I was up early this morning and happened to catch Sports Center just in time to hear about the Pats v. Steelers matchup discussion for this weekend. They (as usual) spent about a minute on the Patriots and then went right into the Steelers’ locker room to discuss the “Patriots Penalty”. Steelers are already making excuses about our secondary “getting away with more than any other team”. You’ll be comforted to know that Burris and other receivers for the Steelers will be talking to officials before the game to make sure they keep an eye on the Patriots..
Archive for October, 2004
I can’t stand the Steelers..
Oct 30
Everytime I start feeling good about RedHat a blatently obvious and seemingly easy to fix bug kicks me in the ass. Most recently when trying to build some perl modules using CPAN to support DADA (the mail list progrem) I ran into all kinds of problems. About 2.3 seconds on google and there are reports of the problem everywhere. I was getting the error:
Makefile:82: *** missing separator. Stop.
Turns out there’s a bug in the encoding, even on the latest release. You have to update your LANG variable to get rid of the .ut8 in the LANG variable. Here’s the workaround (even though it’s been documented 100 times):
[root@homer]# LANG=en_US (versus the default en_US.UTF-8)
[root@homer]# export LANG
After that when I jump into CPAN everything works correctly. Unreal. Here’s a link to the bug in bugzilla.
Curse? What Curse?
Oct 28
Congratulations to everyone out there in Red Sox nation! I’m going to post more tomorrow when I can collect my thoughts. For now, I would love for everyone to post their comments on what may be the greatest sports come back and win of all time. Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s a good year to be a Boston sports fan! Screw 1918!! 2004: Superbowl and a World Series!
Duh duh duh.. duhduhduh.. BOSTON YOU’RE MY HOME!!! :)
I know this is old news but I’m pretty excited about MIB taking over to Killborn.. yadda yadda.. I love the 80s and 90s.. etc.
Lowered Trucks
Oct 27
I don’t get lowering trucks. They always look a little odd to me. Can anyone explain this?
Well, we’re now past game 3 of the World Series and while I refuse to think of anything other than “one game at a time”, I think we’re in a good position. I don’t like to talk about stuff like this for fear that I may jinx it. That being said, a team coming back from 3 and 0 twice in a year would be pretty spectacular. Here are my observations of the series so far:
Am I the only one who giggles a little bit everytime they talk about Poo Holes? Seriously, I would hate to have had that last name in school.
Fox has had some pretty good close ups during the post season. The great clip of Francona with a giant wad of dip in his mouth and spitting on the ground, random ugly fans (more on that below) and last night they kept giving me a close up of a sweaty Pedro with sweaty Soul Glow leaking off his head. Fox, I don’t need to see every pore on someones face. Back the camera up a notch!
I mentioned in a previous blog that I was amazed how Fox only had a handful of sponsors for the games. They’ve stepped that up a notch by driving me crazy with the “subtle” cross promotions:
- Let’s talk to Tom Hanks at Fenway and then go right into a Polar Express commercial.
- Why is the cast of That 70s Show at Fenway while real fans cannot get tickets?
- Last night we have to interview “Leon” while there’s actual game play? It was an incredibly awkward exchange to begin with. Do they think we don’t realize that Leon is a fictional character?
Do we need the animations of the guys getting up to bat while they are on their way up to bat? Seriously.. I’m about to see them actually SWING the bat.. I don’t get it.
Again, I must say that any pretaped footage should not interupt actual game play. Game Four tonight! Go SOX!
I’m not sure but I would guess that the Drive Through is an American invention: A way to quickly get a meal for an on-the-go society. I think this idea seems to have been lost on an increasingly lazy society. This has never been more evident than at a recent Dunkin Donuts drive through experience I had. I figured it would be a good time to discuss Drive Through Etiquette. Mind you this problem is not limited in any way to Dunkin Donuts and these suggestions should be carried through with you to other Drive Throughs.
I think I got about 20 various PhotoShopped images spawned from the end of the RedSox and Yankees series. I think this one is the best: 
Rundown – Game 7 – ALCS
Oct 21
I’m too out of my mind to comment. Here’s my running list of the game (to blatently rip off Simmons):
8:39 – Third base coach must go. Come on, stupid mistakes aren’t fun in game 7.
