Wow. This is just unbelievable. If you are white, you "find" bread and soda at the grocery store. If you are black, you looted the grocery store. Good work liberal media!

Ann and I were looking at Sadie's baby book tonight and there was a section where you write down the cost of various items. A gallon of gas was $1.90. This was only 8 and a half months ago.

I hope it doesn't go up another 60 cents in the next 8 months.

Congratulations to:

1. My dad for winning the New Hampshire State Senior Championship and for qualifying for the USGA Senior Amateur.
   
2. Jake and Beth for buying a house in Sutton, NH.
   
3. Me for waterskiing successfully on my first try in at least 15 years.

Bob Ryan has a great article in today's Globe on Dave Roberts' stolen base in Game 4 of the ALCS last year. Excellent recap of the most tense moment in my life, and I'm glad to see that Red Sox Nation gives him his due wherever he goes.

Finally! (What follows is probably the nerdiest post to this blog ever)

I have been plagued for literally years by a problem I've had with Microsoft Excel - how to change a vertical column of data into a horizontal row one without cutting and pasting each cell one at a time. A Google search today gave me the answer, found at a bulletin board on the PC World New Zealand website: paste special, values, with the transpose checkbox selected. I love Google.

(If anyone cares to know why I want to change my data in this way, it is so it will fit into the data sheet in my statistical software so I can make a pretty looking scatter plot, which are a pain in Excel because points with the same value fall on top of one another.)

Conservative Catholics want Sony to change the plot of the Da Vinci Code to make it less sacreligious - removing Opus Dei as the main villain, and eliminating the assertion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child. Now, I know The Da Vinci Code is no great piece of literature, and I have no idea if any of the claims in the book are actually true, but Sony would be stupid to dramatically alter key plot details of the best selling novel of all time. This would be a mistake of New Coke proportions.