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I plan to boycott Walgreens. Why? Thanks for asking.

Bah. I did a whole lot of sitting on my ass today watching golf. The third round kicked off at 8am (or rather, continued again after a delay on Saturday). Then the final round began at 2:30 and did not finish until 7:30. Phil Mickelson, phony that he is, won his second green jacket.

Tomorrow I have to vacuum before I can go golfing, so I'm off to do that now. It was supposed to be 68 on Monday, but it's only going to get to - apparently - 55 or so at most. 😛

Question: What is your favorite sporting event in the world?

My Answer: The Masters. And it's in a rain delay.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Carey isn't comfortable using the SLR (a Canon Digital Rebel XT), so we're looking for a low-cost, small, point-and-shoot camera. I'll define low cost as $350 or less. I'll define point-and-shoot as one that ideally uses CompactFlash cards. I'll define "small" as something Carey can lug around in her purse or I can carry around in my golf bag comfortably.

I've used Nikons and Canons, and currently have the Canon DR XT, so ideally I'd like to stick with Canon or, as the first option after that, a Nikon. What are your recommendations not only for the camera, but where to buy it (my default is B&H, but if someone else is running a great deal, hey, lemme know!).

The 2006 Steelers schedule is out. The Steelers start the season early, as is (recent) tradition, with what will be a tough game against the Dolphins. Then we have 11 days off. The schedule has lots of late games this year, and one thing that will suck: Dec 3 - Dec 7 shows two games. Ouch. That will be difficult. I like that we finish up with Cleveland, Baltimore, and the Who Dey crowd in the last four weeks. I hate that our BYE week always comes so damn early. The NFL lies if they tell you BYE weeks change for teams every year. The Steelers almost always have one of the first BYE weeks.

Sep 7      Miami              8:30pm
Sep 18   @ Jacksonville       8:30pm
Sep 24     Cincinnati         1:00pm
Week 4     ----------         BYE
Oct 8    @ San Diego          8:15pm
Oct 15     Kansas City        4:15pm
Oct 22   @ Atlanta            1:00pm
Oct 29   @ Oakland            4:15pm
Nov 5      Denver             4:15pm
Nov 12     New Orleans        1:00pm
Nov 19   @ Cleveland          1:00pm
Nov 26   @ Baltimore          1:00pm
Dec 3      Tampa Bay          1:00pm
Dec 7      Cleveland          8:00pm
Dec 17   @ Carolina           1:00pm
Dec 24     Baltimore          1:00pm
Dec 31   @ Cincinnati         1:00pm

I wish gmail had a progress bar. I'm sending a 160 MB .zip file to someone and I have no idea how much longer I have to wait.

I'm not sure why, but Spotlight misses files all the time. Today I tried to search for a file called "HoH.mov" by typing in "hoh.mov" into a "Find" window in the Finder.

Two copies at "HoH.mov" from my backup disk appeared, but none from my startup disk. I looked on my startup disk and, yes, the files were there.

I'm not sure how to fix this (I assume I can delete the Spotlight index or something), but until Spotlight can actually find files that exist, it will remain virtually useless for me.

P.S. Every single thing in the Spotlight prefs is checked and enabled.

I still think a virtual PC - one that lets you switch back and forth and share data amongst two operating systems - is the best way to go. But for now, Apple lets you install and boot Windows XP on your Mac with Boot Camp.

BTW, what happens if a nasty virus on the PC side hoses things? Can it cross over and screw up the Mac OS, even though Windows won't do HFS+?

I think it's unlikely many people at all will buy Mac hardware to run Windows more than half the time. This scratches a small niche itch.

Is MovableType 3.5 coming? 3.3? How about even 3.2.1?

I spent the past few days in Georgia at a TaylorMade ball launch event. It was fun - I met Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose, played a little (six holes) of golf, got some free food… a worthwhile trip.

The entire D concourse of the Atlanta airport was without power, for some reason, on my return flight home. Then, after running from B1 to D28 in Cleveland's airport, I found out that my connecting flight - the one that was supposed to take off a minute after my plane from Atlanta had landed - was delayed by about an hour.

Grrrrrrrr.

Question: How do you avoid having your ears "plug" when flying?

My Answer: I've heard that you can blow through your nose while holding it shut. While that works, I'm afraid of literally blowing out my ear, so i don't do that. Chewing gum and yawning don't seem to work very well. Why hasn't someone invented something that makes the whole "ear poppping" thing a non-issue?

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

I've only seen bad jokes so far, one of which involved Duke Nukem Forever. If I had a groan smiley, I'd have used it there.

At any rate, I encourage you to post links to your favorite Internet April Fool's Jokes 2K6 in the comments.

Update (2:40pm): I've yet to see a single funny joke.

Hidden iPod commands can be found here. It's handy. And that's that.

Anyone have a spare $722,534 * 1.06 (sales tax)? C'mon, that's less than a million dollars, surely someone has it. Why? Duh.

What does $800k buy you? 806 horsepower, seating for two, a rotary telephone for a dashboard, and side doors that won't allow you to park within two feet of a curb.

Apparently, this results in this.