Yesterday was a lot of fun. The Saints didn’t play great baseball, but they got handed a win in the 9th by the Canaries, and not every win during the season has to be pretty. It almost makes up for the two wins they handed Gary last weekend (well, maybe it half makes up for those two losses).
And it was a beautiful day. Plenty of sunshine, and enough wind to keep it from feeling too hot. I apparently put enough sunblock on, and only got burned in the one location I completely missed (top of my chest, where the V of a v-neck shirt would be — that area’s been covered by a beard for 16 years, and I’m still not used to thinking it might see any sun).
It was nice taking a day off in the middle of the week like that, but today I’ve got to get back to work. Life goes on, and while I can squeeze out a day here or there for a ballgame, I’ve got to keep at the work if I want to be able to pay the bills. The biggest drawback is that today feels like Monday again. I guess there are a lot worse complaints a guy could have.
- TiVo is now being Whipsawed by the Broadcast Flag, showing just how little the studios and the NFL care for this. Yeah, the NFL cares about TiVo since someone could theoretically send a game to a location where it’s blacked out. Wired’s take is Hollywood, NFL Fight TiVo Sharing. [boing boing and scripting]
- A Lawsuit alleges Google discriminates against older workers. Hrm. 40 seems to be the dividing line, and as I approach it, I worry more about this kind of thing ….
- Ruminator founder ready to turn a page in his life as he closes down the bookstore he’s run for the past thirty-four years. He wasn’t done in by the big chain stores, but rather by mistakes. [press-patch]
- Jim’s finished his writeup of the One Day in July street festival. It’s a good story. Go read it. [jim]
- Can there be Free Speech Behind the Razor Wire surrounding
free speech zones
set up by the SS, like the one in Boston this week? Probably not. Good thing not too many people are going into the cage. [wired]