'Jeopardy!' Host Trebek in Car Crash Sat Jan 31,12:30 PM ET
TEMPLETON, Calif. - "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek escaped injury when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his pickup truck, sideswiped a string of mailboxes and sailed over an embankment into a ditch, authorities said.
Trebek, 63, was driving alone on a rural road Friday and his truck was airborne for about 40 feet, California Highway Patrol Officer Scott Koolman said.
Trebek owns and manages Creston Farms, a horse breeding and training farm about 10 miles southeast of Templeton on the central coast. An employee there said he wasn't aware of the accident.
"I don't know how he's doing because I haven't heard anything about it," farm manager Art Mercado said.
A message left after business hours for "Jeopardy!" senior producer Rocky Schmidt was not immediately returned.
The Canadian-born Trebek has been host of the popular quiz show "Jeopardy!" since 1984. He also hosts the annual National Geographic Bee.
30.1.04
SuperJen4 : I'm gonna write you a letter
S4tUrn11 : i'm gonna write you a book
SuperJen4 : I wanna see your reaction
S4tUrn11 : i wanna see how it looks
SuperJen4 : from way up on your cloud
S4tUrn11 : where you've been hiding out
SuperJen4 : are you getting somewhere?
S4tUrn11 : or did you get lost in amsterdam?
Girls in sweatshirts out in the rain? I can do one better. When I was on campus today, I noticed two people wearing footwear that exposed their feet to the elements. One girl had on pink flip-flops and the other girl had on black slides. It was negative dickity degrees outside (Amanda, is that used properly?) with ice and snow still everywhere. The worst thing about brick on the NCSU campus is that it doesn't absorb water. There is no place for the water to run off so it may as well be Minnesota. (Land of 10,000 Lakes, funny) I manuerved around 2-inch pools today, and I have seen ones as deep as 4-inches. I have no idea what these girls were thinking. I even pulled out my heavy duty hiking socks so my feet wouldn't get cold waiting for the bus. Trust me, those girls didn't have anything going for them in the fashion sense either. They should save their footwear for the summer when not many people see it than trying to add to their style now in January.
Anyone think Oreo has gone too far in advertising? There's even glasses of milk that apparently fall from the balloons after they are popped. The man has got to be stopped.
25.1.04
The News and Observer Saturday, January 24, 2004
Teen pleads guilty in rape of woman
Raleigh - A 17-year-old Cary man pleaded guilty Friday to raping an 89-year-old woman at a Cary rest home.
Gregory Timothy Davis of 220 W. Park St. pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary and first-degree rape for the sexual assault that occurred June 24, 2003, at the Chatham Creek Rest Home. Davis will be sentenced April 19.
Wake Assistant District Attorney Doug Faucette said the victim died 10 days later from natural causes unrelated to the assault.
23.1.04
Wow. Could The Man hate me any worse. Second speeding ticket in one week. 44 in a 25. I want to know who the fuck drives 25 mph on River Street. No one. Fucking no one. I really thought the speed limit was 45. Honest to God. I'm so pissed and fucked and mad. Sgt. J. Brown of the ASU police department, I salute you. Should I bend over some more?
We're all good women drivers. This post is just directed to all the bad ones out there.
I saw Jamie (hot guy clone of Jamie from RW New Orleans) on the bus ride home from campus. We got off the bus and I got to my car and waited for some cars to pass the aisle before I backed out. The last car went past and as fate has it, it was Jamie so I backed out and followed him to the exit of the parking lot. I park at the K-Mart on Western and if any of you are familiar with it, you know it's a little difficult to turn left out of the complex onto Blue Ridge. Well anyway, so I'm behind him in line and then I decide to be nice and let a girl cut in line in a blue honda civic. Our cars continue on and then traffic clears and Jamie turns left. Then I was hoping the girl would instantly go too so I could still turn before Jamie left the light at Blue Ridge and Western. BUT NOOOOO!!! This girl sat there and at least 7 opportunities for her to turn passed. Then she finally gave up and turned right instead. Out of those 7 opps, I would have to say 2 were, "Man, you're wicked awesome for going!" and the other 5 were, "Grandma couldn't have made it but you're in college and you can."
Needless to say, my stalking of Jamie ending at K-mart. FYI, he lives in Wolf Creek so I had planned on following him back to the complex at least. Maybe he would have seen me in his rearview mirror and known I was "the one."
And also, that girl needs to learn how to turn out of a shopping complex onto a busy road.
20.1.04
Hey guys...when you post a picture on the blog, could you host it off of, like, a school server or something? Otherwise you're stealing whatever site you got it from's bandwidth and that is lame. Thanks.
Two big events are coming up within the upcoming months. First, Singles' Awareness Day 2004. As SAD is on a Saturday, what better way to plan a drunken weekend. For the first time, I will be eligible to host the event in my apartment. I yield the floor to Blogger Smith if she intends to keep the tradition of Winkler intact. Any suggestions, comments, or objections would be appreciated.
Second, Spring Break 2004. We all have the same break, March 6-14, also for the first time. I for one, would like to bring glory and honor to the theme of Girls Gone Mild one last time. I realize that budgeting concerns will remain the prime factor. But if we plan early and pinch a few dollars here and there, thy will be done. Boston? London? Madrid? Natal? Panama City? Family connections, however distant, would be most welcome.
Whatever we decide upon, we should begin planning soon.
