Slow Children At Play

Excitement throughout the building grew as the crowd watched Davis roll ball after ball down the lanes.”When I got to the tenth frame, I said ‘Lord, let me throw three more good balls,’ Davis told The Times.

Davis had given up his passion for the sport after losing his sight to macular degeneration years ago. His sister brought him back to the lanes, where he now plays six games a week, reported The Times.

“I can’t see the lane or the pins and have a heck of a time finding my ball sometimes,” Davis told The Times.

He finds the raised dots lining the lanes and then relies on his hearing and friends to tell him how well he did.

The perfect game has been his goal for years.

“After I went blind, I just assumed it wouldn’t happen,” said Davis.

Davis sports a 188 average and said he hopes to score another perfect game when he’s 90, The Times reported.

You can read much more on Davis’ perfect game on The Storm Lake Times Web site.

http://www.kcci.com/sports/16201286/detail.html

Thanks Mod!

NBC11 reporter Cheryl Hurd became a part of the news story she was assigned to cover after her laptop computer was stolen in a smash-and-grab.Hurd was doing a story in San Francisco’s Western Addition about smash-and-grab robberies and was sitting inside an NBC11 news van when she became a victim of a smash-and-grab robbery herself.Three people opened the door to the van and grabbed the computer off of Hurd’s lap, Hurd reported.

The Western Addition is a hot spot for smash-and-grab robberies, Hurd reported.

Resident Earl Wells said he sees smash-and-grab robbers standing on corners, watching for people to park their cars in the area.

San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi said he’s tired of seeing broken glass peppered along the streets because cars have been broken into. He said the city is not doing enough, and that he expects more from officials and law enforcement to help resolve what he called a crisis.

Al Casciato of the San Francisco Police Department said he disagrees with Mirkarimi’s comments. Casciato said he thinks the police department has been doing a “tremendous job” and that any commentary about the officers should be taken in full context.

Hurd said that the smash-and-grab items are generally sold to buy guns, drugs and other items that support gang activity.

http://www.nbc11.com/newsarchive/16171008/detail.html

I’ve been really busy at work this week, but today I took a nice break to watch “Microsoft’s Finest A Cappella” group: the Baudboys. They came down from Redmond to put on a short concert at my campus. I caught the end of their first set–just in time to see “Gonna Make You Happy Tonight” originally by Tripod. You can watch their rendition of the song from from 5m20s in:

http://www.baudboys.com/

Tripod’s original version:

http://indexed.blogspot.com/2008/05/all-rise.html

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/28/really-stunning-pictures-and-photos

A guidance counselor at a Manhattan prep school is murdered while the prom is taking place in the gymnasium.
Forensic scientists for the New York police attempt to recreate the crime scene by uploading hundreds of camera phone thumbnail photos snapped at the dance onto a computer.

The PC screen fills up in a concentric square pattern, revealing a wide shot of the gym at the center. Investigators can manipulate the images to show close-ups of the scene from every angle.

This episode of the CBS crime drama CSI: NY, scheduled to run Wednesday night, is fiction. But the technology at its core, Microsoft’s Photosynth software, is real. It analyzes scores of images for similarities and stitches them into a three-dimensional reconstruction.

CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker first saw Photosynth, which is due later this year, in July during a tour of Microsoft’s research labs in Redmond, Wash.

Zuiker makes regular visits to Redmond as part of an ongoing creative relationship between CSI and Microsoft.

“The partnership for us is very important,” Zuiker says. “For us to be able to launch things that haven’t quite been in the marketplace or are new, in terms of visual story-telling with technology — to our fans, those bells and whistle are priceless.”

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-04-29-microsoft-csi-product-placement_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

More on Photosynth: http://www.labs.live.com/photosynth/

Whenever I eat at In-N-Out with someone new, they comment on how it’s interesting that I eat my fries first. I do it because I happen to think that fries and burgers are about the same “goodness” when first cooked. However, the goodness of fries decreases exponentially over time (to a point) whereas a burger’s goodness decreases more linearly. This means that I can maximize intake of goodness by eating my fries first.

If you like fries more than the burger, the case is even clearer:

But how about those who like the burger much more than fries? I think such people will still maximize their intake of goodness by eating fries first:

Note that if you can finish your burgers and fries within 5 minutes of them being cooked, it shouldn’t matter as much which you eat first.

Maybe later on, I’ll think about doing an analysis that takes into account the decreasing goodness of food over the course of a meal (that is, a food item eaten when one is hungry always has a higher goodness value than the same food item eaten when one is not as hungry). I think the conclusion will be the same, though.

Eat your fries first.

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001207.html

I’ve never heard an all-acoustic arrangement of this song! Played by a young kid too!