right. The Wisdom has a new home: http://www.capnken.com/wisdom Why the move? Well ... why not? I've got a better chance of achieving my goal of world domination if I'm publishing at my own URL, right? You'll notice that The New Wisdom is living under its own directory (/wisdom/), so you would be correct to infer that capnken.com may

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I had another moment of clarity about Jessica Pivik in reading her latest column (which the Reveille had the good sense not to link to) today. I think she takes herself seriously. Jessica may actually believe her column is important and helps LSU students (who don't know what Google is) understand the important sexual issues of the day. I hadn't realized that before. But she closes this

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Thanks to all of you down in Baton Rouge who came out for "The Wisdom - LIVE!" tour stop this weekend. I'm sorry we ran short on the "I F*cked Jessica Pivik" t-shirts and "Pray for Cap'n Ken" trucker hats, but they'll be back in stock soon. OK, I was really just down there for a football game, but at times it seemed more like a Cap'n Ken Meetup. I got MP3 player advice, yet another reminder to

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1098453533760817282004-10-22T09:58:00.000-04:002004-10-22T09:58:53.760-04:00

Flyin' through Dothan with my radio / Taylor's Old Time Opry's playin' Hank Snow ...OK, that's a pretty obscure Georgia Satellites reference. And I'm flyin' through Atmore, not Dothan. And Hank Snow's hard to find, even on Sirius.But it's been too long since I've done some stupid/fun crap like step off a 4-hour flight at 5:30 a.m. and head straight off to Baton Rouge to meet folks for lunch. So

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1098420583868975722004-10-22T00:49:00.000-04:002004-10-22T00:49:43.866-04:00

For those of you not up to date on The Cap'n's travels, I'm sitting at LAX (9:50 p.m. local time) waiting for a red-eye back to Atlanta.When I get back to Hartsfield, I'm driving straight down to Baton Rouge for the LSU game.The plan: get some sleep on the plane.The problem: the plane is full (of people coming back east from Hawaii), and right now The Cap'n has a middle-seat assignment. Not the

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1098279214100964132004-10-20T09:26:00.000-04:002004-10-20T09:33:34.100-04:00

Well, not really. It's raining, and apparently rain in L.A. is like snow in Atlanta. Everybody freaks. The news last night had reporters standing out in the rain like it was a hurricane, kicking at the four inches of water running down the gutter (they call this "street flooding"). They showed storefronts with sand bags in their doorways, although the water wasn't even over the curb. Now,

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1098216402887991252004-10-19T16:06:00.000-04:002004-10-19T16:06:42.886-04:00

I'm not used to getting lectured by stewardesses.But on my flight to L.A. this morning, a friendly Delta gal took it upon herself to try to save The Cap'n from the evils of phenylketonurics.During beverage service, her response to my request for a full can of Diet Coke was something to the effect of "you really should be careful about drinking too much of this stuff." This was before she noticed

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1098113338748045112004-10-18T11:28:00.000-04:002004-10-18T11:31:16.370-04:00

You know, I make fun of Jessica Pivik for lifting the "sources" for her pointless sex column from Google searches, but reading her column this morning, I was struck with a question: Is Jessica guilty of academic misconduct because of her plagiarism? The LSU Code of Conduct cites as a specific example of "Academic Misconduct": Committing Plagiarism. "Plagiarism" is defined as the unacknowledged

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1098109969064978312004-10-18T10:17:00.000-04:002004-10-18T10:38:28.406-04:00

Over at That Yellow Bastard this morning, Jimmy was praising Jon Stewart for dressing down Tucker Carlson on CNN's Crossfire. I have to admit, I'd heard nothing about it (the wife's sister and boyfriend were in town this weekend). So I went out and found the transcript at CNN.com. I'm presenting the Stewart segment below in (almost) its entirety because it's beautiful. Yes, Stewart is a leftist.

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My buddy Dave emailed me yesterday with what seemed to me to be a really stupid question: "Hey, do you think LSU still has a shot to play in the SEC Championship?" My reply - Um, no. [editor's note: Football analysis follows. Ladies, please feel free to leave the room at this point.] We lost to West rival Auburn, who happens to be undefeated and through the harder part (LSU and Tennessee) of

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1097846046553346762004-10-15T09:10:00.000-04:002004-10-15T09:14:06.553-04:00

The wife and I (yes, we carpool) heading out for work at our regular time this morning, but apparently we're the only ones going to work today. We crossed over I-20 on our sneaky back way to the Downtown Connector, and cars were just zipping along. Then we get on the Connector, and you'd have thought it was 6 a.m. on a Sunday. The wife said she felt like Tom Cruise in the beginning of Vanilla