Just so happens that I got a buy-1-get-1 free deal yesterday. I was driving back from Greensboro after a visit for Kellie's birthday. It was 9:35 p.m., slightly foggy, kinda drizzling, and very dark. So on 421N, right before the fast-food mecca of Wilkesboro, I got pulled over and ticketed for speeding. I was just trying to pass two assholes who were going below 55 mph. Of course, low and behold, the first asshole turned out to be a cop. (Officer T.T. Wellborn; inbred jackass).
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkk.
You'd think that a middle-aged male cop would let it off with a warning since I've been driving for five years and have *never been pulled over before*. But no, he wrote me a ticket for $25. Not bad you say, but the "court costs" are $100.
So I'm off to court on 2/26. I could just pay the $125 and be done with it, but my legal advisors (re: roomies) say that I might be able to get it reduced since it's my first offense.
I've learned lots of new and exciting things since starting work at the ASU greenhouse, including this: you know that white styrofoam looking stuff in potting soil? I always just figured it was styrofoam, and never questioned what styrofoam might be doing in a potting soil. Well, turns out that it's actually a naturally occurring silicous rock that expands to look like little balls of styrofoam when quickly heated to 1600F. It's called perlite. How fascinatingly tedious!
16.1.04
Sometimes I forget how good the Blue Album is. Then I put it in the CD player and every song is so damn good, and it feels like getting into your favorite pair of pajama pants. Comfortable and awesome.
So I would like to ask, as we do here from time to time, what are your top 5 favorite CDs of all time? Be honest, not artsy. No compilations allowed.
In no particular order, mine would be:
-Guster: Lost and Gone Forever
-Weezer: The Blue Album
-Tenacious D: Self-titled
-Ben Folds Five: Whatever and Ever Amen
-Blink-182: Enema of the State
Honorable Mentions: Guster's Keep it Together, Barenaked Ladies' Stunt, and Cake's Comfort Eagle.
And now, I’d just like to take a moment to endorse my favorite new product, Bausch & Lomb All Clear AR eyedrops. My eyeballs have never been so white. I mean, it’s like they glow in the dark. Totally eerie. To back this claim up, I offer a picture in which I have whitened only one eyeball so you can see the dramatic effect. You can also see my eyeball freckle on the extra-white eye.
14.1.04
I saw a couple funny things today. First, I was buying my $80 worth of textbooks (which wasn’t funny) when I noticed the guy ringing my books up. He a pretty crotchety looking old man, grey hair, frown lines, that kind of thing. He looked like someone’s overly serious and humorless grandfather. Except that on his shirt, right above his old man belly, was a sticker: ‘No return if unwrapped.’ Definitely unexpected. Then, as I was walking home, I passed the construction site for our new library, outside of which a bevy of construction company pickup trucks were parked. I noticed several from one particular company called Steel Erection, Inc. I totally lost it right there on the street, I felt like a thirteen year old boy. But seriously, even if you are in the business of erecting steel buildings, why would you call your company that? Other than the fact that it is awesome, I mean.
9.1.04
Seventy-five percent of this blog's members has had musical training for at least ten years. As such, it seems fairly logical that we have been exposed to more instrumental/orchestral music than most, and beyond that, more classical music in general. However, if I hear one more person ask "That sounds really familiar; what is that?" in regards to "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana, I will bludgeon the respective party with a baritone. And then sit on him/her. There's just no excuse.
To save my weary self from doing either, I have prepared a guide of sorts. Most of the pieces have been sold out to movie trailers, Nike commercials, CD collections that are named "The Best (insert here) in the World!," etc. if not generally recognizable. So here now, Sarah's primer to pimped classical music in no particular order:
"La Mamma Morta"-- Andrea Chenier
"Fur Elise"-- Bagatelle. (Serving piano teachers and making Beethoven roll in his grave since 1827.)
"Bolero"
"Clair de Lune"
"Gymnopedies"
"Andante"-- Impromptus 899, Schubert
"Barcacarolle"-- Les Contes D'Hoffmann
"Dies Irae"-- Manzoni Requiem, Verdi
"Dies Irae"-- Requiem, Mozart
"Night on Bald Mountain"
"Adagio for Strings"-- Opus 11
"Vesti La Giubba"-- Pagliacci
"Adagio"-- Piano Concerto No. 2, Rachmaninoff
"Moonlight Sonata"-- Sonata No. 14, Beethoven
"Rhapsody in Blue"
"Appalachian Spring"
"Hoe Down"-- Rodeo
"Mars"-- The Planets
"Fantasy Overture"-- Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky
"Dance of the Knights"-- Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev
"Sabre Dance"
"Ode to Joy"-- Symphony No. 9
"Nessun Dorma"-- Turandot
Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker--Tchaikovsky
Honorable mention goes to:
"Ring of the Nibelung" (The six-hour opera cycle may not be familar, but "the lord of the ring as the slave of the ring" should be. Wagner wrote about an all-powerful ring and that specific phrase long before Tolkien.)
5.1.04
Yo blog writers. Trip on Monday to see Love Actually. Starts at 9:30. I have a women's basketball game at 7pm which should be over by 9, then I can haul ass from campus to make it to the theater. Call me between 5-6:15 if you need to speak with me. I'll be at work in the morning then have to be at the game at 6:15. I know it's short notice, but I hope you three can come.
BLOGGER
