… something to write home about.

My dad gave us his two season tickets to the U of U versus Boise State University game today - U of U lost 3 to 36. Poor showing for the Utes but not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.

However, what was interesting (and slightly disturbing) was the behavior of the local fans. The fans weren’t mean or beligerent but at the end of the third quarter most of the people in the expensive seats were gone! Perhaps I’m just looking at it wrong, but I was there to see the game, not to only see them win. It was obvious at the end of the second quarter that the Utes would probably not win but that isn’t the point - it was a great contest and fun to watch. Why leave? Just to save a few minutes on your way home? If I was attending a concert or theatrical production I wouldn’t think about walking our before the house lights came up.

On a side note, my dad said he wouldn’t give me his tickets when the Utes played the Aggies any more since each time the Aggies won. Now I fear that he won’t let me have them again - period. I must be bad luck for the Utes.

Update 10/2/2006: Upon reflection over the weekend, I did recall one time I left a concert early - Tara MacLean was opening up for Dido at the Zephyr Club in Salt Lake City a few years ago and Tara was the reason that I, the missus, Doug and his wife Machele were at the show. Tara was great and we had planned on staying around to see Dido; it was her first tour and she had just released her first album.

Dido sucked - big time. I won’t go into the details but after about three songs (to make sure it wasn’t a fluke) Doug and I looked at each other and mutually decided it was time to go.

Defective Yeti has posted a little comment about the recent outbreak of illness after eating spinach.  Suffice to say that I’m glad I wasn’t drinking soda at the time.

I’m finishing up my tweaking and testing of my new WordPress installation; I’m using the 2.1 alpha 3 version because, well, why not? Actually, mostly because moving between wordpress.com and this site needs to be able to export and import which wasn’t fully supported until the 2.1 release.

Mary Robinette Kowal is sponsoring an effort to help save Apex Digest, The Science Fiction Horror Magazine.

Once upon a time when someone needed help, people chipped by throwing a rent party in their home or putting on a play. Now, instead of, “My uncle’s got a barn,” we’re saying, “I’ve got a website.”

The list of items and services donated is nothing less than astounding! Seriously, if you have a jones for fine fiction and want something unique, buy a few tickets and score something amazing.

For His Royal Highness Bill…

Bike Furniture Design

For those of you playing along at home, I have updated several recent articles with the correct categories. They may show up as new again for you. My apologies.

I’ve got to admit that ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ was fun… the first two times. A little dry the next couple of times and now I just dread it. I think it started in a big way in 2002 and it was fun, especially as my boy is into pirates in a big way.

So, I’ll still probably do something silly tomorrow, but I won’t mean it. Definitely need a new meme…

Update: I just noticed that Mary is advocating the swashbuckling vocabulary tomorrow, so please ignore my gloominess above.

Argh.

Most days, minor annoyances are just that, minor, and fade after a moment’s frustration.  For some reason, today’s annoyance has stuck, because, well, read first and then we’ll discuss.

The restroom at work has the toilet paper roll that sticks - it doesn’t turn a full turn.  I’m used to that.  Pull on it and it will tear off at about the point it needs to.

Today, however, someone has fixed that and it spins freely, almost as if someone has applied graphite to get that extra bit of spinnage. So, I give it my usual tug and now there is a quarter of a roll of toilet paper on the floor.  Do I roll it back up, contaminating someone else with the stuff off of the floor?  (I threw it away.)

The thing is, that is the way it is supposed to work, I’d just gotten used to the wrong way for so long that it was more comfortable than the right way. Now, I’m seeing bunches of stuff that I’m too used to the wrong way and I want to fix them - just don’t have that much time in the day!

I did, with the help of Jeff in IT get my Pocket PC to sync with work’s Exchange Server (add a Root Certificate to 2003 Pocket PC, Synchronize a Pocket PC with Exchange 2003) so one down, a bajillion to go!

Well, I didn’t realize that not only were comments being held in a moderation queue but that I wasn’t getting email if the comments was in the queue!  That has (hopefully) been rectified and the comments in the queue have been published.

badbillyz, I don’t know where your comment went originally but I’ve added it.  Just saying.

I’ve got to go listen to some Pearl Jam or something after this:

http://tvinjapan.com/blog/2006/09/10/big-in-japan-right-now-the-tarako-cupie-girls/

Augh!