NHL Salary Crap
Here’s a really cool look at NHL Salary Cap, laid out smartly for the first time I’ve seen anywhere.
Slaughter-House Fived
Update: A good memorial article written by Denver Post sports writer Woody Paige
American Wrongly Jailed in Nicaragua
A few months ago, I posted about a wonderful magazine I found in Nicaragua, called El Puente. Well, it turns out that the Publisher of the eco-friendly magazine has been convicted of her murder and has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Many people can place Eric Volz at his office in Managua during the time of the murder on November 21, 2006; 2+ hours away from San Juan del Sur. Apparently at the trial, the prosecution didn’t present any evidence that linked Volz to the crime. I guess he and the murdered woman had dated at some point, but the lack of evidence gives a serious problem to the supposed events of the day.
Here’s a YouTube video that better explains the situation. And here’s a link to the Friends of Eric Volz and his myspace page. They are soliciting donations and your donation can directly help the young Democracy of Nicaragua fix its’ error.
On a personal note, this story really hits home. I arrived in San Juan del Sur less than 6 hours after the murder took place. We spoke at length with the woman who ran our hostel about the murder. Our host told us she was a pretty and young woman who didn’t barely have anything, and some people just came into her shop and strangled her. In broad daylight. It was shocking that such a cozy beach community could have such mindboggling crime. The hostel-owner also said that she had been living in San Juan del Sur for her whole life and could not remember a single murder ever happening before.
A few days later we were walking back to our hostel from the beach and came across the woman’s funeral procession. Seems like the whole town (save the tourists that were barely in the know, if at all) came out and it was all incredibly surreal. All the time I was there, I didn’t feel out of place for being an American, but the video link explains that the lack of evidence should keep Volz out of jail. So I have to conclude that he was jailed because of anti-American sentiment. Pair that with the fact that Ortega took office in Nicaragua weeks later, and I’m worried about the future of eco-tourism in Nicaragua. And of their fragile Democracy.
Search by title on flickr!
I don’t usually change the titles of the photos I upload to flickr, mainly so that I can easily find the same photo on my computer. Given that there are about 350 million photos on flickr, I wanted to see if I was alone (most likely not, right?). So I searched for all photos with my most recently taken “real” photo (not cameraphone or screenshot-based photos).
You get 852 pretty cool photos (at time of posting). My guess is that most of these images are from Canon cameras, based on the fact that my Canon has an identical file naming system. I’m also sure that as you back down the number in the filename, the photos counts move up pretty dramatically. Just taking a peek, here’s IMG_0001, which returns almost 23,000 photos. Looking at the first images that a camera has ever taken is probably a more interesting search, but might also result in a lot of photos from around the house where the person first put batteries in the aforementioned camera.
I’d love to chart this somehow, but have no idea how to do it other than a manual survey. Does anyone know how to do this by writing a program that looks up the search results and then combines search topic with number of photo returns in an Excel spreadsheet?
My favorite Easter Photo
you’ve been peeped—HAPPY EASTER
Nothing says Easter like 720 yellow Peeps lined up in Roman military positioning in front of on your parents door. The only better thing would be to have 720 partially eaten yellow Peeps lined up in Roman military positioning in front of on your parents door, along with some vomit, probably.
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