I’ve been spectacularly unproductive so far this week, and am thinking that I probably need some time away from computers real soon now. That shows in the links for today a bit, too. They’re fewer in number, and probably lower in quality than I’d like, but what are you going to do?
For getting away, I’m thinking that this might be a good year to go see some Spring Training games, possibly in Florida (the Grapefruit League), but more likely in Arizona (the Cactus League). If nothing else, it’s nice to ponder the idea of sitting in some warm sunshine watching baseball in between catching up on some back issues of Elysian Fields Quarterly.
But for today, the focus has to be on the present. There’s much to get done, and a bunch of it that has to be done today. Plus a few things that I should have gotten done Monday or yesterday, but didn’t. It can be discouraging to look at the (computer-maintained) to-do list and see a sea of red-highlighted items (meaning past-due), but at least it should help me focus.
- This list of Random rules of thumb is a pretty good way to kill some time. And you might even learn something.
- I bet you didn’t know there was an alt.sex.hello-kitty FAQ. There is, and it’s awfully cute, too. But perhaps not entirely safe for work. [jwz]
- Looking for some light reading? A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates might be just the thing for you. If nothing else, the reviews are pretty funny. [reed]
- Jack Lewis asks What’s Google up to? after seeing something claiming to be googlebot crawling directories he’d excluded in his robots.txt. My first suspicion is that it’s not really a google search, but rather someone else mimicking google’s bots to crawl things people are trying to hide (poorly). [reed]