Bracing For The Heat

Reading the USA Today, I come across the following news that I would like to comment on:

Of course the biggest news is all of the missile launching in Israel and Lebanon. I thought 10 years ago we were headed in the right direction over there but now we're back to nowhere with progress. Hopefully our US Government strives for peace, but not by taking one side over the other like we have in the past. That's how we got so hated by the middle east in the first place.

TBS is now in cahoots with FOX when it comes to broadcasting Major League Baseball. This means that after 30 some years of broadcasting Atlanta Braves Baseball and helping them to become "America's Team", this will no longer be the case. TBS will broadcast Sunday games and maybe a few others during the week, but they will no longer broadcast 90% of the Braves games as they do now. Too bad because this was the reason I became a Braves fan. The games were always on TV (I grew up with cable remember)... even when they sucked in the late 80s, I'd still watch them. I personally don't think it's the right decision but I'm not at the Ted Turner level. Now TBS will resort to showing reruns of Friends instead like they always do.

In news worthy of taking up the entire page 4 of the main section of the paper..... NASA's list of songs they play to wake up astronauts every day since 1981:

• Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder (since when is space Blue?)
• Anchors Aweigh (what the???)
• The Marine Corps Hymn (why not the other military services?)
• I Got You Babe (I've seen Groundhog Day too many times for this one to be even remotely "cute")
• What a Wonderful World (This is more likely music to be played when I want to go to sleep)

I'm curious why they can't wake up to a blaring alarm like the rest of us do. It might be kind of funny watching them try to hit snooze when the alarm clock is floating around weightless

Train bombings in India (which is further back than the wake up songs.... a signal that it's not as important to the editors of the USA Today I'm sure. All of this violence is making gas prices rise and stock market come down.

AOL is struggling.... do people still use AOL (other than AIM which is also taking a back seat now a days to other IM methods)??? The only category that it is leading the others (MSN, Google, Yahoo) is with maps... I didn't realize that AOL owned Mapquest but then again, I usually use Google Maps (DOUBLE TRUE) or Google Earth. If you haven't played around with Google Earth yet, you're missing out!

And they are getting called "The New Frat Pack".... Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, and Steve Carell. All have had movies with multiple individuals in there (think Old School, Anchorman, Dodgeball) but now they are starting to go solo. My money is on Will Ferrell and Steve Carell. Jack Black does have a new Tenacious D movie coming out in November. That will be pretty funny.

Have a great weekend - enjoy the 100 degree weather (and humid unfortunately)!!

Song of the Day - I know Wheeler's a big fan of the song Crazy by Gnarls Barkley. I like it too and I heard it this morning as well. My first exposure to this was on the MTV Movie Awards show when he performed it but everyone in the band was wearing a full Star Wars costume. Chewbacca was on the drums, and Gnarls himself was Darth Vader. That was funny.

Video of the Day - I went to see Cars last night. I had free tickets plus the movie theatres are air-conditioning. It was very funny and very enjoyable, as most of the Pixar movies are known for. Great for kids and adults. There were a lot of cameos in there by NASCAR folks which some of you might catch. You even get to hear a "Boogity boogity boogity" if you listen close enough to the final race.

Webpage of the Day - 15 Most Popular Ice Cream Flavors. Coffee shouldn't even be a flavor as far as I'm concerned. I'm surprised that Rocky Road isn't higher than 14th. I have a feeling that Vanilla's dominance is because more places sell vanilla ice cream than they do chocolate.... maybe? My cherry-cheesecake-and-oreo-blizzard did not make the list.