The Lottery’s a Loser

I’ve now started writing Chapter 3 of my thesis. Everything seems to be moving right along.
Softball practice on Monday night was quite fun. We had enough people to split into two squads for a scrimmage, and the team I was on won 14-11. I went 3-for-3 with a walk, 2 RBI and 3 runs. A good tune-up for the regular season opener on Monday!
Congrats to Frame for passing his oral comps on Tuesday!
With summer literally just around the corner, both Jacob and I decided to get MLB.tv for the month to try it out. Prior to last weekend I had been listening to Twins games for free over the internet last year and so far this year from a couple of radio stations in Minnesota that hadn’t shut off their webcasts during Twins games, but those loopholes got closed for good last Friday, much to my disappointment. Sigh. But MLB.tv is pretty cheap, especially on a monthly basis, so we’ll see if I decide it’s worth keeping around the rest of the summer.
I don’t have all that much else to say this time ’round, except that I wanted to pass on a few interesting links:
This judge should be disbarred for trying to sue the pants off three people for a frivolous lawsuit. He should be taken to the cleaners and forced to pay the defendants’ legal fees too!
Surely people aren’t ridiculous enough to worship horses. Especially in America. Right?
As if the RIAA hasn’t screwed over musicians or consumers enough already…
Could someone please tell me how the new lottery system for Penn State football student season tickets is going to be an improvement over the previous first-come, first-served method (which, by the way, has worked rather well the last several years)? While a lottery is maybe fine for bowl tickets, I really hate the idea of a lottery for football season tickets. Now it’s going to be quite unlikely that all of us meteo grads who really wanted to get season tickets for next year will be able to get them. That is, unless we get several other people to enter the lottery as well, with the understanding that we’d purchase their tickets from them if they get selected by the lottery. I’ll be pretty upset if I miss out on season tickets this year because of the stupid lottery, because you can bet I would’ve called to order tickets almost right away after they are made available (unlike last year, when I missed out by hours because I waited two weeks to call). This new lottery is definitely causing a lot of controversy here at Penn State, and I wish they’d go back to the old system.