Tonight’s game three of the playoffs, and the Saints come home with their record tied at 1-1. That’s about what I expected from the games in Fargo, and I’m really hoping they can win tonight. With their past record in Sunday games (they’re 5-9 on Sundays this year), I don’t want to see this playoff series go to five games. Then again, they are at home, where at least they made a reasonable showing, going 5-4 on Sundays at home. Yeah, that’s right. They didn’t win a single sunday game on the road this year. I hadn’t realized that, but I see it now looking back on their record. And if you look at just the day games (which tosses a couple sundays, and adds a few weekdays), the boys are 6-8 by my count. There was also one Sunday day game that was rain-postponed until the following Monday. They lost that, too. In all, I would much rather not see the Saints have to play a Sunday day game this weekend.
That was a half-hour spent researching the baseball nerdiness. Time to move on to something else.
Work continues to frustrate a bit. I think we’re making progress, but on one job, I’m working with ancient code that we’re trying to refactor. That’s not going especially smoothly, especially since we had four people in a meeting yesterday, and three fairly strong (and different) opinions about how to reorganize things. It’ll work out eventually, but the road is not an easy one. But I’ve got plenty to keep me busy there for the next week or so.
On another job, we’re plugging along, but progress is slower than expected. What I figured was an intense afternoon of work has turned into a full week’s effort. But hey, I can at least look back to Monday when we finished up two more websites, which means two more invoices sent out. Woo! I’ve got another client I need to write a contract for, but that should be pretty easy. I started doing that back in April, and I just need to dive into the archives to find the old work. I’m already a packrat by nature, and that’s served me well more than once in running my own business. I only wish it was as easy to keep everything for the paper records I get as it was for the electronic bits. Then again, I do have a scanner… Hmm. Maybe I need to write some scripts to make it easier to turn all the paper records into electronic form so I can keep track of them more easily… Another thing for the to-do list. D’Ohh!
- OVOLAB’s Phlink puts caller-ID information on your Mac. Looks reasonably spiffy.
- In something I thought I had already linked to, but apparently haven’t: Programming Language Inventor -or- Serial Killer? The best quiz I’ve seen since Dog Toy -or- Marital Aid? [reed]
- Cool paper airplane: The Flapper is
the only paper airplane that flaps its wings when it flies. No motor, no rubberbands. Just a piece of typing paper, a penny and an inch of tape.
[boing boing] - In what might turn out to be a Jayson Blair rerun, More Problems Surface With ‘60 Minutes’ Documents. The blogosphere has fact-checked CBS’s ass. I’m reminded of a quote from Linus Torvalds:
… if it’s a hobby for me, and a job for you, why are you doing such a shoddy job of it?
More here, here, and here. There’s also going to be an internal investigation. [instapundit and vinnie] - In Chicago, the Mayor outlines elaborate camera network for city, blanketing the City with video cameras that the 911 operators will be able to view. What the heck, it worked so well in London that crime actually rose in many areas after the cameras were installed. [slashdot]
- Slashdot has a review of The Underground History of American Education, a book that says
The true purpose of schooling is to produce an easily manageable workforce to serve employers in a mass-production economy. Actual education is a secondary and even counterproductive result since educated people tend to be more difficult to control.
Sounds like an interesting book. [slashdot]