February « 2007 « Sam's Thoughts

Ricky Gervais is a one trick pony

Jules and I watched the original British version of the office when it was on BBC America, and although it was funny at first, it’s a good thing that it only ran for two six episode seasons.  By the second episode I was finding it painful to watch.  The majority of the characters, particularly Gervais’ [...]

Sex-Ed presentation at Board of Education

For the past couple of years a Reproductive Health Education Advisory committee has been meeting to research sex-education curriculums for the Ypsilanti Public schools.  If you have kids in the schools,  you may have noticed that for many years now they have gotten no comprehensive sex-ed.  In line with that Ypsi has some of the [...]

Lame webmasters

I no longer get the Ann Arbor News, but I still check the Mlive website from time to time.  They recently changed the address for the A2 news section from mlive.com/aanews to mlive.com/annarbornews.  That’s fine if they want to do that although changing to a longer url is kind of a dumb idea. However, it [...]

Something about Detroit that doesn’t suck!

I spent a couple of days in Chicago this week with the Autoblog team covering the Auto Show there, and between this trip and my December trip to Manhattan, I came to the realization that there is at least one thing that Detroit can be proud of, the MacNamara Terminal at Metro Airport.  After flying [...]