Daily Archives: 8/28/2006

Estaban Loaiza, I apologize…

I’ll admit it, I was giving Oakland Athletics pitcher Esteban Loaiza a hard time. I can’t say it was totally undeserved. In the month of July, Loiaza pitched 22.4 innings, and allowed 20 earned runs, for an ERA around 8.0. But in August, he’s a new man! He’s pitched 34.4 innings, and allowed only 7 runs, for an ERA of 1.8 in the month, not including tonight’s shutout effort against the Red Sox.

Keep up the good work Esteban!

Addendum: Adam Melhuese just hit a pinch hit homerun in the bottom of the eight to give the Athletics a 9-0 win lead (sorry, I was premature) win (it’s final now) against the Red Sox.

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LibriVox

I was reminded recently of the existance of LibriVox: a site in which volunteeers read books and shorter works and creates public domain audio books out of them. There are now 117 completed books in their catalog, including one of my childhood favorites, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, in no less than two separate recordings. Lots of good fodder for your cheap $40 MP3 player.

Addendum: I have on a couple of occasions plugged the human read versions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on Project Gutenberg. For some reason, the 32kpbs version of that work didn’t agree with my new little MP3 player. In the middle of many of them, they would simply skip to the end. The 16kbps versions didn’t have this problem.