Sorry about the lack of updates this month. But hey, at least I got one more done before we moved into August, right?
Especially since August means thirteen Saints games in twenty-two days. It may not sound like a whole lot, but it’s an awful lot of games to go to in not all that many days. Especially since there are a couple pretty significant milestones in the work life during that time.
But hey, at the moment that doesn’t really matter. It’s nearly five ayem on a Sunday morning and I’m still awake (and waiting for a pizza to finish cooking). Yeah, I did crawl out of bed about two in the afternoon yesterday/today, but I’m still feeling as if I should have been asleep about six hours ago. Oh well. It’s a good weekend to be stupid, I think.
Not a ton of links, but I’m thinking that this is one of the better updates lately. Nearly everything is actually worth clicking on, which, if I have to admit to being lame (and I think I do), hasn’t always been the case around here lately. But really, there’s some good (or at least clickworthy) stuff here. Or maybe that’s just the beer talking.
- With Won’t You Be My [Insert Title Here]? jr’s trying to figure out a name for online friends. Maybe you can help him. [jr]
- The Guardian has a neat article about The Englishman who is leading the Tour de France*. By a full day, riding solo. I’m cheering for Luke Bream. [flutterby]
- Bummer. Explosion Kills Three at Mojave Air and Space Port during testing of SpaceShipTwo.
- So as I’m sitting here at ten to five AM, putting a pizza into the toaster oven, I think about an ex-cow-orker who did that and burned the cardboard. And then I remember that I should mention Rock Star Weekend, done by Bill’s kid, Andy, who seems to not completely suck as a cartoonist. Point? None, thank you very much.
Haven’t felt a lot like blogging. Or taking pictures. Or much anything lately. There hasn’t been any one thing bugging me, but just a lot of little things that seem a lot bigger when the weather is hot.
Luckily, I’ve got a pretty big backlog of links, so today is going to be one of those where I just dump a bunch of links on you. Some folks like that.
- A non-profit called Kiva offers
loans that change lives.
- Kim has a long essay on the Totalitarian Measurement of the metric system that was a fun read for me. Maybe for you, too. [kim]
- Don’t play Chinook in checkers. Checkers ‘solved’ after years of number crunching, and the best you can possibly hope to do is draw, if you don’t make any mistakes. [flutterby]
- I’m drooling and making Homer noises at the thought of Bacon Salt. [flutterby]
- Thom Pham is Serving up justice for deadbeat diners at Temple and Azia. Excellent. [metro mpls]
- Wanna know why The Loudness War is wrecking music on CDs? There’s a simple explanation. [top]
- Check out the winners of The 2007 Photobloggies if you’re looking for some neat photos. Cool beans.
- Pictures of People playing chess on rollercoasters. Crazy funny. [flutterby]
- Cool. FlickrShop is a Photoshop plug-in that lets you upload photos directly to flickr.
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Sorry things have been a bit slow around here, but things have been, well, a bit slow around here. Since the 4th of July holiday fell on a Wednesday, I took Thursday and Friday off from work. Basically spent my entire five-day weekend hiding from the heat and watching old movies. Except for ball games on Friday and Saturday, which the Saints won. Sunday, because of the heat, I didn’t go to the game, which is the first time this year I’ve not gone to a game when I was in town. And they lost. Drat.
Now they’re on the road for the next week and a half, and I’m back to work. I guess it’ll be good, since I didn’t really do anything useful around home during my time off, but I still wouldn’t mind a few more days of indolence. There are some projects around the house that I should have completed, but I guess they’re going to be squeezed into evenings and weekends.
Over on flickr, I’m still posting a photo most days. I’m finishing off the pictures taken out the airplane window on the way back from WWDC, and when they’re done, we’ll see how I did operating the camera at last Friday’s post-game fireworks. I’ve been lazy enough that I haven’t even looked at what’s sitting in my camera yet. We can be surprised (or disappointed) together, I guess.
- It won’t be going away completely until 2010, but San Jose airport’s Terminal C demise begets nostalgia. [scottk]
- Hmm. I’m not surprised that Guinness workers opposing alcohol testing. I mean don’t they still get something like a free 12-pack every day? [turly]