Wake up kids, we’ve got the dreamers disease
As I got to the on-ramp for 422 this morning a motorcycle gang was exiting the Harley dealership. There were about 15 of them pulling into the lane next to me. They lead guy pulled out and sat in front of a truck and let all his buddies onto the road. I wasn’t concerned for my safety, I’ve dealt with motorcycles gangs before. I was however curious as to how one merges with a gang of motorcycles. They are small and get very close together, not to mention that they aren’t going to be friendly and let anyone in. For the person a few cars in front of me the answer was you don’t merge with motorcycles, you just let them go.
Its always exciting to come in and see that you have a voicemail. Unfortunately the only voicemails I’ve gotten are informing me that my mortgage application has been received and that they have a great deal for me. Cool, I wonder where my house is.
Finally had a chance to listen to the Teddy Geiger CD. I like it a lot, I’m really impressed. Since I first saw him on Love Monkey he reminded me of John Mayer. The CD has that same feel, only I don’t hate him yet. I got some new music so my iPod has made its first trip in to work today. Its not happy though. Every time it falls asleep I have to reset it to get it to wake up. This could be a major problem. I’m not ready to buy a new one yet.
I’m jealous of Dave today. He is off to the career fair. If you want a job with Armstrong you better get to State College.
Question of the Day
What are the most common college mascots or nicknames? If you read it in ESPN the magazine, don’t cheat. They listed the Top 10. I’m not sure what they pulled from, this may include junior colleges and even Canadian ‘universities.’ Also, I’m assuming Nittany Lions are grouped into Lions. I know this is a departure from usual open ended questions since this one actually has an answer. Feel free to direct it in other mascot/college questions. Simple examples would be school nicknames that are singular and directional state schools that are decent at sports.
Links
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=…
The Phanatic was ‘painted’ red yesterday. I couldn’t find any pictures this morning but this is a link to the story. How did I find out about this? Valerie saw it on the news. Some things that make it somewhat strange that she was the one to tell me about it: 1) She lives in Seattle 2) She only gets 2 channels on her TV. How I missed this yesterday I’ll never know. Within minutes I saw it all on CSN. Before you give her too much credit though she did refer to the Phanatic as that Phillies bird thing.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/14201004.htm
If this were actually true I would have gotten no sleep in the last 10 years.
http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid7123.aspx
Top 20 Simpson guest voices.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4530312862416912346
Will Ferrell’s Apple commercial.
http://aaronkaro.com/issue.php?id=62
Pretty good Ruminations this week. A little weird because I thought of that Sal Fasano 1987 baseball card thing that I mentioned above this weekend and here is someone else mentioning those cards. Its not often you discuss that 1987 set, its one of my least favorites. Especially after such a solid 1986 design. I could go on.
ttp://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060327/…
Likely the best Spring Break anyone has ever had in Iowa.
(The New Radicals - You Get What You Give)