Astros Trade Rumors

The non-waiver trade deadline in MLB is approaching and teams will have to decide if they are buyers or sellers. The Astros, despite being in the destitute NL Central, should be sellers, but they don’t have much in the way of valuable commodities.  Their most highly prized assets are at the end of their bullpen, [...]

Crazy Prop Bets

The world of high-stakes poker is surreal in many respects, mostly to people like me in the enormous sums of money that are tossed around on the chance of something happening. One thing that you learn about if you read poker sites or watch any of the TV shows is the enormous amount of side [...]

An Open Letter To the Lords of Baseball

Up in the Rockies | MVN – Most Valuable Network » Blog Archive » An Open Letter To the Lords of Baseball
The Rockies are a better team than the Astros this year, which is pretty sad, but we’ve beat them in walk-off fashion the last two nights. Both times, the Rockies suffered from some bad [...]

Texas joins efforts to bring sea water to faucets | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

Texas joins efforts to bring sea water to faucets | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Global output is still relatively minute — less than 0.1 percent of all drinking water. But according to a a recent report by Global Water Intelligence, the worldwide desalination industry is expected to grow 140 percent over the next decade, entailing [...]

OpEd Refuting AlGore’s Claims

Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Other Views
Gore claims the Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of global warming. Yet the Jan. 14, 2002, issue of Nature magazine reported Antarctica as a whole has been dramatically cooling for decades. More recently, scientists reported in the September 2006 issue [...]

Mosquito Ringtones

I was watching Law & Order and one of the A.D.A.s made a reference to a “bumblebee” ringtone; a ringtone that was too high-frequency for adults to hear. That was intriguing, so I googled it. It’s more commonly known online as a “mosquito” ringtone and it’s on based devices that were originally developed to deter [...]

I Want To Believe

iPhone Envy

I can’t afford one; there are bound to be bugs in the first rev; the network it uses is too slow; the next version will probably be much better. But now that they’re out and everybody is posting about theirs, I can’t help it.
I want an iPhone.

Sincerely,
Another victim of the Job’s Reality Distortion Field.