This looks like fun!

How come...

...none of the elevators in our building have a special trap door out the ceiling? Like in all of the spy/action/thriller movies.

What if I get stuck? What if Speed 4 shoots a scene in our building? What if I get chased by aliens and need to pretend I'm going to the 4th floor but instead hop on top of the elevator, grab a wire, slide down to the 2nd floor, and sneak my way into the file room??

*sigh* I guess I'll just have to be captured by aliens.

Didn't see this coming...

Look at the low and the high - and then look at the chart. Wow.

DJIA for 1/23/08

Unintended Consequences

This is quite funny (I'd thank "Nick" for the link, but I don't even know who he is - I'm sure someone can fill me in).

http://www.partizanlab.com/partizanlab/media/clips/244.mov

"I....U 2 !" -Mia

That is what she says. Really. But...regrettably, she's not equating her musical talents with the famous Irish rock band (that'd be a cool thing to teach her!).

It's much sweeter. Whenever we say "I love you" to her, she responds with an enthusiastic - "I..You..Toooooo!!"

Did you say, "Cold!" ?

Weather for Green Bay, WI

Check out Sunday, Jan 20th. They play at night.

D'oh!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011502506.html

Fair-weather Policymaker

It's funny that the Republican idea of cutting taxes to spur economic growth is poo-poo'd by Democrats - until it's campaign season.

The byline of the article: "Democrats now say that deficits don't matter." Caution: Major economic language contained in this article. Please prepare your brain appropriately.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120035796472889887.html

Ron Paul's Isolationism

"Pacifism is only plausible under the cover of Leviathan."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120036562308490333.html

Overkill, maybe??

We have 5 computers - four laptops (one is work-owned) and a desktop. Three Macs, two PCs. The ratio is unfortunately getting a little too-close to being "PC-Friendly."

To that end, Apple has now enhanced my incentive to increase the ration to 2-1. Welcome, Macbook Air. We (as in the entire Mac community) have been waiting on this sub-notebook for at least 3-4 years. It's tiny. It's svelte. It's wireless. It's cutting-edge.

Of course, it's a Mac.  http://www.apple.com/macbookair

[ps - should I have included Mia's new little laptop in my count? It only has shapes, numbers, letters, and sounds. Oh, and a very basic LED screen. I guess I should categorize that as a PC - about all they're worth, right??]

Playing in a Snow Globe

That may be how some described the Packers/Seahawks game. This paragraph sums it up perfectly:

"After falling behind 14-0, the Packers scored touchdowns on their next six possessions. Favre was masterful. He converted six consecutive third downs with passes. Backed by a great running game and superior protection, Favre had a blast."

Favre and Donald Driver even exchanged snowballs during the game!

Recap

Low Blow, Take 2

Not quite as record-setting, but for a team ranked #6 to score only 36 points is unheard of. Link

7+2=3

Some things you forget about and then just stumble upon them: like that really good sandwich at an out-of-the-way deli, the perfect gift you forgot to write down and then remembered which made your wife so happy, and....the Georgetown basketball game.

Ok, so maybe not on the same level, but I jumped in the car to watch the Packers game at Mike's house, and on my radio I heard there were 36 seconds left in the GU/UConn game. GU had just come back from 6 down, tied it up, and made UConn miss its shot. GU took it down the court, and with the shot clock expiring and 4 seconds left in the game, Roy Hibbert, Center, 7' 2" tall, drained a perfect 3-pointer. SWEEEET! Starting out perfect in the Big East, and on for another big year.

[Link Added] In case you want to see: ESPN Clip Here

Oh, and about the Packers - OH YEAH!! What a game! I'm thinking I may "live blog" the Super Bowl. We'll see...

Low blow

Ouch:

George Washington holds Saint Louis to D-I low in points scored

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=280100045&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

Analyze...Whom?

It just so happened that the day my brother asks who we, as Republicans, would rather face in November, the WSJ provides some insight. Courtesy of free wsj.com:

"Experience or change? That's the question, and no longer just for voters. It's the riddle of the day for Republican Party leaders, who have no say in the matter but can't help thinking about which Democrat they'd prefer to face in a general election."

More at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120001233501182539.html

Analyze...Tuesday

My brother thinks that my involvement in government (albeit local) qualifies me to comment on elections. Or maybe it was the prestigious institution I attended. Regardless, I'd hate to let him down.

