Month: July 2012

Mitt didn’t swing in England

Yesterday Mitt Romney stepped on British toes by raising doubts about how well the Olympics will go in London. I was impressed by two things: the immediate ferocious power of the British press to lash out and blow relatively unimportant remarks into big loud balloons of indignation, and the notion that if Romney can’t visit a foreign country for a half day without insulting a large part of its population, he’s going to have a hard time in later stages of his presidential campaign. I have to confess I’m looking forward with relish to an impressive string of gaffes, poor judgment calls, and episodes of very public clumsiness (forgetting Ed Milliband’s name yesterday was a good start).

Raspberry Pi round two

I ordered a Raspberry Pi in late February, soon after the gate opened, but didn’t get it until late May. My vendor Newark opened the gate again, this time with a quantity ten limit, on July 5th and I put in for 10 more as a group buy for fellow Splatspace enthusiasts. Newark published “late August” delivery as they were opening the gate, gave us a crazy 162 day lead time right after the order was put in, then pulled it back to August 16. The 10 new boards arrived yesterday, three weeks after the order and three weeks ahead of schedule. They were triple-boxed and this weekend we’ll be testing each one before sending it on to its new home.