Thursday
After I dropped off Jess this morning, I stopped in to see her sister, Jenny. She cracks me up. She was telling me, half-jokingly, that she wants to be on Extreme Makeover. A few of her coworkers came into her office while I was there; she introduced me as her brother-in-law. That’s fair – I’ve been referring to their parents as “the in-laws” for about four years.

PRE-SEASON FOOTBALL!
I had completely forgotten about this game until earlier today. But the HALO Command Center now reverberates with the echoes of ESPN’s coverage of the game from M&T Bank Stadium. Selah.

Atlanta at Baltimore
0 – 24
The last time that these two teams met in pre-season (almost a year ago), Michael Vick was taken out of the game… for fourteen weeks. While I’m hoping for a Baltimore win, I know that it’s not a big deal. Yet. Because it’s “only” preseason.

The Ravens had a a great first defense set and forced a punt from the 5-yd line. After a penalty on the kick, Baltimore opted to go for a re-kick. Shouldn’t have done that… because Lamont Brightful fumbled on the
return. *sigh*

In the end, the boys from B’more not only won, they dominated. And all was good.

NPR and Other News
Morning Edition: Skip ar Your Own Risk
Morning Edition: Paralyzed Teen Makes Bid for Gun Company
Morning Edition: Bovine Boob Job
Talk of the Nation: The Business Behind Summer Concerts

Various sources: N.J. Governor Resigns
Jess called me about this. I surfed for a bit and then turned on the television. I missed the announcement, but caught the reaction pieces on CNN. The best response that I’ve heard so far came from Crossfire‘s James Carville: “We don’t know now what we’re going to know 48 hours from now.” And with that, he refused to make any other speculations about Governor McGreevey’s reasons for what he did. Tact. I like it.

Stray Toasters

  • Did I mention that there was a pre-season game tonight? And that the Ravens played in it? And that that they won?
    I did? Oh.
    Well, just for the record: There was. They were. They did.

  • As an added bonus, the O’s whooped up on the Angels. 6 – 0. In Anaheim.
  • I’m going to see Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan morrownight. In a theatre. The only thing that would top it would be seeing Superman: the Movie or Superman II on the big screen again.
  • Piro’s most recent rant/blog on Megatokyo mentioned that he is working on a poster for the American Library Association. I went to the site and found a Neil Gaiman poster in their “Author Series.”

    : They had a Batgirl poster and matching bookmark, too.

  • Joss Whedon says that he has not been offered the director spot for X3.
  • By way of Slashdot: Turn Real Life into a Cartoon
  • Jet Li is still considering the role of Kato in the proposed Green Hornet movie.
  • “The Near-Death Star” (Gotta love Futurama.)
  • Snack.
    Snackage.
    Snacajawea.

  • Monkeysphere
  • It appears that both The Beatles’ and Aerosmith’s versions of Come Together are “just” too slow to synch up with NIN’s Closer. Oh, well. I know that the two songs can be intermingled, but I just can’t do it, at the moment.
  • …speaking of which: Lightning was sitting on my desk when I was watching the Flash animation of Come Together. He actually sat there and watched it. I think that the colors and movement piqued his interest.
  • I caught the rebroadcast of the Celebrity Poker Showdown tournament. Jeff Gordon was one of the participants. They showed a clip of the match that he played against Penn Jilette where Penn was shouting: “Jeff Gordon goes all in!” It made me laugh.
  • Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?

Artist of the Day
Don Niblack is another artisan whose work was on display at PCAF this weekend. Check out the spiders.

Namaste.