Random thoughts with some guy that isn't Jack Handy
- The Super Bowl is barely over, and I’m already thinking about baseball season. The World-Wide Leader reported today that the Twins have signed Justin Morneau to a one year, $4.5 million dollar contract and Yahoo! Sports reported that the Twins are negotiating a potential contract extension with Joe Mauer. That’s the good news. The bad news? The Twins are likely to lose Torii Hunter and Johan Santana at the end of the season, sooner if the Twins are out of the pennant chase and decide to unload them for 30 cents on the dollar. I’d be amazed if they were able to keep one of them. It’s bad enough that they’ll be leaving, but I have this awful feeling that Johan will be moving down batters in pinstripes after he leaves the Twins.
- Speaking of the Super Bowl, when is the NFL going to move this thing to Saturday night? Not only would this improve the game as consumer product, it would also help the
- The Senate. What a bunch of ninnies. These 100 men and women are supposed to be helping to run this country. Right now they’re arguing about whether or not they are going to possibly open debate over a non-binding resolution that may or may not express opposition to the President’s escalation of the Iraq War. Maybe if they actually craft this resolution they could deliver it to someone that has the power to act on its sentiment. If only there were are branch of government that were supposed to serve as a check on the President’s power. Someone that had the authority to somehow take action if they really disagreed with the conduct of the war. Someone that could decline to fund additional troop increases if they felt strongly enough about the matter to really stick out their collective necks. Too bad the framers of the Constitution didn’t think to create a branch of government to serve that function. My 7th grade civics teacher was wrong. Thomas Jefferson was a moron.
- I’m digging on my new PlayStation 3. I’d write some kind of full review, but there is a limit to the level of my inner dork I’m willing to share with the general public. For now I’ll say that the pros include the wireless controller, stunning graphics on a good HD TV, and tremendous potential to introduce some creative and unique games using the system’s superior hardware. For the cons; the initial release didn’t have many great games and the near future doesn’t look any more promising. The built in WiFi is tricky to get working on certain network configurations. Also, the thing was friggin’ expensive. The cost of the system, a game, an extra wireless controller, and the HDMI cable came to more than what I paid for the motorcycle I rode in college. In addition, I’m pretty sure that its causing my electricity use to increase drastically. When I turn on the PS3 it makes a sound like a Ghostbusters proton pack heating up and the lights dim in the house. Energy efficient this sucker is not.
Labels: I am a dork, In the words of Alex Trebec - Potpourri, politics, sports reporting
posted by DC Viking at 12:57 PM
1 Comments:
I agree - Super Bowl Saturday!
Also, it'd help population growth. I'm sure many more children would be conceived after a beer guzzling saturday night rather than a tempered celebratory sunday evening.
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