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  • Jack at Fenway

    I don’t think anybody in the park expected this to happen that night. Surely the craziest baseball game I’ve ever attended, and maybe even the craziest I’ve ever seen, period. The Red Sox jumped out to a 10-0 lead over the Rangers in the first inning, ended up trailing 16-15 by the sixth, and finally pulled out a win by a score of 19-17 thanks to a howitzer shot over the Green Monster by Kevin Youkilis in the bottom of the eighth. The game tied an AL record for most total runs scored, and the Rangers’ 17 runs were the most ever allowed by the Red Sox in a win. Just wild.

    August 15

  • Ferry Building

    An amazing, albeit pricey, food shopping extravaganza at the foot of Market Street. I wasn’t around for the farmer’s market here on Saturday, but the regular stores and restaurants kept me well occupied.

    May 29

  • Bay Bridge, seagull

    Around the back side of the Ferry Building there are nice views of San Francisco Bay, and plenty of grubby-looking seagulls.

    May 29

  • Coit Tower

    I was in Washington Square and the #39 Coit bus was coming by, so I rode up Telegraph Hill to take some photos with the rest of the tourists. Although the view of the city and the bay is great from way up there, the trees on the hill have grown a bit too tall to allow good landscape photography from ground level.

    May 29

  • Jon Lester warming up

    After doing long-toss, Lester moved to the visiting bullpen down the right-field line to throw off the mound before the game. John Farrell supervises here on the right. Lester went five innings in the game, giving up four runs (three earned), and striking out three batters. Oakland finished the three-game sweep of the Red Sox with a final score of 6-3.

    May 29

  • Saints Peter and Paul Church

    I shot some photos around Washington Square before meeting friends at Mario’s Bohemian Cigar Store Café for lunch.

    May 29

  • Blue Bottle cappuccino

    Ordinarily I just drink drip or French press, but here I went with a cappuccino because it was before 11:00 AM (the only correct time to drink the foamy stuff) and because I was at hoity-toity Blue Bottle Coffee.

    May 29

  • Josh Beckett throwing long-toss

    Beckett warms up at McAfee Coliseum before going up against the Athletics on May 24, 2008. He threw seven innings, giving up two runs and striking out nine batters. The Red Sox, however, were held to one hit and no runs over the entire game and Beckett took the loss.

    May 29

  • Transamerica Pyramid

    The Transamerica Pyramid, viewed edge-on from the east. The trees at the bottom of the frame are redwoods in the little park adjacent to the building.

    May 29

  • Clay Street typography

    Most sidewalks in San Francisco have their respective street names embossed into the concrete near the intersections. Here on Clay Street near the Transamerica Pyramid, there are actual metal letters pressed into the ground. Unfortunately, two-thirds of them are wrong. The C and S are flipped vertically and the A and Y are flipped horizontally. Actually, I bet the T is backwards too, although since it’s symmetrical it doesn’t matter; my guess is that these metal letterforms are supposed to be installed with the flush side to the pavement, like the L here.

    May 29

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  • Lieberman to address GOP convention

    My God, he is simply a detestable hack. Just the foulest opportunistic weasel possible. I think if he stands too close to Giuliani, the critical mass of loathsomeness might trigger some type of chain reaction.

    August 20

  • How Is Babby Formed?

    Flash animation accompaniment for a Q/A exchange from Yahoo Answers, a true pit of illiteracy and general cluelessness. But it makes a good meme.

    August 20

  • Avec Eric

    Chef Eric Ripert demonstrates some very respectable dishes cooked in a toaster oven. Clever stuff.

    August 20

  • The Hardball Times: Knuckleballers unite

    Comparing the only four other MLB knuckleball pitchers to the Wakefield gold standard.

    August 20

  • What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface design guidelines

    Despite its title, this essay doesn’t really have anything to do with Tufte, but the opinions expressed about UI are well elaborated and sensible.

    August 13

  • Registered Traveler Company Frozen After Losing Flier Data

    Under the Verified Identity Pass “Clear” program, “travelers willing to undergo a background check by the government and pay $100 a year” get to have the security of their personal information threatened by the gross incompetence of a federal contractor. They stored the database in cleartext on a laptop?

    August 5

  • Google Transit: A new way to plan your CDTA trip

    We got Street View up here in the Capital Region a while ago, and now we have public transportation trip planning with Google Transit too. Now if only Google could get more buses to run on Sundays…

    August 4

  • Google Calendar: CalDAV + iCal

    Formerly, all you could do was subscribe to your Google Calendar feed in iCal; events added locally would not sync back up to Google. Now it’s two-way. Very nice.

    August 2

  • Too Fit to Be President?

    The Wall Street Journal wonders rhetorically (in the backhanded Fox News “not saying, just asking” style) whether Barack Obama might lose votes for being skinny. I guess that’s reason number 843 why I’d make a poor Presidential candidate.

    August 1

  • Inside Professor Obama’s Classroom

    Exams from Barack Obama’s constitutional law classes at the University of Chicago. Just think, we could have a President who understands the Constitution!

    July 30

  • Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) charged with hiding gifts

    It’s not a truck, it’s a series of indictments! I have to say, 250 grand seems like a relatively cheap price for buying a U.S. Senator.

    July 29

  • The Lifehacker Editors’ Favorites

    I’ve got a new machine being delivered tomorrow, so I’m interested in gathering suggestions for what to install on it that I haven’t thought of.

    July 27

  • Storms on the Horizon

    “Add together the unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security, and it comes to $99.2 trillion over the infinite horizon.” That’s over six times the current annual U.S. GDP: we’re going to have big fun in the next 30 years.

    July 25

  • Ask MeFi on baby boomers’ retirement

    From time to time I wonder what’s going to happen when all those pension funds, 401(k)’s, and IRAs start getting sold back onto the market to pay for the boomers’ silver years. I suspect it won’t be good for me.

    July 25

  • Porky in Wackyland

    Albert Hofmann first synthesized LSD in 1938. This cartoon was made in 1939. I’m just saying.

    July 24

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  • My e-mail address: the name jack, followed by the “at” symbol, followed by the domain jlet.org (some assembly required, sorry).