May 2008 - Posts
And the Rays have the best record in baseball. Cool.
It's May 15.
Tampa is 6 games above .500 and leading the AL East.
Are you telling me all they needed was a name change to start playing major league baseball?
Call me speechless.
I finally got around to downloading this software. It is absolutely amazing. The images are stunning, and the UI is so intuitive. I could stay up all night, gazing into the heavens, er, my laptop screen.
If you haven't seen it, go download it today. http://www.worldwidetelescope.org
If you're a fan of the night sky, you'll find it breathtaking.
Have you ever seen a tornado close up, flipping cars into the air like they were little toys?
Check it out: http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=10720&from=hp_main_tab3
Right now we're somewhere over Virginia / North Carolina and we just skirted around a couple of spectacular thunderstorms tonight. Lightning streaked across the sky, filling my window. It was as if someone had electrified large sticks of fluffy cotton candy. We were above and to the side of the storms; the stars visible and shining up above us. Inspirational.
Switching subjects completely...
I ate lunch at a mall in King of Prussia, PA (I love the names of places up north), and bought an umbrella at an Eddie Bauer store before leaving. The purchase paid off. It rained the whole time I was inside buildings, but whenever I needed to go out, the rain stopped. Psych! Karma. If I hadn't bought the umbrella the skies would have been dry while I was inside, and opened up wide anytime I wanted to go out. I needed a new umbrella anyway, especially one that has auto open and close.
What'd I eat? I tried a Cuban sandwich at the Cheesecake Factory. Pretty good, especially considering I wasn't in Tampa. I only ate half, though, saving room for some strawberry shortcake afterwards. Ooooohhh. Now that's what I'm talkin about. It was massive and mouth wateringly good, and if I'd tried to eat it all I would have hurt myself. The berries tasted fresh and were piled high; the ice cream, homemade. Instead of sponge cake, the ice cream was sandwiched between a homemade English muffin-like cake/biscuit. All this, topped with a huge swirl of whipped cream. I could have made an entire meal out of it. Maybe next time I will.
Call me sated.
Watched the "free" season on CBS. Now I need to add Showtime to my cable package.
[begin whining]
The Philly airport needs to invest in a better air conditioning system, in both the D and E concourses, but especially in the D concourse. It's a roaster.
Oh, and the E concourse? More seats. It's SRO at all gates this evening.
One more thing, while I'm at it: this AVIS branch has to be the worst run in the universe.
[end whining]
We're way into May and what's this about the Rays? 2nd place in the AL East? #5 in the AL itself? A game ahead of the Yankees? That's gotta be a misprint. Well, the Yankees have gotten off to a slow start the past few years but always come roaring back. Question is: how long can the Rays keep it up?
OUCH! What's up with that?
Demand is outstripping supply. China and India are booming now, and they need oil.
Looks like the US can skimp as much as we want, but worldwide the demand will remain high the price is going to continue to climb.
$5 / gallon is right around the corner... we'll get to join Europe in that regard.
My brother-in-law and his gal are both long-haul truckers. Don't know how they're going to survive this.
Now, where's that Mr. Wizard solar panel kit I built when I was a teenager? Time to put it to use again.
One for lunch, the other for dinner. The result? I'm suddenly wide awake at 4 AM.
Why should the folks at Twitter have all the fun with my random thoughts and what I'm doing? Going to start sending more (but probably smaller) posts to the blog, and less stuff to Twitter. If folks want to read about what I'm doing (why would anyone anyway?), they can find it here.
Started reading "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions" by Dan Ariely last night. Had to laugh at myself after he gave the first example of how people think. Call me lemming.