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The last presidential debate is about to start, and just watching the pre-game show has me pissed off. On CNN, there's a bunch of morons holding up signs behind the talking heads outside the debate arena. The cameras captured this image (courtesy video capture from the LG): It's kind of hard to make out, but the sign reads "1140 U.S. DEAD", which I suppose is an anti-Iraq-war sign. Let's

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Next weekend's LSU game (vs. Troy) is the first one I'll be able to get to in Baton Rouge this year, so I'm determined to make it down. It should have been easy - take off Friday and drive down to B.R. after work Thursday night. But then the monkey wrench: a work trip to California Tuesday - Thursday. So now I've got a redeye booked back to Atlanta overnight Thursday, and I'll head out for B.R.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1097675744136526632004-10-13T09:41:00.000-04:002004-10-13T09:55:44.136-04:00

Florida coach Ron Zook is not eating or sleeping well in the wake of his team's loss to the mightly LSU Fighting Tigers Saturday night. The piece on ESPN.com today really paints a picture of gloom and doom for the Zooker. His reaction to Saturday's loss was "worse than normal"; Florida A.D. Jeremy Foley says Zook is "hurting"; and Ronnie himself admits he's "struggle to eat and sleep" since the

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1097521595218447562004-10-11T15:06:00.000-04:002004-10-11T15:06:35.216-04:00

Well, it looks like Jessica Pivik has taken the week off again (maybe she's bi-monthly now), so my wrapup of the Gainesville trip will round out my Monday offerings. Needless to say, LSU dominated Florida. The 24-21 score didn't quite reflect that, because we handed the Crocs 14 points early. But we looked good, and the hard part of the schedule is past us. Troy / Vandy / Bama / Ole Miss /

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1097498130271977622004-10-11T08:28:00.000-04:002004-10-11T08:35:30.273-04:00

Expect a piece on my trip to Gainesville later today, but some quick hits for you early risers: - Sean Penn is pissed off at Trey Parker and Matt Stone for saying celebrities shouldn't encourage everybody to vote, because it's not helpful for people who don't know anything about the important issues to vote. Can you guess whose side I'm on here? - Christopher Reeve and Ken Caminiti died this

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1097172213553429582004-10-07T13:16:00.000-04:002004-10-07T14:22:54.370-04:00

Friends of The Cap'n and loyal readers of The Wisdom know I'm somebody who likes my toys. But I've found an interesting pattern over the years - I tend to buy pretty cool stuff that's somehow not quite the same thing everybody else has. Examples include: • The TiFaux - I think I was pretty smart to get the DishNetwork DVRs instead of TiVo. They cost less, had no monthly fee and had capabilities

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I shouldn't have watched the Vice Presidential debate tonight (just like I shouldn't read Rolling Stone). That smug little talking haircut (John Edwards) just makes me ill. He talks so sweet and so passionately, I think most people just skip past the meaning of what he says. But TiFaux and the Internet are great tools for cutting through the silver-tongued lawyer B.S. and finding the reality.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1097012493665897412004-10-05T17:26:00.000-04:002004-10-05T17:41:33.666-04:00

I almost forgot about this total act of randomness that happened to me out in L.A. last week. Somebody tell me what the odds are of this happening: 1) On the rental car shuttle at LAX, I helped a guy in a wheelchair get up into the non-accessible bus (no, I'm not asking what the odds are that a jackass like myself would be so kind ...) 2) I get to my hotel in Arcadia (northeast part of L.A.,

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1096943908342577202004-10-04T22:38:00.000-04:002004-10-04T22:38:28.343-04:00

I got around to reading the 'Rockin' Rebels' edition of Rolling Stone tonight, in which a bunch of rock-n-roll types explain why voting for John Kerry is just sooooo damned important. I tend to shrug off the pointless rantings of entertainment types when they pop off about politics, but there's one little bit in here that really pissed me off. Seriously. It's fine for Tom DeLonge of Blink-182

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1096921382179315052004-10-04T16:22:00.000-04:002004-10-04T16:23:02.180-04:00

So Jessica Pivik is back after a week off (or maybe she wrote a column last week, but it was so horrid even The Reveille wouldn't publish it), and again I'm struggling to come up with a hook. Her crap is so predictable, so uninteresting and so pointless, it's becoming a real chore to mock her in new ways. So I'll just give you this week's column straight up, except that I used Babelfish to

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1096821415392815892004-10-03T13:13:00.000-04:002004-10-03T12:37:52.853-04:00

