Thanks entirely to the owners and commissioner and their desire to maximize profit, we have an entirely-predictable rainout of the scheduled Game Six of the ALCS this evening. If the teams played a shorter regular season they could still have two playoff rounds before the World Series and finish before November. Or they could collapse …
Heh. The cable company just called to try to sell us cable phone service. You should have heard the “gulp” when we told them we had nine separate phone jacks around the house. Apparently six is the maximum you can get for free. One in each bedroom (4), one outside, one in the kitchen, two …
So back to NYC for a Game Six. When the Yankees got six runs in the top of the seventh yesterday I didn’t think that was gonna happen, but the Angels proved me wrong. Fuentes did his best mid-season Brad Lidge imitation (or his best NLCS Game Four Jonathon Broxton imitation) but wiggled out of …
As my friend N points out in the comments below, his Phillies beat my Dodgers yesterday to win the NLCS 4 games to 1. There’s any number of reasons why, but the number of walks and hit batsmen the Dodgers’ pitchers issued in front of guys who then hit the ball out of the park …
I took our houseguest to the airport this morning at 8:30 a.m. Her flight to Sydney was scheduled to take off at 10:45 a.m. That means she should be landing right about now. Yuk. I remember flying from London to L.A. in 1984; 13 hours in the air. I was exhausted, and I was 34 …
I’ve been lucky in ovens; I’ve never lived anywhere which didn’t have one with a self-cleaning feature. Press “Clean;” Press “Start.” Three and one-half hours later, get a damp paper towel and run it over the interior of the oven. No Easy-Off? for me. Somebody remind me to go check it at 3:00 p.m.
There’s a small niche in crime/mystery novels for the likable burglar. Lawrence Block finds it with his Bernie Rhodenbarr books, which I mentioned here. Donald Westlake found another slice of that niche with his Dortmunder books. I’ve just recently found Dortmunder, and I enjoy him. One of the aspects of these stories that makes them …
Somehow I never thought I’d see this in anything other than an artist’s rendering: Earth & Jupiter, photographed from Mars. It includes the planets’ moons as well. Amazing. Via Making Light
We’ve got a terrible budget shortfall out here, and various organizations are trying to fundraise to keep themselves afloat. Through 10/15 there had been approximately $95,000 collected for state libraries through the Friends of the Library and another $85,000 had been donated directly to the state library. There had been approximately $1,000,000 collected through 10/8 …