So, my prediction of 12-4 Florida didn’t come true, but 8-3 is just as bad - it’s a loss. This means game 7 will come about to haunt me yet. Am I just a heartless bastard, or is all this Cubs hype just nuts? The problem is that people do not share the low expectations that I have for life, the Cubs included. Lower expectations elevate the small victories in life. People should just be happy that the Cubs finally got this far.
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So, I’m watching the Cubs winning 3-0 at the top of the 8th during game 6 of the NLCS. Then, all of a sudden, the Cubs do what I remember them doing when I was a kid: they start blowing it. It’s still the top of the 8th, but now it’s 8-3 Florida. Call me a cynic, but it’s about time the Cubs started playing Cubs ball again. Well, maybe it’s just that I’m curious enough now to watch, and my watching is jinxing them. Maybe. We’ll see how it plays out in the next half hour.
Chris and I were watching TV tonight, and we came across Russell Simmon’s Def Poetry. We’ve loved it since seeing the first season of it our senior year of college. We even went to a travelling show hosted by Illinois Wesleyan’s Student Senate that year. Well, tonight there was this great poet named Rives. He did some deaf poetry, and that’s no misspelling. He does deaf poetry jams in a school for the deaf. I’ve gotta find a copy of his performance tonight. This post is mostly just to remind me that he appeared on season 2 episode 12, originally airing April 4, 2003 (according to Yahoo!).
So, this is Palatine High School’s homecoming weekend. As such, tonight was the Royal Rally, a long running tradition at PHS. Last year, I missed my first PHS Royal Rally, I think because it was the same night as Hoffman Estates High School’s homecoming game (one Chris wanted to attend). Well, I made time to make it to this year’s Rally because I wanted to know what it was all about.
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In another point for fair use, a new CD copy protection scheme from MediaMax, employed by BMG, was found to be easily broken:
It turns out that SunnComm Technologies’ MediaMax CD3 software can be defeated by merely holding down the Shift key while the disc is inserted, or by stopping the driver installed by the CD the first time it is inserted into the optical drive.
Thanks again to Ars for the news.
I was so tired last night, I didn’t stay up to watch the news because I knew I’d be able to find out from Yahoo that Schwarzenegger won the CA governorship. In a surprise to me, Gary Busy said a sensible thing:
Actor Gary Busey spoke for many in the crowd as he brushed off the allegations of sexual misconduct that had dogged Schwarzenegger in the campaign’s final days.
“I think the womanizing stuff is hilarious because it has nothing to do with now. It’s in the past,” Busey said. “My gosh, we’re on Earth. That happens when you’re having fun, when you’re having a rowdy time. But that’s not Arnold Schwarzenegger now.”
Who knew the cooky star of Comedy Central’s I’m With Busey could make even a little bit of sense?
From this /. post, I was pointed to Ebert’s Movie Answer Man column:
Have you been seeing spots when you go to the movies? It may not be your eyes! More than 20 years ago Kodak devised a system called “Cap Code” designed to uniquely mark film prints so that pirated copies could be traced to the source. Cap Code uses very tiny dots that flash occasionally but are so small that the average viewer almost never notices them.
Well, something new and horrible has been introduced on some studios’ prints. Sort of a giant picture-marring version of Cap Code dots: Very large reddish brown spots that flash in the middle of the picture, usually placed in a light area. They flash in various patterns throughout a given reel while other reels of the same film may have none at all.
Isn’t that something? In order to “stifle piracy,” the movie studios intentionally lower the quality of the films they send to theaters. This, on top of the rising movie ticket costs, is just despicable. What’s next? Recycled plot lines? Overuse of special effects in the abscence of a story? Ads touting how much piracy is hurting “the little guy”? Oh wait, they’re already tossing that crap at us 
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