Finally!
I'm watching my first live (on TV) baseball game of the year! Woohoo!
Sure, I've caught a few tape delayed games, but I'm just glad that some semblance of my summertime routine of coming home and turning on a baseball game every night is finally here.
If only I had beer.
Okay, so I was inspired on Friday to dig out some of my Northern Exposure DVD's, and I ended up watching them for a good portion of the day yesterday, as well. I have to say, I love this show more now than I did when it was on (and I liked it then, obviously) ... but now, man.
Of course, a big part of that is that a good number of the main characters are supposed to be roughly the age that I am now, but there was certainly something magical beyond that in the borough of Arrowhead County: Cicely, Alaska.
Can someone please remind me why I didn't move to a remote Alaskan town ten years ago and start a radio station/newspaper/bar/general store?
Is there a reason I don't do it now?
As I mentioned the Lessig book I'm reading (albeit more slowly than the fiction) presently, here and here are two extremely cogent posts to his blog regarding a couple of copyright issues.
And here's a bit of dark from the EFF, and some light from an actual author on DRM and copyright, respectively, both via BoingBoing.
So, I pulled seven books off my shelf recenty, and slated them for when I finished reading Perdido Street Station. I really liked Perdido Street Station, though it took a hell of a long time to get where it was going, I don't generally mind that in books.
Three of the books are non-fiction, and I'll chip away at them for a while, starting with Lessig's Code v2.0, and will follow that with Anarchist in the Library and Shadow Cities, in some order or another.
The first two fictions books, though, I have just flown through at a pace that's unprecedented for me. Granted, I was sick and didn't want to move for much of the weekend, but on the other hand, I also went out quite a bit more than I should have during that same time.
Old Man's War flew by. I often will read a book--a book I really enjoy--knowing that it will put me to sleep, just by the act of reading and lying in bed. This one kept me up all night, not just at its most exciting parts, but for the entire book. I'm giving it to my father tomorrow, because I think he'll really enjoy it, too. Its been a long time since I read something that was so unapologetically science fiction /and/ had new and interesting ideas, an excellent plot, and great characters. Really, it was a hands down winner.
I then picked up Eleanor Rigby, the Doug Coupland book I'd skipped over when I started jPod as soon as it came out. I'd had the hardcover lying around for quite some time, in fact, and I must say that I really thoroughly enjoyed it, although I would mark it a notch lower than either Girlfriend in a Coma or Hey Nostradamus!, as his novels of this sort go. In fact, I just recommended both of those to a friend of mine who asked me what I'd been reading that I went through so quickly. I merely wish I had the time to re-read them.
I also wish that my downstairs neighbor, who had the balls to complain that I was noisy (I'm seriously, very NOT noisy, though I did realize that I had some speakers on the floor, which I've now turned off), would shut the hell up tonight. Maybe I should call the landlord, just to get back at him.
So, I'm recovering from a nasty headcold, and haven't really been fiddling around much with Linux, except for abandoning a couple of the superkaramba widgets I'd been using (a system monitor, and one to keep track of a few IM contacts), because they seemed to be causing major problems if the computer was left unattended for too long (i.e., if I left it overnight, or went to work).
Other than that, it was a busy weekend. 300 was very good -- in IMAX, it was amazing. I'm not sure I'd have liked it nearly as much on a smaller screen. I may write more about it later on today (after work) if I feel so inspired. For now, I just wanted to get back in this habit again, if only for a few days at a time.
