Ray's trying to teach me some UNIX. It's a slow process, because he talks fast and assumes you already know everything. Plus he tries to talk with the TV on, and I lack the filter for tuning out extra stuff, so I get frustrated and he gets mad. But anyway, I'm trying not to be a complete UNIX dork.

cd
ls
ls -l
more
pwd
file
rm
find

For Bastille Day, I'm watching the Tour de France. Which is apparently what most French people do, so it's like I'm there! ;)

So sad about Manuel ("Triki") Beltran, having to abandon today. As USPostal, the team finished with all 9 members the last four years, and he's a huge loss for the days ahead in the Pyrenees. Reuters reported that he'd suffered a concussion, and the NYTimes story says he didn't remember crashing. YIKES. Been there, done that, not good. They've all said that x-rays didn't show any broken bones, so that's at least something, but anytime you suffer a memory loss, you've taken a big hit.

In other news, hooray to the Norwegians for Thor Hushovd taking over the green (sprinter's) jersey, even if Tom Boonen had to abandon for him to get that. And to the French for David Mouncoutie, winning the stage on Bastille Day!