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Yes, the "busy-ness" has crept in. Acting as the (volunteer) assistant coach for the golf team has taken an inordinate amount of time from my day. They play 2-3 matches per week and have practice several of the other days. Matches start at four o'clock, and Carey gets home at 3:30 or so, meaning every minute I'm at a match I could be at home with my wife and kid. 🙁

Work is getting busy (a good thing), and I'm excited about that. But Carey and I have been so exhausted lately that we still haven't painted the bathroom - a project we scheduled six weeks ago. As soon as Carey takes the extra glue off, I'll paint while I'm home some day.

Off to the (maternal²) grandparents for lunch, and then back home by 3:30 or so.

Question: Did you travel for labor day?

My Answer: About 45 minutes to Findlay lake, yes. Any more than that and we likely would have stayed at home.

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Question: What single word do you think best summarizes the whole Hurricane Katrina situation - the storm, the results, the politics, the crazy people with guns - everything?

My Answer: Stupefying.

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Question: When were you potty trained?

My Answer: I was an active kid. I didn't have the time to go potty! I waited until I was nearly 3½ years old! 🙂

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Question: Do you buckle your seat belt?

My Answer: Damn right I do, and I insist that anyone riding with me does as well.

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Question: Should New Orleans be rebuilt?

My Answer: I don't know that it's worth it, no.

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The Sand Trap .com today introduced new logos, created by Mike Rohde of Rohdesign. Yes, this is the same talented Mike Rohde that crafted MailDrop 2.0's icons.

The logos will be featured on the site, some apparel, and of course some business cards. I've been working on one main idea (see below). I like it, though it may be a bit plain. The golfer? His name is Sand Man, naturally.

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For the past month or two, Mac OS X - or more particularly, certain applications - lock up for an incredibly long time when I open or save documents. Why? iDisk. As soon as I log off the AirPort network, the open/save dialog appears instantly.

The problem seems to lie mostly with Carbon applications, but it may simply be that my Carbon applications do most of the opening and saving (Entourage saves attachments, BBEdit opens and saves, Photoshop does both as well).

I have a local copy of my iDisk, but that doesn't seem to help much. As soon as I take the AirPort network offline, though, BAM! A dialog.

You'd think that by Mac OS X 10.4.2 they'd have this fixed already.

Over the next few weeks and months, I'll be putting a lot of equipment on eBay. The first of those: a putter. Bid early, bid often, yada yada. Proceeds benefit the high school golf team for which I am acting as volunteer assistant coach.

Despite the fact that it's no longer my company, I feel compelled to tell you that Freshly Squeezed Software has released (finally) the 1.2.2 update to PulpFiction. The 1.2.2 release fixes several things:

• fixed incorrect folder counts
• fixed the negative flagged counts
• set the article list to be scrolled to the top of deleted items when deleting more than one article
• set the article list to scroll to the center when using the space bar to navigate between articles
• added "Default" to article labels, "None" now doesn't show a label if the subscription has one. Default sets the label to show the subscription label if pref to do so is set.
• fixed parsing bug with < signs in article titles.
• set the name of a smart folder to be the subscription's name when a single sub is dragged to the folder view
• fixed the issue where articles didn't appear in a feed in the feed view if their subscription was deleted and then added back in
• updated to the latest version of growl
• growl will now prompt the user to install or upgrade on first use
• added smart folder options for matching by folder, unread, or flagged

A few of those items included this fix, which should resolve 95% of the "weird crashing" customers were seeing.

A good number of the fixes above were in place when PulpFiction was sold to illumineX, but some of the tougher ones weren't. Now that the illumineX gang is comfortable with PulpFiction's source, I expect to see a fairly regular update schedule. 1.2.2, it's no secret, was a long time coming.

P.S. Don (of illumineX) is requesting features!

Hardy har har.

A: You're wrong
Q: I'v never found that to be true
A: Because it makes following messages more difficult
Q: Why is top-posting evil?

I'll top-post a response if my response is short, like "Yeah, sounds good" or something. Otherwise I inline - and I usually split paragraphs and respond to very specific parts.

Question: What plugins do you use with your blog package?

My Answer: I use MovableType 3.2. I have mt-wordcount, Kill-nav-commenters-gif, MTTimer, MT-Macros, and the built-in SpamLookup and Template Refresh enabled. I've disabled NoFollow simply because I don't allow spamments, so I don't wish to punish valid comments and the URLs they contain.

This question was inspired by Don.

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It's raining, it's raining, it's raining! It's really really raining!

Yay! Hallelujah!

I think the last time it rained here, the calendar said "July." If it rained in August (prior to last night), you wouldn't know it by me. Lake View is in the worst condition I've ever seen it and I've mowed my lawn all of three times this year. Three times!

Okay, back to work.

A few days ago I traded in a bunch of PS2 games (I now have only three or four) for Madden 2006. A few thoughts, then…

• Online play is nice.
• NFL 2K5's gameplay is both more realistic and more fair. I've never seen so many footballs go through defenders and still be caught by the receiver.
• Kicking is now very difficult.
• The menu system is horrible. Absolutely horrible. You go into a menu, press the "back" button (triangle), and you're taken two menus up. Combined with the fact that there are no breadcrumbs, navigating the menus in this game is next to impossible. I avoid them as much as possible.
• Why, when I push the audible button, can't a menu of my audibles appear so I know I'm choosing the right one?
• The computer seems awfully adept at throwing the ball just as they're about to get sacked for an incomplete pass (that travels a yard or two).
• The vision cones are pretty stupid, and throwing to a receiver not in your vision cone requires pressing three buttons just to get a pass off accurately.

I'll have more thoughts as I play a little more. I'm in the pre-season right now (the Steelers just beat the Redskins). We'll see how the season goes.

P.S. Yes, many of the above are simply the result of EA's lock on the NFL market.

To print a 175-page PDF, Kinko's charges 7¢/page. That's $12.25 to print something just because I don't want to use my own laser printer or to read it on-screen. To FedEx/Kinko's I say "bah!"

Staples charges $2.49 + 6¢/page ($12.99). Plus the hold music when I called the store was "Sometimes" by Britney Spears. Uh hmmm…

Needless to say, I'll be reading this on my screen.