DMB gives a nod to the Fenway Fans

Was at the Dave Matthews Band concert at fenway last night - and we were talking pre-show about how great it would be if they played Dirty Water or Tessie or Sweet Caroline - and in true fenway fashion they broke out with Sweet Caroline as song #7 of the set. Sweet Caroline is typcially played at Fenway in the middle of the 8th inning. Most ball parks play "Take me Out to the Ballgame" at the 7th inning stretch (middle of the 7th inning.)

A couple times during the show I was thinking of trying to start some of the chants you typically hear at fenway, and almost as if on queue, they started without me. "Let's Go Red Sox" was strong - and the ever present "Yankees Suck" errupted shortly after.

Silly part of the night - on the walk down boylton back to the car (make that "Cah") in the crowd of happy people; someone going the other way asked, "Did the Red Sox Win?"

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An Inconvient Truth

This movie has been popping up all over - the first place I saw it was google video's top 100 (they had the trailer). Then Wired Magazine showcased it, and finailly my wife came home from work saying her boss told her she should go see it.

So last night we went to see it, and I have to say it's a very well done movie - obviously based on Gore's long time expierence with his "Slide Show." A couple of things I wasn't crazy about are picture of glaciers that appeared to be receeding. I'm not challanging that they are at all, but the sceptic in me wasn't crazy about the photographic evidence.

It makes me want to re-asses my review of Michal Crichton's book "State of Fear" book which (in my recollection) tried to play down the global warming problem. Maybe I should re-read it.

Shuttle Launched

Nasa put another shuttle up on the 4th of July. It was fun watching it with my brother in law at his 4th party. We pumped the audio of the countdown out to the pool speakers really loud.

It leads me back to my thoughts that the entire human race needs to get on board with a program to put a independant colonoy on the moon or mars. One big rock hits the earth and "wham" there goes our species. Stephen Hawking recenlty went public with a similar view:

The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.