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Yearly Archives 2009

Suggestion for criminal HR departments

Email scammers in the developing world have had tremendous success at relieving Americans of their money, but there’s much room for improvement. Checking my spam filter just now, I found an attempt from “PayPal” that began thus: Due to our last days online problems, many phishing attempts and identity-theft, we need to verify our members [...]

Posted 11 November 2009 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Summer Vacation Photoblog

Clarissa and I went to Seattle for a long weekend recently, and at the car-rental agency I learned why the U.S. automobile industry is in such bad shape: it produces offensive, humiliating machines like the Chevrolet HHR:

Posted 19 July 2009 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °

Is this Dana Rohrabacher’s car?

The driver of this car changed lanes abruptly in front of me in heavy traffic on K Street this afternoon. As you can see, it’s registered in California and bears a license plate marked “U.S. CONGRESS 46.” Does Rep. Dana Rohrabacher drive a green Oldsmobile Aurora? As far as I can tell, it is — [...]

Posted 05 April 2009 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °

Past performance and future results

Ladies and gentlemen, the starting pitchers for your 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates! Career ERA and ERA+: Jeff Karstens — 4.89, 89 Zach Duke — 4.39, 98 Paul Maholm — 4.30, 100 Ross Ohlendorf — 6.13, 71 Ian Snell — 4.67, 92 Maholm’s career ERA+ of 100 means he is a perfectly average major league pitcher. All [...]

Posted 04 April 2009 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (3) °

Can’t go wrong

Lindsey says I’m “lobbying for Iron City to become the next hip beer.” It’s true. Iron City is a no-frills lager brewed in Pittsburgh since 1861 by a company that survived bankruptcy a few years ago. If you’re looking for a bland beer with a proud industrial history, look no further (and for $3 or [...]

Posted 03 April 2009 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °