Way back in April, I upgraded my monity to a widescreen flat-panel display. I noted in a post back then that one of my first orders of business was to get it running properly under my Fedora install. It was certainly usable, but I was losing out on the widescreen aspect ratio. Well, 70 days later, I'm proud to announce that I figured it out. I've been a little busy as of late, so I haven't had a ton of time to hack away at it. Sunday night, I decided to roll up my sleeves and get into it. 3 hours later, I had nothing. Over the last few days, I did ...
Summerfest started last week Thursday; Judy & I (w/ Maureen) went on Friday. The two of them had the afternoon off, so they got there closer to 3:00, and I joined them at around 5:30. It was a pretty typical summerfest - obnoxious drunk crowds, overpriced beer, yadda yadda yadda. There were a few highlights, though: The Great Table Migration We were standing in the Piggly Wiggly stage area, looking around for a spot claim as our own. Ben Folds was playing at 10:00, and although it was only 6:30 at the time, all the good seats were taken. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted 3 or 4 kids hauling a picnic table from about 100 ...
Andrew & I played 9 holes at Warnimont Park on Tuesday night. I also played 18 at Missing Links on Saturday - plus I hit a bucket before the round on Saturday, and another on Sunday morning. So I'd estimate that I've hit close to 300 balls in the last 5 days. Saturday was miserable. I never got comfortable on the range, and it showed on the course. I hit a couple of good shots, but for the most part, it was a long day. I felt so bad about it that I woke up early on Sunday (after the night at Borrego's) and went back to the driving range. That session went much better - I was hitting everything ...
This is the kind of entry I usually reserve for the "What's For Lunch" section of my site. However, I thought that there just wasn't enough space reserved over there to pull this off - a blow-by-blow account of my first encounter with a Cousin's Ciabatta sandwich. * 2:22 - I made a left turn onto Farwell, saw the Cousin's on my right, and swung into a parking space * 2:23 - I ask the Cousin's employee with his hat turned 30-degrees to the right for a Tuscan Market Club sandwich. * 2:26 - This is no Jimmy John's. It's been 3 minutes, and I still don't have my sandwich * 2:28 - We ...
Dan & I had dinner on Saturday night at Borrego's (The Chuck recently wrote about his trip there in May). I was pretty impressed. The location - on Water Street in the Third Ward - was most recently occupied by Onyx. It's a pretty narrow space, but runs the whole length of the building, from the street back to the river. I only took a peek inside the main dining area upstairs, since we had plans to dine below on the riverfront patio (they call it the "SpeakEasy"). It's on the smallish side - 4 or 5 tables, all in close quarters. Service was a ...
I received an e-mail yesterday from ESPN regarding the renewal of our Fantasy Football League service (related posts). Let me sum up our collective experience with ESPN last season: "crap". The previous season, based on the recommendations of Dan, we went with RT Sports. All in all, that went pretty well. Occassionally, their real-time scoring was a little slow, but other than that, they were very reliable. Before the start of the 2002/2003 season, I got an e-mail from ESPN announcing their new service. I thought about it for a while, and assumed that the application would be as tight as the rest of their site. And, I thought that ...
There was a new version of iTunes released yesterday. I was reading up over at SlashDot, and found a posting there about it. I raced over to the download page, grabbed the installer, and did my thing. I made my way back over to /. to report on my findings. I don't typically post, but someone specifically asked what was new in this version. After running the app, I immediately noticed a few things: # The title bar was completely mac-like. Window controls are in the upper-left side, and the window title itself is centered. # Right-Clicking the titlebar brought up an Options menu that I've never seen before. It's called "Plugin Options", and has preferences like "skin the ...
Back in March, I decided to treat myself to a new jacket. I'd been wearing the same wool-blend black zip-up jacket for about 3 years. It has seen better days. I found one that I liked on Amazon, so I went ahead and placed the order. It was actually purchased through Nordstrom. Last week at Jazz In The Park, Judy & I were walking home, and I went to zip up the new jacket. I've worn it maybe a half dozen times, give or take. When I went to zip, the little metal strip on the left-side (the thing you actually place into the zipping aparatus to start the zipping process) ...
I played a round on Friday afternoon at Willow Run golf course, out in Waukesha. Lots of trees, lots of water in play. It was a fairly tough course. I haven't played much this year, other than a few after-work rounds at Warnimont with Andy. It really showed. I played much better on the back 9 - improving my score by 10 strokes - but still didn't play all that well. I'm hitting the ball much better, and I think I've worked out one problem with my swing (and found 3 or 4 new ones). I'm anxious to get out there again. I've been doing some bargain unting on eBay, and found a new driver on the cheap. I ...