Jim and I went to last night’s Twins game. It was a fun time. The Twins Geek was supposedly there somewhere (along with 40000 other people), but I didn’t decide I was going until fairly late in the afternoon, so we didn’t try to meet. But Jim & I had a couple beers and dinner in the bar at the dome which was a very pleasant experience. $6.50 for dinner, and about $4 for a can of beer or mixed drink. Then we watched the game.
the view from our seats 640x480(119k)
Kenny Rogers worried me in the second (before the game, Jim and I decided all we wanted was six innings out of Rogers, preferably with a lead, but even a tie would be okay), when he had two runners on with one out, but he worked his way out of it. Garland, who’d started for the Sox, and looked good in the first couple innings started having trouble in the third. He gave up a home run to Ryan, then a walk, a couple wild pitches, and two more runs. In the bottom of the fifth Garland gave up a single, then walked Mientkiewicz after a stolen base by Rivas, who scored on a Jones single. That was it for Garland. It was pretty quiet until the top of the fifth when Kenny Rogers got in trouble and gave up a two-run homer to Crede, but Romero finished the seventh, Hawkins the eighth, and Eddie closed 'em down in the ninth, and that was that. The Twins are now two and a half up, and hopefully they’ll clinch the season soon so the injured guys on the team can get a little rest.
It was a much more expensive evening of baseball than I’m used to, what with $21 for the seat, about $15 in the bar before the game, and a few beers in the seats at $5.50 each, but I had fun, and it was good to hang out and watch a ballgame with Jim.
100x178(11k) - In Wikis, Grafitti, and Process Clay Shirky talks a bit about how wikis are cool. But the quote that hooked me was:
Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity. When I was CTO of a web design firm, I noticed in staff meetings that we only ever talked about process when we were avoiding talking about people. “We need a process to ensure that the client does not get half-finished design sketches” is code for “Greg fucked up.” The problem, of course, is that much of this process nevertheless gets put in place, meaning that an organization slowly forms around avoiding the dumbest behaviors of its mediocre employees, resulting in layers of gunk that keep its best employees from doing interesting work, because they too have to sign The Form Designed to Keep You From Doing The Stupid Thing That One Guy Did Three Years Ago.
- Are You Too Stupid to Surf? Or is the problem that Microsoft is too stupid to be selling operating systems? Well, not you specifically.
- Ernie Ball (makers of premium guitar strings) is Rockin' on without Microsoft after getting a visit from the Business Software Alliance (the software piracy cops) in 2000. They’ve been Microsoft free for nearly three years, and their CEO talks about the experience.
- I’ve gotta find time to play with SubEthaEdit from The Coding Monkeys. It’s an editor that lets multiple people edit the same document at once. Why? Because forty-two brains are better than one. Imagine using it at a conference like WWDC to take down commentary on something like SJ’s keynote…
Oh, Mac OS X only. It uses Cocoa and Rendezvous for most of the magic. - Also need to check out: Meteorologist. A weather program for Mac OS X.
