Writing blindly this morning as the servers seem to be down for the moment. And the internet is chugging. And my computer is pokey. What the heck is that all about? I had visions of recreating an archive. I quickly realized the beer blog would be the first to be fixed.
- Update: Hey look! There is no new brave wild-west world of law created by the internet after all:
A network administrator for a peer-to-peer Internet file-sharing system has been sentenced to five months in prison for copyright infringement. Grant T. Stanley, 23, was also given five months of home detention, three years of supervised probation and a $3,000 (U.S.) fine for his role in the Elite Torrents service, which used a sharing technology known as BitTorrent. Stanley, who had pleaded guilty to copyright-related charges, was sentenced Oct. 17.
Five months jail for copyright infringement. Sounds like a form of theft to me. - Sad to see the Tigers lose but at least they have style:
"How 'bout that, Curtis?" he said. The two men laughed. It was funny, too funny, that such a thing could happen. Of all the games they spent together in the outfield, for this one to be the one in which Granderson spills it, was almost laughable. Granderson rhetorically asked Monroe if it was for real: "Are you serious, dude?" And Monroe, in an aw-shucks kind of way, came back to his friend. "That's baseball," he said, "This is what we're dealing with, so let's come out and be ready to play a game tomorrow."
I was hoping for 2-2 and the return to Tiger stadium. It still can happen but not as likely. Still, it has been attractive baseball. - Is this the look of a blip in history?
Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe said the Tories are worse in government than the Liberals because they're not only arrogant, but incompetent as well. "I would say they're paralyzing themselves," Duceppe told a news conference. "(Stephen) Harper was telling us — Jack and I — at the time we were in opposition that the Liberals were arrogant in not speaking to us. "He's doing worse than them. And since they have almost no experience in the House, they're worse than the Liberals in the procedures because they're acting like amateurs."
How odd the "Stephen" in parentheses. Is Harper not enough? Would they have added "Pierre"? - Darcey is watching France. And not because of the cheese selection. I note a related strangeness in Australia. And one in Iran. What would Mr. Dress-up's Wise Owl say?
- We saw the nicest botanical phenomena this morning. We had our first hard frost and as the sun came up, the leaves on all the trees on the street started dumping leaves at an incredible rate. No wind at all. I took a movie and will see if it is post worthy tonight.
Comments
cm - October 27, 2006 10:02 am
That's easy: to-wit, to-woo, of course.
cm - October 27, 2006 10:05 am
So I googled the phrase, just to make sure I had it right, and guess what the third entry on the list was?
Gen X at 40What would wise owl say: "To-wit-to-woo, Dr. Dress-up...glaze the place..."? What would you do? What will China do, China which likely sees itself as a ...
www.genx40.com/index.php?start=21 - 40k - Cached - Similar pages
Gordo - October 27, 2006 10:08 am
Maybe they don't want folks to get confused and think that Elijah Harper is in Parliament these days? Keep in mind that the mass media is generally written for the lowest common denominator.
Cm's right.
gr - October 27, 2006 10:08 am
You know, Alan, you have a responsibility to get your Friday chat up in a timely manner, servers or no servers!
Drat, foiled by cm again....
Alan - October 27, 2006 10:11 am
Yes but these blogs and all their untapped complexity but all their tapped free bandwidth are a gift through the grace of my pals and so I am reminded when they are not available for a moment.
gr - October 27, 2006 10:21 am
lame excuse, Alan, L-A-M-E! My weekend is ruined, and cm sits there in her cubicle cackling madly.
There has been another muad dib sighting, sort of like the occasional Yeti dashing across the snowy hillside....
David - October 27, 2006 11:07 am
Yes, we all look to TorStar to find unbiased opinions about who will be a "blip in history"!
On a personal note, I'm going to Jack's Lake (about an hour south of North Bay) to go fishing for the weekend.
Alan - October 27, 2006 11:29 am
We all have our biases of perference but I presume you noted the words were in quotation marks indicating that they were words by the opposition and not the Star.
Is it going to pour rain all weekend there too or is this "fishing" - wink wink, tackle box full o'rum fishing?
David - October 27, 2006 11:40 am
Real fishing during the day - real drinking during the night :-). House rules where I'm going insist on dry boats and mandatory PFDs, both very reasonable rules, especially as the water temperature approaches 0.
Alan - October 27, 2006 11:42 am
Good man. Frig not with the water.
cm - October 27, 2006 4:58 pm
Gentlemen, I present to you the genx40 2007 field trip.
gr - October 27, 2006 8:28 pm
Pretty smart cm! Warm too!
This has got to be the most LAME Friday chat ever, or at least since Victoria Day.
Alan - October 27, 2006 10:09 pm
Hey!!! Don't you be throwing around the lame bomb around here. It's been a big and busy week. Closed the biggest deal of my life, learned a mandolin lick and had the in-laws in town. Man, that is one big week. I need a rest. Plus we may have to deal with baseball ending for the next few months as of tonight.
ry - October 28, 2006 1:26 am
MAn, I was happy about the win tonight until you said that Al. Now I'm bummed.
There's no hockey on basic cable around here.
Now what am I going to do? Probably sit thru endless hours of Meerkat Manor or whatever it is on Bravo The Wife wants to watch.
I am happy for Eckstein though. Vindication. He was dissed by the BoSox for years. Then he was left to wander off by the Angels. Now he's won two WS and been a WS MVP.
gr - October 28, 2006 8:41 am
Guess I threw lame out one time too many. Sure, the in-laws explains much. I was starting to wonder if the KSPC hadn't gone 'fishing' with our man David Janes.
Gotta say, I am pretty happy for the Cards and baseball overall. It is all very tidy, in my mind. The Red Sox had their series, then the White Sox, now St Louis, and next year the Cubbies! KC Royals sometime before 2100. If you are talking about mascots and symbols, this year's series had most beat: the Tiger vs. the Cardinal. Both make outstanding hometown symbols and nice looking, classic style uniforms.
There is a picture of me, in my very early childhood, on a trike, wearing a St Louis cap. Not much else is known.
Alan - October 28, 2006 9:44 am
I think my problem is I have no personal experience with St. Louis. I did have a Blues jersey when I was about nine. But the logo on their chest is the most elaborate and beautiful sports logo of all time. How far does that go back? There must be a baseball uniform database out there somewhere. If not, the internet then truly sucks as this is exactly the thing it was built for.