rivals.com has an article about my baseball team. They call out senior Bennett Parry as our "biggest freak". Well ain't that the truth. I've known Bennett for years, and coached him for a while when he was 12-14. Biggest, goofiest dork I've ever had to deal with in baseball. But he's developed very well as a pitcher, and by God, he's actually ( Read more... )

The Daily Illini still hires assholes:In the Oct. 17 of The Daily Illini, the headline on page A-7 reading "White Sox blow really hard" was incorrect and left as placeholder text while waiting for a finalized headline. The headline should have read "Southsiders head to Series."
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Vendor Hell: At work, a vendor said they would sell us a chassis with an Intel shelf manager. Except they didn't say their definition of "with" is "you have to go buy it from Intel, because we don't have a reseller agreement with them yet." Then they agree to sell us a "test configuration" chassis. Only later they reveal said chassis has a ( Read more... )

Memo to Bennett Parry: I win.

Little League issued press credentials to a Vista 12-year old.

Last year, once the artificial turf was installed, Poway Pop Warner football started using the field at the high school again. Generally, this is a Good Thing™. But they have to observe a few restrictions, one of which is staying off the roof of the press box. Sometimes they post a sign, sometimes they misplace it. So I posted my own for this ( Read more... )

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My baseball team is playing its league championship game tonight at San Diego State Looniversity's Tony Gwynn Stadium. 6:30pm. Wear blue and black if you feel like it...

http://gallery.powayrenegades.org/summer05sr/GwynnAerialMap?full=1

The Little League World Series is about to start, followed quickly by the new television season, so it's time to upgrade MythTV. First step is the ivtv driver for the Hauppauge PVR-250/350 MPEG-2 encoder/tuner cards, from version 0.1.9 to 0.2.0-rc3k. That's gone fairly well, with only one small hiccup. /etc/X11/XFree86Config needed to be changed ( Read more... )