It feels strange to call a win “routine,” honestly. Not much to say about the Arsenal win over the Jam last night — for most of the game, the Arsenal held a lead, and never dug themselves a hole. Granted, the Bakersfield Jam are easily the league’s worst team, but they beat the Arsenal twice …
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Two Cats
The Running (Through) of the Bulls
A futures trader (apparently still in college) loses 40K, wiping out his account, over the long weekend on Dow futures. There are some YouTube videos on there as well, with a picture-in-picture of him superimposed over his trading software, swearing a lot. From an article linked to in comments elsewhere on his blog: From my …
Identity Reclaimed
I was complaining late last year about how my site still wasn’t the number one search result for my name. Well, I think setting up a better default index page for my site made some kind of difference — eriknovales.com is now the #1 search result for my name. Yeehaw.
Three Books
I’ve been reading quite a bit lately, so I figured that I would write capsule reviews or summaries of the books that I’ve read. The United States of Arugula is a look behind the evolution of “American cuisine,” the popularization and adoption of local and organic foodstuffs, and how the perception of cooking in this …
Apollo Justice
I saw on Rock Paper Shotgun that Capcom has released a free Flash demo of the upcoming Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney game. As someone who recently played Phoenix Wright: Justice for All (my introduction to the series — I haven’t yet played the other two installments), I find this demo interesting for a few reasons: …
What Goes Up…
I noticed today that the market took another pounding today, with the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ all giving up at least 2%. Those who are better acquainted with me will know that, for some time now, I have been convinced of the eventual collapse of the skyrocketing housing market. I do not have any real …
The D-League Experience, Even Cheaper
I just read on the D-League president’s blog that, from now until the end of the season, you’ll be able to watch all D-League games for free as streaming video. I haven’t checked it out yet, but this explains the presence of cameras and video editing equipment at the games we’ve attended for the last …
Can I Keep My Jersey?
The title of this entry is taken from the book of the same name by Paul Shirley, occasional NBA player and basketball wordsmith. It’s a very funny book, mixing insight into the sometimes surreal lives of basketball mercenaries, along with ruminations on more philosophical questions. Given the occasional crazy outburst by an NBA player, it’s …
OpenWrt
So I decided, on something of a whim, to replace the firmware in my trusty Buffalo WBR2-G54 router with OpenWrt, a modular Linux distribution for embedded devices. (I actually used the X-Wrt packages, which have a better web interface for configuration but are based on OpenWrt.) The WBR2-G54 is based on the Broadcom 4712 platform, …