The Weekend? Well, I let a lot of things go on Saturday. Pretty much just went to the ballgames and that was about the extent of it. Which was fine. There’s stuff to be done, but realistically, most of it is just stuff that I need to do for me, and putting it off for a few days won’t make any difference to anyone but me. And a couple days of taking it easy sounded a lot better to me than taking care of stuff.
That’s about it for the weekend. The Saints won two of three from Lincoln, and really should have won all three. The weather keeps getting hotter. And as a bonus, the allergies I get like clockwork every year in August have kicked in. I’ll try not to gripe about ’em too much, but I don’t much like the idea of being sniffly from now until the first hard frost.
- A nice profile by the Strib: At age 30, Christman still has that big-league dream. Tim is a reliever for the Saints, and pitched in all three games this weekend, if I remember correctly. [strib]
- Forbes has a feature on The 12 Best (Worst) Foods, but the interface to it is so annoying, I’m hesitant to point to it, other than as an example of how not to do such a thing. It uses JavaScript to flash all twelve foods past you faster than you can read the full descriptions, and doesn’t even check to see if the window is frontmost. Since I do most of my morning reading by opening new windows with command-shift-click in Safari (opening a new window behind the current window) when I brought this one to the front, there was nothing left but an ad. I spotted the “return to first slide” button just before I gave up and closed the window, and then went through the list (most of which are yummy foods), but geez, you’d think a magazine like Forbes would have the resources to put together a list in a way that actually made it easy to read, not this abortion. Oh, and to make it even worse, if you do click the “stop” button, the animation resumes immediately after you click onto the “next” button, so you have to click “stop” again on every single page. Yucko! [fark!]
- While there are people up in Canada who want to Just Say No To Extradition for growing pot, here in Minnesota, marijuana is seen as an unwelcome border trade. What’s interesting to me is that since the border over on the west coast is being better secured, the border here in Minnesota is now getting more traffic. Exactly what you would expect on a long, mostly unguarded border – shut down one crossing, and others will pop up elsewhere. [endwar]