Congratulations to Felix "the King" Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners, who yesterday set the all-time record for most MLB strikeouts by a Venezuelan-born pitcher, surpassing Johan Santana. If you didn't know anybody was tracking such a statistic, you're not alone.

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The year has gotten off to a good start with the University of Oregon's first Rose Bowl victory since 1917. Take that, Cubs fans! I watched the game with Andy and Carrie, who were rooting for Wisconsin, but I think Chunga has survived the conflict.

Oh yeah, and I'm really happy with the new issue of Chunga too. It is dispersing into the world ( Read more... )

Yesterday was largely spent working on Chunga. We're getting very close to going to press. The three of us met yesterday to wrangle out the last decisions. Now it's just a matter of attending to details (proofreading, wee bits of text, scanning book covers, etc) and finalizing the design ( Read more... )

The Duckies lose to Auburn 22-19. A disappointing end to an amazing season. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.

Glendale!

Repel them! Repel them!
Force them to relenquish the ball!
Rah!

The University of Oregon football team is ranked number 1 in the nation in the AP poll for the first time in the history of the entire universe. They quite possibly don't deserve it (the BCS poll still has them ranked 2nd), and it likely won't last, but it still makes me stupidly happy. Interesting factlet from the article: only 43 different ( Read more... )