TCL and I headed over to Athens yesterday for the big LSU/UGA showdown. We'd scored a pair of really nice seats (14 rows up on 25 yard line behind the LSU bench), which helped take a tiny bit of the sting out of a real ass-whipping. There's no way to spin this game. Georgia just kicked our butts, plain and simple. We couldn't get pressure on David Greene, and he was absolutely on his game. Two

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1096562305041173132004-09-30T13:38:00.000-04:002004-09-30T12:38:25.040-04:00

My copy of London Calling- Legacy Edition arrived at Casa Cap'n while I was out on the west coast, so I finally got a chance to spin it up at work today. And I realized that with this purchase, I now own the song "London Calling" many, many times over. I have: • "London Calling" on the London Calling LP • "London Calling" on the London Calling CD (original release) • "London Calling" on the

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1096470447520283862004-09-29T11:07:00.000-04:002004-09-29T18:09:50.563-04:00

I'm sitting at LAX this morning, waiting for my flight home to Atlanta. Loyal readers of The Wisdom will recall that about a year ago there was an incident here that I call "the LAX meltdown" (I'm Blackberrying this in, so you'll need to search for that post if you're not familiar). The meltdown was prompted by the TSA hassling me about my shoes. Well, it happened again this morning (shoe

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The wife and I were up in NashVegas this weekend with three tasks at hand - 1) visit the wife's granny, who hasn't been feeling too good; 2) get me introduced to little sister's new man (I approve) and 3) see Anne McCue at an Americana Music Association showcase Saturday night at Mercy Lounge. Loyal readers of The Wisdom will recall that McCue is the amazingly cool Australian

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1096288310506158122004-09-27T08:28:00.000-04:002004-09-27T08:33:08.613-04:00

I'm off to L.A. this morning (Hurricane Jeanne notwithstanding), but I saw a piece in The Advocate (the Baton Rouge daily, not the national gay newspaper) this morning that does a good job of exposing the "logic" of the football polls: Iowa began the season ranked No. 13 in the USA Today/ESPN coaches poll. The Hawkeyes were No. 12 after winning their first two games. Last week, after unranked

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1096058403705433912004-09-24T16:37:00.000-04:002004-09-24T16:40:03.706-04:00

I finally had time this afternoon to seek out a map of Hurricane Ivan's overall path. It's some crazy stuff. (click the image to get their full-page view) It's almost like Ivan got to Virginia and was like "Dude, I was supposed to go through Florida like everybody else, wasn't I? Crap, I guess I have to go back."

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1096036222004284882004-09-24T09:47:00.000-04:002004-09-24T10:30:22.003-04:00

There's an ESPN.com piece about TV and college football that finally puts some structure around media bias and why USC is the darling of AP writers, broadcasters and the Average Joe football fan. According to Loren Matthews, who's in charge of ABC's college football programming, the TV guys root for teams who have: • Broad national appeal • A major TV market • Sensational individual players

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1095773507133413762004-09-21T09:20:00.000-04:002004-09-21T09:31:47.133-04:00

The photo below was taken 25 years ago today (Sept. 21, 1979). If you don't know what this photo is, you may be culturally deficient. And if you don't know what the above photo is, but do know who the guys below are ... you have real problems.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1095710933518141122004-09-20T16:06:00.000-04:002004-09-20T16:08:53.520-04:00

The existence of Jessica Pivik in this world really presents The Cap'n with a dilemma. On the one hand, Jessica’s "sex column" is just so pointless and boring that I find it hard to justify writing about her every week. But on the other hand, The Wisdom continues to own the market for Jessica Pivik Google searches (and it brings in steady traffic), so it’s hard to turn down the blogpimping

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1095688791322101322004-09-20T09:42:00.000-04:002004-09-20T09:59:51.323-04:00

There was so much happening at Casa Cap'n Ken this weekend, I think bullet points are in order: • Damn kickers. Actually, in watching LSU / Auburn, I think I know what the big difference is between the 2004 Tigers and the 2003 National Champion Tigers. With Chad Lavalais and Marquise Hill gone from the D-Line, we've lost about a half-second on our blitz pressure, which is how Auburn was able to

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1095448017563955352004-09-17T15:06:00.000-04:002004-09-17T15:06:57.563-04:00

Have I mentioned how much this tree / power line thing sucks? The good news is that Ga Power is here, and we should be powered again sometime this afternoon.The bad news is that in order to get to the power lines, they had to chop the tree all to hell, and now I have most of somebody else's big-ass tree sitting in my driveway and yard.The power guys only cut down enough of the tree to allow them

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1095423719956666842004-09-17T08:21:00.000-04:002004-09-17T08:21:59.956-04:00

