Sketch: A Swing and a Miss
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For witnesses and questioners, it would be hard to put yesterday's steroids hearing in win column.
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Doing a jitterbug on the markets' floor.
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These days, my card-playing pals are so busy showing off their new BlackBerrys or boasting about the newest features on the Palm Pilot that we can hardly get in a decent game of Follow the Queen.
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Cricket has a colorful vocabulary, with terms worthy of Monty Python. Bail -- one of the wooden crosspieces that sit atop the set of stumps to form a wicket.
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Some players try to get too technical with their swings and seem to lose some of their feel and imagination. Charles Howell has not known any other way but critiquing his swing on tape.
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Gabe: I had planned on making a couple posts last week but I ended up getting some kind of devil virus. It was the sort of sick where you don't really sleep. You just curl up in the bathroom and hallucinate that wolves are encircling you. I'm feeling better now though.I had wanted to talk about some stuff but I forgot almost all of it during my spirit quest. Let me see if I can remember anything. Sorry if this is sort of scattershot.I did go to the Pokemon Tournament and I ended up taking fourth. It was my first tourney and I was using a pretty crazy deck I'd built just a few days prior. Kiko also went and he took fifth even though we had the same win loss record during the day. They used some special Pokemon math to push me in to the final four and give him fifth. I pretty proud of both of us. It was a new level of competition that we'd never seen before and I think we played really well.If you're a fan of Transformers I highly recommend the new animated series on Cartoon Network. Some people might be turned off by the look but I think it's incredible. It's got a very Teen Titans look which makes sense seeing as it's by the same people. Even in vehicle mode these transformers are expressive and full of character. I read Amulet over the weekend (don't believe the date on his site, it is already in stores) and if you are a fan of comics I suggest you do the same. I don't want to say too much about it. I think that Kazu is one of the most talented individuals working in comics today. With Amulet he has created something timeless. I've collected all your Dickerdoodle pictures and there's some pretty great stuff in there. Give me some time to sort through them and I'll start posting my favorites soon. I'll get Tycho to help me pick a winner and we'll find something cool here in the office as a prize.-Gabe out
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After spending a rotten weekend in the Big Apple, one that left them with frayed nerves and short tempers, the Cubs were in dire need of a laugher upon their return to Wrigley Field.
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Sport: Cricket: Needing just one wicket for victory, bad light forced a draw in the first Test.
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By KRISTEN DAVENPORT, PHOTO BY JANE PHILLIPS
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I had an absolute blast drawing the recent World of Warcraft series. Not just because I&#8217;m re-hooked on the game and it was a wonderful outlet for that pent-up-excitement, but because it was so fun to draw. I know it&#8217;s my strip, and I can draw whatever I want, but let&#8217;s be honest for a moment. [...]
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Keynote Kathy Sierra gives designers the antidote for apps that can't read faces, movement, tone or anything: Give users a way to express themselves. Plus: TV panel goes rogue. In Listening Post.
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Once a month, our nationally syndicated cartoonist, Ed Gamble, gives readers a chance to enter his humorous world.  He draws a cartoon. You get to imagine the caption.  Ed selects his favorite, and the winner receives a signed copy.
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By Chris Shull, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 21--One man wanted to learn more about a family quilt. A woman was curious about a vase she bought at a flea market.   Another hoped a painting might help send her kids to college.
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A quick screen for making winning picks.
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Tycho:  It wasn't until the strip was completed that I realized we had written two comic strips at the same time.  Gabriel thought this comic was literal, and I thought it was about miscommunication. At least, I hoped it was. This is a fantasy to which I still cling.
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Gabe: Well we had ourping pongmatch with Sucker Punch last Friday and I must say things did not go well for us. The Sucker Punch Rockets lived up to their studio's name and left us with a big old purple shiner. Already there is talk here in the office that our glorious victory march through the game industry is now looking more like a trail of tears.
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Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net) is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.   Problems with loading LaTeX packages and slide presentations were fixed. Non-static variables in every loop iteration are now allocated anew. Formatting under locales with nonperiod decimal separators was fixed, along with logarithmic tick labels near the machine epsilon.  Concatenation of nullpaths was fixed. New path markers were added and the perpendicular symbol in the geometry module was improved. The skeleton routines in the solids module were split to provide finer control.  Routines to facilitate drawing 3d contours were added. Reading portable XDR binary data into arrays works again; functions for reading and writing also in native binary formats were added. The TeX preamble is no longer output in inline mode. The TeX pipe is now aware of a previously generated aux file. Memory leaks were fixed. An inline limit is now imposed on old compilers to speed up compilation. Setlocale warnings are disabled unless debugging is on. A colorspace command for extracting the colorspace of a pen was added. An Asymptote introductory slide presentation was added and a user-written Asymptote tutorial is now cited in the manual.