A Hop, A Skip, and A Jump

New WP Blog

jobert — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:27:54 +0000

Opened up a new WordPress blog on my site. It’s http://www.coffeespark.com/blog.

Driver’s ed for blind kids?

jobert — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:21:00 +0000

Mayra Ramirez scored an A in driver’s education this year, but sitting through the 10-week class felt like a bad joke to the Curie Metropolitan High School sophomore.

Ramirez is blind. She knows she’s never going to drive. She can think of a lot of things she’d rather be studying than rules of the road, but she didn’t have a choice.

This is just cruel.

06.10.06

jobert — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:27:00 +0000

The World Cup! It’s just months away! I’m rooting for England because of John Terry. But France (Go Zidane!) is my second choice.

Goal!

jobert — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:21:00 +0000

Football Gets People Talking.

I just can’t wait!

(via Gahsoon. How does he get these wonderful things?)

The Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Characters

jobert — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:31:00 +0000

Some Top Super-Heroes

Superman : Methodist
Spider-Man : Protestant
Batman : Episcopalian/Catholic (lapsed)
Wonder Woman : Greco-Roman Classical Religion
Captain America : Protestant
The Hulk : Non-Religious
The Thing : Jewish
Daredevil : Catholic
Wolverine : former atheist
Elektra : Greek Orthodox

Friendster account leads to arrest of murder suspect

jobert — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:07:00 +0000

STA. ROSA CITY, Laguna – A website dedicated to social networking proved to be vital in solving a crime.

On Thursday, operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation arrested one of five suspects who allegedly shot dead four people and fatally wounded two others in San Pablo City two months ago.

Rexson Hizon, 27, was positively identified by Joey Belen, a survivor of the attack, based on pictures posted on the suspect’s Friendster account.

I wonder what kind of testimonials he has on his Friendster account…

US Catholic bishops launch website vs ‘Da Vinci Code’ movie

jobert — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:56:00 +0000

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a new website refuting key claims made in Dan Brown’s novel that are likely to be brought to the big screen in Howard’s movie, starring Tom Hanks.

“‘The Da Vinci Code’ is a mess, a riot of laughable errors and serious misstatements. Almost every page has at least one of each,” the bishops wrote on the website Jesusdecoded.com.

Hmmm… Now if they could say the same about Genesis…

Here’s the link to the site ummmm… sited in the article.

Heh. Seems, I was right.

Bossabol

jobert — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:47:00 +0000

Bossaball is a ball game between 2 teams. It’s a mix of volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira.

The court is a combination of inflatables and tramplines, divided by a net.

And it takes less than 45 minutes to set it all up and get ready to play…

Looks like a real cool game to play.

It’s like those trampoline based basketball games shown on tv before.

O’Brien, Richter reteam for detective comedy

jobert — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:50:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Conan O’Brien and his former sidekick on NBC’s “Late Night,” Andy Richter, are reuniting for NBC primetime, and this time Richter is the leading man.

The network has ordered “Andy Barker P.I.,” a detective comedy pilot starring Richter, which O’Brien co-wrote and is executive producing.

Cool.

You think that dog puppet would guest star? What’s his name? oh yeah… Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Thanks Google.

Google Acquires Writely

jobert — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:27:00 +0000

Writely is now part of Google!

Yes, we’ve been acquired by Google, and we’re really excited about this for many, many reasons. But I can hear you saying, “I don’t care why YOU’RE excited – I want to know how this change will impact ME!”

Props to John Heart for the story. Here’s the link to the announcement made by Google.

I’ve been using Writely for awhile now and it is a very usefull app. Now with Google in the mix, The much rumored online G Drive is but a few steps away from fruition.