8:41 – Ortiz.. thank you. Just thank you.
8:52 – Could Yankees batters complain more about obvious strikes? Sit down hitler stash.
8:59 – Brief discussion about Dunkin Donuts with Borgizzle over AIM. Has anyone else noticed how packed they are in the morning during this series?
9:01 – Time to talk to Kevin Brown. Bullpen warming up. Wall: 1 Brown: 0
9:08 – Are SURE we can’t keep Kevin any longer? PLEASE?
9:11 – Damon, I officially apologize for my previous comments about you.
9:13 – My heart is officially out of my chest. I am in overload.
9:15 – Every time the Fox announcers feel the need to regurgitate the obvious thing the Red Sox are trying to accomplish tonight I feel compelled to yell “LALALALALA”.
9:22 – Fox is still stuck announcing the obvious. Trying to jinx apparently at all costs. Is there anyone watching this for the first time tonight? .. “LALALALA”
9:23 – Carolyn decides whore-hey looks like a weasel. I agree.
9:45 – D. Lowe, settle down. We’re OK.
9:53 – See 9:11PM.
9:54 – Anyone else hate the dubbed in hit noise that Fox has on replays?
9:56 – Apparently Fox thinks Manny is Bellhorn.. they flashed Bellhorn’s stats for Manny twice.
10:11 – Funny, Matsui doesn’t feel the need to karate chop D. Lowe’s hand..
10:13 – Cask N’ Flagon is officially a pickle party.
10:25 – If I start to get down on Manny like I was on Damon (see 9:11 and 9:53) do you think he will wake up?
10:32 – I feel surprisingly calm, hopefully it’s not because it’s before some sort of “storm”.
10:34 – LALALALALA! LALALALALA! LALALALALALA!!!
10:37 – The commercials with the pigeons flocking in weirds me out. Flashbacks of a seagull incident on the Vineyard involving a PB&J.
10:43 – Shef, it’s bat not a light saber. Carolyn informs me that mosquitos are breeding in Logan’s water.
10:49 – I’m concerned about D. Lowe coming out. Seems like he’s doing well against the Yankee bats.
10:59 – I’m obsessively eating banana chips. They’re just not good.
11:02 – Gee, I wonder if the organist knows that “Let’s go Yankees” sounds like “Who’s your Daddy”?
11:04 – Why not keep Lowe in? I just don’t get this move. Francona has a plan.. he has a plan.. he has a plan.. Oh, and my surprising calmness as of 10:32 is definitely gone. Why wake the sleeping beast?
11:12 – Game 7 of the series.. one of the biggest games of all time. Fox can’t get more than 5 sponsors? Levitra/Viagra, House, Sprint Phone with Howie Long, and the Visa Check Card.
11:15 – A run to slow the crowd down would be nice during this at bat.
11:16 – OK, thanks Bellhorn! I’m going to type 11:15 again before every at bat.
11:17 – 11:15 – A run to slow the crowd down would be nice during this at bat.
11:19 – That didn’t pan out so I’m dropping that mini-superstition.
11:20 – Carolyn informs me that A-Rod wears Purple Passion Lipstick.
11:22 – I really dislike Nicholas Cage.
11:27 – Apparently A-Rod has boobs now too. Can you feel the love?
11:15 – A run to give some cushion would be nice during this at bat.
11:44 – Alright, I can’t drop the superstition. It worked out.. stop complaining.
11:47 – Red Sox taking the field at the bottom of the ninth. Game on my friends. Game on.
11:54 – One Down.
11:55 – Two Down.
11:58 – Please. One more. Please. My heart is pounding. I’m still nervous.
12:02 – SOX WIN! SOX WIN! SOX WIN!!!!!
Comments from the night:
Schill – Wow. What a guy.
Umps – When a ball stalls and then falls to the ground – it was out of the park.
Umps – one more thing – a guy can’t be safe without touching the bag.
Yankee Fans – Class Act. Real class act. Swat Teams? PISSA.
A Rod – Ass. Next time take the clown glove off so it looks less obvious.
Faulk – Are you trying to explode my heart in my chest? Nice save.
At this point this is a part time job. Come ON game seven! KEEP THE FAITH!