The Idle Wanderings of a Mind in Neutral

A few years ago, I joined an over-30 (years old) baseball league. Not softball - baseball. We played The Game with reckless abandon, got hurt and loved it! Unfortunately, The Administrators of The League seemed to believe that they owned The League and could do as they saw fit. In the the minds of many (but not all) of The Players, this was intolerable. We attempted to reason with The Administrators, but to no avail. So, we left to start a New League.

We had given money to The League while we were there. Some of that money went to baseballs and catcher's equipment and helmets and bases and fields and other stuff that The League needed to operate. We spent even more money on gloves and shoes and knee-pads and braces for ourselves. So we were entitled to take those things with us! We had put in the time and effort and the money!

We took our spikes, our gloves, our baseballs, our hats and bats. What we did not and could not take were those things that belonged to The League. Because The League held them in trust for The Players that remained. You see, The League is there for The Players, even if the The Administrators don't always see that. But even under the direst of circumstances - leaving - we had no right to the bats or balls or bases or helmets or the Name of The League that we and others had paid to maintain. Had we done so, The Administrators would have had a duty to protect The League. They would have been honor- and duty-bound to protect The League for both the current as well as the future Players.

You see, we knew The Rules going in and we chose to abide by them going out. You want to "take my ball and go home!" - please do. Just leave my ball (or church) where you found it. It doesn't belong to you and it certainly doesn't belong to me. It belongs to The Players who have not yet stepped on to The Field.

	"Waterboarding" = Drowning by Bruce Schmoetzer - Friday, 11 July 2008, 11:03 AM
	Vanity Fair magazine asked Christopher Hitchens it he would be willing undergo waterboarding - he agreed. He has written about his experiences and you can watch the video as well. Make up your own mind. I know I have.

OK, I watched the WWDC keynote with all the nifty iPhone apps and new 3G and GPS hardware. And, YES, I want one. Unfortunately, I (and some of my friends) do not live in any of the 70 countries in which the new (or even the current) iPhones will be available.

I live in Montana. They live in Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota. And AT&T is no where in sight. Sure they have roaming agreements with Cellular One. But that does us no good.

So - with the new rules about having to activate your iPhone in-store only - unless the iPod touch gets fitted with a GPS chipset, we are screwed. If anybody out there has Steve Jobs' phone number, please give him a ring on our behalf. We would be happy to join the League of Nations.

-THX!

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The occasional ramblings of a farm boy physicist, who started a company to teach people how to use all that technology stuff.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
- Douglas Adams

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