Disclaimer: I'm from Ohio, and very much an OSU Buckeye fan.

There's now a lot of talk about an OSU/Michigan rematch for the National Championship.

My position on this: I do not think this should happen, nor be allowed to happen.

This game was Michigan's chance to make sure they were in the National Championship, if they won. They didn't. It was a great game, and we had a great time watching it (it helps when your team comes out on top, too, along with Chili & beer!)

But now you've got the USC/Cal game coming. Florida just won (against a lowly opponent), Notre Dame won and Rutgers (undefeated, I might add) still has to play WV.

Rutgers plays Cincy now, then Syracuse and WV.
For USC their game against Cal just started (after I type this, that's what I'll be doing) then Notre Dame (another big game) then UCLA.

What'll happen? How will it all play out? I don't know, but after looking at the top 10 teams (only 2 of which are now undefeated) I'm finding it more difficult to justify, in my mind, that OSU replay Michigan for the National Title game.

This morning my wife yelled down the hall "one of the founders of Apple is on NPR" so I ran in and sat down to listen.

Boy, is he a goofball. Did you know he once called the Pope pretending to be Kissinger?

And he's not very good at answering questions. There were a couple of questions which he just did not answer what was asked, but instead spouted off about whatever he apparently wanted to.

It interesting nonetheless. I don't know which NPR show it was on, but I think it was a semi-advertisement for his new book, apparently called "iWoz".

I'm stuck at work all day w/ no Tunes. My iPod got wiped. 'How' you ask?

Before I left in the morning, I had updated the iPod from the workstation at my desk. Before disconnect I made sure to mark it as manual-update.

So I came in, and thought "I'll play it on the laptop". Ah, big mistake. Apparently the iPod-update settings stay with the machine, not the iPod. My laptop has no music on it (small hard drive). But at one time I had used it to populate the iPod.

And there's the dilemma. An iTunes install that has no music, an iPod it recognizes from ancient times ago, that it used to populate. It updated the iPod allright, with absolutely nothing, therefore removing all the music on the iPod.

The irony is if you hit Apple's discussion-server, there were a number of threads where people stated their iPod was 'ate' (or wiped) by iTunes. I had recently posted a response to one of them saying I haven't had any problems since I had upgraded. I guess technically, I haven't, other then my own user-error.

Seeing as the Ohio Linuxfest 2006 is coming up, I thought I'd put a few select OLF2k5 pictures online.

First this Ohio Bar Owner Will Fight To Keep 'Speak English' Sign and now this Philadelphia's cheesesteak shop's sign: WHEN ORDERING SPEAK ENGLISH.

Ohio law says it is unlawful for any proprietor of a place of public accommodation to deny the full enjoyment of the accommodations based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or ancestry.

It doesn't say anything about "language spoken".

Are these two different? The one in Ohio wanted to require English to be served. The one in Philadelphia, seemingly, is asking for it to be spoken. Is there a difference? Maybe.

But I don't see the problem for either.

If I relocated to Russia (or insert your country here), I'd damned well better learn the language inorder to survive. I don't see any reason that we ask the same here in the US.

Link: Digg to expand content

From the sound of it, they're going to add sections for alternative content - politics, entertainment, etc.

Is this more competition for Slashdot and it's like?

I'd yes, but with a caveat. Myself, I hit slashdot constantly because of the "geek related news" that's always popping up on it. But more then that, it's the comments (well, 3++, or 4++) that keep me coming back. Sometimes it's even the discussions related around those comments.

So is it competition in the sense that Slashdot should be worried? I don't think so, in that Slashdot seems to be "expanding" as well. From the tags, the new brief article teasers (presumably to get even more article links on the frontpage), to the bookmarks system, to the discussion2 changes. I think once all of those things are tied in, there will be yet another reason to hit Slashdot - quicker, more fine grained news via the tags and the bookmarks that could be combined (intertwined?) with the stories such that I can pick out news stories and links even quicker via Slashdot. And they can serve me an add (I'm not a subscriber) that's pointed to what I'm viewing so I may just click on it. (of all the sites I've seen, Slashdot's ads I've clicked on the most, simply because they're often something I'm interested in).

Of course, it helps to have had lots of contact w/ some of the guys who code for Slashdot, so I've a personal interest in the site from knowing them and want to see it, and them, do well.

