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Shed a Tear ... of Joy

A little excerpt from the EMI/Apple Announcement today: Times: “Are you giving the greenlight for people to share unprotected tracks?” Eric (EMI CEO) : “We have to trust consumers. Some will choose to steal is inevitable. Doesn’t diminish our commitment to fighting piracy. At the same time, the key is to giving consumers the best possible experience. To trust them, to educate them. That way we’ll grow sales rather than diminish them." Thank you, thank you, thank you. It seems that 1 big music company sorta kinda gets it. I'm not thrilled with the $.30 premium, but the new unencumbered tracks will also be encoded at 256K.

For sale sold: Victory Vegas

Well, it looks like I have a buyer for my 06 Victory Vegas! Now ... I just need to decide which of the two Triumphs I want... Tiger or Sprint ST Most of my thoughts have been laid out in a thread I started on T595, a Triumph enthusiasts site. At the moment I am leaning towards the Sprint ST for the following reasons:
  1. Comes with bags standard (i.e. will cost less for me since ... I need bags)
  2. Decent ergonomics (although not as good as the Tiger's)
  3. Great wind protection (which is also a drawback sometimes too .. that full fairing has to catch a lot of wind)
  4. Hauls ass. Not that the Tiger doesn't ... The Sprint is just snappier IMHO.
  5. Known design. The Tiger 1050 is a NEW bike. Give it a year or so to shake out. Mind you it seems like it's totally solid, so this is probably me being paranoid.
I figure if I end up disliking this bike after a year I can trade it in for a new ... or used Tiger 1050 next year. Just need to not spend so much on upgrades. Which I figure will be easier. The only things I can think of upgrading on the bike are the grips (to heated) and exhaust (to one that breathes better). I understand there is a touring windscreen, but I don't remember disliking the stock one when I rode it. All of those mods I would want to make to the Tiger anyway ... plus I need to buy bags. I am hoping this will actually be the last personal motorcycle purchase for me for the next few years. Sans ... starting a motorcycle related business that is.....

eBay Activity

For those of you who don't know. I'm selling my moto on eBay. The auction ends today, so for the three people who read my blog it will probably already be too late. Well, they probably know that I'm selling it already anyway. Today, I also started putting up a lot of baseball card stuff I have. Today I posted my eTopps cards from 2001/2002 as well as several un-opened boxes of cards from 1984, 1990, 1991, 2001 & 2002. All of my items are available here.

You Are Not Morally Superior Tshirt

So, I've wanted to start selling Tshirts for a while now. There are all sorts of things that run through my head or I hear each day that I think would be really good on a Tshirt. I was watching something on TV this evening and I got really annoyed and ... well this is what came out of it.

The Zen of Python

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/