Random Thoughts 8/1/06

• Over 20,000 players have played in the NFL. Only 229 have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I think it's neat that football hall-of-famers are truly "one out of a thousand." Basically you only have one hall-of-famer for every 20 teams worth of players.
  
• DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), also known as the coolest place for nerds to work in the whole wide world, is working on an ultrasonic bandage that stops bleeding deep inside the limbs of wounded soldiers.
• Qana, the ancient city of Cana where Jesus performed his first recorded miracle, was also the location of a building full of children that Israel bombed this week. Israel was raked over the coals for murdering innocents, as expected, but that may not be the whole story. Some rumors are starting to surface that Hezbollah placed their rockets on and around the building and then brought in invalid children, sacrificing those lives to hurt Israel's image. They also inflated the number of casualties (they said 50-60 but only 28 bodies have been found) and picked the location because Israel bombed civilians in Qana several years ago and took it on the chin that time too. Is it even worth asking why the side that deliberately targets civilians with hundreds of rockets packed with ball bearings and puts their own civilians in harms way doesn't get blamed?
  
  
• I voted this afternoon. It sounds like it was a slow day at the polls.
• The boys were playing outside this evening and I hear this blood curdling scream. Tanner was screaching like he'd had a limb cut off! I rushed to the door and Tanner turns and looks innocently at me and says, "I'm scaring da bugs away, Daddy."
• The Chiefs first round pick, defensive end Tamba Hali became a US citizen today. Good for him: by passing his citizenship test he now knows more about the government and history of our country than 99% of high school graduates.