Friday, February 22, 2002

4:38:00 PM   Where's Osama ? Rumsfield's wife wants to know [cnn.com]  //  Some great quotes here "My wife, Joyce, asks me that every morning. She says where is Osama?" Letterman's mother asks him  "When are we going to put the hammer on Osama." Letterman's mom watches Rumsfeld every day.

4:32:30 PM   GAO sues over Cheney energy documents [cnn.com]  //  Can't you just see Dick Cheney down in a secured bunker somewhere shredding away all the notes after hearing that Anderson's orders to shred ?  ;-)

3:02:21 PM   Jauron gets new deal [ ChicagoSports.com ]  //  Jerry Angelo was digging himself quite a hole here.  Hopefully when the details surface,  we won't find that Mr. Angelo took some of the basic responsibilities of a coach which have been rumored for the last week or so.  If he did (and the rumors were rampant and ugly), the Bears managment will succeed in both signing him and looking like buffoons.  Usually, they corner the market only on the latter. Now, go get Drew Bledsoe.

1:58:07 PM   Ken Lay's Nest Egg [MotherJones.com]  //  Ah but can you use these annuities from prison ?

1:54:10 PM   washingtonpost.com: Russians Challenge Skating Results  //  Dream on my Russian friends, look at the tape, this kid was the best, even I could see this.  The much better question is how could the Russian and Danish judges place Sarah fourth ? Apparently they were trying desperately to protect their skater from the fact that Sarah was the best skater on this evening.

1:48:15 PM   Newsday.com: Microsoft To Share Software Codes  //  Call me skeptical but I'll believe this when I see it.

1:07:52 AM   Andersen makes settlement offers to Enron shareholders Arthur Andersen has reportedly begun contacting attorneys for various Enron groups offering to settle a pending class-action lawsuit to prevent the accounting firm from being put out of business by fallout from the Enron scandal. [Boston Globe]  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

12:51:38 AM   Doug Larson. "The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it." [Quotes of the Day]

12:49:35 AM   Anatole France. "When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." [Quotes of the Day]

12:47:27 AM   news.com: DirecTV fine-tunes TiVo deal  //  why have these not caught on ?  these DVRs are the slickest thing since sliced bread.  You don't have one ? you don't know what you are missing.  CDs didn't catch on quickly either and now most kids don't even know what a record is.

12:38:38 AM   News.com: Walmart.com ditches the OS in new PCs  //  Hmmm....how come Walmart is the first one to think of this ?  or to try this ?  Heaven only knows how Microsoft will try to get their profit out of these machines and could this open a door for the PC companies ?   Is the timing here interesting ? Does Bill have the kahonas to try to tell Walmart they can't sell PCs with Windoze on them because they want to sell them without ?  and do it while there are still 9 states with their heads screwed on right ?  All just things which make you go hmmmmm.....

12:19:44 AM   cpj.com: "He believed firmly in the truth, and he died searching for it."  //   ;-(

12:19:03 AM   Bloomberg.com: U.S Reporter Pearl Killed by Kidnappers in Pakistan