And the start of another week of the grind. I’m really not looking forward to this week, but what are you gonna do? I was pretty seriously “offline” yesterday. After a very busy Saturday, I spent much of Sunday napping and generally avoiding life. I didn’t even make it outside to fill the bird feeder.
- Saturday morning I wrote up the problem I’ve having with my Cisco PIX 501 dropping connections. It’s something they’re working with me to help sort out, but I’m getting a little frustrated, since I’ve found one bug and still don’t have the darned thing working the way I think it should.
- Saturday was also the Saints’ single game ticket sales and a small PeTA crowd gathered in the parking lot to burn the cobwebs out of our grills and such. I took pictures of the gathering, and had hoped to post them today, but haven’t gotten around to sucking the pictures out of my camera yet. I hope to get to it soon, but there’s a pretty big list of things I hope to get to soon.
- Jim read Sun, Microsoft settle; take aim at Linux and could only say
Huh!
I’m surprised it’s taken this long for Microsoft to decide to make nice with Sun, but it’ll be interesting to see what McNealy will talk about now that his biggest bogeyman is now his buddy. - I’d noticed this and wondered, but it says here NASCAR sends a Dear Bubba letter to its redneck fans by telling Derrike Cope he couldn’t have RedneckJunk.com as a sponsor. I think it’s a pretty stupid move on their part. A huge part of the NASCAR fan base are self-identified rednecks, and I can’t see why they’d want to alienate so many people. [fark!]
- Friends of the Mississippi River has announced their 2004 Photo Contest, focusing on (not surprisingly) the Mississippi. The deadline is September 10, 2004, so you’ve got most of the summer to take pictures.
- Crown Hydro’s plan for historic Minneapolis site [is] controversial, since it would pull more water from the river, possibly diminishing the flow over the concrete apron that is the falls now, plus it would put more high-velocity water in the old mill tailraces, which would have the potential to erode historic structures. I think overall it’s probably a good plan, but some of the details have me scratching my head, especially when looked at in connection with other proposals for the area. [press-patch]
- Some Parts of U.S.-Canadian Border Disappear in Brush as the International Boundary Commission, the agency responsible for clearing out trees and brush on the US-Canada border doesn’t have the funding to keep the twenty-foot-wide and fifty-five-hundred mile long border cleared. In fact, their budget is being cut. During my weekend in Toronto, a few of us talked about the border, and a couple people were surprised by how open the border still is. Yes, there are additional sensors and patrols, but especially in the woods along the Minnesota-Ontario border, the real barriers are natural. I imagine it’s the same way when you hit the mountains in the west. [nyt]
- They say Transit will run again — but when? And will it be worth riding? I’m starting to get disgusted with the strike, and the fact that there’s been no real negotiations. I think it might be time to start calling elected officials and griping in order to get some pressure put on the Met Council. [press-patch]
- The Minnesota Daily believes Met Council should be less partisan, and they’ve got a point. It’s not every day that the Daily and I agree on political issues. [daily]
- Geek with a .45 points out the creepiest thing about the Audrey Seiler abduction story. Somehow out of all the surveillance video, they managed to find video of her buying the items supposedly used to abduct her. Think about that for a while. Think you can gain anonymity by shopping in person and paying cash? It would appear not.