WhimsyLand

Shades of The Futility Review!  A professor of French literature has a best-seller in How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read.  People buy it and then don't read it.  (thanks to Ron for the link).

They were behind.  The pitcher was tired.  The East Coast team had great hitters and complete confidence.  Then, a miracle!  Maybe they were still in it.  I'm talking, of course, about my TV watching last night.  Major League, to be exact, as I didn't have the stomach to watch any more of the Rockies slaughter.  "Juuuust a bit outside".  That still cracks me up.

And I thought Whimsy Speaks was the only poetry site where you might encounter the term "Poisson noise".

Yummy gumbo recipe at Shanna's place.

I held a conference call today with a development partner in Silicon Valley and a potential client in Burbank.  I used Budget Conferencing, which is pretty slick.  You can register and provide a credit card in under 5 minutes.  From that point on, whenever you need to initiate a conference call you have everyone call the designated toll-free number (and they have them for international callers, too) and give the participants the ID number to key in.  It never changes (which is nice) and the owner/moderator has his/her own ID number to initiate the session.  Pretty slick.  It costs 12 cents a minute per participant, so a 30-minute conference call with three participants is about 10 bucks.  That's less than a third of what I used to pay AT&T and the other big boys.

Halloween?  The devil makes you do it.