Boyakah!

Ok, I will not be converting to non-sensical words like the Chad, but I couldn't come up with anything better. Took last week off because of the holiday, and because I felt like it. I would love to say that writing about PSU football, Death Pools, and other mindless crap drains a lot out of me. But I can't. I think it would be embarassing to say that I just had writer's block and couldn't come up with anything that would top my classics like "the Cleofus theory" and "global warming is crap".

Anyway, moving right along. I saw the headline for this story, and immediately I was ready to rip it shreds, but it actually makes sense. I can't really think of a way of how I would keep my money organized if I couldn't see it. I guess they could emboss it, or put a certain number of holes in it or something.

Next, I have had it with commercial packaging. Every once and a while the status quo for consumer packages it broken and other companies are forced to follow suit when someone comes up with a better idea. A great example is juice cartons. You used to have to open up them up in the front and they would never work right. One side would tear, and then you had to stab it with a knife and it slipped and you barely missed slicing your thumb off. Well, then they came up with that side spout thing, and the world was a much better place. I bring all of this up because I am totally fed up with the little cardboard latch on cereal boxes, waffle boxes, etc. It seems that whenever I am dealing with these things I acquire Herculean strength and rip right through it. Next thing you know, my Capt'n Crunch is going stale. We can't have this. Can't we come up with something better? Someone needs to get working on this, ASAP.

I would be shirking my duties if I at least didn't mention this. As far as I am concerned, November 17th should now be considered a national holiday. And on that holiday, cover charges at all nudie bars are waved. Well, wait till I'm President.....26 more years.

Finally, I have some news on the Death Pool. After much consideration I have decided to go against the advice of my consigliere, the Chad, and reverse myself and switch the format. We will be going to the Sweet 16 pool format. So, everybody is allowed to pick 10 people. There are NO restrictions based on whether or not the person is on someone else's list. I just think that this is more fair to people. So, it doesn't matter if you pick your people on Dec 1st or the 31st. In order to prevent people from capitalizing on the work of others, there will be an email address provided to submit your lists to. That way they will be in before the deadline, but I won't release them on the website until January 1st. I think that this is the most fair method. Same scoring applies that I mentioned before. You will rank all 10 people from 10 to 1. #10 will be the person you think is most likely to die, and so forth. We will then multiply the seeding by the difference in 100-age. Thats it. Pretty simple, but effective. The link to the email address will be available on Dec 1st.

~Till then.

~K