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The april edition of spark is out. If you've never heard of spark then join the club, because I hadn't either. Mr. Barbelith says spark is an "example of what I want the new barbelith to achieve." That's some pretty good praise. Maybe this is the cool professional level on line magazine that everyone's been waiting for?
hmmm. is this a paradox or is it "apples and oranges" (mutually exclusivity)? i understand the disconnect but i thought it interesting nonetheless. advocates of open source coding are likely strong supporters of privacy rights. why is transparency called for in one arena and not the other? discuss.
drudge report ran with same pix as dmtree.
Heading to the park today for a sure sign of spring, but this time it's the ballpark, for the Mets' home opener. I'm dubious about the weather and the seats, not to mention the team. I'm really an American League fan (comes from growing up in Detroit), but I've learned to support both the locals. At the peak of my involvement, I went to more than 50 games in 1986, Mets and Yankees, including the 7th game of the World Series. My interest has been up and down since then. Saw a couple of thrilling playoff games in '95, with Mike & Linda, and I did enjoy the Yankees' triumph the following year. Now that they're back in the winning habit, I'm a bit jaded; is this what it was like in the 50s? (not to mention the 30s, the 20s, the early 60s…) OK, it's not like the early Steinbrenner years. Joe Torre (whose baseball card used to frighten me when I was 10) has done an amazing job of keeping things together in the midst of every kind of distraction imaginable, while the Boss has finally allowed his "baseball people" to keep some young talent, so that instead of the endless parade of has-beens like Rick Rhoden and Ken Phelps, we have Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter. The Mets are another story. They've certainly been interesting the last couple of years, but despite some heroics, they've ended up losing ugly both times. And I cannot warm up to Bobby Valentine. Truth is, I'd rather watch the NCAA final tonight, but I fear I'll lose consciousness before it's over. I'll root for Michigan State, but even that's a compromise. My dad's a University of Michigan alumnus, so I was raised to root against State, at least until UM is eliminated. My favorite expression of the rivalry comes when the football teams play each other in Ann Arbor, and the UM band ridicules the agricultural heritage of the State school by serenading them with "The Farmer in the Dell". Oh well, I guess I'll go and see if I can tell the difference between the beer and the rain.