Last night I took my sons to a Yankee game without Niki. The people in front of me thought I was brave.
Our seats were only a few rows away from right field, but the view was blocked by the foul pole and its net. Besides the great game and the win, the highlight for Tor was the Yankee squirrel. He's a squirrel that showed up a few games ago and got a ton of television time. He sits on the top of that foul pole and every now and then climbs down it and then back up. People cheer. They take pictures and video of him. They yell at people who scare the squirrel back up the pole.
We watched him climb down over and over. One time he turned around to head back up and started shaking and then squirting streams of pee. Tor screamed "Pee! Pee!" It was hilarious.
The squirrel emptied himself one more time a few innings later and that started to freak Tor out. He was sure we were all going to get peed on even though it all rained straight down and we were way out of his range. Even telling Tor what position the squirrel would play for the Yankees didn't calm him down or cheer him up.
The squirrel would of course be a middle reliever.
Brian Alvey
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Yankee squirrel
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Men's room bacon
I saw some graffiti on a men's room hand dryer a few weeks ago and it still makes me giggle. I didn't have a camera on me and I'm not sure I would have wanted to freak everyone out by using one in a men's room.
It was a dryer just like this one below. Next to the first step he wrote "press button" and next to the second step he wrote "get bacon".
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All the rage
If you're one of the few dozen people on the Internet who hasn't checked out Wikirage, you should do that now. It was number one on Digg the other day and shot to the top of many social bookmarking and cool hunting services.
My good friend Craig Wood built that site for fun a few weekends ago. It's a look at what's being most actively edited on Wikipedia, similar to Wikiscanner, but from a different angle.
I knew Craig back in college, but he transferred out after a year-and-a-half and we lost touch. Somehow we found each other again five years later and we both had similar dot com jobs. Last year he joined my Netscape team and when I stopped working on Netscape to focus on Blogsmith he joined my Blogsmith team.
He left AOL a few months after I did to test the job hunting waters and help out a friend's startup, but working with me again is inevitable -- especially if I blog it, right? Once it's blogged there's no turning back.
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FCK yeah!
I've used a ton of WYSIWYG editors and I'm always happy to share my experiences and advice with people building content management systems. After using Java ones, ActiveX ones and JavaScript ones I've standardized on the great FCKeditor. It has a solid developer community and even though Safari and Opera's support for contentEditable is limited, they are working with the browser developers to meet them in the middle.
I checked out their roadmap and saw a light at the end of the tunnel for better Safari and Opera support in my platforms -- even ones I don't control anymore like Blogsmith.
Here's a screen shot of their Safari and Opera progress. There's no deadline for either browser, but it's so nice to see that both companies have dev teams working with FCKeditor to make this happen.
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One size fits all
I think there needs to be something in between blogging and Twitter. Either that or they need to make their input form stop asking, "What are you doing?"
If Twitter is just for status messages, then that label works and your answer is your real status. If Twitter is for mass expression in little bursts, it should read "What do you want to say now?"
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Katrina's 2nd Anniversary
Blogging New Orleans is remembering Katrina with a marathon of posts.
Mike, who was also a great Flash blogger, explains their 24 hours of Katrina.
It's mesmerizing for an outsider like me to view post after post, follow links to other dedicated Katrina news services and flip through photos in the Blogging New Orleans Flickr pool.
This one about the door scrawl phenomenon and how the doors are a badge of honor that many people refuse to clean was particularly striking. So was Kelly Leahy's post about how she had to leave the area with her 11-day-old daughter:
"I have to say she proved to be a great distraction from CNN. Her first bath was in a hotel sink. By the time she was was seven weeks old she had been on an airplane, had five different residences and traveled through six different states."
Wow.
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Jessica Alba: watch it wiggle
When I was getting my math minor we didn't get to do any cool studies like this one done by Cambridge mathematicians.
This was an actual study carried out by real Cambridge academics -- and it wasn't some office opinion poll, either. The mathaletes figured out that the wiggle in a woman's walk is determined by the ratio between her hips and waist. Apparently when you divide your waist measurement by your hip measurement, you're looking for ratio as close to 0.7 as possible (this will produce the most angular -- and therefore the most alluring -- swagger).
Fantastic, but I thought the big problem was how we are going to get girls more interested in math.
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Corset piercing
Wow. When I first saw the headline "Corset piercing: Coming soon to a teenager near you?" I thought they said "corsage piercing". I was thinking, what a wild trend -- prom dates actually piercing themselves with corsage pins so they don't have to worry about ruining a nice gown or tuxedo.
Then I read the article. Corset piercing is totally different. Sort of. It's still piercing, but it's complicated. It's like a knitter decided to take up piercing. At least it's not permanent like a tattoo. -
Dancing With The Stars
I love how Bob over on TV Squad suggests that Jason should join Mark Cuban on Dancing With The Stars. I guess Bob is factoring in Jason's extensive IMDB profile when he leaves me out. Admittedly, I only have an IAFD page and even then most of my work in those films was as a grip. -
Priorities and goals
That's Fit says soccer has massive health benefits compared to jogging.
I'm starting to think that staffing up to build great sites should be secondary to staffing up so we can put together twice weekly company soccer matches.
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