First person shooter board game. I’ve been through a sort of board game revival over the last couple of years. The last two summers, we would gather around the pool in my apartment complex and play Risk and swim. Board games are a much more social experience than video games currently. Perhaps, though, that will change.

Giambi’s Bat Is Cold, and So Is His Reception I like how he chooses to embrace the attitude of Yankee fans, even when it goes against him. I respect that.

Yankees End D’Rays' Run. It looks, from the outside, like the pressure of playing in New York is having unexpected negative effects on Giambi’s performance. I’m certain that things will swing the other way, and that this is somewhat of an adjustment time period. Needless to say, it seems the honeymoon was over pretty quick.

Good people can do bad things, and bad people are quite capable of doing good things at times. Sometimes, when a bad person does something that wasn’t intended as a good thing, the results nonetheless are good results. Also, when a good person tries to do something good, they can cause bad results. As a result of this information set, I rarely will condemn a person’s actions across the board. I get frustrated sometimes, that the binary nature of people causes them to do this, to condemn someone across the board. It gets tiring, hearing essentially the same thing from someone over and over again. Just a meandering thought, but one that I seem to be thinking a lot recently.

A is for Apple

Google PigeonRank Technology

It’s starting to look like Robin Ventura was the key off-season acquisition by the Yanks. They beat Baltimore again last night behind excellent pitching from Mussina. Too bad most of Manhattan still can’t watch the games due to the cable craziness with the Yes Network.

Stepwise: Restoring HFS and webDAV after Apple’s April 2002 Security Update

The newest version of Omnigraffle for Mac OS X ships with jjg’s visual vocabulary as a palette. How cool and very useful. Upon surfing a bit from a link I found at Webgraphics, I also found that Michael Angeles has a downloable palette that can be used for wireframing with Omnigraffle. Finally, there are even more palettes linked from Omni’s extras page. I have a feeling that I will never regret licensing all of Omni’s software a couple of months ago.

Animated Today 2002 opens the today screen on Pocket PC devices up to Flash development.

Rip ‘n’ Roll: A Date With 8 Jukeboxes This article does not live up to its title at all. I was expecting a comparison of the eight Jukeboxes. At best, all I got was a mention of eight jukeboxes. I can’t believe how shoddy I’ve found the mainstream media’s coverage of technology consumer electronics to be. The reports are, like this one, shallow and uninformative. I’m not talking about hardcore technical specifications or tests even, how about a comparison of the sound quality of these devices, or a listing of which has the best battery life? People are saying that Weblogs are not journalism, but all I keep thinking is that I get better information from Weblogs about many of the things I am interested in. Finally, there’s not a new piece of information in this article anywhere. No conclusions drawn, no recommendations made. Where’s the beef?

This post on Derek’s site, and the comments that go along with it are chock full of links that merit visitations. “who you calling boring, punk?”

Jordan’s Season Is Over Hey, I was pretty vocal about his return, saying that it wasn’t a good idea. I think that he tried to do something that he thought was right for him, for the team, and for the game itself. I’m really sorry that things didn’t really work out for him the way he was hoping. I guess there is always next year.

There are already a few interesting Flash MX components here. mmm yummy.

DaVinci is a Flash MX component for annotating images. This should give some of you Flash haters something to think about.

Darkleaf is the next band from the crew that spawned Jurassic 5. Worth checking out if you like non-mainstream hip hop, J5, or Ozomatli.

Hello. I opened my pool yesterday. I lost six pounds in the first week of my diet, and I’m off to the gym in a moment.

Looks like August 6th is the day that the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring will be released on DVD. Wish I didn’t have to wait that long. Especially when some people I know already have obtained a reasonably high quality DVD version.

Show Ends for the Yanks' Sojo It’s got to be so tough for an old school manager like Joe Torre to have to part ways with so many of his staple players over this off season. Sojo is the most recent to go. You may remember him as the guy who always seemed to come up with that big hit in the clutch situation. I’m certain that the Met’s fans among you will remember him:-)

As a Yankees fan, I can't say I'm not a little concerned about the tean chemistry going into this season. They replaced so many of their core players, and these guys were the ones who set the tone in the clubhouse. Players aren't just interchangable parts that you can easily swap in and out. It could be worse, of course, look at the situation in Texas. I'd hate to be a fly on the wall in the Ranger's clubhouse these days. Regardless of all this stuff, I find myself really looking forward to baseball season. I hope labor disputes don't end up ruining the game for me again.

I started a new nine week exercise and diet plan today. I’ve remained in pretty good shape over the last year and a half, but I’m ready to take a jump up to the next level of fitness. Anyway, the diet seems pretty sensible and I read the book which documented the plan’s choices with studies and whatnot. The workout plan is somewhat similar to one that a trainer I worked with a year ago had me on, but seems a bit more intense. I’ll let you all know how I make out.