Additionally, our old pal Big Al opened a new web site at http://blog.mlbsecrets.com that has up-to-date info on all the latest baseball rumors.  Example: yesterday I looked and found out that Ben “Fucking” Sheets worked out for ten (10!) interested teams the other day.  I assume that he will sign for a hojillion dollars somewhere and then NOT get injured, thereby completing his unusefulness to the Milwaukee Brewers.  It seems like it’s a good time to leave a Wisconsin professional sports team and then get fantastically good again.

Wwhazz’s birthday was this week, as was madddddddd’s, as was manders’.  As is alandovos.  Basically everyone I know: Happy Birthday.  Wwhazz and bellygirl went out to dinner and snapped a picture of the all-time best bar special ever. Ever.  I hope they don’t mind me reproducing it here:

The Best Bar Special Ever

Also, got the new Punchout for the Wii; it’s pretty cool so far but I’ll update once I’ve played it a bit more.

The version from the latter half of my college years (run with Perl scripts and a file-based database).

The version from when I first moved to California and the maddddddddd scientist taught me about MySQL and PHP.

Have fun until I get back from Miami, weirdos.

Soooo, the Badgers suck at football now? When exactly did that happen?  The Packers seem to have righted their ship for the moment, but I still can’t win a 3-teamer to save my got-damned life so there’s that.

This weekend we’ll be heading up to Door County to celebrate mama’s birthday, and then next weekend is the Big Throwdown for Halloween.  I don’t think anyone planned a party, or if they did I was left off the invite list, so the Main Depot it is.  Luchas all around.

I’ve been quite busy trying to launch my new web site– wowtracker.org.  Basically it’s a site to track card collections.  I’ve been playing the WoW trading card game for awhile now, and made it to track my own collection.  I’m trying to see if it would actually generate any ad revenue.   I’ll soon be moving it to a new server, so that link may or may not work if you click it.  In fact, better just not to click– I was only trying to beg off not updating in a week.

Finally, I found out today that I’ll be out in the Bay Area November 9th-14th, so if you are hungering for some moneypenny, uh, I guess you’re in luck.

In the ‘April Showers Bring May Flowers’ equation, we’re firmly in the ‘showers’ part.  Rain two days ago, rain yesterday, rain today, thunderstorms tomorrow.  The grass is starting to turn from brown to green, which is heartening and I was able to jog to the gym yesterday.  I just gotta wait out the next week; then it’s off to California from the 20th to the 26th, followed by a Las Vegas vacation.

I decided to start writing about the housing crash and my opinions on it, but I haven’t posted anything yet because I’m unsure where to start and because, when dealing with a contentious topic such as this, I really hem and haw when discussing it.  I need to make sure I present my views correctly.  I hope those posts will be more thought out and edited than the dreck I currently serve to you, my adoring friends.

In other news, the Brewers have started the season well by taking 2 of 3 from the Cubbies at Wrigley, then sweeping the hapless Giants in the Miller Park opening weekend. With the extreme exception of the Gagne Explosion on opening day, the bullpen has looked good. They kick off a series at Miller Park tonight against the Cincinnati (boo!) Reds. I don’t hate Cordero as much as everyone else seems to; if Cincinnati wants to lock up a closer for 4 years at close to $50 million, go ahead. I actually wouldn’t have felt very good about the Brewers laying out that much dough for a closer. If Cordero works out well for them, ok, if not then “ha-ha”.

BTW– Scientist, that vocoder link was fucking awesome. Good find, I’ll link to it here for posterity.

I should note that if you aren’t using an iPhone or a Safari browser, that link will likely look like complete garbage. Sorry you Treo dudes.

It’s snowing outside. Hard.

But I did make two changes that I wanted to highlight:

1.  Since few people read the post, and instead use wm.com as an all-purpose message board, I’ve moved the Recent Comments section front and center.  It still list the last 10 comments by time submitted.
2. Additionally, you can now post a comment directly from the front page: Simply click the “Add a Comment” link and you can submit a comment directly to that post without loading it and scrolling to the bottom (I guess this is for the truly lazy).

I’ll be doing some other things off and on, but it looks like the shit is stable for the moment.  HOLLLARIT.