So...

I was involved in a car accident today.

I'm fine, thanks for asking.

I was going to work, sitting at the light, waiting for the cars in front to turn, and I hear this screech.

Then bang and bang. The same car hit me twice. I didn't see it coming.

It was a weird day. My car had to be towed to the shop, so I got a ride to work in a tow truck. Enterprise came and picked me up at the end of the day, in a car paid for by my insurance. Hooray for insurance.

All those premiums I've paid and I've never gotten a thing. Now I do.

It's actually a much longer story than this, but without diagrams its hard to explain. So ask me next time you see me, I'll tell you the full story then.

Tiger Woods & Tibet

So, I'm on my annual NCAA vacation and CBS starts showing commercials for the Masters and they talk about Tiger and his chase for the 'Perfect Season.' Its March. Can't we at least wait until he gets back from England and his 3rd Major win in July before we have to see these ads? How sick of the Patriots chase did you become?

Please stop it CBS. Granted he is the greatest golfer of all time and the most dominant athlete of his sport right now, but he's got a long way to go. First he's got to get to 11 straight tourney wins. Which I don't think Tiger will do. Ever. Its the equivalent of DiMaggio's 56 game streak. Its the anomaly that can't be explained.

If the situation in Tibet gets further out of hand, do you think the US should pull out of the Summer Olympics? First of all, it's not going to happen. There's too much money at stake for it to happen. There would have to be protests on the scale of nothing I've seen in my lifetime. Cities in America would have to burn before we would think of boycotting these Games.

You don't think that the powers that be want our athletes over there kicking their asses on their soil? They go to sleep praying every night that this happens.

When it doesn't happen, look for the US to make a push for the Summer Games in 2016, and if that's already too late, expect the Summer 2020 Games to be on US soil.

Oh yeah, and Duke lost. Fuck.
But Opening Day is the 31st. Hooray.

I love it how my two sports don't quite overlap, although I wish they would. That would mean Duke is in the Final Four.

Puppy V Robot

Or, as the Japanese would title this link Super Happy Puppy Surprise Robot Attack

Also, the Mets got Johan Santana. Boo-fuckin-yah!

My Favorite Things

D&D nerds will enjoy this Order Of The Stick

This is my friend Dave's website. He has the coolest job of anyone I know.

When you want something better.

And my old award-winning* college feature paper. And my old radio station.

I Love Rock And Roll

Normally I don't listen to the radio, but tonight I'm glad I did.

It was the end of a long day; busy at both jobs, delivering in the rain, not having a raincoat. And I went looking for something else. All during delivering I listened to disc 1 of Drive By Truckers Southern Rock Opera, 3 times in fact.

Flipped around FM, looking for anything, found a DJ talking about Kiss. Figured this station might play something I would know, and possibly like.

So, now it's only drizzling, and the roads are empty, black and shiny. I'm sitting at the light in front of McCafe on Falls and this song comes on the radio.



I crank it right before the light changes and sing along.

The craziness at the bookstore, the crappy tippers, all disappear. It's the perfect song at the perfect time. It's better loud, too, always the sign of a good song.

It's then followed by this song, which I had never heard before, and I realize that people can still right a great rocking song.



A great rocking song must have 3 things:
1. An air-guitarable riff
2. A sing along chorus*
3. Thinly veiled sexually innuendo. The dirtier and simpler, the better.

Then, there was another commercial and I remembered why I don't listen to the radio any more. But for 7 minutes I was reminded why I love music.

Rock and roll music absolutely kicks ass when it's really good. It is truly my drug of choice and I am a slave to her.


*A sing along chorus AND a sing along verse make it a 'fucking great rocking song.'

Geeks & Crannies

For the geek in all. Order Of The Stick.

And is the cranny opposite of the nook?

Thomas' English Muffins have nooks and crannies. We all know that the larger concave side of the split muffin is the nook side, so that must mean the other, slightly smaller convex half muffin is the cranny side.

Is that what a cranny is supposed to look like? It looks like an extreme close up of whale skin (at like 1000x times).

Running & Guitar Hero III

The past two Saturdays I've been able to run a 5k around the lake behind my apartment.

Last week was 28:06
This week was 28:50

With the weather changing it's going to be harder to run. I hope the exercise room of my complex has a treadmill.

Also, Guitar Hero is just about the coolest game in the world for people who want to play guitar (but can't), have played entire air guitar concerts at their house, and have a fondness for classic rock hits.

Its awesome on Easy, frustrating on medium. Once I get the hang of it, I will shred (fakely).