Archive for July, 2008

How bad are the M’s?

July 30th, 2008

Got home during the 5th inning tonight, M’s ahead 3-2. Since then, I’ve witnessed: 1. Johjima hitting into his 794th double-play to erase a runner and end the inning. 2. Johjima throwing the ball into center trying to catch a base stealer, with the tying run on 3rd. 3-3. 3. The M’s loaded the bases [...]


iPhone posting

July 24th, 2008

Trying out the new iPhone WordPress app. Pretty cool; that is, if this post actually happens.


Hey Mariners

July 23rd, 2008

Fuck you. Just fuck you. Goddamn it. Fucking learn how to hit a goddamned ball. And learn how to evaluate players who are good, players who were good, and players who will never be good, and don’t sign the last two kinds.


OSX Irritation of the day

July 23rd, 2008

Dialogue boxes do not respect Spaces. Dialogue boxes also don’t seem to foreground themselves very well. I’ve often found dialogues hiding under foregrounded windows of other apps, when I’ve been trying to activate the dialogued app but was getting no response (because it was waiting for the dialogue to be dismissed). Software Update was, just [...]


AppleTV

July 20th, 2008

So with some fresh money in the bank, I decided to splurge on an AppleTV, Apple’s mini not-a-DVR device for playing iTunes stuff on your TV or stereo. I wouldn’t have normally gone for something like this, but since I’ve had an iPhone, that has a great screen, I’ve been sort of ripping every DVD [...]