11:00 AM
I'm slacking again. Mainly because I got worn out this weekend. Between going out
Friday night, hiking up to Snow Lake on
Saturday, and church on Sunday (and yes, I said church); I am one tuckered
individual. Speaking of church, The Seattle PI had a story on Mars Hill
Church yesterday. Every time I read a story like that it talks about the church
being hip, relating to youth, using rock music, and other such nonsense as the reason
they are growing. Truthfully though that's bullshit. The reason they grow can be
summed up in the words of their pastor Mark Driscoll:
I don't leave a lot of things open-ended theologically. I
believe there's one God. I believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven. I believe
we're all sinners. I believe in a real hell and a real heaven. So I'm a Bible guy,
for sure.
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6:45 AM
First of all, if you get a chance, go read the mailbag
from the sports guy. Here are two of my favorite messages:
I recently started trying to eat more healthy (I figured Taco
Bell 5 times a week isn't the best way to be nice to my body). This has lead to an
increase in actually looking at nutrition labels on the food I eat. And here's my
question: Why does corn have calories? It is in the same state going out ascoming
in. That's idiotic. It seems to me that it should have negative calories because the
body uses more energy to push the stuff through than it gets out of "digesting"
it.
-- Chris, Urbandale, IA
When will we be able to buy a desktop calendar with nothing but Mike Tyson quotes on
it? I wonder what they would put on Valentines Day, or even Christmas? Good Times.
-- Zane, Seattle WA
Good stuff.
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1:52 PM
Since It seems like I'm the only one who posts anymore with regularity, I promise to
do better. I will try to put something up everyday. Of course that means you
people have to read it.
Not much is new with me. There is one month until the wedding, and I'm slightly
excited. The Mariners stink 4 out of 5 days (yeah for King Felix), I'm not looking
forward to the NFL, it's too hard to get excited about OU from thousands of miles
away, and the NBA season is too far away to consider. I haven't gotten any knew
playstation games in a while, I haven't seen a great movie lately, and because of
the DVR I watch entirely too much TV. I have bought some new music. If you haven't
heard the new albums by Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah and Kinski, you should.
And that's all I got. How about some links:
- The New
Republic - Downloads to kill the Rock Snob? I don't think so, but this guy
does.
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3:03 PM
Sorry, it's been slow. It's taken me this long just to get enough links to populate
an entry. For anyone interested you still have 11 days to join my fantasy football
league before the draft. So far I have gotten exactly zero people contact me.
- Viking
Merchandise - Buy the jersey Randy Moss wore when he quit on his team!
- Stuff On My Cat - The
URL says more than I can.
- CNN - RIP Mr.
Moog. Remember that when talking about the instrument it is pronounced like what a
cow says with a 'g' tacked on the end. But when talking about the man it should be
pronounced to rhyme with vouge.
- ESPN - A
great diary of Summer Slam.
- Wired
- Beware of anyone who buys this phone.
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9:38 AM
Wow! Did you see King Felix pitch last night? After Chris Snelling's season ending
injury (again), I needed a shot of happy juice; and Felix provided it. Of course
that leads to the problem that games when he doesn't start might be a little
lackluster. DW said it best
on U.S.S. Mariner:
Last night was like going to dinner at a posh steakhouse, running
into Bill Gates, and having him buy you dinner and a bottle of $1000 Bordeaux.
Tonight is like going to dinner at a fast food place, running into your ex, and
having her throw a $1.29 cup of Coke in your face.
In other news, there was a funny thread over at TheJuice about baseball
superstitions. Some of the highlights:
- Mark Fidrych talked to himself and the ball before pitching.
- Nomar Garciaparra steps on each dugout step with both feet.
- Turk Wendell brushed his teeth and ate four sticks of black licorice before he
could take the mound each inning.
