I'm going to start blogging again.

Here's why...

..I had a bunch of random comments floating around in my head the other night. I thought, "I should blog those." But I was in bed and didn't feel like getting up. Now I forgot them.

..I decided to see what all the fuss was about tonight and checked out twitter. Kinda cool. Another one of those things that'll have me wondering why I didn't think of it first. But there's a 140 character limit, which isn't going to always sit well with my wit. Also, how do I get people following me without being a shameless self-promoter. See my previous post on smrt people, below. At least right now, Twittering on a personal level is primarily the realm of celebrities and smrt self-promoters. I'm not gonna sit there and talk about all the cool, awesome, groundbreaking, superspecial, jealousy-inducing things I'm working on at work.. because I'M BUSY WORKING ON THEM! But it's cool to check up on your friends, old friends, people you work with, whatever.

..No other reasons why I decided to start blogging again. This shouldn't have been in list form.

My site looks like crap in Google Chrome. I apologize, I know it. It also looks like crap in Safari, but I lived with that a couple years ago when I re-designed the site.

Maybe I should just go with a simpler look that doesn't rely on anything fancy. But it still looks good in IE and Firefox. I'm so tired of every new set of nerds thinking that their way is the best way, and that they are the first set of dudes to think of whatever it is that they're thinking of. Why can't we all just render in harmony?

Oh yeah! Another reason why I decided to post on the blog - an updated concert list. It's on a different computer. Coming soon.

I guess I'm done.

No... more thoughts.

- - - Everybody used to blog like crazy. 2004, 2005, 2006.. it was the shiz. Now, not so much. That's part of what got me curious about Twitter. Did they start Twittering? Not really. But Twitter needs better recommendations for who to follow. It needs to collect a little bit more profile information and suggest ppeople you might know, a-la LinkedIn.com. I have had more luck finding random people that I haven't talked to in ages via LinkedIn than anywhere else.

Anyway, they're all Facebookin' it now. I still say I'm ineligible for that since I remember Michael Jackson being black. Means I'm too old. But I said that about myspace as well.. which I never even log onto. I was just shocked at the "everyman" aspect of myspace. EVERYBODY is on that piece.

- - - Michael Phelps. One of the things I thought of the other night. Who gives a shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite? I honestly, really, truly, seriously, no lie, am sick of having to hear things I don't care about concerning people I don't care about. Not that I don't care about Phelps - that guy was money in Beijing. But I think I am officially over Marijuana. Let's just let people smoke it. Everybody who wants to already does, anyway.

- - - TiVo. Tivo, I love you. But you're going to lose a customer on account of your standing with DirecTV. Or, more generally, with satellite integration, period. Unless you can get FiOS, the only HD solution that isn't a complete raping of one's pride is satellite. I'm sorry, but cable offers awful HD packages for similar prices to satellite. Their DVRs are even worse, but at least people have the option (typically) of using a TiVo HD box. Diskh and DirecTV have supposedly better DVR options

The bottom line on this is that I'm so technologically apt, advanced, whatever.. we have like 9 devices in this house connecting to the internet at any given time.. and I'm like the last guy I know to make the jump to HD. The only HDTV I'm getting in the house is on a little 20" TV and a $30 indoor antenna I borrowed from Mark. Why? Because DirecTV is the only option that makes sense for me where I live, and I was holding out for TiVo to integrate with them in 2009. But since I'm already hearing about delays - and know full well how big companies can suck the life out of a good software project - I'm done. I'm starting small with a new TV for the bedroom, gonna cut it over to HD (along with that little TV that I stuck in the kitchen for kicks) and then plan out the ordeal of cutting over the living room.

So, TiVo, you lose.

- - - Old Age. I'll be 29 in three weeks. We started playing basketball in the Grapevine Rec League in Spring 2006, and we're still playing.

At that time, I had a pretty slow job (you know, being in a position to be sold off will do that to you), so I would go to the gym and play pickup three days a week at least. So maybe 4 hours of basketball a week. I was okay but not as good as where I was in late 2003/early 2004 before the ball incident sidelined me for 6 weeks and I never got back on track. And back in 2003, when I was also playing about 4 hours a week, I would observe that I was not as good as where I was in 2001/2002 when I was still in college and playing about 6-8 hours a week.

And now, I have less time than ever, and I'm looking back at 2006 when I was playing 3-4 hours a week, and think, man, I was really scoring the ball back then, compared to now. So just guess where I am now.

On top of this, the last few months I have sore knees after playing, which have translated to just generally sore knees. This is the old age phenomenon of which I speak.

- - - DFW Sports. Are at their worst point, ever, in my lifetime. The only time the Mavs and Cowboys were at this level simultaneously, 1988 - 1990, the Rangers were exciting and promising, if not necessarily successful. And hell, I'll take that back, the 1988 Mavs are better than the 2007-present Mavs. Low. Depressing.

Now, I'm done.