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One of my favorites and maybe (on Fox) my favorite has finally gotten her own show as Jamie Colby will be hosting "Strange Inheritances" which will be a program on people that have had odd things left to them after someone passes on.
The program will air on the Fox Business Network and Jamie has missed her normal weekend duties while making the show.
I have always thought that Ms.Colby has been chronically underused by Fox and here is hoping that this is just the beginning of the network taking more advantage of her talents and skills...
An old urban legend has always been told that Atari dumped thousands of the failed ET game that led to the decline of Atari in a New Mexico landfill.
Most of the time these things are just rumor,but a filmmaker making a documentary on the rise and fall of Atari cut a deal to find out if it was true or not.
Surprisingly it was as they were found in the town dump of Alamogordo.
The town had made a deal with the filmmakers for them to receive 250 cartridges or 10 % of the amount found,whichever was the greater number.
The ET game was a game that the company put tons of money behind and watched it fail due to the difficulty and low sales of the game.
Atari was soon finished and video games in the U.S. were passe' until the return of the Nintendo system a few years later...
When you live in the Mid-Atlantic states,blue crabs are a part of life in the summer.
They might not be as big of a part this summer or if so-you might pay for them as the brutal winter of 2014 has slammed the blue crab population hard and damaged the females especially hard.
The Washington Post reports that the female crab population has dipped to 69 million and the crab in general lost a quarter of its population.
I always liked the taste of the female crab better and they usually were cheaper,but most prefer males.
The number of females in the water according to not enough to sustain the population and according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration-there need to be between 160 to 215 million females if the population to rise to the 828 million level from 1991.
This needs to be addressed quickly if there is a hope of turning the tide and I wouldn't be a bit against a few year moratorium against the catching of any female crabs,if that is what it takes to preserve this for future.
Sometimes,you need to take a hit short term for a better long term.
I've been active on Twitter and I like it far more than I ever thought that I would.
One recent surprise was a recent recommendation to follow former WMAR anchor Mary Beth Marsden,who might be the only thing that I ever liked out of Baltimore!
I remember her leaving television and hadn't heard much from her since I lost Baltimore stations when we bought the house and hooked up Direct Tv,but it seems she is doing quite well in radio in Baltimore with the biggest news station there- WBAL.
Marsden is also heavily involved in making films about autism and is a passionate advocate for the autistic community.
Haven't heard her work at WBAL,but she was the only good thing about watching Baltimore news when I lived elsewhere,so it's nice to see her doing well.
An article on Marsden's autisic work can be found here.
That cleans out the non-sports inbox,I will try to do the sports version tomorrow....
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