Published on Wednesday 26th October 2005 .
I never thought I would ever see it happen, but the White Sox have won the World Series! I started watching the game around the 5th inning, and while I was bored out of my mind for most of it, that last half hour or so was pretty intense. After the Sox went up 1-0 in the 8th inning, I started to feel some excitement brewing inside of me. Seeing Uribe jump into the crowd to catch the foul ball to make it two outs in the bottom of the 9th was crazy. And I almost cried when I saw Konerko catch Uribe’s throw to first base to end the World Series with the White Sox on top.
It’s just crazy! And so far I haven’t seen any rioting on TV, which is also very strange, but definitely nice thing to not see. I’ll have to wait until I hear the news on the radio in the morning to find out if anything major happens in the city. For me, it’s time for bed.
Published on Sunday 23rd October 2005 .
So, yeah, I just make a post about not being too excited about the Sox getting to the World Series, and here I am with a tear in my eye over just watching Podsednik hit a home run to give the Sox a 2-0 lead over the Astros in the Series. There’s something wrong with me.
Published on Sunday 23rd October 2005 .
I have not posted anything about the White Sox and their post season journey to the World Series. I have not really been all that excited about it, despite it being the first time in my life a Chicago team has made it into the World Series, and despite my being more of a White Sox fan than a Cub fan (although I couldn’t say that I dislike either team). I guess that my lack of enthusiasm for such an event is due in most part to my disinterest in baseball, as well as my disbelief that it is actually happening. I’ve been watching Game 2 tonight since the 5th inning, and I’m kind of getting into it. I’m still not jumping up and down, not even after seeing Konerko’s grand slam that temporarily put the Sox in the lead (it just got tied up by a double from Vizcaino).
Look at me. Now I’m typing out players’ names as if I’d been following the sport at all in the past ten years. Ha! As if…
The other bit of news that I’d like to post about is that Rich finally has a blog titled Ravings from a Man in an Old White House. Don’t ask about the title, ’cause I honestly don’t know myself. It’s linked in my Blogroll now. Let’s see if he can keep up with it a little better than Grant has (sorry, Grant, I had to).
And one last thing: if you have a blog at ask-mark.com, and it does not work, it may be due to my making a few more changes to how everything is setup. I’m going to be moving your blogs to a new location on the server, although your URLs should stay the same. I need to do this in order to give you FTP access to your own blog space. I’d e-mail you, but I think this is a little easier for some reason.
Published on Sunday 23rd October 2005 in Uncategorized
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First off, I am ashamed to announce the birth of a Science category on my blog. I am ashamed because I should have had that category from the beginning. I’ll have to go through old posts and assign them to the Science category as necessary.
Now to the real reason for this post. On Opposable Thumbs, Ben Kuchera has a short write up about a cool project that helps to visualize spacetime. The project is called the Khronos Projector, and it is as cool as it sounds.
The project uses a projector, a camera, an IR emitter, and a computer to simulate spacetime on a screen and to show how spacetime can be curved and manipulated. The software on the computer calculates changes in depth on the screen, and changes the projected image at parts of the screen where the depth has changed. The projected image is changed such that pushing and pulling on the screen causes the image to go forward and backward in time. Like Ben wrote on OT, you’ve gotta see the movies to see just how cool it is.
Published on Sunday 23rd October 2005 .
FYI to Derek Winker a.k.a. DW a.k.a. Johnny Nostrils (a.k.a. many other things): I know.
Published on Saturday 22nd October 2005 .
A panel of US researchers suggest that NASA should study the effect of sexuality and romance on the crews of long space missions, warning that such interpersonal relationships may lead to violence, jealousy and other breakdowns in crew cohesiveness. With the prospects of returning to the moon and sending manned missions to Mars, I would agree with the suggestions made in this article in NewScientistSpace.com.
Continue reading ‘NASA should study space sex’
Published on Saturday 22nd October 2005 in Uncategorized
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You can now easily request information about yourself from the FBI using these instructions. Be wary of the fact that while you can request information about yourself, your request may itself become part of your file at the FBI. I found this on digg.
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