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M o n d a y , A p r i l 2 4 t h
10:47AM | Weekend Recap
riday evening I went to a Durham Bulls (Tampa Bay Devil Rays minor league [AAA] affiliate) game for the first time. I enjoy baseball, and since it was a pleasant spring evening, the tickets were free (provided by work), and I wanted to see uber-prospects B.J. Upton and Delmon Young play, Friday was the perfect day to go. I was impressed with the stadium and surrounding restaurants; it is a fine minor league ballpark at which to spend a spring or summer evening. Even I felt like I was playing, because B.J. Upton smoked a rocketing line drive foul into my side, just below my last rib. Fortunately, it just missed my rib, which would have been cracked, and fortunately I have substantially more flesh above my waist, so there is no pain and only the slightest bruise. Unfortunately, B.J. Upton never made it back to first base (near which I was sitting) otherwise I may have beaned him back with that ball.
I took a four day weekend in order to have some time off to perhaps work on my final projects, and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday have all passed without any work at all accomplished on these tasks. I think I will work on creating my design portfolio right now.
T h u r s d a y , A p r i l 2 0 t h
2:56PM | Blessed Plains Of Heather
esterday, while perusing their online beer menu, I was surprised and thrilled to discover that downtown Raleigh's Flying Saucer, which serves hundreds of local and domestic beer draughts, now peddles Fraoch Heather Ale. I first tasted this Scottish heather (rather than barley) based beer at Durham's Beer Festival in 2003 and fell in love with it, but had not been able to find it since, whether online or at beer festivals, except listed as available through a Baltimore distributor. So it is with great rejoicing that I will again hoist a pint of Fraoch Heather Ale.
T u e s d a y , A p r i l 1 8 t h
10:35PM | Getting Stuff Done
can hardly think of what to say here: I haven't been doing this in a while and am kind of out of it. The last couple weeks I have been fixated on the computer than ever before, between work, coursework, and design projects. Plus, I have Photoshop again, and it has been a joy getting reacquainted with that wonderful tool. College classes have lately yielded some useful Javascript knowledge that I have applied in various projects, and has produced exposure to depths of 3D modeling and animation. While 3D animation very much interests me it is not really natural for me, so I do not know where I will take it. As of now, exercising my nascent abilities, I do not really have any projects worth showing off. They are quite rudimentary.
Reading is pretty much a thing of the past, except for daily Bible reading and occasionally a couple pages here and there elsewhere in some book. With summer nearly here, I am hoping to take advantage of some time reclaimed due to the absence of classes and do a bit of unambitious travelling around nearer parts of the country: the beaches, Philly, the mountains, places like that. Though I like my apartment and being cooped up in here by myself, where there is always something to do, it will be nice to get away and do and see something different for a little bit.
T u e s d a y , A p r i l 1 1 t h
9:59PM | My Domain
will not deny that I have been a bit tardy in my web presence lately. I have finally purchased my own domain, and hopefully before too long you will be able to view my blog off of www.joshuamcinnis.com - ad free and with over a terabyte of bandwidth capacity (which means more pictures, multimedia, and other cool things). For right now, however, I am supposed to be working on an online web design portfolio for one of soon-to-terminate college courses, so that will absorb my attention.
T h u r s d a y , A p r i l 6 t h
10:32PM | Juggling Prowess
here are two jugglers who have gained notoriety for their amazing... interpretive juggling... to the tune of the Beatles' "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End". They are Chris Bliss and Jason Garfield.
W e d n e s d a y , A p r i l 5 t h
5:06PM | Science Strikes At The Bible Again
ow could scientific research such as this ever prove a miracle such as Jesus having walked on water? You might as well be checking the water of the Sea of Galilee for footprints.
Related to this, 60 Minutes on Sunday presented an interview with a certain scholar who set forth his theory of the conspiracy of Christ's "death" (quotes are his). The vinegar on the sponge was really an anesthetic that made Jesus appear dead, the frankincense and myrrh that the disciples brought to Christ's tomb were actually medicines to help him recover, Joseph of Arimathea was eager to obtain Christ's body because he knew Jesus was really not dead, etc. This scholar spun the actual words of the Greek New Testament to support his conjectures... but why bother basing an opinion on a book that obviously must be faulty, if its entirety is based on the redemptive story of Christ's coming, death, and resurrection?
S u n d a y , A p r i l 2 n d
8:06PM | Spring Cleansing
t's starting to feel like summer, and I'm loving it: sleeping at night with the windows open, a lot of people outside getting exercise, sunlight late into the evenings, and the smell of hamburgers cooking on a grill. Today I enjoyed some more running, an enjoyable drive, a good dinner, and now a fine lager and the first baseball game of the season. The best is yet to come: the trees have not yet begun to fully bloom and baseball's official Opening Night is tomorrow.
2:26PM | Exciting Sport
esterday's running was some of the best I've had in a while, since my lower left leg was not hampering me for a change. It probably helped that the second park I ran at in Raleigh yesterday was mostly flat.
I've never watched very much Major League Soccer (MLS), but yesterday afternoon ABC televised the first game of the season, which matched Chicago against FC Dallas. I was impressed by the energy level of the spectators and the crowd noise: lots of flags, singing, dancing, drums and other instruments... a kind of passionate cheering in the stands that seems more restrained at most U.S. sporting events, with only college football and basketball coming close to the intensity. Maybe this was due to the fact that this game was in Dallas, with many Hispanic fans in attendance. It was certainly enjoyable to see and hear, especially during a sport which its detractors call boring due to its low scoring and agonizing pace.
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