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The improbable has happened! Never before in history has a Major League
Baseball team lost the first three games of a best-of-seven series and
then won the next three. The Red Sox did it tonight, literally, on the
ankle of Schilling and the bat of Mark Bellhorn. GAME 7!
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A lot worse. I only have the 11th worst job in science, according to
Popular Science and its second edition of the dubious distinctions
of
href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,20967,713471,00.html">The
Worst Jobs in Science (Nov. 2004).
In some unspecified way,
href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,20967,713441,00.html">Computer
Help-Desk Tech is scientific. Who knew? And I went to school for
Journalism! I should ask for a new diploma.
In any case, the article points out:
These are people who love the subtle power and intricacies
of computers, yet who must spend their days incarcerated in windowless
rooms telephonically holding the hands of 16-bit blockheads. One computer
tech in Delaware recently had an urban legend spring to life when a user
called to complain, apparently in all sincerity, that his computer's
"coffee cup holder" (actually the CD drive) was broken. "We should all be
issued sidearms so we can vent our frustration," she says. It's a lot to
swallow for $35,000 a year.
At least I have a big (usually sunny) window in my fake office...
Oh, and the worst job in science, according to PopSci?
href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,20967,713468,00.html">Anal-Wart
Researcher. Ewwwwwww!
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Coverage of ALCS game 5 stared at 5:30 PM on FOX (actual first pitch was
at about 5:40). Six hours later, my TiVo reached its maximum time limit
for a single recording. Just seconds before it stopped recording, David
Ortiz singled to center, and Johnny Damon scampered home to win the game
in the bottom of the 14th inning. Yay Red Sox!
From about 8:30 PM on, the NLCS between Houston and St. Louis was being
played as well. The game was shown on F/X, and they switched it to FOX
just in time for the bottom of the 9th, where the Astros won the game with
a 3-run walk-off home run.
Poor NLCS. So neglected. So apparently unimportant. FOX must be loving it
that the ALCS is continuing. I'm sure the added advertising revenue will
look good in the 4th quarter earnings.
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Yet another try on the design of this site... Give it time and I'll finish
this thing off sooner or later.
