Easily Amused - Jon Sagara

Congrats, Dustin!

BOSTON -- Just call him Mr. November. Or better yet, refer to Dustin Pedroia as the Most Valuable Player of the American League.

The second baseman of the Boston Red Sox continued his rapid burst into the national spotlight on Tuesday, when he was recognized with that impressive honor.

Though most pundits expected the race for MVP to be agonizingly close, Pedroia won in comfortable fashion, garnering 16 of 28 first-place votes. He also received six second-place votes, four third-place votes and one fourth-place vote for 317 total points. In an ironic twist, Pedroia was left off one ballot.

More from Pedroia named AL MVP.

Well, besides the sporadic outages over the past week.

I changed hosting companies, and one of the side effects was that the database that powers this blog was having locking issues.  So, I upgraded to a better database engine, and, man, this site is now SNAPPY.  Pages and posts load very quickly compared to when it was running on the old box.  As cool as a self-contained, fully-managed, filesystem-based database is, it can't match the performance of a server-based database.

Anyway, enough geeking.  Back to your regularly scheduled lack-of-blogging-from-yours-truly.  :)

I visited Yahoo! News this afternoon, and was greeted with this fabulous headline:

The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure

I didn't bother to read the article, but I'm pretty sure it says that the key to a longer, healthier life lies in passing gas more often, audibly, and in public places.

I have GOT to get my hands on some sulfur hexafluoride:

This is easily my favorite news story of 2008:

FRESNO, California (AP) -- Authorities say they've arrested a man who broke into the home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.

Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.

He says deputies arrested Vasquez after finding a wallet containing his ID in the ransacked house.

It's okay to be nuts if you're smart, too, but this guy was crazy and stupid.

WTF?

The fact that he's a Democrat surpises the hell out of me, but it's a free country, so whatev.

The real question is whether he'll get the same sort of backlash that the Dixie Chicks got for criticizing Preznit Bush.  I'm going out on a limb here, but I think that a lot of country music fans are, by now, pretty sick of Bush's shit, and they'll cut Toby some slack.

What say you, Internets?

I idolized John Edwards, and I was really pulling for him to be prez'nit because I thought he was different.  Turns out he's just another lying, cheating schmuck.

Look at those two handsome devils:

One night on our vacation, we had dinner with our friends Wayne, Laurel, and Braden.  Troy was on crack.  He was so busy running around their house that he shunned a most excellent dinner.  On any other day, he would have scarfed it like a rapacious badger.  Oh well.  The boy could stand to lose a few pounds.

Just like his old man.

Ba-zing!

Dad took me fishing on Saturday and all I got was this lousy bass. :)

Seriously, though, it was good to get out there again.  That's the first time I've gone fishing with him since I was in my early teens.  Thanks, Dad!