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Archive for May, 2007

Hello Pot? This is Kettle.

If you followed the news today about our dear President, you’d likely have noticed his sudden concern for the environment. He came out today insisting that 15 nations need to start to curb their greenhouse gas emissions over the next decare or so in order to help protect the environment. In the same speech, he came [...]

Fourteen and a half

As of this writing, the Red Sox are currently leading the American League East by 11.5 games over the second place Baltimore Orioles, though this is not the highlight of the standings box. For all intents and purposes, Orioles could be 1 game out of first place, and yet I’d still have a sense of [...]

Lost with Mixed Emotions

Tonight is the Season Finale of the show LOST on ABC. It has been building up to a great finale, and both Miss Possible and I are very much looking forward to this evening’s two hour episode.. but at the same time, we know that we will be faced with the longest LOST hiatus we’ve [...]

Here Come The Larby’s

That’s right.. we’ve got a number of visitors coming over the next few weekends.. Arriving this evening is none-other than The Captain and his wife, Mrs. Larby… We’re looking forward to hosting them for a weekend of California fun. And then arriving next Friday is my dad and his fiancee, who are exploring the beautiful state [...]

Just checking in

I’m relieved that CBS decided to renew ‘How I Met Your Mother’ for a third season.  My man Petro, who is also a big fan, sent me the good news earlier today and I was probably more happy than I should have been, considering it’s “just a TV show.”  Having such a clutch show on Monday [...]

The Birthday Post

There’s a note in my calendar today that says “Write Birthday Post.” It’s been there since at least January. At the time that I put this note in my calendar, I probably had some great revelation as to what should be written on the 29th anniversary of the day I was born. Unfortunately, I failed [...]

A net loss

Today, my brother-in-law, Bubba, emailed me with this question: “What is humankind’s greatest contribution to earth?” I paused for a moment or two and gave it some thought. Not surprisingly, I came up blank. It seemed to me that the only positive contributions on our part have been band-aids to fix the things [...]