Asides
Short posts due to not wishing to be overly wordy about an item or simply about, or a link to, another site on the interwebs.
Perfect (short-term) Fit
It’s a rare thing, but I am going to disagree with The Sports Guy on this one… even if I like the “baby-faced assassin” line.
While Jon Papelbon has been lights out this year, he needs to be in the rotation next year. How does the law firm of Schilling, Beckett, Wakefield, Papelbon and Lester sound for 2007?
At least get him there at the start and see what Craig Hansen does. Simmons will change his mind when the LA crack wears off…
Weird Science
Out with the fellas tonight and we had to list off our Top 5 films of all time. Not really an accurate list for me as it is hard to do without careful thought, but I had Empire of the Sun (probably #1) and Saving Private Ryan on my list. Those are two Steven Spielberg films and I read this story earlier in the day, but I don’t think that influenced my choices! 😉
Anyway, is Spielberg turning into a sci-fi guy or what? Seems like a lot of his recent, and future, films lean that way.
World Cup
So, Team USA lost 3-0 to the Czech Republic this afternoon in their first match of the World Cup. Next up is Italy. Does anyone suspect that the US was deliberately put into a very harsh pool so that we’d get an early boot? Does anyone care?
Angels v Devils
I was just reading busblog and Tony pointed out that on 06.06.06 the Anaheim Angels played the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Wait, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim played the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Yeah, so was it coincidence that the Angels played the Devils on 666? The Angels won 12-2, so I guess we know who’ll win when Armageddon slash The Apocalypse slash whatever you want to call it should it actually happen, right?
Happy 06.06.06 Eddie
Gotta go with Eddie on a day like today, a day like no other.
I decided last night that I wouldn’t do a tribute to Ed for his birthday, but his post on his blog this morning changed my mind. As he said, “to keep the tradition alive,” I have decided to mark his birthday with pictures, but since he’s not nearly as cute as his kids or dogs, he gets the funny treatment.
For the record, I did keep the most embarrassing two pictures from seeing the Internet. He paid enough by having to wear one on his bachelor party t-shirt.
I’m sure there will be payback in December, if not sooner… 😈
Helluva Party
Go and see the creepy new version of The Omen or party in a town called Hell on 6.6.06.
Office Webisodes
Funny how this week’s EW is the Summer TV Preview and all I found of interest was that The Office Webisodes are going to start on July 13. Funny because it is on the Web and not on TV.
Okay… and that’s not all I found of interest, but I don’t have HBO, so no Entourage for me…
Happy Birthday Aria
Continuing the new tradition, I have posted some pictures of Aria to my flickr photostream. Since she is turning one today, I don’t have a lot and I also had to *borrow* some from Ed’s flickr and a Kodak gallery Andi set up from Saturday. Of course, Ed has posted another excellent birthday tribute for his daughter.
Colin and Aria celebrated their birthday’s with friends and family and I was the designated photographer for cake and presents. As I joked in a flickr comment, I need to get some original copies for my portfolio that will eventually go under the Visual section of this here bloggy blog.
It was a fun party. I also had the pleasure of heading out there a day earlier to help Ed with some yard chores (no one lost a limb this time) and putting together some gifts. We had a tough time with a kid-sized picnic table and I said this was just like Christmas Eve except it wasn’t, I wasn’t anyone’s Dad and we weren’t half in the bag. We eventually worked it out in time to meet up with Joe to see X3.
Subway + Ad = Animation
So, I meant to drop an Aside here about something I saw for the first time while riding the MBTA Red Line last week. The discussion that Ed and Jason are having about alternative forms of advertising in the Network Upfronts comments reminded me of this.
Anyway, as we were moving thru the dark tunnel, I noticed lighted ads started flying by the windows for the new Lexus ES350. That’s something new, but the very cool thing was they were lined up in such a way so that as we sped by they would change after you had enough time to read the words. Using a 40-50 mph moving train as an ad animation mechanism in a dark subway tunnel. A very innovative idea for new advertising. I wonder how many signs and lights were required to pull it off. Just plain cool.
Pre-surgery Pwning
I thought this was an interesting article on surgeons using video games for warm-ups. Let them get the killing out of the way in the virtual world so as to avoid it in the real one, especially if you are the patient! Of course, Mook will request that his surgeon warm up with Katamari Damacy…
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