Author: Greg

It was only a matter of time, but my 100% record at Turner Field (the only thing I held dear) has finally succumbed to the L column with a few weeks left in the regular season. On Thursday there, we went to see my 5th game (Robyn’s 6th), both sporting a fine 1.000 season record, but the Cincinnati Reds had other ideas…

The Reds walked away with a scrappy 3-2 win after staging a 6th and 7th inning “comeback” and using 7 different pitchers along the way. We had pretty great seats thanks to a contact of Phil and Erika, 17th row on field level, and right beside the Braves dugout.

It was a great atmosphere, despite the Braves losing, as a win would have clinched the National League East Division if the Philadelphia Phillies could beat the Florida Marlins in Miami, so we were glued to the action on the field and the scoreboards in center field throughout the night. There was a great cheer when it was announced that the Phillies had indeed beaten the Marlins but a huge wave of disappointment when the Braves were struck out in the 9th, losing by a single run…

As I mentioned in the last linklog post, they went on to beat the Marlins the following night to wrap up the NL East… All that’s left is a game against the New York Mets on Tuesday night to keep my 4-1 (.800) record alive (it doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?) then maybe the post season, if the season was to end today, the Braves would be playing host to the Chicago Cubs, so thats something to look farward to…

We watched “Gone With The Wind” last night as Erika has recently read the book and the “sequel” Scarlett, it was also the first time I’ve actually sat through the whole 3 hours 53 minutes of it…

I shouldn’t need to go into any kind of detail regarding this movie, but during it I was going through the pages on IMDB and noticed that Margaret Mitchell, the author of the book, was born (and killed) in Atlanta, so that took me to my newest addiction… Wikipedia, I could easily spend hours trawling through Wikipedia, so I brought up the Atlanta page and I find some other famous Atlanta residents there… Obvious ones like Martin Luther King, Jr, OutKast and Ted Turner (though originally from Cinncinnati, OH) and what not. But real surprising ones like Elton John lives in Atlanta, Spike Lee was born in Atlanta (I associate Lee with New York, or Brooklyn in particular) & Steven Soderbergh…

Funny what you find out by accident…

BBC Radio 4 has started to run the “new” Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, which, as some of you might know, is one of my favourite books, 25 years after the original series… The good thing is it contains most of the original cast, including the late Douglas Adams, who appears as Agrajag thanks to the wonders of digital technology. Douglas always intended to play the part of Agrajag and recorded himself in the part a few years ago.

Anyways, it’s not available online til after the repeat at 11pm GMT tomorrow, but thanks to some people in the know you can listen to the first episode now, all you have to do is open Real Player and paste the link below in the File/Open Location dialogue box.

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/tue1830.ra

EDIT (29/09/04 11:06pm): I’ve discovered that this link works every week, hurrah!

As I mentioned last month, Blogger launched a navbar on their blogs and now WordPress has the same thing thanks to Hanni at Pink Socks, which I’m trying out for a while…

Looks pretty good so far…

Over the next week or so I’ll be making subtle changes to this place… I’ve already started with reorganising (and renaming) the blogroll, I also plan on updating the About page as well as the links page.

There might be more, stay tuned…