I had a great theory going on the Democrat side, but then realized neither he nor many of the readers of this blog would be voting Democrat, so that may be a pointless effort. Another time.

As for Republicans, I think it's clear to see that Huckabee will show strong where he has a strong base. He had very little presence in New Hampshire - placed a lot of grass-roots effort in Iowa - a place where you can get the midwest folks to show up and support you. As for NH, Huckabee's message really doesn't jive with a Northeast populace. If they want more government, they're probably voting Democrat. If they want a Republican, they don't mind if he's moderate, but they want him to be genuine, experienced, and balanced. McCain offers that, I think. It'd be hard for a Southern Baptist preacher to carry any New England state.

I'm a little curious myself about how proximity to Massachusetts affected the vote for/against Romney. The southeastern portion of NH went for Romney - which is the outer suburbs of Boston. But that proximity didn't translate through the rest of the state (perhaps they saw Romney in action and didn't want any part of it?).

Of note - the good isolationist Ron Paul pulled a whopping 8% - a respectable 5th for the Texan. Fred Thompson shouldn't have wasted his time - oh wait, did he even visit NH ?

What does this mean for Michigan, Nevada, South Carolina? Since the pollsters are wrong anyway, I'll take my shot:

Michigan - McCain, Romney, Huckabee (but will go D in the general election)
Nevada - McCain (proximity to AZ) big - at least 40% - the rest split between Romney, Huck, Thompson, Giuliani and Paul
South Carolina - Huckabee, Thompson, McCain, Romney [As for me, if I lived in SC, I'd vote Colbert!!]

Super Tuesday will definitely live up to its name!

They call this Science ???

[From a magazine we randomly received in the mail]

"Where did the moon come from? The Giant Impact Theory states that Earth, 4.5 billion years ago, was 50 million years old. At that time, Earth was impacted by a planetary body, whose mass was roughly the same as the mass of Mars. That collision caused the colliding body to be destroyed. Meanwhile, the upper layers of Earth's mantle were vaporized. In the process of vaporization, Earth ejected large amounts of debris into its own orbit, from which the moon was formed."

Wa-wa-WHHHAAAATTT??

So, the surface of the earth was vaporized so perfectly that we got the beautiful and miraculously harmonious earth we have today?

And the impact of the "colliding body" just so happened to tilt the earth at the perfect 23 1/2 degrees (can you believe I remembered that factoid!!) and in perfect orbit with the sun and rest of the planets?

And the "bits" of "debris" just happened to form the moon that is in perfect orbit with the earth?

Things just get wackier and wackier.

Videos from Christmas

Links to videos:

Driving down the highway

Playing with the Ball Pit

Opening Gift from Abby

Christmas Pics

For those of you not on Facebook, here's a link to our pictures from Christmas:

Christmas Pics

And another

The first paragraph is the best, but the entire article is pretty good.

"My new year's resolution is to get my two teenage sons back. They've been abducted--by the cult of Nintendo. I'm convinced that video games are Japan's stealth strategy to turn our kids' brains into silly putty as payback for dropping the big one on Hiroshima."

Link

More God, More Government

"But one wonders whether his newfound supporters would really say that if they took a close look at his policies. With increasing frequency, Mr. Huckabee invokes his faith when advocating greater government involvement in just about every aspect of American life. In doing so, Mr. Huckabee has actually answered the prayers of the religious left."

Link

DreamGirl

(YouTube was supposed to auto-post this for me, but they didn't. Bah!)

This is what I find when watching ESPN at 2:30 in the afternoon.

The Facebook Dilemma

Why I post this here and not on Facebook, I dunno. When filling out your profile, it asks for your "Hometown." Does that mean where you grew up? Where you live? Eh?

I guess it's a vestige of Facebook being primarily a college-student networking site - so it makes sense. But for those of us who joined up just because it was the cool thing to do, what to do?

You're welcome for wasting 2 minutes of your time reading this.

Did you live prosperously today?

On Joel Osteen's theology:

"It is, rather, a just-in-time economy's vision of salvation, an eerily collapsible spiritual narcissism that downgrades the divine image into the job description for a lifestyle concierge."

Read more .... http://www.slate.com/id/2180590/pagenum/all/#page_start