Yet another blog entry with no discernable theme

1) Sprained my ankle at Friday morning's basketball game in Menlo Park. Should I post grotesque photo(s) of swelling and bruising to flickr? I'm not really satisfied with any of the photos, but they're certainly plenty ugly.

2) Bought a pair of crutches at Walgreen's, then decided not to use them since they're too much of a pain in the ass. Instead, I'm moving around like a pirate with a wooden leg—Step with (good) left foot. Then drag the right peg leg behind. Step again with left foot. Etc. People express sympathy, but if we're walking together as they do so, they quickly move out of my range of vision, toward the horizon, as I drag the peg leg another foot forward.

3) Cole finished 2nd in a diving meet in Santa Clara this morning.

4) Owen's little league baseball team, the #8 seeded (ie, last-seeded) Edwards Luggage, defeated the #1 seed Alhouse King Realty 7-5 in the first round of the Palo Alto Little League City Championship tournament. I had my good camera and got some photos, but nothing too exciting since I was sweating bullets instead of thinking of getting a good shot.

5) Secret new venture going very nicely.

6) Will I finish up or down on the bet I placed on the S&P 500 June 23rd 2008 closing price 18 months ago? It's looking like I'm going to finish up, but things are pretty volatile in the markets right now.

7) Alex Bellos's article on G4G8 appeared in the (UK) Manchester Guardian, and it mentions in passing my instructions for how to make a diet Coke can talk using a little piece of plastic. Someone sent me a PDF of the article and I don't have a URL for it.