2007 Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy has finally waived his no-trade clause and agreed to come to the Chicago White Sox. In exchange the San Diego Padres will get four young pitching prospects: Clayton Richard, Aaron Poreda, Dexter Carter, and Adam Russell. Landing Peavy, whom the Sox had pursued earlier in the season only [...]
Archive for July, 2009
So Jerry bought a new iPhone last week and we’re still trying to get acquainted with all its different functions. One thing I come across a lot is the debate about whether or not you should “jailbreak” the device. This just means to perform some sort of iPhone hack that… actually, I can’t figure out [...]
My old alarm clock gave out a couple months ago, so I’ve been using the alarm on my cell phone to wake me up in the mornings. This hasn’t been working out too well, however, because I got to bed very early (often before 10pm) in order to wake up early (around 5am or 5:30am). [...]
The latest Princeton Review list of the Top Party Schools in the nation has just been released. For some reason, it fills undergrads with a sense of pride if their school makes the list, though I personally don’t really look at it that way. I guess I’m getting old here, but the thought of a [...]
Michael Vick has been conditionally reinstated to the NFL by commissioner Roger Goodell. The decision is effective immediately, and Vick can begin participating in training camp and preseason games as soon as he lands with a team. There could be some further disciplinary action, such as suspension, so analysts are saying he probably won’t play [...]
I don’t really spend a lot of time looking through Google Labs to see what new products and features they’re coming up with next, but a friend alerted me to something I think is pretty cool. It’s an Undo Send feature in Gmail, that allows you to take back an email message that you fired [...]
One thing I’ve been meaning to do for a long time now is start putting together scrapbooks to commemorate the various stages of my son’s life. I’m pretty good at taking lots of pictures of both everyday happenings and important events, but now I want a good way to present these pictures (other than simply [...]