The Year of Wiffle Ball Statistics

In looking back, the years of 1973 and 1974 had to have been the pinnacle of our Wiffle Ball playing days in the Ninth Street Alley in the Fairview neighborhood of Altoona. By 1975, I was starting to get more into basketball and we were all outgrowing the physical dimensions of the Alley. But for those two years before that, we must have played hundreds of games of WB during those summers.

For some reason that I can’t recall, during 1973 or 1974, in addition to the multitude of other “casual” Wiffle Ball games we would play all summer, it was decided that we would have an official league with set teams. We would keep standings, play a defined schedule, and we would track statistics. As overall Alley Neighborhood Organizer (yikes, scratch that, it sounds dangerously close to Community Organizer), I was tabbed to be the Official Scorekeeper. Not sure why I signed up for that – I guess it sounded cool at the time and I always had good chops with numbers and such.

I Think He Meant “Inconvenience”

True contents of a work email sent to our Project Distribution List earlier this week:

It seems our mocked system still has problems at this point. Defect 19105 is opened and TDToolkit team is reviewing. The problem and the status is:

You will see non mocked items for sccd apps (Like Change, Config, etc) If you login the systems with base language ( non English, including JP and all others).

You may login the system with non base language (non English) for mock testing at this point. However, this kind of test has limitations for some apps as I mentioned yesterday.

Sorry for any incontinence.

Sometimes, you just can’t make this shit up.

(Queue rim shot! I’ll be appearing at the Comedy Club tonight – 9:00 and 10:30 shows, folks.)

Quality Control

Things have been really hectic at work since March 5. This has cut into blogging time, but that isn’t that rare of an occurrence. Unfortunately, I have been so busy, I had even forgotten to “check” my blog since the first week of April. You see, even when I am not actively developing content, I do try to, once a week or so, “smoke test” the blog – make sure it is formatting/rendering correctly and that URLs, videos, and images that I am linking to are still active. Now that I have enabled AdSense, I also check my earnings - $1.51 so far this month. (Do I drive some serious traffic or what?)

So imagine my embarrassment earlier this week, when, after work one evening, I jump into my blog after several weeks and see that selected posts have these ugly-ass rectangular boxes overlaying my content. The overlays were transparent rectangles with a thin outline on Google Chrome (my browser of choice) and white rectangles on Microsoft Internet Explorer – didn’t have the heart to check Firefox. Yuck. The only thing worse than a blog that doesn’t feature new content is one that doesn’t render correctly. One of my favorite recent posts was afflicted and a spot check of other posts told me it was not an isolated issue.