August. Already.
No more Nomar!
Waaaahhhhh!
Why would the Red Sox front office
start waving the surrender flag this early in August?
Just curious. Maybe they don't think they're waving the
surrender flag. It'll all change just as soon as Pokey
Reese gets off the disabled list, won't it?
Meanwhile, I keep trying to think
of a new name for this non-blog and some names for some
blogs on various subjects. That assumes I have various
subjects about which to blog. I don't have enough truly
inflammatory opinions about anything except the Red Sox
bullpen and greenheads (against -- in case you
wondered).
Today is Tim Wakefield's birthday.
He passed the 2000 innings pitched milestone in tonight's
game. I really only ever got cable so I could watch Tim
Wakefield pitch. Who needs high speed Internet? Who needs
the Food Network? Do you have any idea how many different
channels have reruns of West Wing? Never mind cable, it's
possible the only reason I have a TV is to watch Tim
Wakefield pitch.
Anyway, the high speed Internet
connection is overrated (newsflash -- the Internet itself
is overrated) because the cable provider prefers not to
acknowledge the existence of Macs let alone support them.
They supply this "service agent" software that is
incompatible with the Mac but they don't tell you that
when they hook you up. It runs every time you start up
the computer and it gives an error message every time and
then you finally call their support number and get
somebody who is working really hard on his American
accent but slips up on pronouncing DHCP and he tells you
of course it doesn't work on the Mac, just delete it and
configure the TCP/IP settings manually every time you
start up. Or something like that. Oh and their home page
goes mental in Safari.
Not that I like Safari all that
much. What's with the long delay between when you click
on a link and when it starts thinking about loading
something?
And how about that Vatican with the
astounding revelation that gender differences persist
after death? (see the National
Catholic Reporter or the
NPR
interview with the NCR's
Vatican correspondent) That was the most interesting part
of the whole thing. I mean it's not news that women are
subordinate to men and it's kind of a relief that women
are to blame for the decline of western civilization
rather than the Internet and chain bookstores. But this
sexual dipmorphism of souls is news to me. I'm really
fascinated by the image of the after-life full of men and
women who float around being defined by their maleness or
femaleness yet are totally celibate. Think of it.
Oh well, at least there's a
theological explanation for the glass ceiling.
Hmm, guess I have opinions on
things besides pitching and greenheads. Not that I want
to do a blog on gender differences or the shortcomings of
Safari. That would be too weird.
