24 hours from now, I’ll be on a plane to New York. I’ll keep posting every day, but expect updates for the next week or so to be on the briefer side of things.
Once again, I’ve decided to throw my hat in the ring for another season of fantasy baseball. This means that I’ll be spending week after week obsessing about numbers and – because our league is going Roto this year, instead of being head-to-head points-based – I’ll actually have no recourse of blaming “bad luck in the matchups” when I lose horribly.
I don’t plan on losing horribly, but my teams haven’t done all that well the past few years. My confidence is middling right now. We’ll see how our draft goes. My first big decision of the year: should I give up my first few draft picks to keep core players like Holliday, Rollins, and Hamels? I have the #3 pick in the first round, but there aren’t too many elite players that aren’t being kept this year.
I also got an email today about Script Frenzy, which sounds somewhat exciting and somewhat tiring. One month-long writing guilt-fest might be enough for me per year.
A few days ago, I also started using FireEagle, because I got tired of waiting for Google Latitude to be released for my iPhone. Geolocation is interesting to me, mainly because of social gatherings where most of the people involved broadcast their location. This would make meeting up with people easier in locations that weren’t as well known. It would also be a helpful gauge for how far away someone was, and how much time it would take to get together.
I don’t think we’ll get there for a while, though. Part of the reason is just because the technology is not quite that ubiquitous yet, the other part being the initial hump of getting over the feeling of a loss of privacy. As long as these applications continue to allow tunable privacy settings, I do think we’ll reach a point in time where everyone’s phones (or other mobile devices) will broadcast their locations to their specified friends.
I’m hungry. I could go for some ribs. Or, even better, a rib buffet.