Congratulations, Philadelphia. We remember how it feels, over here. (And then some.)

Man, nothing was bumming me out so much yesterday as learning that Randall "xkcd" Munroe publicly switched his (non-Lisp) programming allegiance from Perl to Python. I read that cartoon when it was new, but I didn't bother rolling over the alt text (I seldom do) until radtea made reference to it yesterday. Munroe drew the cartoon just a few months after ( Read more... )

I just figured out what happened by somebody driving by saying WOOOOO

I read it as a validation that the 2004 win wasn't a fluke, which is nice. I'm ready for them to go back to being tragic heartbreakers for another 80 years if they want.

I stopped panicking about money after I was reminded that my accounts receivable has got stuff in it. This is not money in the bank, but it is the next best thing, and it's from clients who are good about paying on-time. I am fine ( Read more... )

Spent Saturday stomping around the Davis cornfield maze thing in Sterling with friends. From pre-maze breakfast to post-maze dinner the whole adventure took close to 10 hours, somehow. It was OK but I this will be my last one for a long time. I love the concept of life-size mazes, and I love seeing "normal" people attracted in great numbers to ( Read more... )

Crazy weekend. There were the movies on Friday, then shopping and cleaning on Saturday (I bought nice new shoes, by god), and Sunday held more mini golfing and, finally, a video game party of the sort I've been threatening for a long time.

Golf was all right. It was kind of a cheesy course out in Billerica that dougo had happened across earlier. He, classicaljunkie, dianamp04 ( Read more... )

The Kirkwall Ba Game sounds a little like something from Zarf's Left Foot Living Review universe, but it's actually from Scotland.

Today's Wikipedia featured article is about fighting in hockey and I read the whole thing. I found it fascinating because I grew up in a hockey-loving house (by virtue of my brother Peter being in it) and watched and enjoyed countless Bruins games on television, and then went on to a hockey college and couldn't help but follow all our boys' (and, ( Read more... )

It has been a full weekend ( Read more... )

Meh: romantic comedy; meh: "normal" people; meh: women incapable of conversation topics among themselves besides men. (I am being strict counting a (male) boss and a father as "men" here, but that was only one brief conversation apiece. Everything else was husbands & boyfriends, real & potential, which is all that movie-women usually ever have to ( Read more... )