As I sat here typing this morning, I realized that my schedule is filling up for the rest of July, and most of August already. I was supposed to have lunch with a friend yesterday, but had to beg off due to some work I was doing, and at the rate things are going, we may not be able to reschedule until August. And there are plenty of other things looming on the horizon, too.
For the moment though, I need to concentrate on the shorter-term. I’ve got plenty to do today, and that looks like it’ll be the case for the next couple days. This weekend has already filled up, and it’s a darned good thing the Saints aren’t home, or I’d be complaining about having too much to do again. As it is, there’s plenty on the calendar, but I made sure to leave some time to just putter around the house, too.
There’s also the Northern League All-Star game tonight, but I have no idea if it’s even going to be possible to hear it on the radio. Probably just as well.
- It’s not announced on their website yet, but The Hub Bike Co-Op is moving to the West Bank (301 Cedar Ave So.) next to Midwest Mountaineering. This gives those of us who avoid chain stores another option in addition to Varsity Bike Shop and Freewheel. [jim]
- Go Ahead, Call Us Cowboys compares two border towns, one in Alaska, to one in Canada. It’s a fun little story, but I worry that much of the US is becoming more like the Canadian town described in the article. [instapundit]
- The Man Who Helped Kill CAPPS II used to work for the NSA and lived in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Iron Curtain, so he had a pretty good idea about the kind of things governments can and do dig up about people, which is why he fought CAPPS II. [wired]
- In PHP And The Brain, jr talks about the article I linked to about PHP5. He’s not sure about the plans for PHP to take over the world, and gives some reasons why. Now I’m thinking about it more, and I don’t think I mind PHP’s plans for world domination. But then I’ve been a fan of scripting languages for quite a while, thanks mostly to Dave Winer and UserTalk. They may not be the most efficient way to get the job done from a machine’s point of view, but with processing power getting cheaper all the time, making the machine work harder so humans don’t have to is the right direction to go, I think. And jr doesn’t see the need for another scripting language, but I’m one of the few folks who never really grokked perl or python, but knows PHP, so I’m fine with PHP grabbing for a bigger piece of the pie. Now I just need to find the time to migrate all my old code from PHP 3…. [jr]
- Finally, for the person who asked about Plain Layne:
she never existed?
Well, yeah. But she’ll be at Keegan’s for Mitch’s blogging get-together this Saturday. And she was at a ballgame in St. Paul with me earlier this month.