A very funny viral type online campaign from Philips Bodygroom. The deadpan delivery of this “sensitive” subject is fantastic.

I just wanted to say that I’m very excited for the upcoming 2006 World Cup in Germany. I am very encouraged by the prospects for the US Soccer team, even though Claudia Renya injured his hamstring in a “friendly” vs Morocco. My understanding is that the injury is not as serious as first thought, however it is still a point of concern with his importance to the team. My fallback is England, who should also have a good showing in the tournament.

Found on kottke…this is very funny. Girlfriend 6.0 vs. Wife 1.0. And to be fair…Husband 1.0 Tech Support.

I may have elevated myself to almost computer geek status this past week.

Last Sunday, I turned off our home computer and went to bed. The next day, when my wife tried to turn it on, it didn’t work. Nothing happened. We feared a crash but it did not appear that any electricity was running into the PC. So I called Dell (the manufacturer) and their tech support walked me through disconnecting the power source and successfully isolating that as the source of the issue. Once we determined the issue was in fact a bad powersource (I have no idea how it went bad), I ordered a new powersource from Dell.

Well, the powersource arrived today and I am proud to say that I disconnected the bad powersource from the tower frame, the hard drive, the disc drives and the mother board, I then re-connected the new powersource to the PC and then to the aforementioned PC components, closed up the tower and turned the PC on. And it immediately turned on and everything fired up as normal.

What was really cool about this experience is that I really got to see how a PC is put together. It really seems pretty straight forward although I am hardly prepared to go build a PC on my own.

I saw this post on Chad Finn’s Touching All The Bases blog titled “Guess That 1970’s Baseball Player”, and the first player listed was none other than Steve Garvey of LA Dodger fame. Chad noted Garvey’s troubles in his post-playing days and it got me to thinking of a random interaction I had with Garvey many years ago.

When I worked in the Advertising industry, I was regularly taken out to lunch or dinner or whatever by magazines and TV networks. Once, the now defunked Sport Magazine took me and a female colleage out to lunch. The Sport Mag rep brought along to this lunch their “honorary” publisher (or whatever his fluff title was) at the time, Steve Garvey. Obviously, Garvey had no flipping idea how to run a magazine and his purpose was nothing more than for publicity and promotions as Sport was trying (and failing) to compete for advertising business against Sports Illustrated.

Now, the female colleage that was also at this lunch was, shall we say, very easy on the eyes. And wouldn’t you know that Garvey could not keep his toungue in his mouth throughout the lunch. When the lunch ended, he gave us each an autographed baseball (a little cheezy, I must say) and I distinctly recall him saying something to the effect of “you sweet young thing” to my colleage.

So when I see all the troubles Garvey has had since leaving baseball, I recall is this incident and say: Why doesn’t this surprise me?

So I was on the bus coming home from work the other day. I was tuned out with my iPod listening to one of my numerous podcasts…or maybe it was my tunes I was listening to. As I scanned my eyes around the other passengers, I couldn’t help but notice this guy reading Guns & Ammo like it was Time Magazine or Sports Illustrated. I mean, he was intently looking over what I would presume to be reviews of new models of guns, in the same way I would read PC Magazine to learn about the newest computers. There were close ups of the barrels and the triggers. There were reviews of different guns, articles about hunting, and other stuff…but all about guns.

I don’t know why I’m posting about this. Maybe it just freaked me out to see someone reading about guns in public while commuting home from New York City. Maybe it caught me off guard. It did get me thinking however…does this guy have a gun in his home? Is it in his briefcase? Does he have a license? Is he looking to buy a gun? Why would he be doing that? Is he a Charlton Heston loving NRA leftist?

The Boston Globe Online had a great article today about the crazy day that Red Sox catcher Doug Mirabelli had on Monday after the Red Sox re-acqired him from the San Diego Padres.

Some background: One of the Red Sox pitchers is Tim Wakefield, and he exclusively throws a knuckleball, which is one of the hardest pitches to catch because the ball does not spin and just floats all over the place. Mirabelli had been the back up catcher for the Sox for the past 4 years and was Wakefield’s personal catcher because he was so adept at catching the knuckleball. That was until he was traded last off season for second baseman Mark Loretta. The intent was for the Sox to have newly acquired catcher Josh Bard be Wakefield’s new catcher. That unfortunately did not work out and in a last minute deal, the Sox re-acquired Mirabelli on Monday so he could catch Wakefield’s start against the Yankees. He was literally flown across country and given a police escort in order to get to the game with about 10 minutes to spare before the first pitch.