Ben, Injuries, Jinxed

I am not a doctor, but as I understand it the diagnosis of ankle injury is completely quantifiable. Things like individual leg press strength, lateral strength above and below the ankle, the plant force the patient can tolerate, can all be measured and distilled into strength and range of motion norms vs current with injury. Add in MRI data. Why was this data not the basis for the severity of Ben's injury and the deciding factor as to whether he should have been playing or not? It's not like a concussion where there is all sorts of uncertainty around the diagnosis and the after effects.

I think it's nuts that Ben should ever have any say in whether he was ready or not. Are we not past the point where "I feel fine" passes for a medical diagnosis in sports? I probably would have been willing to let him gut out a series in SF (MAYBE) but when it was obvious he couldn't protect himself he should have gotten the hook.

Now even Robert Morris University hoops is on a losing streak. I think Tebow did more than just beat the steelers - he cursed the whole region.

Adobe kills mobile flash

Here's the Adobe announcement: Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5.

My sources tell me that the cost of developing and doing Quality Assurance on Flash for just the many flavors of Android and many handsets and many carriers (let alone other mobile OS's as well like webOS, Windows Phone) far and away outweighed the potential revenue streams from it (since they give away the players and plugins).

I hope they can now get on with creating innovative products for HTML5 based content, which they should have done all along.

db parking update

As hard as I find it to believe, some of you have asked "What's been going on with that 3 Series driver who double parks all the time in your parking garage?"

Situation has remained status quo. Every day I'm down on that level, he's still taking up two spaces in a garage where there's plenty of available corner spaces where no one could possibly park next to his beloved 6 year old 325i even if they wanted to. To make matters worse, there's a new DB parker down there, whose Tundra is so long he can't help but obscure the other spot, even though he's trying to do the right thing using a corner spot:

In fact, here you can see them both, Two DB Parkers, 1 Photo:

As it's now well documented how crazy this drives me, I have made an effort to get in early enough to avoid parking on this level at all. Out of sight, out of mind. But last week, I parked down there in the BMW spot and when I left, I finally got a glimpse of the BMW driver - and now, so will you:

There he is, folks. Look upon this 3 Series driver and despair.

Elvis

Taken at Trib Total Media Amphitheatre

Josephine

Taken at Trib Total Media Amphitheatre

Buds at elvis

Taken at Trib Total Media Amphitheatre

Elvis Costello

Taken at Trib Total Media Amphitheatre

Bright Eyes

Taken at Stage AE

HyperDock! Keyboard Tricks

If you have Hyperdock*, you can control the edge snapping behavior from your keyboard:

⌘⌥⇡ (command-option-up arrow) Expand the window to half the display size along the top edge of the screen (subsequent presses toggle between top edge tile and full screen maximize)

⌘⌥⇣ (command-option-down arrow) Expand the window to half the display size along the bottom edge of the screen

⌘⌥⇠ (command-option-left arrow) Expand the window to half the display size along the left edge of the screen

⌘⌥⇢ (command-option-right arrow) Expand the window to half the display size along the right edge of the screen

*sorry I thought it was a Finder behavior, thanks to the folks who corrected me.

Photoshop CS4 Radial Gradient Center point

Did you know you can arbitrarily position the centerpoint of a radial gradient in Photoshop CS 4 when the Gradient Overlay Effects panel is up by simply dragging it? Me neither. But I do now, and so do you.