Steve Fischer's Random Blog

Random thoughts from a random technology guy

  • S’Long Jeet

    Regular readers know I’m a Yankee fan and that Mariano Rivera was my favorite ever. Jeter has to be second.

    Via The New Yorker. Cover art by a Red Sox fan.

    The Yankees aren’t much this year, so Jeter’s last year is the story. He’s earned it.

    #6 all time for hits (#4 modern era).

    That’s first ballot Hall of Fame right there.

    The career was story book.

    – World Series his rookie year

    – MVP of Subway World Series

    – The Flip. The signature moment of his career, in my opinion. The live broadcast play by play as it happened:

    Derek Jeter with one of the most unbelievable plays you will ever see by a shortstop

    Just watch it:

    – Mr. November. You can’t make this stuff up. Bottom of the 10th, World Series, pushed back because of 9/11. First MLB game in November. Walk off home run.

    – 3000 hits.

    3000. History. With an exclamation point.

    He starts the game two hits shy. Gets a lead-off single. Next at bat, against David Price (no slouch) he gets 3000 with a home run. Not to rest, he finishes the day 5-5.

    And he dates well too…

  • Handstands with Sandy

    Regular readers know I have two nephews, Michael and Matthew, that I’m very close to. Michael, the older, got married a couple of years ago to Sandy, another athletic type (scholarship college softball at Binghamton University).

    She’s been on a yoga/handstand phase this summer (great stuff on Instagram) so in Cape Cod she was looking for good photo ops.

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    OK, my timing is biased towards my daughter Danielle (right). This is my favorite one of Sandy:

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  • Sand Castle v2

    Two years ago on vacation, a guy showed up and did a super cool sand castle at low tide.

    This summer he did it again. But high tide showed up fast, so there was a huge rush to finish.

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    This would be Tori, Danielle and her best friend Jessie.

  • Ice Bucket

    I’m sure you’ve seen this, but it’s the best ice bucket response I’ve seen.

    Write a check…

  • Hello Kitty is not a Cat

    My world has been torn asunder.

    She’s also apparently British…

  • Are Video Games Sexist?

    I’m violating Betteridge’s Law of Headlines here. This has been in the tech world news lately because of the video web series Feminist Frequency. The latest videos (NSFW) are rather scholarly analyses of this topic.

    As an old guy, I haven’t been into video games for a long time (Myst was my last obsession, so that dates me). In today’s world of Grand Theft Auto (which I’ve never played) saying that sexism exists in video games would seem like a rather obvious statement.

    Apparently a women saying it leads to death threats (NSFW).

  • Bike Ride Day

    More vacation stuff. We always rent bikes and ride along the Cape Cod Rail Trail, which is fantastic. In the past we’d get a bike with a tag-along so Tori could ride behind me, but this year she had her own bike. Not a crazy long ride, around 9 miles, mostly flat.

    With a lunch break and an ice cream break.

    The crew (Danielle’s best friend Jessie was with us – next to me)

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    Tori on the trail:

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    Lunch at Cobies:

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    Followed by more riding and a stop on the way home at the same place:

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    Clearly, it’s all about the ice cream…

  • On The Roofs – Hong Kong

    Oh my, just look at the pictures and try not to get vertigo…

  • Superheroes (with squids)

    More random P-Town pictures with my girls.

    Victoria:

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    And Danielle with a squid hat. Of course it is rainbow for P-Town…

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    More vacation stuff to come…

  • Yum

    Pumpkin Ales came early this year. This is one of the best I’ve tasted.