Not So Entertaining These Days
- June
- 1
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As our daughter rose in the musical ranks, my husband and I attended every performance that we could. We rearranged work schedules to hear her play for two minutes. She would roll her eyes in humiliation as her parents sat beaming in the front row, trying desperately not to shout, “Encore, Encore” after her rousing [...]
Train Derailment Acid Leak Forces La. Evacuation
- May
- 17
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Six cars of a freight train derailed Saturday, including one that began leaking hydrochloric acid, causing thousands of people to evacuate homes, businesses and a nursing home within one mile of the wreck.
The spilled acid sent a toxic cloud over the area, and at least five people, including two railroad workers, were taken to a [...]
Sorry Mario your shot not biggest ever
- April
- 12
After that, we can’t find any bucket, at least in the last 30 years, that we would rank as more important. Rose contesting the shot makes Chalmers’ hit better than Michael Jordan’s wing jumper against Georgetown in 1982. And Scotty Thurman’s high-arching 3 against Duke came with a minute to go in [...]
Allergy death threats
- April
- 12
A paediatrician suggested it, because from five weeks Amelia was screaming in pain after breast feeding, projectile vomiting _ and once stopped breathing, slowly turning blue.
At the first attempt, Amelia refused to drink the milk and was irritable and screamed for a week.
The second time, Amelia drank about 20ml. Within minutes she screamed, vomited continuously [...]
A Journey Into the Automated Abyss
- March
- 14
Testing, Testing
Depending on which study you read, customer call centers have improved a bit. However, we hate to take anybody’s word for it. So we conducted a very small and wholly unscientific study.
I rustled up some guinea pigs (i.e., begged friends and family) to help make calls. We chose obvious companies like the cable and [...]
Fine dining is easy to do at home
- February
- 15
LEHI %26#151; To bring the flavor of fine dining into your home, just give the food the freedom to be what it is.
According to Market Street Grill chef Ty Fredrickson, that’s really the secret.
“Try to let the food be what it is,” [...]
Price is earning more playing time
- February
- 12
The hot topic in Jazzdom ever since the weekend, when third-string guard Ronnie Price fueled some energetic runs by his team (one of them resulting in a victory), is whether Price earned some more playing time or even moved up the depth chart.
Utah coach Jerry [...]
BYU at home in Laramie
- February
- 3
LARAMIE, Wyo. %26#151; Dave Rose shuffled foul-plagued Lee Cummard in and out of Saturday’s game against Wyoming so often it could have made him dizzy.
But the junior forward still delivered 25 points in pushing BYU past the Cowboys 73-63 in Arena Auditorium on Saturday.
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EDITOR’S POSTCooper Lawrence and the Mass Effect of Gamers Scorned
- February
- 1
Terrorism, Elections and Video Games
The show sometimes discusses big topics of major national importance, like the presidential race and terrorism. Lawrence was there to talk video games, specifically BioWare’s new single-player role-playing game “Mass Effect.” To hear the game described on this program, it sounded like the raunchiest thing to come along since the “Leisure [...]
Kaneva Mixes Social Networks, Virtual Worlds
- January
- 22
Simple Idea
The idea behind it is so simple it’s difficult to avoid gritting your teeth and thinking: “Why didn’t I think of that?” Kaneva works in two ways: there’s a MySpace-esque networking site on the Web where you have a page with your details, your pictures, music and videos, linked to similar pages owned by [...]