The wife and I are in the dark - again. Ivan smacked us hard. But at least this time we know what made our power go out - the 40-foot tree lying across our driveway. When we got home yesterday afternoon, the tree (which belongs to our neighbors across the street) was leaning, and we knew it was coming down (I believe the wife blogged about fear of the tree before it fell yesterday). I took some "

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1095362661215173782004-09-16T15:19:00.000-04:002004-09-16T15:24:21.216-04:00

Remember the good old days when hooking up a television was a one-step process? Screw a coax cable into the TV and you were done. Of course, that simplicity came at the expense of video quality and programming choices. But after spending the last couple of nights mucking around with the new TV, I'm kind of longing for that innocent time before set-top boxes, DVRs, Progressive Scan, Dolby

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1095258306336061532004-09-15T10:21:00.000-04:002004-09-15T10:25:06.336-04:00

Well, I hope Himmicane Ivan stays to the west of Atlanta, because last night we bought one of these instead of one of these.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1095170569444451692004-09-14T09:44:00.000-04:002004-09-14T10:04:44.343-04:00

I checked out The Advocate (the Baton Rouge daily, not the national gay newspaper) this morning to catch up on LSU news. And there's plenty of good stuff: • Auburn won't allow RVs on campus this week because of hurricane Ivan. I guess they figure there will already be enough trailers blowing around Alabama. • ESPN has bailed out of bringing GameDay to Auburn because of hurricane Ivan. Again,

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1095088730719495192004-09-13T11:16:00.000-04:002004-09-13T11:18:50.720-04:00

Well, Jessica Pivik is back (online) at The LSU Reveille. Her big shocker this week? The size of sexual organs (female and male). I'll save you the time it would take to read her 517 words. Here's the column in a nutshell: A lame "shocking" joke ... a brief gynecology lesson ... a fake quote from "a friend" ... a Googled stat ... another Googled stat ... another fake quote from "a friend" ...

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1094999268256761172004-09-12T10:11:00.000-04:002004-09-12T10:27:48.256-04:00

Heck of a weekend for college football, no? I'm curious to see if the pollsters will treat UGA (and Ohio State) as harshly as they treated LSU after our squeaky win over Oregon State last weekend. Consider: LSU played poorly - on a waterlogged field in the season opener - and barely beat Oregon State, who at the time was rated No. 35 in the Billingsley rankings*. For that, the AP dropped us

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1094823751353018642004-09-10T09:32:00.000-04:002004-09-10T09:44:03.520-04:00

OK, I don't know if it's a Web exclusive or not (I haven't seen them anywhere yet), but thanks to my mole J-Man at LSU, The Wisdom is proud to bring you photos of the streaker who came out during the rain delay before last Saturday's LSU / Oregon State game. Running the post pattern ... He breaks into the open field ... Nice tackle in the secondary ... And he's driven out of bounds ...

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1094671123128360732004-09-08T15:09:00.000-04:002004-09-09T09:15:03.083-04:00

A piece came across my Yahoo - LSU Sports feed this morning that was a narrative of tailgating at LSU written by an Oregon State fan. The child-like innocence expressed by this LSU tailgate virgin was quite sweet. Elaborate barbecues included stuffed pork on skewers, jambalaya, shrimp, alligator, deep-fried rice balls (mmm), and would you believe this: deep-fried pork fat, which is called

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1094649730325272342004-09-08T09:10:00.000-04:002004-09-08T13:43:10.023-04:00

It turns out we didn't need to worry about Frances while we were driving back from Mississippi on Monday, but it's put the big hurt on us here in Atlanta. Our power went out at 5 a.m. Tuesday and is still off as of 1 p.m. today. I blame Georgia Power more than Frances, though. There's really no noticible damage - trees down, power lines toppled, etc. - in our neighborhood, yet we're more than

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1094520094181761022004-09-06T20:52:00.000-04:002004-09-06T21:21:34.183-04:00

Loyal readers of The Wisdom are no doubt itching for my take on the ugly, ugly, ugly LSU win over Oregon State on Saturday. In short - we won. And all things considered, that's the only thing I care about. When I saw the rain coming down, I knew the night would be about survival. And we survived. Not the best night to be the only Top 25 team playing any team from another BCS conference with

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1094238639877533312004-09-03T15:04:00.000-04:002004-09-03T15:10:39.876-04:00

You'll notice new ads appearing at the top and in the left rail of The Wisdom. Google has opened Blogger up to the AdSense program, so I'm cashing in! I'm not saying you should click on the ads just to generate some pennies for The Cap'n, but if an ad for Bibles or something is triggered by my rantings and you find it compelling, clicking through isn't the worst thing you can do.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1093879852894987382004-09-02T00:00:00.000-04:002004-09-02T00:00:50.170-04:00

