Random musings.

Ariadne Auf Naxos was on Wednesday, and I’ve decided post modern librettos in opera just really aren’t my thing. Give me a good burning, suicide by jumping, or end of the world any day instead.

Leon has apparently given up on the New York Rangers for good. I can’t blame him: they’ve got the highest payroll in the National Hockey League but look destined to miss the playoffs for a seventh year in a row. Ok, it’s just a friend giving up on a sports team, but he’s been a NYR fan forever - even his high school yearbook entry mentions them. (Sorry Leon, but you can’t erase that, nor can you touch my blog.)

Mark invited to me to join orkut, a Friendster clone. And much like the latter I find it mildly amusing for about a week, and give up; mainly because none of my closest friends will have anything to do with this, and it’s depressing to see my social contact circle enumerated on the spokes of a very sparse wheel.

Ever since I saw the full page ad in last Sunday’s NY Times put in by these morons congratulating Bush on the Federal Marriage Amendment (you can see their ad here), I’ve been irked. I’ve been meaning to write about gay marriage here, but instead I read today’s Times and found an article by Jonathan Rauch in the Magazine which hit exactly all the points I’ve had floating about my head in far better prose than I could ever come up with:

In endorsing the passage of a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage to the union of men and women, President Bush established himself as the country’s most prominent advocate of same-sex marriage.

So I guess they weren’t such morons after all. Go read the article for yourself.

The Mars Rovers Opportunity and Spirit apparently have blogs.

Spent part of the day coding on l2rib, modifications will go up tomorrow after some testing. A change: coding on non work for the first time in forever.