Random Thoughts 1/8/07

• The writer's strike isn't hurting me at all. In fact, my TV is on as much as ever while I watch classic movies, the NFL playoffs and play Wii with my kids. The latest casualty of the strike is the Golden Globes award ceremony. The Golden Globes will still be awarded but they've canceled the overwrought, self-congratulatory, four hour narcissism extravaganza. Which begs the question: can the writers go ahead and strike through February and get the Oscars canceled too? I'd much rather have a one hour press conference to announce the winners than the nearly unwatchable marathon we usually get.
• My car died this morning. Just a dead battery, no problem at all, but turning the key and hearing it groan was a horrible precursor to an inevitable fate: someday that Accord will quit running. It's hard to imagine that car's demise, I know, but that Honda has been the perfect car for me. I almost never open the hood and it runs perfectly 99.9% of the time. But it can't last forever.
• Today is Stephen Hawking's 66th birthday. A genius in mathematics and physics, Hawking has lived with ALS for about forty years, ten times longer than most people. His story is remarkable.
• Graham is starting to repeat everything we say. Each of our boys starting talking in different ways at different ages, and Graham parrots more than all his brothers put together. And it's hilarious! Also funny is his obsession with sleeves. If you put the kid in a long sleeved shirt, he becomes obsessed with pulling them up past his elbows. He's a funny kid.
• Have you seen the Heartland Institutes page on global warming? They have several educational resources about Al Gore's movie, including this video. Take their quiz, watch their videos, read their resources; it's good stuff. The long and short of it is this, global warming is probably not man-made, it may not be harmful overall if it did happen long term, and it may have already peaked ten years ago leading to possible global cooling for the next few decades. One other note: does it bother anyone that the "solutions" for global warming aren't substantively different than what the agenda has always been for the radical left: curb all development and progress of mankind, take away personal freedoms, cripple American capitalism and industry first and foremost.
• I'm checking the Rubik's cube in my office each morning to see if someone has messed it up. I return it solved. It's fun like that.