Now I don’t consider myself to be an expert by any means (Jason Coury can correct me, of course), but I believe that ABC is actually doing a good job covering the games for us “Amerrcaans”, as my dad would say. I’m watching the game between Trinidad and Sweden. ABC has lots of computer graphics explaining the game, a la VH1′s Milli Vanilli special.

And, just like any good ABC sports commentator, they’re trying to get us to sympathize with one of the teams. “This is the farthest Trinidad has ever gone. They are, indeed, underdogs. We as Amerrcaans should cheer for them.”

You can find the Star Wars story continued here.

I don’t know what I think of this. Just like Star Wars TV, the future is uncertain.

I remember watching PowerPuff Girls:The Movie in the theaters….um, don’t ask. But how it relates to this situation : it seemed like a really long episode. It was well-done for what it was, but it was long.

I think we are at the end of the longest running sitcom.

I have cracked a centuries old secret. ‘The DaVinci Code’ is an anagram. Now, my dad has a nice voice, but I was stumped by the ‘HT’. Then I realized that my dad sounds like Harry Truman! Easy enough.

If you can’t tell, I’m reading through Dan Brown’s book so that I can have an opinion. A lot of my co-workers asked me about it last year. I started last night and I am on 150 this morning. It does read quickly, but I find the albino hitman the most intriguing. Is it bad that I sympathize with a bad guy? It’s crazy how anti-Catholicism the book is. But that’s okay, right? It’s so en vogue to hate the pope. They’re all bad. Boo. (I’m being sarcastic. Hopefully that comes across. Now I have an image of Marge responding with, “Well, duh” when Homer is sarcastic about the Plow King. “Oh, I’m so happy for him. I’m the happy fairy of gumdrop lane.” or something like that quote.)

Now, I do find the murder part interesting and well written, but come on! Centuries old secrets are just anagrams and smiling paintings? I’m not quite certain about Amon L’Isa, but I’m pretty sure Sir Isaac Newton was not a Scion member.

Newton singlehandedly contributed more to the development of science than any other individual in history. He surpassed all the gains brought about by the great scientific minds of antiquity, producing a scheme of the universe which was more consistent, elegant, and intuitive than any proposed before. Newton stated explicit principles of scientific methods which applied universally to all branches of science. This was in sharp contradistinction to the earlier methodologies of Aristotle and Aquinas, which had outlined separate methods for different disciplines.

Although his methodology was strictly logical, Newton still believed deeply in the necessity of a God. His theological views are characterized by his belief that the beauty and regularity of the natural world could only “proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” He felt that “the Supreme God exists necessarily, and by the same necessity he exists always and everywhere.” Newton believed that God periodically intervened to keep the universe going on track. He therefore denied the importance of Leibniz’s vis viva as nothing more than an interesting quantity which remained constant in elastic collisions and therefore had no physical importance or meaning.

This does not sound like a goddess worshipper. This sounds more like F=yo yo ma. (Thank you, Mr. Burton.)