Rockets Trade for some Argentinian Dude

I haven’t talked much about the Rockets, but they made a trade this week for a guy named Luis Scola with the Spurs. Scola is a power forward from Argentina and played on their last Olympic team with noted whiner and flopper, Manu Ginobli. Although I’m sure Scola will be a fine addition to the [...]

Google Reader: Oldest Items First?

Why is the default setting when you subscribe to a new RSS feed to have the newest items first? Am I wrong to think it makes more sense, when reading a blog that typically organizes things in chronological order to default to oldest items first?

A Calvinist Leaves the Faith and Joins the Catholic Church

These posts showed up in my RSS reader (What was I thiniking?!?–The Calvinist Mind (part 1), One Little TULIP — The Calvinist Mind (part 2)) describing the author’s spiritual biography. After a childhood in a Baptist church, in high-school she delved deeper into Christian theology and became convinced of the truth of the gospel as [...]

Tidbits from the Astros Broadcast Today

Forgot it was Friday the 13th until Bill Brown dropped the word Triskaidekaphobia on us, which according to Wikipedia is fear of the number 13. Wikipedia also says there is a specialized form of this phobia for Friday the 13th called paraskavedekatriaphobia.
Bill Brown slammed baseball uber-gossip Peter Gammons as “irresponsible” for reporting on ESPN that [...]

Biggio’s 3000th hit

It’s a gloomy day on the internet for Astros related stuff. Everybody and their dog is posting about the 2nd half and what the Astros will end up doing and there seems to be a competition to see who can be the most pessimistic. I’m not saying they’re not right, or at least in [...]