Today marks the 7th anniversary of Cap'n Ken becoming an Internet Professional. On September 2, 1997 I made the leap (and leap of faith*) from the safe, conservative world of print journalism into the wild frontier of Internet content. My first assignment as a second-shift (3 - 11 p.m.) Content Producer was monitoring message boards and posting pictures in the aftermath of Princess Diana

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1094070252328283242004-09-01T16:09:00.000-04:002004-09-01T16:24:12.330-04:00

I don't know exactly when it happened, but those much-talked-about contextual ads are now showing up in Gmail (look for the story on Slashdot around October). I figured it might be fun to open back up some of my messages and see what kind of ads my conversations attract. Here's what I got: - The email I got from Anne McCue (mmm ... Anne McCue) yesterday thanking me for signing up for her

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1093959858680623722004-08-31T09:35:00.000-04:002004-08-31T09:44:18.680-04:00

Loyal readers of The Wisdom will remember a piece I wrote in late June about the really cool USB Swiss Army Knife. Well today, Slashdot has a post about a Tech Zone review of the same Swiss USB device. In typical Slashdot fashion, traffic to the linked review has overwhelmed Tech Zone's servers. So just remember that as one of the several people who read The Wisdom, you got the scoop on this

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1093901664564836842004-08-30T17:23:00.000-04:002004-08-30T17:34:24.563-04:00

OK, I try to cut the J-School kids running the LSU Reveille a break. Most of them were born when I was in high school, after all. So when I was trying to find Jessica Pivik's column online last week (I do believe now that they are purposefully NOT putting it up) and came across the "Staff" page, I made the decision to not mock what is a most-mockworthy page. But now it's a fresh week and the

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1093560460323158412004-08-26T18:36:00.000-04:002004-08-27T14:49:41.293-04:00

I got emails from two of my LSU sources today that the world's worst "sex columnist" - Jessica Pivik - is back. [editor's note: Jessica is an LSU J-School student who fancies herself to be Carrie Bradshaw. I mocked her often during the spring semester.] But the funny thing is, her column isn't posted on LSUReveille.com. Maybe it's just the ineptness of student newspaper types, or maybe LSU has

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1093354804504724582004-08-24T08:45:00.000-04:002004-08-24T09:40:04.503-04:00

I drove my car to work today. My car - the Maxima - with its five beautiful, manual-driven gears. See, since the wife and I started our new jobs, we've been carpooling. And her Santa Fe - as our "new" car - is the vehicle of choice for the commute, as well as all of our "together" driving. So the Maxima sits alone in the garage all day, begging to be driven. I didn't realize how strange it

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1093013281646795222004-08-20T10:43:00.000-04:002004-08-20T10:48:17.030-04:00

OK, so the wife and I went out with friends at The Flatiron last night. While we were waiting on them, I was checking out the "Stuff to know" section of The Flatiron's new menu. The last line reads: • No pirates allowed. Seriously. I didn't think too much about it until a couple of hours later when my friend says "hey, pirates" and points to the front door (he hadn't seen the menu). Sure

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1092860382028551072004-08-18T16:18:00.000-04:002004-08-18T16:19:42.026-04:00

Checking The Wisdom logs today, I noticed a flurry of activity coming from TWMBIC servers over the past day or so. I have a couple of regular readers over there still, but this recent activity suggests a bunch of people seeking some kind of wisdom from The Wisdom. I guess it probably has to do with the guy who quit over there this week. Yes, my sources tipped me to it. And, yes, his departure

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1092762003980983712004-08-17T12:57:00.000-04:002004-08-17T13:00:03.980-04:00

Just days after discovering the sweet, secret message for readers of The Wisdom by Jesus-loving hair stylist Sherry Miller, there's more love coming in for The Cap'n. I fished an email out of my spam box this morning from a supporter of Theida Salazar. Loyal readers of The Wisdom will remember that Theida is/was a candidate for the state legislature who found my wallet at a Braves game last year

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1092688691133952382004-08-16T16:34:00.000-04:002004-08-16T16:38:11.133-04:00

OK, the preseason AP and Coaches polls are out, which used to mean something to me when I'd expect LSU to show up somewhere between 15 and 25. But I knew we'd be Top 5, which means we're in the national title hunt until we lose a game, so the drama of moving up the ranks is pretty much lost. But in surfing through Yahoo's excellent new college football content, I noticed something odd. If you

