Paul Kapustka's Blog
April 07, 2006
Blog lite -- Masters weekend
Sorry for those who came here looking for weekend analysis... we'll be lite on the blogging thru Sunday, watching golf on the telly. (also recovering from an awesome day skiing up at Heavenly, where the snow on Hwy 50 is still piled above the roadside reflectors... and more on the way! Can you say Fourth of July skiing?)
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February 17, 2006
Bloggin' while blind
Here's a neat trick from the don't-try-this-at-home dept.: Don't go to the eye doctor and get your pupils dilated if you still have a blog to post! Oh yeah, and never celebrate before you cross the finish line... d'oh!
Dilated pupils... celebrating before a victory... maybe themes for the big Web 2.0 party at Mike Arrington's tonight? Look for a recap here over the weekend. CYA!
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February 13, 2006
Dorman's parting shot -- an AT&T golf weekend
So apparently 30 million wasn't enough of a going-away gift for AT&T's Dave "quick exit" Dorman -- according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News this weekend, Dorman got to play in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in Pebble Beach as his "final official act."
A notes column by reporter John Ryan reads as follows (enclosed here since finding archives from the Merc is always iffy):
Most people get a cake when they leave a company. Dave Dorman got this. Dorman, CEO of AT&T until it was bought by SBC, left Jan. 31. But Ed Whitacre, now CEO -- the company is still called AT&T -- let Dorman play the tournament as his final official act. (Dorman had six months to accept a $30 million severance package; after the six-month mark, he'd get nothing. Being the smart guy he is, he took the buyout.) He would love to continue playing, and by now he knows the people who make it happen, but spots can be hard to come by. What if his turn doesn't come up for a while? ``My great memories have to do with camaraderie, the great people that are here, competition,'' he said. ``It's really just a warm, social occasion built around golf.'' And one other thing: a hole-in-one in a practice round in 2001, the first year of the new fifth hole. ``At the time, it was about the fourth hole-in-one.''
Awww... nothing like a warm and fuzzy exit straight from the heart of ol' Big Ed. And aren't you glad that Dave hisself is worried that he might not ever have the corner-office pull to get himself into the tourney again? I mean, after PointCast... and Concert... and... well, glad he had a fun weekend, aren't you?
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February 10, 2006
Winter Olympic-type fun: The Aspen Downhill helmet cam
Now thanks to the town of Aspen, you can virtually experience what it's like to race a downhill! Click on the "helmet cam" link and off you go!
For more points, see if you can stay in a tuck the whole way down. Extra bonus points for readers who can name the slope (hint: Aspen is not in its name).
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