Op-Ed: Fantasy Football is glorified Dungeons & Dragons

Insightful. Or maybe not, but funny anyway.

Sports: Twins trade CF Gomez to Milwaukee for SS J.J. Hardy

Uh oh. My mom won't like this.

Report: 80% of MN needs significant Internet upgrade

According to a state legislature created task force, 83% of MN needs to be upgraded to reach the 10Mbps goal by 2015. I'm all for that.

News: Homebuyer tax credit renewed, partially extended

Renewed first-time homebuyers credit at $8000 until April. Extended to CURRENT homeowners buying a new primary residence at $6500. Buyers can get the credit 'if they sign a contract by April 30 and close on it by June 30.' Fun stuff.

Rumor: AARP to back House Democrat's Health Care Bill

Didn't see that coming. Should put most of the 'death panel' looneys back to square one.

Sports: Yankees win 27th World Series title, Matsui MVP

Boo. That's all I have to say.

News: Verizon doubles Early Termination Fee (ETF) to $350

Analysts say that this move could spark industry-wide copying.

Ugh.

News: Judge OKs challenge to human-gene patents

A company has a patent, yes a patent on the gene sequences known to be the cause of certain types of cancer. Because they have a patent on such gene sequences, only they are allowed to look at or interpret them as being the predictive gene sequences. And the company charges $3,000 per test.

The suit alleges (correctly, in my opinion) that this gene sequence is NOT an invention, but a product of nature. The company merely found this sequence and what it means, and is, therefore, not an invention and is not patentable. At least the judge agrees...for now. In the preliminary hearings at least.

Now the issue is going to be whether or not the suit has standing, as none of the plaintiffs have these genes. A horrible technicality, I know. But, the judge has specifically mentioned that the issue isn't whether or not the plaintiff will win, but rather whether or not they are able to present the evidence to support their claims in the first place. Fun stuff.

Halloween 2009 - Characters

It wasn't more than a week after last Halloween that we had decided what we wanted to do for the next. In 2009, we'd go as Street Fighter. Oh...and how we did!

I'll save more of the diatribe for another post and use this one to introduce everyone as their characters.

Balrog (Mike)

Blanka (TJ)

Cammy (Liz)

Chun Li (Christina)

E. Honda (Alex)

Guile (Adam)

Ken (Brock)

M. Bison (Matt)

Ryu (Graham)

Sakura (Hayley)

Vega (Me)

Comic: XKCD 11/02/09

I love XKCD's charts. This is nuts, though. Tell me there was a tool to do this.