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1092430036721465362004-08-13T16:27:00.000-04:002004-08-13T16:48:47.106-04:00

Damn, this makes me happy. I was checking out some referer info for The Wisdom and noticed somebody had come over checking out which sites were linking to www.sherrymillerssalon.com. Loyal readers of The Wisdom may remember a piece nearly a year ago entitled "Will Jesus do it for 5%?" in which I poked a lot of fun at "Christian" businesses I found through Google. [editor's note: I'd forgotten

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1092415359997451292004-08-13T12:40:00.000-04:002004-08-13T12:42:39.996-04:00

Only one way to describe what it's like in Atlanta today (71 degrees, partly cloudy) ... Football Weather! Bring it on

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1092256192064058852004-08-11T16:27:00.000-04:002004-08-11T16:34:06.920-04:00

If anybody out there is looking to do some early Christmas shopping for The Cap'n, here's a gift suggestion. Actually, pretty much anything from the Johnny Cash auction would make a nice gift.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091908035732319242004-08-07T15:47:00.000-04:002004-08-07T15:47:15.733-04:00

The Dave Alvin, etc. show at The Troubadour last night was most rockin'. And I reached a new milestone in "The List" - actually meeting one of the celeb babes on my wife-approved I-can-do-her list. To be fair, I did add Australian alt-country singer Anne McCue to "The List" specifically because she was opening for Dave last night, but still ...No, I did not get lucky. But I think Anne may stay

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091807560048263212004-08-06T11:52:00.000-04:002004-08-06T11:52:40.046-04:00

Being in Pasadena, I had to drive out this morning and see the Rose Bowl. Like everything associated with Pac-10 football, it didn't impress me.It's set down low in this valley, surrounded by a very nice park, but the stadium itself looked like an overblown municipal stadium, which I guess is what it is.So that's that.In other So. Cal developments, the Burbank airport rocks. I stepped off the

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091750921027341602004-08-05T20:08:00.000-04:002004-08-05T20:08:41.026-04:00

I just cleared security at SFO on my way to LA, after getting my first-ever full-on TSA search.Honestly, I didn't even realize I was getting the full monty until the guys started opening my carry-on. There were no lines at security, so I'd breezed right in to the process.The TSA guys were courteous, professional and fast, so I didn't have a meltdown like last year at LAX. But, as loyal readers

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091732488635475082004-08-05T15:01:00.000-04:002004-08-05T15:01:28.636-04:00

OK, that's not exactly breaking news. But the level of weirdness here still amuses me.Case in point - I was driving around SF the other day and got behind a minivan with a personalized license plate (they invented them here, I think). The plate read FAMOF(heart symbol)1. I figured the owner had just stuck a heart symbol (as in "I (heart symbol) NY") on the tag to be cute.But last night in the

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091657292576362652004-08-04T18:08:00.000-04:002004-08-04T18:08:12.576-04:00

OK, I was in our San Jose office for some meet-and-greets today and I stopped in the break room to get a Diet Coke ... (Loyal readers of The Wisdom know where this is going.)I dropped in a quarter, pushed the DC button and out popped - yep - two cans.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091577789464113822004-08-03T20:03:00.000-04:002004-08-03T20:03:09.463-04:00

I had a meeting in SF this morning in this industrial area near the Giants' new ballpark, so I decided to swing over and check it out.I got mad.SBC Park is part of this huge revitalization of an industrial/port area on the bay. Anchored by the park, the area has been transformed into a district of new, loft-style buildings (condos, offices, stores, etc.). It's really rockin'.What made me mad was

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091484314111752722004-08-02T18:05:00.000-04:002004-08-02T18:05:14.110-04:00

I knew before I left today that I was on a full flight. I didn't realize that the flight ultimately ends up in Hawaii, which explains why it's so full.But as I was sitting at the gate, I started to ponder my seat-mate fate for this five-hour trip.Maybe I'd be next to one of the super-cute teenage girls fiddling around with their iPods. Nah, my luck doesn't work that way.The tattooed guy who has

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091449861331374242004-08-02T07:55:00.000-04:002004-08-02T08:31:01.330-04:00

I'm embarking today on a whirlwind trip out west for TNIJ. Three cities, five tasks in four working days. Also in the mix is a dot-com party that's become quite a thing out there (more on that later this week) and a slight amount of free time in L.A. before I head back Saturday. I can now post from anywhere with my new Blackberry (the 12.5-cent Coke update was Blackberried, in fact), So I'll

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091207210362360772004-07-30T13:06:00.000-04:002004-07-30T13:06:50.363-04:00

