Here in class. Fezboy! slept in today, 0930hrs. Now Fezboy! is trapped in interface design class. Of course, by the time you are reading this, Fezboy! will have escaped to a terminal to tell you all about his peril. Sometimes the whole asynchronous nature of web communication can be a bit of a mind snap, however Fezboy! will assist you with any difficulties encountered. Back to the blog

This is not all bad – after all, HCI is a big reason Fezboy! is back in school. The fun thing in this class is listening to the various "International" students who speak English with varying degrees of proficiency argue with each other. The multi-level translating that occurs in this classroom is, well, a unique study in the function of the human mind. The number of ships passing in the dark would give a Harbormaster a coronary. The best of all is the no-nonsense German national who has a low tolerance for the "novice" user. When his dander is up, woe to the hapless grad studet who stands in his way.

Presenting design diary entries again today. Fezboy! took care of his obligation last week, thus, slouching in his chair, Fezboy! feigns interest.

By the way, it is snowing again.
Oh, (two minutes later), it’s not snowing anymore – and it is sunny. Hooray for Indiana weather!

Wow – someone acutally built a Power Point presentation for their diary exposition. Then, can you believe this – they brought the wrong floppy to class. Hooray for technology! Needless to say, the presenter was unable to proceed and thus Fezboy! will have to sit through another week of these silly presentations.

And now class proceeds . . .

During one of the many argumentative periods that seem to accomany the lectures, Fezboy! had the following thoughts:

Fezboy! is relatively unhappy with the current emphasis on home run hitting in MLB games. What Fezboy! misses most while watching games is the lack of anticipation and interaction this has brought to the fan. What happens when your lead off hitter reaches first base? Well, it used to be a possibility that he would steal second, perhaps a hit and run would be called. In short, there was a good deal of fan participation in that the fan could play probabilities and engage in second guessing the manager. However, in this day and age there is nothing to guess. If your lead off hitter is a guanranteed steal, i.e. Womack, Goodwin, Young, or Pierre (watch this guy closely this season), you will green light him to steal. If not, the player will sit and wait to be homered in. Why waste a potential out on getting someone to second when, in all probability, one of the next three hitters will knock the ball over the fence? It kills an out and an RBI. No one would want to do that now, would they?

Well, more on this later. Class is out and now Fezboy! can type all of this blather for your consumption.

And now that Fezboy! got it all typed out, Fezboy! gets to go work out. Oh Joy! However, the pain and suffering Fezboy! goes through is worth it in the eyes of Fezboy!‘s adoring public.