I honestly don’t know what I feel about this. It’s sad, and funny, and disappointing, and amazing all at the same time. People kill for sport all the time. But with a golf ball? That’s style! And yet, completely inappropriate — both for the player, for the spectators, for the golf course where it happened, and the whole face of professional sports.

sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-golfer-birdkilled&prov=ap&type=lgns

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—Pro golfer Tripp Isenhour apologized for killing a hawk that was making noise while he tried to film a TV show. Now the Humane Society wants the PGA Tour to take action.

It almost makes me want to find out where Isenhour is playing next and make a bunch of noise while he’s tee-ing off. Maybe from 300 feet away. See if he starts firing golf balls at my head. Multiple times. In truth, that probably won’t happen and the course staff will come after me. Then I could yell and squawk more, on their negligence when the disrupter was a bird.

Really, this just re-enforces my belief that professional athletes are over-paid, self-indulgent, self-righteous crybabies that society over-values. A professional golfer shouldn’t have to kill wildlife to quiet his shot. And we shouldn’t allow it to happen.

What do you think should happen next?

[Edit: Thanks to Crissy for sharing the story/link with me.]

In this week’s “how to be a sysadmin” installation, our hero learns the fine nuances of when to use and when *not* to use a trailing slash with directories with rsync.

One style is not better than another, but they are different, and today I’ve used both. From the man page:

A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid creating an additional directory level at the destination. You can think of a trailing / on a source as meaning “copy the contents of this directory” as opposed to “copy the directory by name”, but in both cases the attributes of the containing directory are transferred to the containing directory on the destination. In other words, each of the following commands copies the files in the same way, including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo:

rsync -av /src/foo /dest
rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo

Our hero is also learning that cygwin rsync to a samba share from Windows doesn’t work as well as he’d like.