In late relief for the Minnesota Twins on April 22, 2006, Jesse Crain pitches to the White Sox in Chicago. (Many thanks to Andrew for the free tickets!)
Mather at Von Steuben, April 21, 2006
Chicago’s Von Steuben High School plays their home games across the street from us, on the Northeastern Illinois University field. We caught the very end of this home win against Mather.
Scones
“Scones == Giant Cookies”
bq. Nathan Lenz, IM status message, April 14, 2006
Cincinnati at Chicago, April 13, 2006
Though the wind was blowing out, and the Cubs couldn’t hit as many homers as Cincinnati. Here, Ronny Cedeño takes a cut in the late innings. (He went 0-for-3 with a sacrifice bunt.)
The greatest single guitar solo in human history
Jerry Garcia’s wa-wa guitar solo in “Dancing in the Streets” from the justly legendary “Barton Hall concert”:http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=12279 at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 8, 1977. It almost made me cry tonight.
Chax rocks
I have to use Apple’s iChat application, not because it’s the best at text IMs (because it’s not) but because it is the best at audio and video chats. Getting the honest-to-goodness video phone we were promised in 1956 has been a joy. But now I can enjoy iChat even more. That’s because of an iChat extension called “Chax”:http://www.ksuther.com/chax/. Continue reading “Chax rocks”
Headline of the day: April 3
“Sox overcome rain, Tribe”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ April 3, 2006
Cleveland at Chicago, Opening Day 2006
Defending World Champion Chicago White Sox, division-rival Indians, Opening Day — who minds a three-hour rain delay?
Headline of the day: April 1
“Post-Title Pitfall: Complacency”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ April 2, 2006, early edition
Smelly forearms?
When I was a kid, I remember being puzzled why grown-ups apparently needed to put deodorant or antiperspirant on their forearms. No one *I* knew had smelly or sweaty forearms. I never actually saw anyone doing it in person, but they were constantly showing you how to in TV ads.