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A week absence and the first thing I end up posting about is that stupid A-Rod trade. I mean, who really gives a crap? The only reason it’s even bugging me is because the friggin’ players’ union nixed the deal for him to go to Boston. Yeah, he wouldn’t have made as much money, but who cares? Why do baseball players’ even have a union? It’s not like these guys are fighting for basic rights. They’re fighting to get $20mil instead of $18mil. And then they wonder why people are losing interest in the game.

I could bitch more about this topic, but it’s not worth my time. MLB almost had us fooled this past postseason with thoughts of history-making series and curses being lifted. But it all fell apart and no one cared much even when the Yankees went on to lose – except for spoiled New York fans who are dealing with a 3 year “drought” without a championship. In the end I rushed back to football which, every week, provided me with more excitement than the entirety of the baseball season. Even after my Birds were eliminated, I dejectedly watched one of the most exciting championship games in any sport. But don’t talk to baseball players (or hockey for that matter) about salary caps and how it’s helped to make football the number one sport in America. They’d rather count their millions and ignore their fans all the way to lockouts, strikes, and the ultimate demise of the league. All I can really hope is that the void left will allow indoor lacrosse to finally make a run for some real showtime (as an aside, NHL owners have already been buying into NLL teams just in case).

Hey guys, I’ll actually be hitting the OpenMic tonight. Adam Wade is the featured musician and I haven’t seen his hilarious performances in a while. If you haven’t seen him yet, Wade rocks, and tonight he will be performing his opus “Penguin”. Seriously, that’s what he says on his blog. Come and check it out, I don’t think he goes on until after 9:30, but there’s drinking and music all night.

So I’m fooling around with some templates courtesy of the CSS Style Competition. The look of the site might change a whole lot these days, but as of now I’m using BLOrange created by B.A. Khan.

I think we need a new term for marriage. Too often we seem bent on changing definitions to match with the times, when perhaps a more appropriate term like “familial union” or whatnot could be used. You see, people get more uptight about progression when you try to distort a term that meant something sacred and honorable to them to mean something different. I’m not saying that a same-sex marriage is sacrilegious or anything, but using that term is going to make it harder for more conservative people to accept.

This came up because I was reading about the basic beliefs of the Democratic candidates and got to the page on gay rights. Even some of the Democrats oppose gay marriages although they support rights for couples similar to heterosexual marriages. Finally I decided I should see what the dictionary has to say about marriage. Sure enough, most definitions reference either a man and woman or a husband and wife joined by ceremony. Seems to me that rather than trying to change the meaning of a word so important to some people, things might move along more smoothly if we just used terms like “same-sex union”.
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Mike’s friends Paul and Cindy dropped by and showed me this wonderful little concept for a game. In the style of Cheapass Games this one is cheap (you provide the materials) and somewhat assy (I’m not sure you can really “win”). Anywho, check it out if you’re into those sort of silly party game things – Sandy I pretty much say this with you in mind.

I’ve already seen the whole Internet Archive thing, but now that I actually have been working on my site it’s very cool to go back and look at how it’s changed. Although I’ve only had real content for about a year now, I can still see the pointless holder pages I created to proclaim my lameness. Unfortunately they never grabbed an incarnation of my good “About Me” page, but the idea of using it as a not-so-reliable backup is very intriguing.

I wish it went back even further so I could see how awful my alma mater’s homepage used to be. At least I can still see some of the progression, even though they don’t have the graphics for all iterations.

Yay, Brian sent me a link to an Eighties lyric quiz. That’s really helped me accomplish anything here at work. Anywho, Brian beat me out by half a point on my original score (82 to 81.5). However, I went back and corrected 2 I got wrong because I accidentally pluralized words and now I’m up to an 84. Now I’m going back to correct those that I did a total brain fart on just to see what I could have gotten. But I consider the 84 my true score, which makes me a:

So with the world in the mess that it is these days, obviously the biggest story in the news should be that we all got to see Janet Jackson’s right boob on Sunday night. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you must be living in a hole. It’s a shame that after one of the most exciting Super Bowls (well, once we got close to the end of the first half) all we can talk about is a really stupid publicity stunt almost as lame as the moron who thought doing a naked jig in the middle of the field was even remotely clever. At least we’re getting such classic headlines as “Jackson Breast Under Fed Probe”.

The Drudge Report has additional info (and a graphic close-up) quoting a source who stated that CBS and MTV knew about it. Fortunately the NFL is cleared as simply being too stupid to realize hiring MTV was asking for trouble. Personally I find the most diturbing revelation during all of this can be found on the second picture on Drudge – namely that was no pasty, but the most frikkin’ ridiculous nipple piercing I’ve ever seen.
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Just in case you were wondering, it’s taken me far less time to get back into the Eagles this year. I’ve already read about a dozen articles and countless postings on what the offseason should bring. I won’t make any real commentary now (other than they obviously need an overhaul of the WR corp), but the footballs in my head are already spiralling. I just can’t seem to get away from it, no matter how much they piss me off.

Music sales are down, so we should legislate to force people to buy an overpriced product. That has been the general consensus among record labels (spearheaded by the nefarious RIAA). Until now, that is. Last September Universal announced that they would cut their CD prices drastically. While I haven’t heard from many other labels specifically, I have noticed an increase in the number of CDs that are priced at only $9.99. Generally that’s the sale price, but it still means that the regular price is only about 12 or 13 dollars. It seems that these guys are finally willing to test the theory that people are more willing to spend money when something is cheaper.
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