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This is the Weekend Update for the weekend of September 21st – 23rd.

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Pretty quiet around here this weekend.

I’ve been working on a new mini-series of posts leading up to the new Futurama DVD release, highlighting some of my favorite moments from the show. I hope you enjoy it.

I might actually end up going back to Philadelphia this year for a cousin’s wedding. I’m not looking forward to another road trip, especially since I swore them off last summer, and I’ve already made too many exceptions.

Skybus, the Columbus-based cheapity-cheap airline has just added another 4 destinations. One of these days I’ll get around to actually giving them a try.

Baseball season is winding down, unfortunately, and College Football is just winding up. The Reds have recovered somewhat from their dismal start, and have put in a respectible second-half record. It’s almost officially 16 years since their last World Series trip. I’m not getting any younger here, guys. How about at least 1 more World Series for me, and 1 more for my future son? Is that doable? I mean, c’mon guys.

This is an awesome animated GIF I found on Coding Horror that visually demonstrates the run time of three different sort algorithms on the same data set. It would be cool to see this sort of GIF for bubble sort, bogosort, etc.

Ali & I had dinner with some family at a restaurant on Buckeye Lake. There was a live musician there, Brad Moore who played “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. When he finished playing it, he asked if anyone knew who originally sang it, and if anyone guessed right, they’d win a free CD. Being the master of useless knowledge, I knew the answer and won a copy of the guy’s CD. He’s another acoustic guitar player in an ocean of them, but he seems to be a very talented and nice guy who doesn’t take himself too seriously, so check him out if you get the chance. He brought a trash can on stage with a “tips” sign on it, which I thought was a bit optimistic. Nothing wrong with that though, the world need more optimism! Here’s a quick sample:

I had some dishwasher problems this weekend, and I was on the verge of (finally) getting the new one that I’ve wanted for years. But no, I took the thing apart and found something clogging up the works. Plumbing sucks.

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