My brain is behind the times

I played baseball with my some of my friends again yesterday. They've really been getting into it lately. Even though my friend Nick wants to start a league or something, we still didn't have enough people to play a game, so we were just hitting the ball around. I got a left-handed glove, so I, too, have made an investment in this whole baseball thing. When I started using it, I was pleasantly surprised at how far I could throw with my better arm.

But it wasn't all baseball yesterday. There was a rather menacing storm heading in our general direction, so we got kicked out of the baseball field. After hanging out at Nick's house for a while, where we played MarioKart Wii. I only had a hard time because I was using the Wii Wheel; it's so hard to steer with that thing. Otherwise, I could have pwned all y'all. I pronounce it with the "p."

After that, we spent about a million years at Chili's. because the people we were going to meet decided they would take forever to get ready. We actually waited about an hour and 20 minutes for them to show up. Lots of tortilla chips were consumed in the meantime. Despite my initial reservations, I ordered the Smokehouse Bacon Triple-the-Cheese Big Mouth Burger. That's a lot of words to describe a bacon cheeseburger with extra cheese. The long name makes you sound like a fatty if you order it. But I ordered it just the same, and you know what? It was delicious.

After dinner, we ended up at the beach. This happens fairly often. There's not much else to do, but the beach is free. Well, I think it's "closed" at night, but that doesn't stop people from going there and doing... whatever. Usually, the beach is fiercely windy at night, but last night it was perfectly calm. There weren't even any waves. I could hardly believe it. I mean, they were about two inches high and formed about four feet from the shore. Agh. I still think in English units. American schools, businesses, and media: please start using the metric system exclusively. Thank you.

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"Happy Birthday to You" is probably the world's most popular song. A subsidiary of Time Warner owns the copyright and makes millions of dollars a year from it. But the song's history is rather convoluted, and in a new scholarly article, "Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song," Robert Brauneis finds that "Happy Birthday to You" is probably not still covered by copyright. It's a long read, but if you're interested in this sort of thing, it's worth it.

In Wired, security expert Bruce Schneier explains the faults of Microsoft's proposal for a system that would require electronic devices to obey the commands of people in their vicinity.