And probably Wal-Mart, as well. While I was at Best Buy earlier, playing Guitar Hero II - and, as usual, getting made fun of by daytripper83 for doing so - I overheard a conversation between an employee and a person who had been standing in line concerning what could be done about someone who had apparently gone home for the night and was attempting to ( Read more... )

Sun announced today that it was GPLing the Java VM and SDK. If my eyes don't deceive me, the EE is in that list! This makes me very happy.

OK, THAT was the Simpsons movie preview? What the hell?

Hey B-town friends,

Is anyone making plans to see Stranger than Fiction? I know a few of us had talked about it.

But tonight I had to help a good friend of mine repair a shattered cake. Using a pastry brush to seal the cake bits with raspberry preserves... that's a priceless moment.

I really want to know how it turns out!

Fingers crossed!

"Web-rage" in London.

Oh, man that was an incredible last quarter! I had almost given up on my Bears, almost turned the channel. I'm so glad I didn't. Even though the Cardinals lost more than the Bears won, I'll take it. 6-0!

Late last week I discovered that Marie Antoinette opens with one of my favorite pairs of lines, "The problem of leisure:/what to do for pleasure?," from Gang of Four's "Natural's Not in It." Sweet.

A gift of tickets to a game at Soldier Field would be endear me to someone for many lifetimes. We've been on the upswing for the last few years, but I have to say that I had to read the following sentence from ESPN.com several times before it sunk in: "The Bears showed they are the front-runners in the NFC." Wow. Fingers crossed.