Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Ken Jennings’s first appearance on Jeopardy was June 2, 2004. His 75th match aired today and guess what? He lost.
Of course this isn’t exactly breaking news. Word of the loss leaked out in September, when the episode was taped.…
Well I started outpatient rehab therapy at Patricia Neal today. Just evaluation stuff today, the real work starts Thursday. The initial doctors order is only for 4 to 6 weeks, which is when I start taking classes and teaching again at UT.…
Vanderbilt put up a fight but Tennessee hung on to win. With the win Tennessee clinches the SEC East Division championship and will play Auburn in the SEC Championship game.…
I just found out that Crusade – The Complete Series is coming out on DVD December 7th. Crusade was a spinoff series of Babylon 5. Crusade only lasted 13 episodes before it’s network, TNT, cancelled it. There was one more attempt at a B5 series after this, Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers but it didn’t fare too well.…
I’ve been told I have a multi-stage accent. I grew up around Limestone, Tennesee home of Davy Crockett . Most of my family lives in the mountains and hills of northeast Tennessee, so whatever accent I have is 100% Tennessean.
My accent his been dulled a bit by speech therapy, first as a kid and then later in college.…
Looks like TennCare is on its way out. That sucks because I have TennCare. South Knox Bubba has highlights of Gov. Bredesen’s speech. The Knoxville News Sentinel also has more information…
Here are a handful of political sites that I thought were interesting. The Political Compass is site that asks you questions to determine where you fall on the political spectrum. It then places you on a grid. The horizontal (X) axis defines left or right economics, and the vertical (Y) axis defines social libertarian or authoritarian.…
First off on old but interesting article, “Star Wars” despots vs.”Star Trek” populists. Next an article on why Microsoft might be in trouble.
Wavsite.com has clips from TV and movies. At Laird of Glencairn, you can buy a (small) piece of land in Scotland and become a “Laird”.…
This article just makes me want to scream, cry, yell, something….. Didn’t we learn from Florida?…
Bush won the election. He probably deserved it, much as it pains me to say that. I mean even with a bad economy and what seems to be a perpetual war that we didn’t need to start, he still convinced enough people that he deserved another four years.…