Thursday, September 22, 2011

20110922

  • Danny Sugarman died of lung cancer in 2005.
  • Erin Morgenstern's book The Night Circus is selling well and drawing comparisons to Harry Potter.  http://erinmorgenstern.com/tag/night-circus/
  • A judge ruled that Bloomberg didn't break any laws by not promoting women who took time off for maternity leave.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

20110921

  • The Band REM is calling it quits
  • The Devil's daughter (Not really, but actress Elizabeth Harnois played her on Point Pleasant.) is joining the cast of CSI.  (On the other hand, she's Eckley's daughter, so it might still apply.)
  • Dermatitis is really gross, just trust me on this one.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

20110920

  • There is an apparant bug in DB2 9.7 that allows you to trim an integer, which also casts the result to a string in the process.
  • The 6 Star Wars movies on Blu-ray have been released at a price of $89.
  • The Empress of China has changed ownership, and it looks like it will offer more buffet style dining.  Very sad :-(

20110919

  • My chess rating went back over 1600 for finishing tied for 3rd in the under 1600 section of the Louisville Open.  (I had expected it to go to 1595, not 1603.)
  • Warhammer is up to the 8th edition of it's rulebook.  (I think I have a copy of the 5th edition.)
  • One way to look at the Greek debt crisis is not that it's a Greek failure to budget, but a market failure in loaning money to Greece as if they were as dependable as Germany.

20110918

  • According to the graffitti in the men's restroom of the Bearnos pizza on Dixie, the devil was there on 5/1/2011.
  • There is no 3rd St. exit if you're heading west on 64.
  • According to a founding member of the Tallinn, the organization formed to try to restore order to Afghanistan and never managed to relinquish power to an official Government.

20110917

  • Niel Stephenson has a new book out, Reamde, but the plot description sounds silly.
  • Bearnos pizza on Dixie is now open Sundays.
  • My ability to pick out shades of color is pretty good, I got a score of 7 (0 is perfect) on a test of 100 shades of color.