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The official 2008 NPC schedule is out, so I verified, expanded, and corrected the search page.

I’ve been working on a new view of the calendar but it’s barely our of pre-alpha stage– it doesn’t yet handle multiple shows on the same date, for example. If I can ever clear the decks of backlog I’ll add “download to Outlook” and/or “download to iCal” functions and let someone else worry about the calendaring.

Also, on the main page, I updated the summaries to pull data directly from the blog, based on whether or not the blog post is slugged with the “site update” category. That will save me updating the information in two places, as I nearly always give site update details in the blog anyway.

As an aside, it’s reassuring to see so many contests now having their own individual information sites on the Web. I think soon we’ll see that become a requirement, and following the logical progression, a centrally-hosted service.

Some change on the host has caused all of the bodybuilding contest pages to break. I’m looking into it and will get the pages back online as soon as possible. Thanks for being patient.

Update: One of the environment variables I was using to calculate image names was no longer available. I worked up a fix and luckily I was able to use _sed_ to do mass changes, so I had everything working again a few minutes later.

Please let me know if you see anything broken!

Quiz time:

To which party does disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer belong?

If you don’t know, it’s not surprising. It’s not a secret, and most of the news articles *do* mention it, but it’s not in the headlines nor usually in the top three paragraphs.

Hillary insists that our country has a “conservative media”. So since the media is obviously doing what they can to minimize party association, Eliot must be a Republican, right? Final answer?

*bzzzzt!* He’s a Democrat.

I can’t help but believe that if Eliot *wasn’t* a Democrat, every article in the world would have the word “Republican” in the first paragraph– if not the headline.

“Conservative media”, indeed.

I invented a cyborg with artificial intelligence to help with my yard work.

I call it a Cylon Mower.

I saw this article in the local paper a couple of days ago (though it’s strangely missing from their Web site, hence the external link) claiming that experts have noticed kids are swearing more these days.

My question is: how does one become an “expert” in such a field in the first place, and with the economy dropping like a paralyzed falcon*, couldn’t we find something more productive for them to do, like digging ditches or something?

* Apologies to the Harvard Lampoon

Well, Gator baseball season is underway again, and a 3-0 start against *anybody* has to be seen as positive.

The crazy weather is bound to affect play, though. Last Saturday I got sunburned arms, by Wednesday evening it should be in the 30s– or lower. Tough for any team to cope with, says I.

Speaking of coping, I bought a four-dollar Coke at the game Saturday, drank about a third of it, then found it could be used to attract and collect gnats from as far away as Trenton.

C’mon, guys. We *know* the ticket prices are going to soar at the first excuse, and concession prices have always been a good source of abusive humor. But a four-dollar coke ought to come with a lid, at least.

Since realizing that “cinnamon” could be rhymed with “minimum”, imagining a non-cheesy usage has occupied all my thoughts.

I am a man obsessed.