Today is the last regular season home game for the Saints. It’s the time of season when I start thinking about all the folks I’m going to miss during the off-season. But it’s also the time when I’m pretty seriously ready for a break. There are still playoff games after Labor Day, but for now, I’m just trying to get through today without any major mishaps so I can get to the week’s work.
On top of that, I discovered that some hacker spent the weekend looking for a way to use my feedback forms to send spam. Man did that ever clutter things up around here. Plus I got to spend a half-hour figuring out if they might have been successful and how to close any holes. Not what I was hoping to do first thing this morning.
- I added a recipe for Tasty Leg O’ Lamb to the recipes page. Yum!
- Saints mini-update: Last week Saints make deals to add two players, but they didn’t actually appear until Saturday night. Central League Player Of Year Acquired In Deadline Deal, New Kid On The Block Makes Good First Impression. Sunday: Two home runs key Saints’ victory and Saints Go Deep In 4-1 Win, dingers from Camacho & Frosty. I’m impressed by the new new guys, but we still don’t seem to have the sort of guy who’ll really get the club excited the way Lou Lucca did last year.
- A MIT crew churns out ice cream with sizzle. Carbonated ice cream. Except it might not be ice cream (according to the FDA), but rather a “quiescently frozen confection.” Sounds yummy, in any case. [fark!]
- The Tobacco industry contests state fee on cigarettes. It appears that a tax would have been legal, but under the terms of the 1998 settlement with the tobacco companies, a fee is not legal, and
This is a case of a political gimmick screwing up the stability of the state budget,
according to Attorney General Mike Hatch. [strib] - Claire has a dog’s point of view on attacking government. At what point will we decide to break the unwritten laws of the pack? [claire]