3 Months...

I'm sorry Standardchuck...I've thought about posting so many times. I even envisioned a complete overhaul, with a nifty new banner and improved user interfaces...but instead, I just thought with guilt that there's nothing to write about. Well, here's some news.

The lady ELV and I got engaged today. We're gonna get married.

More news later. Hopefully more posts someday too.

Love, SC

The Death (or Dearth) of Writing

So, last night, lying on my couch drifting to sleep, I came to a most important conclusion: I am not a writer. In the midst of planning out the new StandardChuck, a new shiny blog filled with ample content that would repeat weekly like "Me Mondays" or "Science Fridays" (sorry for the potential plagerization, Ira Flatow), I began to realize something that caused alarm...just thinking about writing something consistantly, week after week, month after month, filled me with malaise...I was dreading the writing even before I had started the first one! There's laziness and then there is bone-lazy, sad-sacked, molasses thick, rim-rattling idleness.

Here's my new maxim: I will write when I write and never shall I be known as a goodish-like writer, and what-not.

Shame on the Golf Channel

http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/7651694

Picture of the Day (from the Grand Canyon)

From Kissing Suzy Kolber

http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2007/12/you-can.html

You fools! Do you really think the next guy you hire will have the insanely huge ego to deal with those assholes in the locker room? Only the Bri has the brains, and the hair, to make that happen! Idiots! Only I know the secret to preventing Lewis from killing again. And there's no way I'm telling you now! That's your punishment for thinking you could go behind my back, or in front of my back, and fire me!You know naught what you hath wrought, Ravens. I hope you like wearing chain mail.

Top 10 Memorable Quotes of 2007

From the Reuters article (link http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071219/us_nm/usa_quotes_dc)

1. "Don't Tase Me, Bro" - Andrew Meyer

2. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us." - Lauren Upton

3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

4. "That's some nappy-headed hos there" - Don Imus

5. "I don't recall." -- Alberto Gonzales

6. "There's only three things he (Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11." -- Sen. Joseph Biden.

7. "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody (Vice President Dick Cheney) who has a 9 percent approval rating." -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat.

8. "(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom." -- Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig's explanation of why his foot touched that of an undercover policeman in a men's room.

9. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." -- Biden describing rival Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." -- Former President Jimmy Carter in an interview in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper.

Remember Me by Lizzie Palmer

Foreword: I am not anti-soldier just anti-useless War. Additionally, I am hypersensitive to race.

One of the all time popular videos on YouTube is entitled Remember Me and works to make viewers identify with images of US soldiers (pictures of soldiers with one word titles like "Husband" or "Sister" etc).

Here's my issue...why are all the pictures asking us to identify with soldiers images of white/caucasian people? The only African-Americans on the video is an image of a grieving black family and one image of a black soldier in color guard. I find it disturbing that Ms. Palmer shows many different family member/loved one images of white people but doesn't deign to realize that there is a high percentage of other races serving in the military.

View it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0

The Complete Mitchell Report (PDF)

http://files.mlb.com/mitchrpt.pdf

Reaction to the leaked Steroid names

The biggest names (stats from Baseball-Statistics):

• Roger Clemens - what can you say about Clemens that hasn't already been dissected...the name most non-baseball fans will recognize.
• Albert Pujols - one of the superstars in the National League, Pujols had a "down" year batting .327, 32HR, 103RBI. In his seven seasons, all with the Cardinals, he's averaging .332, 42HR, 132RBI. An All-Star 6 of his seven years, he's a beloved player...a huge blow to MLB.
• Jeff Bagwell - formed a long-standing triumvirate of Astros position players with Craig Biggio and Lance Berkman, Bagwell was a four-time All-Star and MVP in 1994.
• Ivan Rodriguez - known as "pudge," one of the best catchers of all time. A former AL-MVP and a 14 time All-Star.

Here's the names who are also on the Writer's Ballot for the Hall of Fame

• Brady Anderson
• Mark McGuire

This is truly a sad day for baseball that all fans have been expecting.

Leaked Mitchell Report Analysis

According to WNBC, here are the names that will be released on the Mitchell Report of the players, past and present, who have used performance enhancers (these names have been disputed by MLB):

Brady Anderson
Manny Alexander
Rick Ankiel
Jeff Bagwell
Barry Bonds
Aaron Boone
Rafael Bettancourt
Bret Boone
Milton Bradley
David Bell
Dante Bichette
Albert Belle
Paul Byrd
Wil Cordero
Ken Caminiti
Mike Cameron
Ramon Castro
Jose Canseco
Ozzie Canseco
Roger Clemens
Paxton Crawford
Wilson Delgado
Lenny Dykstra
Johnny Damon
Carl Everett
Kyle Farnsworth
Ryan Franklin
Troy Glaus
Rich Garces
Jason Grimsley
Juan Gonzalez
Eric Gagne
Nomar Garciaparra
Jason Giambi
Jeremy Giambi
Jose Guillen
Jay Gibbons
Juan Gonzalez
Clay Hensley
Jerry Hairston
Felix Heredia, Jr.
Darren Holmes
Wally Joyner
Darryl Kile
Matt Lawton
Raul Mondesi
Mark McGwire
Guillermo Mota
Robert Machado
Damian Moss
Abraham Nunez
Trot Nixon
Jose Offerman
Andy Pettitte
Mark Prior
Neifi Perez
Rafael Palmiero
Albert Pujols
Brian Roberts
Juan Rincon
John Rocker
Pudge Rodriguez
Sammy Sosa
Scott Schoenweiis
David Segui
Alex Sanchez
Gary Sheffield
Miguel Tejada
Julian Tavarez
Fernando Tatis
Maurice Vaughn
Jason Varitek
Ismael Valdez
Matt Williams
Kerry Wood

Source: http://www.wnbc.com/sports/14845845/detail.html