2005.12.30

I had a wonderful Christmas. I received some good news. I hope to post the positive news in the next week or two. I want some more info before I go public to my peeps. Word to your mother.

Mini-Omega is seen stylin' and profilin' in his Ohio University Bobcats (Dion Byrum) jersey.

If you find any parts of the site that do not work properly, please let me know. It took a lot of work to switch the code base to php. I think all of 2005's news archive functions correctly. Beyond that... good luck.

2005.12.28

Happy Holidays! I am switching website hosting providers. The site may become unavailable for a couple of days.

2005.12.14

You get what you pay for...
Last Thursday night during the 3" snow fall, the fuse in our furnace blew. My wife asked a friend for a fuse. The friend (who works in the heating and cooling industry) commented, "I have never heard of a furnace using a 5-amp fuse. Furnaces all use 10-amp fuses. Here, let me give you a 10-amp fuse."

My wife placed the 10-amp fuse in the furnace. The furnace kicked on. The house started to get warmer. A couple of hours later we noticed it was getting really cold in the house. We checked - the furnace was out again. The house was about 45°F at that point.

As it turns out, the 10-amp fuse fried the circuit board on the furnace. Most furnaces use a 5-amp fuse. We have an old furnace. A new circuit board was not readily available. We have been without heat since last Thursday night. The temperature in our house has dropped as low as 35°F. We have used space heaters and tons of blankets to stay warm. Last night, (5-days later) our furnace was fixed by a professional.

All told, the free bit of friendly advice cost us 5-days without heat and $250.

2005.12.13

In Remembrance
Jennifer Leslie Juliano
October 02, 1973 - December 26, 2003

Won't it be dull when we rid ourselves
Of all these demons haunting us
To keep us company

Won't it be odd to be happy like we
Always thought we're supposed to feel
But never seem to be

Hard to admit I fought the war on drugs
My hands were tied and the phone was bugged
Another died and the world just shrugged it off
- Barenaked Ladies; War on Drugs

2005.12.02

Click here to read my thoughts on "The Omega" Aaron Draven.

Are you willing to lose your family for wrestling? That is essentially the question Jim Ross asked me in Las Vegas a few years ago. The wrestling lifestyle has a way of tearing families apart. Ric Flair is in the middle of a very ugly divorce and owes the IRS a million dollars. No one is immune. Not even one of the all-time greats. Very depressing stuff.

2005.12.01

What Does Your Daddy Do?
Little David is in the 5th grade. Yesterday morning when the teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up; fireman, policeman, salesman, etc.

The teacher noticed that little David was being uncharacteristically quiet and so she asked him about his father.

"My father's an exotic dancer in a gay bar and takes off all his clothes in front of other men. Sometimes, if the offer's really good, he'll go out to the alley with some guy and do it with him for money."

The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some coloring, and took little David aside to ask him, "Is that really true about your father?"

"No," said David, "He plays for the Cleveland Browns, but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."

This "joke" was sent to me by former Cincinnati Bengals runningback, Ickey Woods. I fail to see the humor in it.

World News
A story on the CNN website claims the temperature in northern Europe may drop by 10°F over the next 20 years. Thte truly funny part, there is a paragraph suggesting that melting ice caps (global warming) are to blame for the COOLING trend. So, as evidence of the world getting warmer... it is going to get colder? Riiiiiiight.

Junk Science
The seemingly interminable Kyoto countdown is over - now we begin to count UP (the cost). Since coming into effect February 16, 2005, the Kyoto Protocol has cost the world about [US] $118,573,407,615 (as of 2005/12/01 13:43:01) while the potential temperature saving by the year 2050 so far achieved by Kyoto is 0.001229655 °C (to get activity on the clock we had to go to billionths part of one degree, which obviously cannot be measured as a global mean) and yes, that really does represent about $100K per billionth of one degree allegedly "saved." Guess that means for the bargain price of just $100 trillion we could theoretically lower global mean temperature by about 1°C.

2005.11.30

Click here to read a long and "controversial" commentary.