Short hops – Boston Sports Blog:
I think it’s safe to say Remy and Don Orsillo are well on their way to conquering YouTube.
Check out the video at the very bottom of Eric’s post. It will be a very, very sad day when Remy no longer covers Red Sox games.
openjfx: Getting Started with the JavaFX Script Language(for Swing Programmers)
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Below is a summary of the JavaFX Border classes and the Swing borders to which they correspond:
Oh dear God in Heaven. Now, when someone pointed out this new language from the Java team, I thought, “Oh man. Rich content market. Taking on AJAX, Flash, and Silverlight. Yay.”
Being the curious sort, and since this is usually my job, to check out the latest and greatest (well, okay, maybe not in the job specs, but it’s something I do for my job, anyway), I downloaded it. Figured I’d skim the tutorial. I glanced through the installation article with NetBeans, and clicked on the tutorial link at the bottom, which led me to the article above.
Holy Pete and all the Angels on High… what are they thinking? A rich media framework/language built on SWING? Argh.
Oh wow. And it gets better. I just downloaded the demos, without thinking (it must have been the shock of an “easy-to-use rich media environment” using Swing as it’s primary interface programming mechanism). After a couple minutes downloading over a pretty reasonable connection we have…:
Embed that.
Borders Book Club: Michael Chabon:
Chabon’s book is a smart homage to ’40s noir and an earnest reflection on lives in exile
This was actually a pretty interesting video book club meeting with Michael Chabon about his latest book… I figured, upon seeing the mail from Borders, that I would maybe watch the first clip or so, and then give up, but had it playing in the background most of the morning…
The Soul of Baseball: The Winds of Fenway:
I start with this story because today’s blog is about home and road, and how Fenway Park has influenced the way we have watched baseball the last 50 years or so. So right up front, I want to say that I’m not ripping Yaz or Jim Rice or Wade Boggs for putting up big numbers at Fenway Park. A good player takes advantage of his surroundings. Muhammad Ali felt the loosened ring ropes in Zaire and leaned on them. Bart Starr felt the frozen field beneath him and called the quarterback sneak.
An amazing article from Joe Posnanski on the effect of home ballparks on certain ballplayers. More well-researched and thought-out than anything I ever write. Or maybe it isn’t. Perhaps the secret to being a really good, authoritative figure is to right authoritatively with lots of numbers, percentages, and figures that look so mightily impressive, and so thoroughly researched that the mind boggles at even attempting to follow up on them yourself. That way no one ever finds out that you’re completely and utterly talking out of your a**.
That last comment is not referring to Joe, of course, but myself, should you ever see an article as thorough and impressive-looking as all that anywhere, with a byline of me.
Of course, we never made any music videos. And most of us (well, I was, thereabouts) weren’t as young as these guys. But the vibe reminds me of those days down on Hudson Street in NYC. The good days, before we went bust. The office looks very similar to our office, which you can see parts of in what is, I suppose, our own depressing version of Vimeo’s video, only not in video format. and without music.
The first: Borderequalsjustaboutzero
The second (post-aquisition and post-closure of the old office): Borderequalszeroagain
There’s a great chance, for the first, that alcohol was involved in the post-production and image compression (so don’t expect any miracles). The second, just poor Flash skillz.
Ah well.
Oh no. It looks like Gruber supports the Yankees (Link Warning: Language of an upset Yankees fan). Oh well, I guess I won’t be getting that DaringFireball subscription after all… 🙂
“I’d pick up a Matthew Reilly before I picked up this one…”
referring to a Thomas Greanias book (Raising Atlantis).
Well. I may have to amend that statement. Because, so far, this book is okay… it just… well, it feels like a picture book. There are a lot of diagrams and pictures drawn out in this book so far. And not in the crude, sort of amusing Vonnegut-style.
Stats from dinner with Dylan:
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French Farmhouse Garlic Chicken: 100% spit into Dad’s hand
French Farmhouse Garlic Chicken w/ Ketchup: 3% spit into Dad’s hand
Can’t argue with those results. Ketchup is scientifically proven to reduce stuff spit into your hand by 97%.[1]
[1] Warning, actual math and results may vary.