So apparently the two-for-one Diet Coke deal has been going on for some time. The other day a guy was telling somebody buying a Diet Pepsi she should get a Diet Coke because of the bonus-drink glitch.The fridge next to the generous machine is filled with Diet Coke cans, so I'm obviously not the only one enjoying the bonus.Another guy said he heard the Coke guy on the phone telling somebody about

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1091056050385554552004-07-28T19:00:00.000-04:002004-07-28T19:07:30.386-04:00

So I fired up NCAA Football 2005 last night and checked out the "Historic Teams". What do you know? Both the 2003 LSU Tigers and 2003 USC Trojans were among them. I couldn't resist playing my National Champion Tigers against the mythical (as in "not real") "National Champion" Trojans. I couldn't figure out how to set the venue as the Superdome to mimic the Sugar Bowl the Trojans would have

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1090923777560769132004-07-27T06:20:00.000-04:002004-07-27T06:22:57.560-04:00

The wife is off this morning on a business trip. Fortunately, I have a brand-new mistress to keep me entertained. Her name is NCAA Football 2005.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1090471691464714912004-07-22T00:09:00.000-04:002004-07-22T10:33:35.390-04:00

[editor's note: Cap'n Ken has attempted to write the following piece, concerning a subject - history - that most people find very dull and boring, in a way that you won't find dull and boring. Please bear with us.] Today is the 140th anniversary of The Battle of Atlanta. For those of you not intimately familiar with Civil War stuff, "The Battle of Atlanta" refers to the engagement that took

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1090347431442894172004-07-20T14:11:00.000-04:002004-07-20T14:17:11.443-04:00

After a week of getting two Diet Cokes for a quarter in TNIJ breakroom, my curiousity got the best of me. Was I simply exploiting some kind of Coke-machine programming error (and, as Robin puts it, failing my first ethics test), or is the company sending a subtle message out that they prefer you to purchase non-sugared beverages? So this afternoon I fed a quarter into the Pepsi machine that

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1090207608221025892004-07-18T23:02:00.000-04:002004-07-18T23:26:48.220-04:00

I experienced BJs this weekend (always a good time ...), and I came very close to not buying Charmin to fulfill our bathroom tissue needs.   Why? Three words:   THOSE FUCKING BEARS!   Maybe you have no idea what I'm talking about. So let me catch you up ...   Some time ago, Charmin introduced a new ad campaign featuring these cartoon bears backed by this obnoxious jingle that goes

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1090000115156443332004-07-16T13:26:00.000-04:002004-07-16T13:49:46.976-04:00

OK, so I'm finding out that pretty much everybody at TWMBIC reads The Wisdom. Only a couple of people told me this when I worked there, but now I've learned that a ton of people there read it, and have been readers since back in the day when I used to write a lot about TWMBIC.   Of course, back when I got threatened with disciplinary action for my writings (the only thing they could come up

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1089998801904580912004-07-16T13:21:00.000-04:002004-07-16T13:26:41.903-04:00

So I'm pretty well settled in at TNIJ now. I got the "toss you into the deep end" treatment, which I think is a good thing.   And, as loyal readers of The Wisdom know, one of the big benefits of TNIJ is 25-cent Cokes (comparable beverages at TWMBIC are 65 cents).   For some reason, it seems, the Coke Gods are smiling upon me. In the machine closest to my desk, every time I drop a quarter in to

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1089765951841974222004-07-13T20:39:00.000-04:002004-07-13T20:45:51.843-04:00

Notice to Friends of the Cap'n in the metro Atlanta area (and Daniella, Scott, Pierre, etc. if y'all want to fly in ...) - next Saturday is the annual East Atlanta Pub Crawl. Ostensibly a celebration of the anniversary of The Battle of Atlanta (an important historical anniversary for East Atlanta, of course), the B*ATL event really centers around a night of excessive drinking at The EARL, The

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1089670431803147262004-07-12T17:49:00.000-04:002004-07-12T18:13:51.803-04:00

I'd put a hold on our mail while we were down on the coast, with a request to deliver all the stuff today when we got back. So I just went out and wrestled the stack of very important correspondence out of the mailbox. It included: • 16 credit card offers • 9 sale circulars • 7 pieces of actual mail • 5 magazines • 3 catalogs • 2 of those newsprint "coupon" things I never read • 1 check from

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1089671619523214432004-07-12T08:33:00.000-04:002004-07-12T18:42:21.686-04:00

I got this email from a fellow ex-TWMBIC employee after he'd been told I'd packed up for greener pastures: "Glad to see you left [TWMBIC]. I was definitely shocked with the way they squandered your talents. It probably was a good 'between jobs' assignment." In my final days at TWMBIC, I got some "I hate to see you go" comments, some "Wow, this seems like a great opportunity" chatter and some "

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1089252301186423952004-07-07T22:02:00.000-04:002004-07-07T22:05:01.186-04:00

Here, in case you were wondering, is what the BBD looks like when he's suffering from explosive bowel syndrome: And this - believe it or not - is what he looks like when he's starting to feel better: We call this pose "The Alligator."

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1089251703697854962004-07-07T21:47:00.000-04:002004-07-07T21:55:03.696-04:00

Cranking up the laptop to upload the latest batch of beach photos (look for a piece on our swank new digital camera later), I got a Windows notification that a wireless connection was available, so I'm coming at you courtesy of "sanpebble". Not that I really have much to say. We went over to Apalachicola today and enjoyed a damn fine lunch at Boss Oyster, which came recommended from my ex-cube

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1089160630303415032004-07-06T20:30:00.000-04:002004-07-06T20:37:10.303-04:00

Our planned trip to the raw bar in Indian Pass tonight is on hold, thanks to a bad case of explosive diarrhea being suffered by the Big Brown Dog. It seems he's swallowing too much sea water while playing fetch in the surf. It's hard to keep him out of the water, though, considering this is all he does when we try to get him to just hang out on the deck: Of course, the last time the wife and I

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1089077019105110232004-07-05T21:12:00.000-04:002004-07-05T21:23:39.106-04:00

For you readers of the wife's blog who've found your way to The Wisdom trying to figure out where she's gone, I've taken her away to the beach. It's a week of R&R before I begin the new job. We've got a week of basking in this sunset: But an escape to the remote parts of the Florida gulf coast comes with sacrifice. We discovered we have no cell service, and even though I'm connecting through

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1088771466669844042004-07-02T08:13:00.000-04:002004-07-02T08:32:06.200-04:00

Did this video: Remind anybody else of this video: ?

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1088617012300720182004-06-30T13:26:00.000-04:002004-06-30T13:36:52.300-04:00

My time here at TWMBIC is winding down (today's my last day), so I've been taking care of a few last-minute tasks. I did the exit interview this morning, I've gotten the CDs I loaned my boss (mostly Replacements stuff) back and I just sent out what I guess you'd have to call my "farewell" email. Now, I know what you're thinking: A sappy "Goodbye, everyone!" email from ultra-cool Cap'n Ken? Say

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1088548208101185632004-06-29T18:21:00.000-04:002004-06-29T18:34:33.990-04:00

OK, there's an uproar this evening about this 23-year-old female teacher in Florida who was busted having sex with a 14-year old student (once in her SUV while the kid's cousin was driving around town, no less!). Is it wrong that my reaction is more "way to go, junior!" than "I can't believe a teacher would abuse a child like that!"? If this was a male teacher seducing a 14-year-old girl, I'd

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1088537861657955562004-06-29T15:22:00.000-04:002004-06-29T15:37:41.656-04:00

Apparently, Americans need to be told that the frothy, sugary, delicious summer drinks at Starbucks can be fattening. "I think often we have the perception if we're drinking it, it doesn't have to have calories" Are people really that stupid? Do they not realize that whipped cream and chocolate are fattening? I suppose they don't.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1088468434484753812004-06-28T20:01:00.000-04:002004-08-31T09:35:39.433-04:00

But I saw this in a catalog that arrived at Cap'n Ken's place today, and I think it's pretty cool: Yep, it's a Swiss Army knife with a 64-meg memory stick added to the usual setup of knife, file, scissors, pen, screwdriver and LED lite. There's just something cool about adding the 21st-century "tool" of 64 megs of data storage to everyone's favorite multi-tasker. They call it the Swiss Bit.

Cap'n Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13475758590074155264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467864.post-1088217277215709712004-06-25T22:14:00.000-04:002004-06-25T22:38:46.696-04:00

In celebration of my pending return to employment at an actual Internet company, I re-started my subscription to Business 2.0 tonight. It's always been a great mag (more so before TW bought it), and I was a loyal reader in the go-go days of the Internet bubble. Their 101 Dumbest Moments in Business feature puts the once-great Dubious Achievements issue of Esquire to shame (The original 101

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OK, here's one for the amateur ornithologists in the crowd. I'm on my way in to work this morning, sitting at a red light (Irwin and Auburn Aves, not that it matters) and I notice this really strange scene over on the sidewalk. Three birds of the type you often see picking around restaurant patios (not pigeons) were standing around a half-eaten apple. Two of these birds were dusty brown, and

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