I took my older kid this afternoon to go see the new Wallace and Gromit movie, Curse of the Were-Rabbit. My younger kid decided to stay home and watch baseball. She didn't care much for the other Wallace and Gromit cartoons. I think the satire/spoofing goes over her head, so she experiences the movies mostly on a literal level, which doesn't quite work for her. It's the difference between age five and age eight, I guess.

When we left the house, Lance Berkman had just hit a grand slam in the 8th inning, to bring the Astros to within one run.

It's a twenty-minute walk to the movie theater from my house. We saw the movie. (Quick review: enjoyable, entertaining, but coulda been better. The plot seemed rather loose, and the editing was choppy.) We walked back home.

And the Astros and Braves were still playing.

Cue the Jon Stewart eye-rub: Wha?

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I recently answered some "What went wrong" questions about the A's over at Baseball Analysts. Check it out.

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Posting might be light here for the next week or three. Now that the A's season is over, I'm gonna try to put some intense focus on programming Fairpole.