This Dell XPS M2010 is a friggin monster. They say it's a portable, the pic shows it as looking somewhat like a laptop, but I'd tend to call it a lap crusher if you tried to put it on your lap. And $4000.00!!! ouch!

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll keep my 15" MacBook Pro.

This isn't another one of those "title says it all" pieces. Well, maybe it will be -- you can be the judge, but I don't intend it to be that at the moment that I'm starting to write this. However, I find my iPod does "rock". I use it to, mainly, listen to music whenever I'm doing something that permits listening to it. That includes yardwork, mountain biking, weight lifting, work (sometimes), driving (sometimes - my wife and I have -very- different musical tastes) and occasionally walking around the house.

Tonight, when I had to stop to fuck with the screwy NFS server, the iPod was in hand. Crank the tunes. Shift it to photos. While waiting for the machine to down itself I sat there jammin' and looking at picutres from the Rebel 300D. That's much better then staring at a console getting frustrated because a machine won't shutdown cleanly!

Anyway, Tonite was one of those nights - my wife's away, so I've been going around the house listening to tunes all evening. It kinda kicks ass. Infact, tonight I even (gasp) purchased Korn's "See you on the other side" from iTunes. Yea, I know, DRM. I try to not use their online store just because of that. But prior to v6.x I was able to unencrypt my purchases, so it didn't make much of a difference. Now, I'm not able to decrypt, yet. But I didn't feel like driving to the store to buy a cd, so ya get what ya get.

If only that damned green button in iTunes actually maximized the friggin interface...

We finally had our first successful debate, to completion, on whatis.

I haven't touched the code for the plugin in months. We needed to find a catchy topic that would get people interested and willing to actually debate a topic. I thought this would be an easy task. Apparently, it's not, or we should've sent out invitations or something, maybe a box of Cheryl's cookies or whatnot.

The long and short of it is someone did a debate on the Port Authority stuff that's going on. It turned out to be a *long* debate. When the debate's owner chose to submit the completed thing as a story submission, that submission was huge. I had to learn how to use the SLASH-BREAK tag, and also how the apprrovedtagsadmin var/code worked. When the debate engine morphs the debate into a story, it chunks it into divs and a big ul/li, all classed up. But the story editor, if it's not setup to allow the ul and li with classes, filters all that out.

Not good when you want to differentiate what the debate-owner versus the participant has said cosmetically.

Anyway, check it out when you get a chance. We had grand ideas for this plugin, when we dreamt it up back in the fall. However, if you can't get people to use the plugin, either it's flawed, or the website is I guess. So maybe we need to gather the troups and mindmeld and figure out why people aren't debating like we thought they would.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1619936,00050001.htm

24 has started again. My wife and I've been looking forward to it. We got hooked the second season. Ended up renting all the DVD's from blockbuster of the first season.

The new pres's wife, 'Martha Logan' is pretty good. Big boobs, long legs, thigh highs and crazy like a fox ;) I'm not television guru, but she plays a seemingly crazy woman fairly well! As soon as my wife saw what actress was playing her, she declared "Oh she'll be a great crazy woman".

The current president is still a wuss.

We watched the movie "The 40 Year Old Virgin" last nite. A friend at work (and his wife) recommended it to me, saying that my wife and I should watch it.

I was sceptical -- the last time someone at work recommended a movie, saying that I, and my wife would like it, didn't work out so well. The movie was "Booty Call", and the recommender was my boss.

Needless to say, my wife has banned any movie rentals which were recommended by my boss.

So when I came home with the 40 year old Virgin, and told my wife someone had recommended it, she had that "oh not this again"-typical-wife-look.

But she watched it with me.

It turned out to be a very funny movie, and she liked it too. She said that if it had any more "guy humor" it would have been too much, but that it was funny and she liked it.

To sum up the movie, "Go fuck a goat!" :)

Anyone been to Boston, MA, lately? Anyone been there, from there, or know where to go while there?

Looks like I may be there for a week in December. I'm lookin for pointers for a first timer there.

Any suggestions appreciated.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/10/D8DPVV703.html

This is a perfect example of why every law abiding citizen, who is properly trained to carrry, should have the right to carry.

Not that I'd be caught dead seeing that movie, but....

Let me get this straight:

1) no paper trail of opinions
2) 2 years of experience being a judge

Hmm. Seems enough to be put on the highest court in the land!

Not!