12:38a - For the second time in the history of the game, the
Major League Baseball All-Star game ended in a tie. Pretty silly.
The managers didn't want to push their pitchers beyond the normal inning
or two. :( The fans boo'ed like crazy.
Ha! No MVP either. How stupid.
Today is Wednesday, so tonight is bike night.
Schweet! I don't know if the weather is going to hold up, we shall
see. I hate worrying about rain, but I don't want to get my bike
all crapped up. It's nice keeping it pristine. Gary, Nate,
JC, and I went riding for a bit today. I hit 140 on 303.
Fun.
Night night.
Eduardo
8:53a
- Here's some big news. Ever heard of Yucca Mountain?
It's a government site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas that is supposed
to become the nuclear waste dump site for our nation. Nevada isn't
happy about this, and neither are a lot of senators. It's a pretty
messy situation considering the need to keep this radioactive material
in a safe place vs. the trouble and danger of transporting it from all
over the nation to this one spot, as well as the danger of having all
our eggs in one basket. I'll be following this story for sure.
Read more at MSNBC.
Here's another good one. I've blabbed about WiFi
aka 802.11b wireless networks before. I've got one setup in my
house, and I've installed probably 5 in other businesses and homes.
Instead of having to plug your computer in to a CAT-5 cable to access
the network, you just add a wireless network card to you laptop are
desktop and forget about the wire. It's awesome.
A very popular thing these days is for people to setup a
wireless network and share their broadband connection to the 'Net with
anyone within range. I talked to Brecksville city hall about doing
this in downtown Bville, but they haven't gotten back to me - go figure.
Well, now the service providers such as AT&T and Time Warner Cable are
sending letters to users telling them that if they don't stop sharing
the Internet access, their accounts will be shut off. This is just
another example of how businesses want to control their products and
services completely, even after the point of sale. I think it's
ridiculous.
If I'm away from my house and I want access the 'Net,
you're telling me there's a problem with me connecting through someone
else's Internet pipe. Yeah-frickin'-right! Read
"Cable Firms Cracking
Down on WiFi".
I've got a 10am appointment, so it's time to get dressed
and prepared. Speak at ya'll soon...
Jr.
PS. - See the pics of me on the
front page? LOL I like my
new hair cut, Rick Jr
is such a pimp.
2:47p - Yo. Gettin' closer to bike time.
I've tried callin' my bike list and I haven't had much luck.
Great, rollin' in w/Nebawho and the gold-diggers. LOL I'll
get pictures. ;)
I did a silly animated picture on the
front page. I connected my
Nikon 990 to a little TV set I had laying around. It's got
audio/video in/out. It's fun seeing me on the TV screen.
NEWS
One of the guys who helped invent Gnutella has
reportedly blown
his
own head off. I wouldn't doubt this to be a case of the record
industries taking out some frustration on us damn, young, new-thinkin'
generation. They don't like people messing with their lucrative
stranglehold on musicians.
READ (You might have to have a free subscription to
NYTimes.com to access that article.) CNN has something on it too.
Waldorf just IMed me while I was adding this. :)
So
there's this skeleton. And it's like 6-7 million years old.
And they say it's one of our relatives. Look at those eyebrows.
Sweet.
This is interesting:
Chadian authorities are nicknaming the specimen "Toumai," a name
usually given to babies born before the dry season in the region. Toumai
means "hope of life" in the Goran language. The discoveries are detailed
in this week's edition of Nature magazine.
Read.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/07/10/shuttle.cracks.ap/index.html
The crew that is currently aboard the space station
might be there a long time. All of NASA's shuttles are currently
on the disabled list. Cracks have recently been discovered
in the tubes that deliver fuel to the rocket engines. The final
shuttle was just inspected and found to have
the same cracks as the rest.
Also, some company called Copeland Manufacturing Corp.
is being fined $320,000 for lying about repairs made parts for US spy
planes and space station equipment. Oh, that's just great.
The government is getting ripped off by the companies it trusts to
handle thing with that importance level. Our economy does suck.
:(
Read.
I'm out. Gotta get my bike, clean her, finally got
you some pictures, and head to bike night!
Woopee-doo,
Jr.
