25. April, 2004 - lazy Saturday means busy Sunday
- In spite of all my big plans for yesterday, I didn’t get a whole lot done. I went out looking for carpeting, and ended up finding a decent price for it, installed, even. But I’m stuck on the color. I think I’d rather have a blue carpet in the bedroom, but something more neutral is probably a better bet for resale value. And I was a space-monkey and forgot to bring along the paint samples, so I don’t even know if they blues they have will work. I’m looking for colors that will work with this print of the New York Central Building, or Hokusai Katsushika’s The Great Wave (and as I find an online reference for that, I notice that Van Gogh’s Starry Night is a similar palette). Or rather, I guess I’m looking now for colors that will work with the bedding I bought last weekend, which feels like it’ll work with those prints. In any case, that’s about all I got done yesterday. I’m going to have to try to do better today, I think.
- I was also up late last night reading. The book I was reading that kept me up late a couple nights last week was Point of Impact, by the way. I liked it enough that I ordered a few more Stephen Hunter books off the web. But while I wait for them to arrive, I’m reading The Return of Santiago and staying up too late again. But I discovered that I burn through about 100 pages per hour when I’m in this reading mode. I think that’s pretty fast, and it definitely means I’m spending more on books than usual this month.
- In a sneak attack on the most common image format, Forgent Sues Over JPEG Patent, after having held the patent submerged since they acquired it in 1997. There’s some discussion at the JPEG site, too. There’s more at newsforge, too. Enough to convince me that Forgent is abusing the patent process and trying to cash in in the six months remaining before their patents expire. [wired and slashdot]
- I’ve hammered the NRA a couple times lately. I’m far from the first. In The NRA and Freedom of Speech or
Do as I say, not as I do
, which is from 1996, basically the same complaints are raised against them. I knew about these complaints before, but I think it’s time to raise a stink about it again. This is an election year, and George W. Bush has not been a friend to gun-owners, his administration has not been a friend to liberty, and the Republican Party does not represent freedom. This is a good time to point that out. If it means that some Republican candidates lose elections, so be it. If they’re RINOs like Arlen Specter, it’s no real loss anyhow.
- The Twins waiting game is costly and is losing them goodwill at a pretty rapid pace. I think they’re asking way too much for showing what little content they have on Victory Sports One. It might be worth over $2 per month if they televised the games from all of their minor-league affiliates, but that would probably add too much to their costs. Today’s game will be the eleventh game of the season not televised in Minneapolis and St. Paul. [press-patch]
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