September 2007 Archives

I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with sports today. On TV, we had 2 1PM football games, 1 4PM football game, the Red Sox final regular season game and a NASCAR chase race. On the computer, I had 2 fantasy football trackers going and 1 fantasy baseball tracker going. Within the fantasy baseball tracker, I was paying attention to my childhood team the NY Mets who were trying (and failing :( ) to get one of the final post-season spots in the National League.

I REALLY would like to be watching my Giants on NBC right now but between Fox's Sunday night shows and the season premieres of Dexter and Brotherhood. I considered going down to the bar to watch the game and see the guys play for a bit, but I know I need to be up at 6:30 for a downtime window (and I don't trust myself to leave at the end of the game :)

So, been a lot of sports today. The craziness will continue tomorrow. First, we have the Red Sox Rally in Gov't Center (with the Dropkick Murphy's playing!). I doubt I will make it to that, as I have this thing that always interferes with my social life, work, but you never know. If I get in early enough, I may try to sneak over.

Then, we have Monday Night Football with the Patriots facing the Bengals. Can the Pats score 38 this week? :)

Luckily, Tuesday is a sports free night, so my brain can recover :)

• NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Boston; Launching The Basilica - New York Times
  Was searching for stuff on my building and came across this. Thought it was interesting.
  (tags: basilica charlestown home)

Congratulation to the Boston Red Sox, the 2007 American League East Division Champions!

• Mongrel: Apache
  (tags: mongrel ruby)
• Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You | Archives | codablog | Coda Hale
  (tags: mongrel ruby)
• xkcd - 28 hour day
  Since I have flex time, this is very interesting to me
  (tags: sleep workday xkcd)

• SCO Files for Bankruptcy Protection
  All I can say is HAHA
  (tags: linux sco)
• Josh's iTunes Album Art Grabber
  (tags: albumart cover itunes music)

I was watching Californication, the other night and was rather amused when Henry Rollins' character (or was he just playing himself) mentioned the books that Hank Moody (David Duchovny's character) had written during their interview. The books were South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss, and God Hates Us All. I found this rather amusing as these are all titles of Slayer albums. I wonder if this was Rollins' idea or if this was something one of the writers actually wrote in.

• 'Wrinkle in Time' author dies at 88 - CNN.com
  I loved this book when I was a kid. I think I read some other stuff by her too.
  (tags: books rip)
• blybug's mashup cover art
  Cover Art for lots of mashups out there
  (tags: art cover mashup music)
• Mashuptown.com: Sgt. Pepper's Mid Life Crisis
  (tags: mashups music)
• Yamagato Fellowship
  Fun for Heroes Fans
  (tags: heroes nbc tv)

Two items have appeared on Blabbermouth over the last few days that have caught my attention.

First, I saw It's Official: LED ZEPPELIN To Reunite For London Concert. Yes, this would be awesome, sadly, it is only one show in London. Now, rumors will be flying for a while about a full tour, but who knows? I would like to see this and if it comes to the US, I guess I will probably have to spend the cash (if I can get in to Ticketmaster fast enough).

Then, I saw LOVE/HATE To Reunite For U.K. Tour. I don't know why, but I totally dug these guys back in the early 90's. I recently found out that their music was available for free on the Net and totally rocked out to them for a couple of weeks. Now I hear they are getting together, but again, in the damned UK. Wish I could see this one.

• The Linux Page Cache and pdflush
  (tags: linux)
• Red Sox Magic Number
  Exactly what it says it is :)
  (tags: baseball redsox sports)

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