One of my regrets in life is that I never got a chance to see a game in Yankee Stadium. Today the New York Times gives and audio and written tour of the parts of the stadium that aren’t normally seen. Technorati Tags: Yankee Stadium
March, 2008:
My Sunday
Instead of church today, my Sunday is being spent as the After Hours Emergency worker from 10:00 a.m. to midnight. Yeah, that is 14 straight hours which I haven’t done in a while. When Social Services is closed, all emergency calls come to me where I am in a tiny windowless office that seems warmer [...]
The TSA Blog
The TSA has a blog. A pretty good blog written by employees who are actually engaging those other travelers. This is a great illustration on how a government department can use a blog and YouTube to communicate. You will want to check out this post on the problems some checkpoints have had with MacBook Airs [...]
Station 20 West
Much has been written about the Government of Saskatchewan canceling Station 20 West. Much of that has come from the competing rationale of the Government ministers themselves. The final word seems to come from a bunch of rural MLA’s, including Premier Brad Wall which had this to say, “basically a mall development, where we’d be [...]
Contextless Links
Down and out at Heathrow Airport Sask government cuts most Social Workers in Saskatoon: The goal is to deliver social services via a call centre. That sound you hear is a lot of Saskatchewan’s best social workers being recruited in Alberta and Manitoba. UPDATE: Apparently the Minister didn’t make that decision and there will not [...]
City vs. the Activists = Homeless Lose Out
An article in the San Francisco Inquirer suggests that as the city and activists feud over what to do with the homeless, they are frozen out of the services that can help. via “I could care less about their vigorous representation of the homeless,” Henderson said. “At the end of the day, we all want [...]
Draggins Rod and Custom Car Show
Every Easter weekend, the Draggins Car Club hosts the Draggins Rod and Custom Car Show in Saskatoon and several thousand of us turn out to see the old cars. On Good Friday, Wendy, Mark and I went over and looked around and took a couple of photos. Mark’s favorite, the SpongeBob SquarePants car. Mark and [...]
Housing homeless could save taxpayers hundreds of millions
The Canadian Press points out the obvious A study says providing shelter for the homeless with severe addictions and mental illness throughout British Columbia could save taxpayers millions of dollars. “Addiction is the most prevalent mental health problem in both the street homeless and at-risk populations, followed by concurrent disorders and, less frequently, mental illness [...]
McCain advisor tells off religious right
From Lawrence Eagleburger On the Christian hard right, I live in Charlottesville now and I can’t tell you I’m surrounded by it. I must tell you we fought it there, fought hard against it. There’s no question that in the Republican Party it is a serious problem … Among the hard-right conservatives in the Republican [...]
