I’m going to have to agree with Isaac that the Little League World Series is pretty good fun as far as watching baseball goes, although it’s a little alarming how huge some of these twelve year olds are. I don’t remember anyone in my sixth or seventh grade class being six feet and two hundred pounds, but I could be mistaken.

MrTails, Meg, Spencer, and myself hit the Jaguar release event at the Apple store last night. We grabbed some Mexican food and wandered over around 9:30 or 9:45, expecting nobody to be there yet as it didn’t start until 10:20. In fact, there was already a line around the block that persisted until well after midnight (when we left). Apparently the staff hadn’t expected such a crowd either - employees kept coming out to check out the line and document the scene with digital cameras and camcorders. When we finally got in just after 10:20, it was packed to the brim and everyone seemed to be having a ball. 10.2 was installed on all the store’s Macs, so many people were checking out the new stuff and talking to friends elsewhere via iChat. We all picked up some Jaguar swag - mousepads, stickers, t-shirts, etc - and grabbed seats upstairs for the presentation in the theatre on the second floor. Although I was the only diehard Mac user present among the four of us, I think we all had a pretty good time. As for Jaguar itself - favorite features for me are the new version of Sherlock (and the fact that it’s now separate from the standard Find command), rotating background effects, and the remarkable speed increase. 10.1 doesn’t feel slow to me - it’s definitely faster than was OS 9 on my g4, perhaps because under OS X almost everything takes advantage of multiple processors, rather than just a few selected applications. Compared to 10.1, however, 10.2 is faster still. I can’t wait to play around with it even more.

I caught up a little on some of Tim O’Reilly’s weblog entries this afternoon over some mightily tasty bagel pizza. I found interesting his comment on the sales of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual. Apparently quite a large majority of OS X users have picked up that specific book, which is surprising - as he points out, "The "attach rate" of books to software is normally pretty low–1% is great." It’s definitely a great book, but I had no idea it was that popular.