Cableman and I decided on the conference and division names for the baseball league:
Shire Conference – Hobbit, Elf, Dwarf divisions
Mordor Conference – Orc, Goblin, Troll divisions
Exactly how old am I supposed to be again?
Calling all baseball stat geeks. Solonor’s Groovy Computer Baseball League is gearing up for bidness.
I’m going to be using the wickedly cool Out of the Park 5 as the sim engine for this extravaganza. It’s got really cool features that let you manage everything from your starting lineup and pitching rotation down to the ticket prices in your stadium. You don’t need to own it to participate, but you do need some form of IRC for online drafts and such.
There are still a lot of things up-in-the-air, because I don’t know how many people will be playing or to what extent they will want to deal with player salaries and hiring coaches and scouts and all that stuff. (I love that junk, but then I love that Capitalism game).
I’d like to have at least 10 teams, but my ideal would be 24 (two conferences with three four-team divisions). I’m writing the rules even as we speak, and the central command will be located at https://solonor.com/baseball/. Check out some of the other OOTP online leagues for some idea of what I’m raving about.
I love my referer log.
It is my special friend.
It brings me gifts.
Like today, for example, it took me to the link list of Time Is Tight, where – through the magic of the backspace key – I saw the blog of Arthur Jennings. And right at the top of the page was a link to ~stevenf: Caterwaul.
Now, I have a theme song.
Everybody sing! I wanna be Ben, I wanna be Mena…
I feel like I’ve just been going “Um, yeah, what he said” a lot lately. Oh, well, beats actually thinking of new stuff on my own…
Anyway, if you’re an RSS junkie, check out The FeedRoom – List of RSS Channels. I knew they had great video clips, but this just adds an extra dimension to getting the news out in new and different ways.
[ Oh, yeah, “he” is Chris Pirillo ]
And the winner is…
Go check out the winners at Blogcritics: Book-Film-TV-Video Critiquees. There’s even a couple of reviews by some half-elven dude.
I almost spewed my coffee this morning… and it wasn’t from laughing.
A small, rabid (as in drooling and insane), group of creeps has decided to protest the life of Mister Rogers. The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, led by the spitting image of Lucifer himself, Fred Phelps, will protest Rogers’ supposed promotion of homosexuality by picketing WQED, the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Child Development, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Sixth Presbyterian Church – places graced by the presence or support of Fred Rogers.
This group professes to believe not only that gays are the root of all evil, but that our lack of condemnation of them is the reason behind September 11, the Columbia crash and the nightclub fire in Rhode Island.
Shirley Phelps-Roper, the attorney for the Westboro Baptist Church, explained that Rogers, as a Presbyterian minister with a television program, had a responsibility to comment on the issue. By not doing so, she explained that he was helping to perpetuate homosexuality, which the group says falls into the category of “whoremongery and adultery, which will damn the soul forever in hell.” She added that the support some Americans have given to homosexuals has been the reason behind horrible tragedies including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the crash of the NASA shuttle Colombia, and the nightclub fire in Rhode Island.
“You don’t get to pretend to decide what form God takes,” Phelps-Roper said. “He’s the God who could have stopped the shuttle crash, the nightclub fire, but instead he sent those things. This country has forgotten God and effectively flipped him off, and Fred Rogers is in part responsible.”
When I went looking to see if this was real, I found the hateful URL that is associated with them. It’s so bad, I thought it must be a really lame version of the Landover Baptist parody site. It’s not.
I’m not going to publish that link. Just look it up in Google, and don’t click on it. They don’t deserve the traffic. Go to the Anti-Defamation League’s site, if you must see more. (Also, there’s a Westboro Baptist Church in Ottawa, Canada. It’s not them. And make sure you check out the information on Mister Rogers at Snopes, before you send me any “Mister Rogers was a military sharpshooter with tattoos under his sweater” e-mails, too.)
Tony Norman had an excellent editorial in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as to how Mister Rogers would have reacted.
I had never heard of the Westboro Baptist Church before today, and I debated whether or not to bring them even the shred of meager publicity that a mention here would give them. However, it is my belief that evil hides its ugly face in shadows. The light of scrutiny, reason and truth will make it (eventually) go away. Damn, I hope so, in this case.
[ Thanks, Ren, for winding me up this morning. Geez. 😉 ]
If you’re looking for blogs on a particular subject, check out the recently-renamed Feedster. Actually, I saw this earlier when it was “Roogle” but they seem to have made more improvements than just the name change. Using Feedster, you can look for blogs and guarantee that they’ll have an RSS newsfeed. So, if you like one in particular, you can add it to your newsreader with ease.
[ via the anything but ordinary GeekGrrl ]
Haven’t been a good Monday Missioneer lately, but it’s time for Monday Mission 3.12.
Ack! I forgot to do my Aortal site of the week last Friday. Bad blogwhore! Bad! Bad!
Solonor’s Aortal Site of the Week this time ’round is blogatron – the observations of Hilatron, a space-age robot sent to study the Earthlings by living as one of them. I am especially drawn to blogs with titles like Pour Me A Gallon Of Rum, Talk To Me About Endangered Monkeys, And I’m All Yours.
What’s cool about this blog (um, other than being from the perspective of a space-age robot sent to study the Earthlings by living as one of them) is that it is the tip of the iceberg known as The Leisure Agency. They have several field agents, including Captain Glitter Biscuit, Agent Doombot, Agent Leisure Muffin and . . . Secret Agent SPORK!
They even ran their own candidate for President. With the disappearance of wKen, I’m backing a Bili Rubin in ’04 candidacy. I mean you have to get behind ideals like this:
Bili Rubin feels strongly that all forms of currency are a dangerous waste of resources.
My anti-baseball crusade has come crashing down around me. Not only am I thinking of starting up a computer baseball league again (even going so far as to purchase OOTP5), but Christine has got me all geared up for the Sox with FenwayFaithful.com: Friends of Slugger & Wally.
[ Note that due to trolls and other idiots, she’s requiring registration in order for you to leave comments. ]
