Yesterday: Jury duty for the New York State Supreme Court in May.
Just noticed that WordPress’ auto-htaccess file broke my old permalinks. Lovely. That’s going to be fun to monkey around with. Probably won’t be fixed soon, definitely not before NAB.
Today I heard from several old high school friends that John Molle, the youngest member of my high school basketball team in 1988-89, was murdered on April 1st. John’s funeral was yesterday, April 7th.
John Joseph Molle Jr., 32, of Santa Ana, a field supervisor, died April 1, 2005. Visitation: 3-9 p.m. today, Funeraria del Angel MacDougall Family Mortuary, Santa Ana. Services: 9 a.m. Thursday, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Santa Ana. Burial service: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Holy Sepulcher Cemetery, Orange.
Parents, John, Librada; son, Miguel; brothers, Raphael, Andy.
SANTA ANA — A man who suffered a gunshot wound in his head was found dead in Windsor Park on Friday, police said.
The victim’s name was not known, Gonsalves said.
Investigators believe that the shooting occurred during “early morning hours.” Investigators found no witnesses to the shooting.
The park is in the 2900 block of La Verne Avenue.
Anyone with information is asked to call investigators Mark Steen or Dean Fulcher at (714) 245-8355.
John Joseph Molle, [32], of Santa Ana, was found Friday morning in Windsor Park, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. His body was spotted by a passerby who called for paramedics. The paramedics discovered the gunshot wound. The park is in the 2900 block of La Verne Avenue.
Honolulu Advertiser, April 9, 2005:
Former University of Hawai’i basketball player John Molle Jr. was remembered as a tough competitor who was trying to improve his life.
“He was a nice guy who didn’t get a lot of breaks,” said UH associate coach Jackson Wheeler, who recruited Molle to UH in 1992.
Molle, 33, was killed April 1 in Santa Ana, Calif., after he sought the people who stole his car. He died from a gunshot wound to the head. No suspect has been arrested.
“I talked to him a week and a half ago,” Wheeler said. “He seemed fine. He seemed in good spirits. I talked to him quite often. He always had a good place in my heart. This is really sad.”
Molle attended San Diego State and Saddleback Community College before signing with the Warriors. As a 6 foot-4 senior, he helped the Warriors win the 1994 Western Athletic Conference Tournament and earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Molle was a skilled outside shooter who also played power forward.
“He certainly wasn’t a power forward, but he was that versatile,” former Saddleback coach Bill Brummel said.
Molle’s life spiraled soon after leaving UH. He spent a few years in prison after being convicted of a car-jacking. In prison, Molle became a Christian.
“He turned his life around,” UH coach Riley Wallace said. “I’ve always thought good of John, and I always will. He was a tough and hard-nosed kid, but he was always good around me.”
Brummel said Molle’s aggressive style invoked taunts from opposing fans. But Brummel also remembered how Molle was a popular figure during a UH camp in 1993.
“He had a magnetic personality for young kids,” Brummel said. “The kids just loved him. They followed him around, like he was the Pied Piper. To see the connection he had with kids … that was an enjoyable memory.”
John,
Last year I got a letter filling in some details of your life after high school, none of which were good. My only reply was to hope that you would someday turn your life around, learn from your hardships and bad choices and come out the better for your experience. I never wrote about it, hoping for the day you’d to slip out of your past and into a new future. It wasn’t supposed to end like this.
For your parents, your brothers, your son, I’m heartbroken. I have no words except to hope they can find solace in memories of happier times.
Today, because of your death, I’ve heard from many people I haven’t talked to in more than 15 years. I’m holding onto the small glimmer of light in that. I wish any of us could have done something more for you. May you finally find some peace.
I’ll post more detailed thoughts later, I know about the rough corners (especially the annoying MSIE CSS hacks and workarounds), I’ll fix things as I find time. But I’ve got other stuff to finish up first.
Lila painted a pretty great picture of a man the other morning.
Beck’s new album Guero was released on March 29th, 2005.
To be fair, Amazon is also selling a Special! Limited! Collector’s! Edition! and iTunes has an exclusive set of remixes. The special edition with the DVD is $29.99 $23.99 and contains the three extra tracks plus four other remixes currently unavailable on iTunes but are all over the p2p networks. The four iTMS remixes are iTunes exclusives and not available physically, but are also available via p2p.
Legitimate users lose out. Saddled with DRM, offered fewer songs, price-gouged and treated poorly. Music piracy is never going to get better until the best stuff is given to legitimate users first and easily. No more bonus tracks for Japan or “collector’s editions”, give the good stuff to iTunes. The music will always escape. Might as well encourage and reward people for doing the right thing.
Vader/Leia’s Law: “The tighter you clench your first, the more star systems will slip between your fingers.”
On Friday I posted a small set of free AppleScripts for manipulating dates in iPhoto: Joe’s iPhoto AppleScripts. These scripts provide workaround solutions to several outstanding iPhoto issues
Foremost, iPhoto Time Shifter allows batch shifting of dates in iPhoto 4 and 5. This allows for time zone corrections, multi-camera synchronization and other specific adjustments of iPhoto dates. iPhoto’s dates are normally read-only, these work around that using Apple’s GUI Scripting.
Also included are iPhoto Date Reset and Reveal in Finder. Date Reset can be used to fix the iPhoto 5 movie import bug where movies are assigned the date of import instead of their actual creation date. Reveal in Finder does exactly what it says, with the additional choice of revealing the true original or the currently active file with applied changes.
There’s much more detail on the Joe’s iPhoto AppleScripts page. The scripts are free, unlocked and annotated, I’ve also documented the AppleScript subroutines used in the scripts on the Scripting Dates in iPhoto page.
I tested them quite a bit, but I’m calling them a beta until I get more outside feedback.
“Flowers remind us that sometimes
the most beautiful things
only last a short time.They help us to recognize beauty
and enjoy it before it’s gone.Don’t be sad for your flowers,
remember how they brightened
these last days of winter,
and how their smell
filled our apartment
with a hint of the coming spring.Remember the man at the market,
and how your smile
brightened his day.And in the morning, after breakfast
we’ll go out across Fourteenth Street
and buy another.”That is what I wish I’d said
when my young daughter asked me,
“Daddy, where did my rose go?”
