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Story Time
The third quarter of the year is winding down. With it comes the deadline for finishing up the work for volume 2 of “The Fiction of Kosmo”. Consolidating the short stories into the document isn’t difficult – but writing the longer, capstone story is quite a bit of work. I strive for a story of at least 10,000 words for this story. The capstone story for volume one (Key Relationships) took more than a week of work (in various small pieces of spare time) to complete. Hopefully I can finish the new story in a similar amount of time. Currently, I have fewer than a thousand words written (just the ending), so I need to buckle down and finish the story. This might result in me skipping a few article in the course of the next two weeks. I’ll try to make the story worth the wait.
Rockies Update
Friday night, the Rockies had their wild card lead cut just 2 1/2 games. With wins on Saturday and Sunday, couple with Dodgers wins over the Giants, the Rockies now stand 4 1/2 games clear of their nearest pursuers. With just 12 games remaining in the season, this is a solid lead, but not insurmountable, especially with series left against the first place Cardinals and Dodgers. It feels weird to be a fan of the team that is being chased. In 2007, the Rockies were behind until the tail end of the season. The other times my teams have made the playoffs (1984 and 1989 Cubs, 1995 Rockies) are too far in the distant past to remember the race with any clarity.
Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki deserves some MVP consideration. After a dreadful start to the season, Tulo turned around his season at nearly exactly the same time that the Rockies turned around the season. It is doubtful that this is a coincidence. Tulo now stands just one homer short of reaching 30 for the season.
Annie Le
The authorities seem to be keeping a pretty good lid on the information in this case, but theories are being bandied about. Apparently, suspect Raymond Clark had warned Annie Le that the cages that housed her mice were too dirty. While I agree that cleanliness is a good thing, is it really possible that Annie Le was killed because there were too much mouse poop in the cages?
The Lost Symbol
The Lost Symbol, the latest book by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, hit the shelves on Thursday. My daughter loves the book. She wanted me to read from the book. I complied, and read the dust jacket and a few other short snippets.
Why didn’t I read more of the book to her? Well, she’s only two, and the material might be a bit too mature for her. Honestly, I think she likes the cover.
Lazy Man vs MonaVie
Lazy Man of Lazy Man and Money is a friend of The Casual Observer. A benefactor, actually, as he is providing free hosting and invaluable technical support and advice. Lazy has been critical of the MonaVie corporation, questioning whether or not the product actually provides the benefits that the company and MonaVie distributors claim.
Lazy has been sent not one, but two, cease and desist letters. When The Consumerist questioned MonaVie, they agreed that the first letter was incorrect. They subsequently sent a second cease and desist later. The complaint? That Lazy Man and Money was using the trademarked term (MonaVie) in the meta keywords for Lazy’s article on the company. Considering how meta keywords are using by search engines (to create the blurb you see listed in the search results, but typically not used to determine the page’s ranking) it seems perfectly natural to use the company name in the meta keywords. In fact, it would be a bit strange to NOT use it.
Lazy has written about MonaVie on several occasions (see the complete list here). The original article has attracted a pretty incredible 3300+ comments in the course of the last 18 months (note the comment at the bottom about archived comments). By comparison, The Casual Observer sometimes gets 5 comments on an article …
Spam Comments
Lots of porno-spam in the comments lately (all of which have been caught by my spam filter). I guess I should be proud of the fact that the blog is successful enough to attract spammers?
Tags: Annie Le > Colorado Rockies > Dan Brown > Lazy Man and Money > MonaVie > State of the blog > Troy Tulowitzki
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