He recently had the windows of his truck tinted a dark shade to secure perhaps a little anonymity on the roads in this football-mad city of 100,000. Any Packers player is recognizable here. Favre? Anywhere, anytime.
“When I stop at a light, I don’t stop beside a car in the next lane,” he says. “If there’s two cars, I’ll pull up between them. I notice where I’m going to park. I envision what’s going to happen if I park there or here. People say, ‘It’s terrible you have to live like that.’ But it’s not. I love playing football. Some people live for being known, for sitting and being seen, but I always joke that I’m going to be like Don Meredith and suddenly be gone.”
Monthly Archives: August 2005
ATC: Gas Prices Set Based on Regional Zones
All Things Considered, August 15, 2005 ยท The Lundberg Survey says the average price of gasoline has gone up 20 cents over the past three weeks, to an average of $2.53. But different areas, or zones, are paying different costs. Michele Norris talks with Elizabeth Douglass of The Los Angeles Times.
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Milwaukee Magazine on the Shorewest/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Circulation Fraud Lawsuit
Peter Robertson (PDF file):
Mark Belling, talk show host on WISN-AM (1130), called it “an enourmous crisis,” while media insiders say it could be a blockbuster story. Yet nobody involved is talking about it because the legal stakes are so high
An Ephraim Sunset
Here’s a larger version of this Door County, WI sunset photo. Satellite view.
Door County Breakfast? Think a bit different at Good Eggs in Ephraim
The general temptation when considering breakfast out in Door County is to visit one of many restaurants, including Sister Bay’s Al Johnson’s and the Sister Bay Cafe across the street. Just this once, resist and drive over to Ephraim where Good Eggs is literally whipping up egg wraps. These wraps, which can include bean salsa, mushrooms, peppers, cheese, onions, potatoes and chicken are simply delicious. This is rather high praise coming from someone who does not eat eggs. Check out these photos (click for larger versions) and stop.
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Getto on Monroe Street’s Papa Phil’s
But in two visits we found a lot of things to like at Papa Phil’s.
I’ve always been a fan of pasta with white clam sauce ($12.95). And every version I’ve had of the dish has usually included clams, butter, garlic, white wine and oregano. Papa Phil’s rendition had all of those things, with a few spoonfuls of cream added. It’s a variation that’s served in some parts of Italy and it worked very well. That cream gave the sauce a satiny rich backdrop against which the flavors of clam, spices and wine each made notable appearances.
Most of the pasta dishes at Papa Phil’s allow patrons to pick their fresh-made pastas. I chose linguine for the clam sauce and didn’t leave a single noodle fragment on my plate.
I’ve been a few times and agree with Getto that the pasta sauce is quite good. Well worth a visit. Map.
Is Oil A Bubble?
My B-in-L Bob, a very senior BP exec (now retired), is the one who initiates the “Oil is a bubble” discussion. All the inflation adjusted charts seem to only go back to include the 1970s — and that’s not far enough to show the true price trend of oil. Bob argues that Oil has been in a very long downtrend, and the 1970s price spike was an aberration. So too, the 2003-05 run up. A longer, inflation adjusted chart would reveal that the present spike is aberrational, and unlikely to be sustainable. I am somewhat incredulous of this claim.
His point however, is well taken. While he is expecting an eventual mean reversion, simply base dupon price, I have a similar expectation based upon market cycles. The next recession (there’s always a next recession, just as there’s always a next recovery) will see reduced demand for Oil, and that will allow prices to fall.
Businesses Fight Wisconsin’s “Unlimited” Jury Awards
Businesses are preparing to launch a $2 million campaign to fight a series of state Supreme Court rulings they fear are making Wisconsin an easier place to sue doctors and manufacturers.
They want lawmakers to counter some of the rulings with legislation, and, they say, they want to educate voters on what they calls one justice’s “votes in support of frivolous lawsuits.”
Wisconsin implemented several laws in the mid-1990s in an attempt to limit jury awards for such non-economic damages as pain and suffering in malpractice and liability cases.
But last month, the state Supreme Court threw out the limits on medical malpractice awards. The next day, it cleared the way for a Milwaukee teen to sue several makers of a lead paint pigment his attorneys claim made him mentally retarded – even though they can’t prove the manufactures had any ties to the paint that may have sickened him.
Marketers Wrestle with Hard-to-Control Web Content
Kris Oser describes (Subscription – Ad Age) the influence between advertising and media content:
Is it safe to advertise in places on the Internet that are essentially run by consumers and cannot be controlled? How can they protect themselves and their good names when blog and chat-room users are liable to say and post anything? It’s not just pornography or off-color language that worries them. What if consumers got angry about something involving a marketer’s brand, and their remarks got linked to across the Internet? Maybe advertising in such open spaces is not worth the risk.
emphasis added Dave Winer and Doc Searls offer useful comments.
Oakland A’s in First Place – Brewers are Not
Yet other teams have smart players with skill and vision. Tampa Bay has had several first-round draft choices over the years. Texas is loaded with young talent, as are Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and others. But those teams do not get off the ground, while Oakland soars.
Oakland General Manager Billy Beane continues to make it happen. Milwaukee, while, perhaps slowly improving, just is not in the same league, despite a similar small payroll.
Michael Lewis’s Moneyball is a must read for this interested in just how the A’s have been very competitive while the Brewers have not…