By the way, just how high was the graphics person at the Sun Times who put the picture of Geo with the marijuana plant superimposed over his shoulder? It looks like he’s the guest newscaster on Telemundo giving the ag report.
The nature of summer changed as I grew older. I got a part-time job at Johnston’s Sports Shop in 1956, and my first newspaper job at The News-Gazette in 1958. Holmesy got an early 1950s Chevy. We’d go out to the new McDonald’s at Five Points, across the street from Huey’s Store (“What’s not on the shelf is on the floor. If it ain’t on the floor we ain’t got it no more”). A couple of years later I got my first car, $395, a 1954 Ford, sky blue. I painted the wheel rims red, bought sick-on white sidewalls, and hung a pair of foam dice from the rear-view mirror. Left sitting in the sun, it smelled inside like scorched plastic, and the steering wheel was too hot to touch. Summer no longer lasted until time immemorial. The last day of summer came sooner. Time compacted. Life closed in.
What was the worst thing that Michael Jordan could do to you?” Huson said. “He can go dunk on you. He could embarrass you. What’s the worst thing Randy Johnson can do to you? _He can kill you._
There was the 80s car — a Honda made to look like a Ferrari — and the team is dressed as icons of the 80s. The outfits included the guys from Wham, a dude wearing a Members Only jacket, Crockett and Tubbs form “Miami Vice” and a guy dressed as Tom Cruise in “Risky Business” — button down shirt, tighty-whiteys and socks. Now that’s commitment to a costume theme.
This is an interesting affront to Google, who so far is only supporting programming languages for grown ups on App Engine. Much like an Englishman debating an American, Google is trying to keep the level of discourse high and sophisticated. Our American Microsoft, on the other hand, has just sucker-punched the Englishman in the mouth and yelled “YEAH WHERE’S YOUR VOCABULARY NOW?
