I won’t claim to produce anything as slick as Google’s 2004 Zeitgeist, since I’m basing this on personal experience ranking by nothing more than what I remember. But here goes, my top ranked 2004 moments:
Best Parenting Moment. My daughter Elana’s Bat Mitzvah in November. She showed our entire family what [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2004
The 2004 List
Keys To Ascension
Unable to sleep last night I popped in the DVD of Yes’ “Keys To Ascension,” a somewhat sloppily produced concert archive of their 1996 shows that brought keyboardist Rick Wakeman back to the group. My affinity for the 1996 CD sets of “Keys” and “Keys 2″ (the other half of the concerts) are [...]
The “A” revealed
It’s nice to know you have readers. Or listeners. Many (many) years ago, I was a DJ at WPRB, 103.3 FM in Princeton, NJ, the Princeton University student-run station. It’s a commercial station with a prime commercial frequency (this is what happens when you get into the FM market [...]
Challenging Convention, One Sunday At A Time
Scott McNealy likes to pick on “conventional wisdom” as lacking wisdom. It’s one of the reasons why so many coaching books, and books written by coaches or athletes, ring hollow: they’re full of conventional wisdom or hackneyed phrases that you could glean from an hour or two of ESPN Classic.
In my on-going [...]
The Next Olympic Sport: Synchronized Skating
Anyone who listens to me or reads my rants might think I spend all of my time in ice rinks dealing with hockey, hockey players, and hockey related injuries. Not so. I spend at least one very early weekday morning and part of each weekend with my daughter the figure skater, who [...]
Accessibility Denied: My Month On Wheels
I’ve been quiet lately because I’m expending overhead cycles lugging my slightly damaged body from place to place. When 15% of your time is spent figuring out the shortest overall path that includes the study, bathroom, kitchen and perhaps mailbox, including whether to use crutches, wheelchair or just pogo stick imitation, you lose [...]
Accessible Conspiracy Theory
For those wondering where I’ve been, no, the Snowman wasn’t searching for colder temperatures. I’ve been enjoying my forced sedentary lifestyle to catch up on some reading — which necessitated being the last person on the planet to read The DaVinci Code.
About halfway through, I realized I’d read this story before, namely in [...]
