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Category Archives: World at large
Flashback Fourth – Check out my July 4 ‘Evening Jazz’ from 2014
Many of you may know that I was a volunteer disc jockey for North State Public Radio for about eight years. From 2008 to April 2016, I was one of a rotating set of hosts for “Evening Jazz” (most often … Continue reading
Posted in La vida Chico, Music, TV, Film and Radio, World at large
Tagged disc jockey, DJ, Evening Jazz, Fourth of July, July Fourth, KCHO, music, North State Public Radio, radio, theme nights
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‘New’ CurlingZone doc ‘Anything is Possible’ to debut July 4 on YouTube
I first posted this on r/curling on July 4, 2020. CurlingZone is debuting a documentary “Anything is Possible - An American Curling Story” on YouTube at 6 p.m. ET tonight (July 4). https://youtu.be/RqeBwXAf0Lc By all appearances, this looks like it might … Continue reading
Posted in Sports and rec, TV, Film and Radio, World at large
Tagged controversy, curling, docs, Reddit, YouTube
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Winter Olympics – Curling replays
This is a re-creation of pages previously hosted by the World Curling Federation linking to replays of curling games from the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics. The replays are hosted on OlympicChannel.com, as of this writing. One of the great … Continue reading
Posted in Sports and rec, TV, Film and Radio, World at large
Tagged archive, broadcasts, curling, men's curling, mixed doubles, Olympics, PyeongChang, Sochi, women's curling
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Getting my first pair of shoes at the Continental Cup
A lot of people new to the sport of curling often ask if it’s expensive to participate in. Thankfully, the answer is no for the individual curler. In a lot of ways, getting into curling is like going to the … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Sports and rec, Travels, World at large
Tagged brooms up, Continental Cup, curling, curling equipment, Las Vegas
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Watching the world’s best curlers in Las Vegas
Today is the first day of the 2019 Continental Cup of Curling at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. If you haven’t seen this event before, I would say it’s well worth your time if you’re a fan of the … Continue reading
Posted in Sports and rec, Travels, World at large
Tagged Continental Cup, curling, Las Vegas
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From the archive — Eyes on iPhone: North state dials up new device in droves
The first incarnation of the Apple iPhone was formally released 10 years ago on June 29, 2007. Here’s what I wrote for the Enterprise-Record, published the following day. After months of waiting through countless Internet discussions and tempting commercials, scores … Continue reading
Posted in Gadgets and technology, La vida Chico, World at large
Tagged ChicoER, from the archives, iPhone, tech writing
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10+1 images from my first year back in Utah
At the end of May, I marked the first anniversary of my returning to Utah. To celebrate the occasion, I reviewed the photos I took from the past 365 days and picked ten that highlighted some of the fun activities … Continue reading
Posted in Travels, Understanding Utah, World at large
Tagged cross-country skiing, curling, karaoke, Kearns, Pioneer Park, Pokemon, Provo, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Comic Con, SLCC, smokestacks, Soldier Hollow, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Twilight Concert, Utah, Utah Olympic Oval, Wasatch Mountains
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UCSD basketball outdraws some Division I schools
UCSD’s average attendance is around 250 out of 5000 seats — trising on The Big West Boards The UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program faces a key date this month, as the Big West Conference leadership is supposed to consider whether … Continue reading
Posted in Sports and rec, World at large
Tagged Big West Conference, Division I, intercollegiate athletics, NCAA, NCAA Division I, Tritons, UC San Diego, UCSD, UCSD Athletics, UCSD Tritons
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The20: Fight on with mighty Triton spirit – Part I
I’ve been a pretty vocal opponent to the possibility of UC San Diego moving to Division I. Despite my past reservations about D-I (which seems highly likely at this point), it was a total blast to once more cheer on … Continue reading
Posted in Sports and rec, The20, Understanding Utah, World at large
Tagged BYU, BYU Cougars, D-I, D-II, Division I, Division II, men's volleyball, Tritons, UCSD, UCSD Athletics, UCSD Tritons, volleyball
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A comment on commenting systems, specifically Kinja
It seems like there are very few good commenting systems on the Internet. Based on my experience, the free or low-cost services can be very barebones, sluggish or just a pain to use (I guess you get what you pay … Continue reading →