I don’t really care about the NBA, but Earl sent me a link to about the particular trading rules surrounding the Jason Kidd trade. It seems almost fake, but also seems to be perfectly believable. Good thing we throw away all these millions for nothing, eh?

Why yes, I do still pay attention to this site. I’d really like to move to Movable Type or Word Press, but there is no good way to convert this site to those products. Not that I’ve found, anyway.

Since I’ve started Twittering, I’ve failed to enter in the short random thoughts which seem to make up 75% of my recent posts. At least you can check it out on the right side.

I think it is about that time of the year when we all start to get cranky and loathe winter. Or maybe it’s just me.

For those who don’t already know, Jenny and I got engaged last Saturday. I’m a bit romantically-challenged, so no good proposal stories.

No dates or anything planned yet, but I’m sure I’ll let you all know. We might do a destination wedding to someplace warm. In any case, I look forward to all the nice stuff that you will be buying for us. Just kidding.

Enough with the tasering.

A seemingly-healthy guy died after being tased, and they still wonder why he died. Probably that huge electrical shock he received?

This tasing nonsense has escalated to the point of being ridiculous. A taser is not a means of subduing someone who is being, as the Strib called him, “uncooperative”. A taser should be a weapon of near-last resort, something that is only a step below shooting someone with your firearm. Instead, cops all over the country are getting lazy and just using it whenever someone doesn’t do exactly as they say. The collective strength of five officers is not enough to take down a sober, non-drugged individual? That just seems fucking lazy. Do your job and either talk the guy down or take him down.

The “don’t tase me, bro” guy was already on the ground, and they tased him anyway. How inept as a police officer do you have to be if you already have the guy on the ground, with several other cops on top of him, and you can’t cuff him and drag him out? Sure, he was a douchebag, but how about hitting the gym a little bit so that you can handle situations that may arise on any day in the line of duty?

Anyway, it’s all fucking bullshit, yet another gradual step towards our United Police State of America.

yea, i caved to peer pressure and joined twitter. even more content for me to let lapse and bore you. enjoy.

Yet again I forgot to post here recently. Sorry. Lots to catch up on, as long as you enjoy reading about the minutia of my life. And I know you do. But I’m tired, so maybe another time.

I always tell myself I’m going to post more, and then I never do.

More cute puppy pics here if you are into that sort of thing.

If you post a comment, but never see it show up, sorry about that. I get lots of comment spam, and sometimes I guess I just miss the stuff that should actually be allowed. Someday I’ll move to WordPress or Movable Type for some better anti-spam.

I got up at 4:30am yesterday. It is very cold, dark, and sleepy at 4:30am.

I’ve noticed that dogs don’t really care about what time of day it is. Its either play time or sleep time, regardless of which hands point at which numbers. Must be nice.

I ran across the Hollidazzle on my way home this evening. Fun for kids and adults alike, I suppose.

If you think about it, though, parades are kind of strange. A bunch of people dress up in funny costumes and walk/drive/ride down a street waving at a throng of people who have lined up to seem them walk/drive/ride in their funny costumes. And everyone is excessively happy. If aliens happen to be observing us, they must find us odd indeed.

First snow of the season, but it wasn’t so bad. Of course it still turned every Minneapolis driver into a blithering idiot, but that is to be expected.

I find myself with stacks and stacks of books, but no time to read them. This happen to anyone else?

At least now that the Bears are out of the playoff hunt (pretty sad that they were in it this long) I don’t have to spend half my Sunday watching them.