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4:16 PM
I thought you might find it interesting to know what the top searches that have led
people to my site are. In no particular order I give you:
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fuzz zapper blog
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Kind of weird, no? I'm not sure why anyone would even search for those. Anyway, on
to the links:
- Seattle PI -
Derek Zumsteg's column in the PI. He writes for U.S.S. Mariner, and I met him at a
bar before Tuesday's game. Everyone should read him.
- ESPN
- I didn't know the Universtity of Tulsa had any history to their football
program.
- Wired
- God I hate the DMCA.
- LA
Times - Interesting read on sugar and artificial sweetners.
- The New
Republic - Best article I've read yet on the "ID Controversy."
- DFW
Star-Telegram - If Doug Christie signs with the Mav's, I'll no longer be a
fan.
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12:48 PM
Felix is our King
He always gets the batter out
That is why we sing and shout
Felix is our King…
I'm giddy like a little school girl today. I saw a baseball game that was the
highlight of my baseball watching life last night. I watched, in person, Felix
Hernandez's first home start and first major league win. It was just about as
exciting as any 1-0 baseball game can be. Not to be overlooked is the fact that the
Mariner's only offense of the night was generated on a Jeremy Reed double followed by
a Yuniesky Betancourt triple. So it was a great night to be a Mariner rookie. I
think the future looks bright.
Seth Speaks has a great
recap of the game from the perspective of a Twins fan. He includes a breakdown of
what exactly Felix was throwing and when. Rotowire
has a great article written by John Sickles about the performance.
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1:09 PM
Once again I'm extending the invite to all to play in my fantasy football league.
Drop me a not if you want in. Until then, how about some links?
- BBC - The physics of Kung
Fu. How many joules does it take to break a board. Now you too can know the
answer.
- 9
News - Batman to the rescue!
- Variety
- There is some good and bad news. Howard Stern's show will now feature all the
nudity with no blurring. But it's moving to on demand, so you can no longer claim
you just saw it when flipping through the channels. I'll leave it to you to
decipher which is the good news and which is the bad.
- ESPN - The
Sports Guy reviews Murderball. I've been meaning to see it since it was
showing at SIFF. This makes me want to see it more!
- Yahoo
- Kim Jong-il, renaissance man!
- Oregon
Live - Just another day at the office for the Portland Jailblazers.
- International
Male - Kathrine, can I buy a whole new wardrobe here?
- Popwatch - Could this replace
the superficial?
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3:06 PM
Sorry everyone. I know how you all just thirst for my updates and I haven't been
doing a good job of quenching that thirst. I've been busy with wedding stuff most
of all. I was also consumed with seeing what the Mariners were going to do around
the trade deadline. I'm pretty happy with their moves and am more excited now then
I have been all year. Anyway, here are some links to keep you busy:
- In Focus -
Great interview with Josh Whedon. You may not know him, but after reading this,
you'll realize that you are familiar with his work.
- Apple - Hell hath
frozen over and Satan has started an ice hockey league. Apple has released a mouse
with more than one button. Okay it really has zero buttons, but you can program it
to have more. They make sure to tell you that it's just as pretty as their one
button mouse.
- Mark
Cuban - Mark tells us why the RIAA is stupid.
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12:43 PM
Since I posted about Nerdcore yesterday, and obviously no one read it or followed the
links, I'm going to give you some lyrics to contemplate from MC+Plus:
My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer,
Corrupt your stack pointer makin' all your data suffer.
I've got saturated edges but your flow is sparser,
Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser.
While you're busy poppin' stacks I'll pop a cap in your skull,
While you smoke your crack pipe I'm gonna pipe you to /dev/null.
I may not have a label but I rap like a star;
I'm an unsigned long int and you're an 8-bit char.
Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servicing more requests than HTTP.
She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME,
Oh, there's so much drama in the PhD.
BTW, I have links too:
- Slate - This
article explores an idea that I have had kicking around in my skull for sometime,
that Owen Wilson was an integral part to the success of the first three Wes Anderson
movies.
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