Favorite Celsius1414 posts of 2006
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Thu, 2006-12-21 09:59.
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Some favorite Celsius1414 posts of 2006, in reverse chronological order.
Box Springs Mountain, Riverside County
My friends Otis and Alex, along with myself and the poodle, took a hike along the top of Box Springs Mountain today.
So last night was both Fleece Blanket Night and Chinese American Community Night at Dodger Stadium. There were some talented martial artists, reportedly monks straight from China, performing on top of the big LA logo. Singers sang and award ceremonies were held.
There was also a baseball game played. You might have heard about it.
I’m still researching and pondering the ins and outs of the Mediterranean Diet. One of the handiest visual representations I’ve found is at Oldways (in PDF or JPG format) which gives—much like the more-familiar, government-issue food pyramid—a sense of the proportions of various food types.
Constructing the lineup for a game is one of the traditions of baseball that is, if not arcane, then at least subject to much theory and contemplation. With the advent of sabermetrics, new conjecture has arisen with all sorts of mathematical ideas that, while potentially sound, will likely never see the light of day because of baseball’s resistance to change, no matter the ideas’ merits (or lack thereof).
Installing Ubuntu 6.06 on an iBook, first try
Attempting to install Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 on an older iBook 500 MHz, 256MB RAM, 15GB Hard Drive.
Denyse and I were in a car accident on Sunday afternoon — no one was seriously hurt, but check out D’s car…
Sometimes I wonder if this world is one of those really bad movies where politicians are blatantly evil. Then I realize, no, this isn’t a really bad movie — it’s just a really bad reality.
Most important meal of the day
In reading up on the cuisine of the Mediterranean, I’ve been looking recently into what is, as the cliché goes, the most important meal of the day — a cliché, but one that is consistently echoed by nutrionists and diet gurus. Unfortunately, it is also disappearing in much of Western society.
Honesty, cheating, and gamesmanship in sports
Although poorly constructed — and undoubtedly falling on deaf ears considering the audience — an article by Gregg Doyel over at CBS SportsLine makes a good case for equating the frustratingly (to American eyes) histrionic diving rampant among some soccer players, and the “advantages” taken by American players in baseball, football, and basketball (scuffed balls, uncalled holds, flopping, etc.).
When I say poor construction, it mostly has to do with the seemingly schizoid relationship between the two halves of the article. Actually, I think there are two good articles hiding inside a bad article — honesty vs cheating, and gamesmanship vs pushing the boundaries. Doyel should have picked amongst the four sides to the argument — usually one is sufficient. ;)
Ever notice that sometimes baseball announcers will say a ball is hit “back through the box,” but it went past or over the pitcher’s mound?
New 1414 desktop picture.
atom.module not formatting Markdown or Textile properly
There’s a known issue with the atom.module for Drupal, which creates an Atom syndication feed to accompanying the built-in RSS feed — the issue is that if you’re also using the Markdown or Textile modules, atom.module doesn’t convert the markup to proper HTML, instead showing the Markdown or Textile as is….
After a bit of investigation, I’ve come up with a temporary solution to the problem, at least for Markdown format. (I don’t have Textile installed, so someone else will have to confirm; given the nature of the fix, I imagine it would work.)
How to display a wordcount for Drupal nodes
If you are viewing the site in a browser rather than an aggregator, you’ll notice a wordcount displayed in the service links at the bottom of posts. There was a thread on drupal.org covering how to accomplish that sort of thing, but there were a couple of issues with the method. Here is my solution…
The Tampa Bay Devil Rays have been mulling changing their team name as part of a general overhauling scheme under new ownership. And also, you know, because people are freaked out by the whole “devil” thing…
Zen and the Nirvana of Cycling
In fact, with all respect to Pirsig, I believe you’re even more in your environment without the motor noise, not to mention how in touch you are with every rise and fall of the road.
I was up late last night reading and watching baseball replays when I happened across the 1997 Starship Troopers movie, the edited-for-TV version cutting out the nudity and worst bug-on-human violence — human-on-bug violence, naturally, was perfectly fine. Imagine the outcry if they showed a graphic representation of a bug cutting off some human dude’s most treasured appendage. Of course, if Denise Richards does it to a brain bug, the theater cheers. ;)
While researching baseball signs by catchers and base coaches, I stumbled across an informative article from The Amateur Umpire Home Page: Umpire Signs and Signals.
Spoem: “Lively Benefits of Creativity”
Poem constructed from the subject lines of spam email currently in my Junkmail folder…
Yours
Your favorite posts of 2006 are represented in the sidebar “Popular content” section, under “All time”, since the Drupal version of this site has basically been in existence for this year.
- Zen Pockets
- Potential MLB free agents, 2007 (Updated)
- PHPosxom
- Mini-Monitor
- Ubuntu Linux (Hoary) on an iBook
- Mail Sounds
- How to Roast Cashews
- anentry
- Halo
- Updated Dodgers rumors
Drupal
I’ve very much enjoyed using Drupal this year, and I’ll definitely keep it going for the foreseeable future. Drupal 5 is in the Release Candidate stage right now, promising some new geeky fun after the new year.
Looking back through the archive, I found the earliest post on the site — earliest in the sense of first posted in Drupal: Node #2 (don’t remember what happened to #1 :) — Drupal on its way, on March 16th, 2006.
I am looking into transitioning the entire 1414 site to the Drupal CMS package in the near future.
Thanks for visiting and reading, and here’s to many more posts to come in 2007!
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