Month: May 2004

or I’m a Jinx Part II

Back in October 2003 in Episode I I single handedly knocked the Red Sox out of a sure World Series berth. This year I started earlier in the season. I had the bright idea that I could relive the joys of my youth by listening to the radio broadcasts of the Red Sox games (but on the internet this time.) When I signed up the Bosox were 4 games ahead of the Yankees in the standings, now after just 2-1/2 weeks they are about to be just a 1/2 game ahead. Real disappointing as they usually wait until late June to fall from first to behind their arch-rivals, but now it looks a lot like it will happen in early May…

On the newspaper?!? One day last week when I opened my newspaper there was a 3″ x 3″ low tack glossy sticky note announcing the newspaper’s new program about paying your bill online. I thought nothing of it until today when there was another on the front of the paper. This one was for a Tobacco Use Prevention Program touting giving up smoking for Mother’s day as a gift. OK that is a public service announcement, but I bet commercials are definitely next.

On a quasi-related note, I saw something tonight that Major League Baseball has agreed to place a diamond shaped ad for the movie “Spiderman II” on all the bases, plus in the on deck circles, on a certain weekend in June. Not that ads and sporting events have never gotten together before, but this just seems a bit much to me.

Never caught the “Reality TV” bug. But I do get my own version of it via the internet – blogs. You get a glimpse into the personal lives of people all over the world. Back in the Blogger days I would always check a few of the recently updated ones from the front page, then they had this thing called Next Blog that would send you a random site. The latest thing I stumbled on uses Google technology and the fact that everybody has a digital camera and posts their pictures on the net. Random Personal Picture Finder