Spring Sports Winding Down

What a glorious spring for sports in Minnesota this year! Last year, we got rain for most of April (or cold, or something else undesireable). The lack of rain in the metro area has resulted in lots of good days for shooting but a distinct lack of green grass. Ah, tradeoffs.

Another effect has been me being crazy busy - and also dealing with some mild (but annoying) spring allergies. So that is why I haven't posted anything interesting, preferring instead to throw up a video or photo when I get a chance. This week should be the last of that - my schedule is calming down and I will soon have evenings free again.

For grilling! Grilled out twice already this spring and hope to do it at least once a week. Good times - and easier than coming up with something that would take more effort.

Last night, we watched Independence Day with a commentary provided by Rifftrax - the MST3K guys who sell cheap MP3's of their commentaries that you can sync to the movie. It had us rolling - and I was crying from laughter toward the end. I can't wait to get Top Gun or Transformers. Highly recommended.

Finally, as part of my fascination of how the explosion of information available to us is producing more misinformation than knowledge, I wanted to point you at a short article from Wired - "How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge."

He has developed a word inspired by this trend: agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance."