Laying It On The Line

I had a basketball revelation this week.  I’m too slow to be a guard, too short to be a post and don’t shoot well enough to be a wing.  Add onto that the fact that I’m 34 and sit at a desk for most of my life. 

Don’t worry, I’m not going to stop playing.  It just made me sigh a little when I realized it.

Oil is NOT a fossil fuel and AGW is non-science.

Saw this article on Dvorak Uncensored.  Very interesting. 

I have also wondered how many dinosaurs used to be on earth to create the amount of oil we already have used, how did the dinosaurs, plants, etc. get so deep in the earths crust to actually form oil and I also wondered why haven’t all the organic material  that continues to die been adding to the oil reserve.  I guess the argument is “We use the oil quicker than we use it” but something still seemed a little weird. 

These quotes from the original article really make you go hmm.

“Stalin’s team of scientists and engineers found that oil is not a ‘fossil fuel’ but is a natural product of planet earth – the high-temperature, high-pressure continuous reaction between calcium carbonate and iron oxide – two of the most abundant compounds making up the earth’s crust.”

“This continuous reaction occurs  . . .  and will continue more or less until the ‘death’ of planet earth in millions of years’ time.”

And finally, the reason that this news isn’t widespread

“. . . the last people to tell us the truth about oil will be the oil producers and oil companies, for they of course have a vested interest in perpetuating the myth that oil is a fossil fuel and that it will soon be exhausted, in order to ratchet up the price for as long as they can.”

Kind of the starch out of  the ”Peak Oil” argument. 

Anyway, this is only one report that I’ve found on this so far.  Obviously it’s not conclusive.  However, it is an interesting thought problem.

Brickfish Social Media: Windows Media Center Application.

I am a Windows Media Center junkie.  We got rid of DirecTV and do everything throught WMC 7.   Go to the link above and check out this potential app.  If we’re lucky Microsoft will include it in the new Windows 7 phone which will only increase the usability of WMC!!

I just realized that the Twins are 3.5 games back. I knew they had hit a rough patch but didn’t realize they dropped so far. What makes it really painful is that they are currently in 3rd place. The White Sox are leading the division with the Tigers right behind them.

What is the season coming to?

I hope the All Star Break allows the Twins to reflect on the season to date and come out fired up. Maybe Gardy will rearrange the pitching staff and get someone to take the place of Nick Blackburn.

Check out Aaron Gleeman for a good rightup  on how the Twins have fallen this season.

There’s still time to turn it around.  The Twins really need to hit the ground running to do it though.

In the Morning to you!!

Checkout Joep Berkenbosch on Daily Source Code 838.

I love this guys sound.  I hope he comes to the states and makes some CD’s.  I’d love to buy them!!