I just finished reading a couple of great books.
Freakonomics is an insightful look inside the social trends in America, involving crime rates, drug trafficking, and racial discrimination. Steven D. Lewitt thinks of provocative questions (e.g. why did crime rates drop in the ’90s?) and comes up with answers generally ignored and dismissed by the [...]
I’m playing in a Yahoo! Sports head-to-fead fantasy league this year. I’ve never played fantasy baseball before, except for a rotisserie league one year which was pretty boring. This league should be fun, especially since there’s some good smack talk going around. I feel pretty good about my roster:
C - Jason Kendall [...]
With baseball season just around the corner, it’s time to make some predictions for 2007.
NL West: The Padres pitching is the strongest it’s ever been, though their offense remains sketch. Still, I expect my boys to 3-peat in the NL West. If the last three years are any indication, expect a [...]
I had the chance to attend O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference this year in my hometown San Diego. I went in Ethan Kaplan’s stead as he was unable to go. I’d like to thank Cory Doctorow for helping in registering me on such short notice.
This was the largest conference I’ve been to. OSCMSS [...]
Last year, I remember reading on BoingBoing that if you remove Garfield’s thought bubbles from the comic strip, then Jon Arbuckle goes from being a single pathetic adult male loser to… well, an even bigger single pathetic adult male loser. Doing this also gives a surrealist effect to the comic, often times making it [...]
I recently purchased a new mouse: Logitech VX Revolution
The mouse rocks. The software that drives it does not.
Here’s a short list of issues I’ve had since using Logitech Control Center (v2.1.3) on my MacBook Pro (2.33GHz, 2GB):
Turning on/off the mouse, or removing/attaching the USB receiver triggers kernel panics at random.
It takes 10-15secs to register [...]
While waiting for a friend at dinner tonight, I killed some time by surfing the net on my blackberry. I checked out free games to download, and there’s where I found it: Medieval Kings Chess 2.
Wtf!? Medieval Kings Chess 2?
I got a few moves in before my friend finally arrived. He found [...]
32 games so far, and I picked 25 right. That’s not too bad. Plus, I’m in good shape for Round 2 since none of my Sweet Sixteen teams have been eliminated.
This tournament has some fun numbers. Since there are 63 games in all, that gives 2^63 unique brackets. That’s an incredibly [...]
Friends with somebody on Facebook who you don’t even know? Not to worry, they got your back.
I’m not much of a basketball fan, but I tend to agree with most sports fans in that the NCAA March Madness is the most exciting event in all of sports… and that’s saying something, because I really LOVE baseball. There’s just something about this tournament that intrigues me. It’s the upsets, the [...]
