Celtics and Ubuntu
I don’t have a lot of routines, but one that I fall into every baseball season is watching Sports Center in the morning. You see, during the rest of the year I have the news to keep my hopes down and my desire to crawl back in bed up. During the baseball season I’ve got the Dodgers to do that for me.
As luck would have it this morning I sat down not during baseball highlights. Per the routine this means that I can pay far less than half attention and convince myself that this counts as sleep.
Here’s what I was able to ascertain from my psudo-sleep: It seems that there’s a championship series going on, or about to go on, or something, for a non-baseball type sport. As I was dropping into a further level of zone-out and waiting for the Royals/Sox highlights I thought I heard:
What?
Ubuntu.
There. They said it again. As I shifted my eye sight from blurry eating mode, not much eye sight needed to shovel food in the ol’ gullet, to something near focusing I began to see the Celtics on the screen and decided that I’d finally lost it. This was going to drive me insane. And at the end of this school year it was going to be a very short drive. Why would anyone be talking about Ubuntu and the Celtics. Must. Go. Back. To. Half. Sleep. Then they said it again.
Ubuntu.
Crap. I was going to have to focus on something that wasn’t baseball. Then the world became a bit more strange.
Turns out that the Celtics use “Ubuntu” as some sort-of battle cry.
Neat.
It’s a lot better cry than “We’re waiting for Windows 7″. By now I was awake enough to put off thoughts of an OpenSource NBA team and Magic vs. Bird, finish breakfast, and go to work.
Strange stuff and not at all an unfitting way to start the last day of this school year.