I had a dream where I was in middle school or high school, and I asked my teacher how I did on the test, and their reply was "Don't go pouring that load of concrete into Dan Marino's jersey just yet."

Talk about things that make you go hmmmm. Does that mean I passed? What exactly DOES that mean?

The T-Wolves tried their best to blow it, but the Kings just didn't want to win it apparently. That had to be one of the biggest choke jobs I've ever seen. Minnesota was up 15 with 6 minutes left. Five missed shots and two turnovers later, they were up by 1.

Blah.

I had to scan through my Major League DVD tonight to get some screenshots of Rick Vaughn's jersey because I am getting mine personalized with the number 99 on it and VAUGHN.

"The Indians win it, the Indians win it, oh my God the Indians win it!"

My favorite part at that point is the guy in the background screaming "I can't beeeeeliiiiiieeeeeeeeve it!" because that's exactly what I'd be doing if they ever managed to win the World Series.

My Dell DJ 20 shipped today. Hooray for me. The only problem now is that I have to re-rip all my CD's and encode them at 256 bit instead of the 128 I ripped them in years ago. It's also not compatible with iTunes, so I have to re-encode those AAC songs I bought on iTunes into MP3's. It's not normally a good idea to encode from one lossy format into another though.

Twas a busy day and night for me. I watched the Indians beat the D-Rays 10-0 in the afternoon, and got burnt to a lobster crisp. Then tonight I saw Troy. I'd give it a solid 7. Would ask for it as a gift because I might want to watch it again some day. It didn't seem like a 2 hour and 42 minute movie. It moved with a pretty good pace the whole time. The acting by some (Orlando Bloom) wasn't anything to write home about, but it was interesting enough and certainly filled with action. It seems the epic battles put it in the vein of Gladiator, Braveheart, and Lord of the Rings, but I don't think the battles were as good as those in Braveheart of Lord of the Rings.

And last of all, don't forget about Diane Kruger (she played Helen). She is a potential top 10 nominee. She bears striking resemblence to a girl I work with, which is a big plus (and maybe is what leads to the nomination.) I can't really find a good still photo of her, but trust me when I say she looks better in motion anyway. This is the best one I suppose, but it's a bit small.

On the same day that Israelis held the largest peace demonstration in over 10 years in Israel, Palenstinians were marking the anniversary of "the catastrophe." What's that you ask? The Palestinians call the creation of Israel after WWII "the catastrophe."

If that doesn't speak volumes about what's happening over there, I have no idea what will. I just don't understand why everyone is putting so much pressure on Israel to give up land to the Palestinians (people who don't even acknowledge Israel's right to exist.) Appeasement NEVER works. If you give suicide bombers what they want - a Palestinian state - then they will get the message that blowing up Israelis eventually will get us what we want.

There's no easy solution over there, except for the Palestinians to realize that for every action there is a reaction. They seem to believe that Israeli helicopters and tanks are storming their neighborhoods for no reason, like that bomber they sent to an Israeli market had nothing to do with it.

Roy Jones Jr. lost last night. He was knocked down in the 2nd round, and the referee called it after he was on very shaky legs after he got up.

I can't believe it.

I have to admit... TiVo knows me pretty well. It recorded a show on the History channel called "Breaking Vegas: The true story of the MIT blackjack team" and it was actually interesting. I have to say, probably 90% of the stuff that the TiVo records for me automatically (without my input), I end up liking. It keeps recording old baseball and football games though. I don't really care to watch a World Series game from 1975 or the 1992 Citrus Bowl. If TiVo had a "I like this, but don't ever record it" button, I think it would be just about perfect.

Freaking Lakers.

There has got to be some conspiracy out there that causes the Lakers to win these last .4 second games. What else explains that shot? Fisher could shoot that fall away 1000 times and he might hit it once. I think the Ball had some clear wire that guided it to the basket. It has to be.

Freaking Lakers.

Sarbanes-Oxley = poo poo.

Leave it to Congress to over react to a singular event.

Step 1: Enron screws investors

Step 2: Congress screws EVERY public company by making them conform to idiotic standards and thereby making my daily work completely suck

Step 3: Auditors make BILLIONS because of this stupid piece of crap law