YES!

San Francisco Giants: 3
Los Angeles Dodgers: 2

Bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, bases loaded, and Cody Ransom sends the first pitch he sees in the game right back up the middle for a game-winning RBI single! Again, in a game where Bonds wasn't a factor, the other G-men step up and fill the void.

We're a half-game back in the NL West!

And, a bet update

aurictech Cardinals 41-28 .594
bunyip Cubs 39-30 .565
gridlore Giants 38-32 .543

Tonight, the battle continues. The Bums will send Kazuhisa Ishii (8-3) up against Dustin Hermanson (2-2)

BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!

Can I get a ROAR?

The San Jose Wildcats just finished their 4th NFL Season undefeated. The amazing thing was, I let the computer play the entire year on automatic. That's how good this team is!

Now I face the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs.. Come to the nice kitties, little birds.. heheheh..

(Yes, I sometimes have way too much fun with Madden NFL 2003)

An article on SpaceShipOne

Rocket ship loops into space -- and glides home safely
First privately financed spaceflight -- 'Yeeee-haw!'

Mojave, Kern County -- The era of privately financed manned spaceflight began over the high desert here early Monday with a bumpy 88-minute voyage that sent a shuttlecock- shaped rocket plane and its pilot 62.2 miles up out of the atmosphere and safely home in a setting that felt more like a rock concert than a space mission.

For the most part, a good article. But then a former NASA engineer named Dr. Bruce Murray chimes in with this:

For that reason, Murray said, rockets like SpaceShipOne might end up being viable largely as tourist attractions for those wealthy and fit enough to afford brief journeys into space on their vacations.

"It's like going to Mt. Everest," he said. "If there is a market here, it is for adventure touring, in my opinion."

Hello? What was the commercial value of the Wright Flyer? Of Eniac? Of the very first steam-powered horseless carriage? All were odd, didn't fit the current paradigm, and took time to find their markets. It took time for flight to evolve from the rickety Wright Flyer buzzing along above the dunes to the L1011 and SR-71!

This is just another of our tentative first steps, there will be more.

Now I need a copy of Jordin Kare's "Bloody Bastards" on mp3.