Q.I. Productions – a wombat, the sink, and how it got there

“Destiny Calling” () came on the old iTunes today… I don’t know what it is about this piece of music, but it sets off something… well, I was going to say literary, but maybe we’ll call it “something of the writerly mind.” Well, that also sounds lame. In fact, admitting to liking James and that [...]

Since I’ve been thumbing through the author’s copy of “Further Fenway Fiction: More Short Stories from Red Sox Nation” (Pachter Adam), it seems baseball must have been on my mind.
This week’s Sane is about the rookie hazing campaign that’s been going on over the last few starts for poor Daisuke Matsuzaka. Well, “poor” isn’t [...]

Not a single, solitary person has asked, but here it is, anyway. The technology behind the mobile horoscopes is a combo of our lovely SMHoroscopesWriter, a custom Cocoa app the Q.I. Software team worked on, which now exports two different kinds of HTML and an XML format for general consumption (you, too, can integrate horoscopes [...]

Since I’ve been so prolific (via AllConsuming) today, I figured I’d give a little shout out to what’s going to be announced with next week’s Sane Magazine issue.
Horoscopes for your phone… or… iHoroscopes! Thrilling! (It’ll look fine in Safari, or Omniweb, but it’ll look even better on your brand-spanking new iPhone…)
And, as you may or [...]

Fenway Fiction: Short Stories from the Red Sox Nation
by Adam Emerson Pachter

Before Further Fenway Fiction came out, this was the Greatest Book Ever. Now it’s the second.
Still good, though, and well worth reading, for the seven Americans who continue to read, based on the last study.

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Further Fenway Fiction: More Short Stories from Red Sox Nation
by Pachter Adam

This is possibly the greatest collection of fiction ever written.
Working through the author copies I received the other day.

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Via the Boston Herald:
[Wily Mo] released this statement Sunday:
“To my sisters, brothers and fans of the Red Sox [team stats] Nation. I want to take a moment to thank you and the entire Red Sox organization for your support during my time in Boston. Your constant passion for baseball and your beloved Red Sox is [...]

NIKE+ : Map It
This map it is a great feature. For example, the Old Home Day 5 Mile race:
The Route.
God help me. For both the race and the fact that I seem to be getting a little obsessed with this Nike+ stuff…

Whew:

Well, this’ll teach me to pay attention to how many kilometers in a mile: