Friday, May 30, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Glad they don't work on my transmission
One thing that will never change (even if everything else does): NBA refs are horrible. I'm watching the Celtics-Pistons game and there have been bad calls already, but the one that really blew me away was the blocking call against Lindsey Hunter where Rajon Rondo just drove right into him with about 7 and a half minutes in the second quarter. Wow. I'm a Celtics fan and that call was a joke. To make a call like that the refs must keep a mental tally of which team they "owe" a call.
Day off
Went to Fogo de Chão today for lunch. Was good as usual. Food was good and the service was good. No need to eat dinner now. Went to see the Indiana Jones movie after; it was enjoyable, but as every review I've seen has pointed out, pretty silly. Anyway, we enjoyed it.
Also looked at the new house. I think it's almost done. They put the turf down and painted the garage door. The door was locked so we couldn't get in, but could see they'd taped up the walls to indicate everything that needed to be fixed. So it looks like we won't need to do that much of that ourselves. While everyone keeps telling me that every builder will screw you over as much as they can, that has not been my experience.
Back to work tomorrow after a week and a half in classes or vacation. From what I could see, my team was getting hammered while I was out (although not because I was out). Looking forward to getting back to work. We paid $51 for a tank of gas today; first time either one of us has ever payed > $50 for gas. It's a cliche by now, but here's to working from home.
Also looked at the new house. I think it's almost done. They put the turf down and painted the garage door. The door was locked so we couldn't get in, but could see they'd taped up the walls to indicate everything that needed to be fixed. So it looks like we won't need to do that much of that ourselves. While everyone keeps telling me that every builder will screw you over as much as they can, that has not been my experience.
Back to work tomorrow after a week and a half in classes or vacation. From what I could see, my team was getting hammered while I was out (although not because I was out). Looking forward to getting back to work. We paid $51 for a tank of gas today; first time either one of us has ever payed > $50 for gas. It's a cliche by now, but here's to working from home.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Not good ...
Went to Iron Cactus tonight by 360 and it was not very good. Used to be a nice restaurant, but it seems to have fallen a long way. It was almost empty around 8 pm on a weeknight.
A friend and his wife went to a different restaurant that is supposed to be pretty good (heard pretty good reviews of it from work colleagues); they went for their anniversary and were expecting more (it wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as they had hoped). Someone from the restaurant saw the post (I'm guessing they have a publicity firm or the like who scours the web for blog postings like that) and actually posted on his blog asking them if they'd to try again and saying they'd like another chance to show them how good they can be. It was impressive customer service. Although I think it was also a bit offputting; there's only a few of us who read his blog, and it didn't really matter what he said in it. Suddenly, I think he felt like he had to explain/justify himself to the person who contacted him. I might be putting words in his mouth, but hopefully not.
By the way, this wasn't an attempt to get a free meal out of Iron Cactus; I don't think I want to go back.
A friend and his wife went to a different restaurant that is supposed to be pretty good (heard pretty good reviews of it from work colleagues); they went for their anniversary and were expecting more (it wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as they had hoped). Someone from the restaurant saw the post (I'm guessing they have a publicity firm or the like who scours the web for blog postings like that) and actually posted on his blog asking them if they'd to try again and saying they'd like another chance to show them how good they can be. It was impressive customer service. Although I think it was also a bit offputting; there's only a few of us who read his blog, and it didn't really matter what he said in it. Suddenly, I think he felt like he had to explain/justify himself to the person who contacted him. I might be putting words in his mouth, but hopefully not.
By the way, this wasn't an attempt to get a free meal out of Iron Cactus; I don't think I want to go back.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
iotop ....
I was suffering from the problem described here (before I knew this bug was open and that it was a known issue) so I was looking for ways to monitor disk usage per program. I'd searched like crazy on google, searching for every keyword I could think of. I never found a prebuilt program that would monitor I/O usage per process. Then almost by accident I bumped into 'iotop' (perhaps I should have just guessed that there might be something with this name that would do what I wanted) and it was exactly what I wanted. It does 'top' like display of per-process I/O usage. Awesome!
Google rocks; just searched on "fsync mozilla bug" and the first link Google returned was a link to the aforementioned bug in the mozilla bugzilla. Nice.
I'm having another mozilla problem in FF 3.0: when I highlight text in Firefox, something similar to right-click menu opens up automatically, so I can't control-c to copy (have to hit escape first). Wonder if this is an extension I installed and forgot about?
Celtics lost at home tonight. Total downer. At least Ray Allen played well.
UPDATE: as soon as I was thinking it might be an extension, realized instantly what it might be (Auto Context); it really does the wrong thing for power users who like to use the keyboard. Once you select text, it kicks open a pop-dialog box with choices, and you can't do anything else until you dismiss that dialog. Royal pain. Anyway, it's disabled now.
Google rocks; just searched on "fsync mozilla bug" and the first link Google returned was a link to the aforementioned bug in the mozilla bugzilla. Nice.
I'm having another mozilla problem in FF 3.0: when I highlight text in Firefox, something similar to right-click menu opens up automatically, so I can't control-c to copy (have to hit escape first). Wonder if this is an extension I installed and forgot about?
Celtics lost at home tonight. Total downer. At least Ray Allen played well.
UPDATE: as soon as I was thinking it might be an extension, realized instantly what it might be (Auto Context); it really does the wrong thing for power users who like to use the keyboard. Once you select text, it kicks open a pop-dialog box with choices, and you can't do anything else until you dismiss that dialog. Royal pain. Anyway, it's disabled now.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Tried to send an email to the NBA ....
I tried to send an email to the NBA about officiating (they have a form in which you can send them an email on nba.com). I spent a long time thinking and writing it, and then when I sent it, it said the page couldn't be found. Imagine that.
NBA refs are amazingly bad ...
Watching the Celtics-Hawks game. Not only are NBA refs the worst homers, they make foul calls on big plays when it's clear to everyone in the building that there's no contact. I've never seen any ref in any league more susceptible to big plays, stars and momentum. And it's not just this game, this has the case for years. The calls that stars have gotten this league are just a joke.
Please note: I'm not accusing NBA refs of being corrupt; I'm accusing them of sheer incompetence. I've been watching games for a long time, and NCAA college refs are clearly better.
Please note: I'm not accusing NBA refs of being corrupt; I'm accusing them of sheer incompetence. I've been watching games for a long time, and NCAA college refs are clearly better.
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