Cindy Sheehan Arrested

You don't think this was planned do you?

By the way, read the difference in coverage by The Village Voice and Fox News.

I'm sure some sort of press release was sent out where they pointed out that an arrest would be made and they (Liberal Press) should get all of their background info ready to go for the story.

UPDATE: Here is a link to the video from the "protest". Hat tip to junkyardblog


UPDATE II: Interesting post over at subjunctive regarding the war and Steven Pearcy.

Vengeance is Mine St. Louis Metal Band

Check out Vengeance is Mine Live Sunday, October 16th at the Creepy Crawl. This show is for the real stl metal heads. They also have two demo tracks available for download at www.vimstl.com.


St. Louis Metal Band - Vengeance is Mine - show schedule here

I'm finally Lost

I love the show Lost after watching this season's premiere. I had only watched twenty minutes of one episode last year and was totally lost watching it last year (by the way, that's two bad puns in a short space, sorry), but this year is different... I'm ready to go thanks to talking to friends and watching the season one recap show. Also, I'm going to borrow the season one dvd's soon.

Anyway, I have a theory about this show. I think they are all dead. I think they island is purgatory (which, by the way, I don't believe in). What got me thinking this is the case was the preponderence of coincidences. Way, way too many to be reality... So when they die here they are either going to heaven or hell.

So when the show ends, keep in mind, you heard it here first. They're all dead and they are in purgatory. If I'm wrong, no big whoop... at least I got a new show to watch.

Post Secret

I've added a few new links to my blog roll on the side:

1. West Wing News - News about NBC's The West Wing (my favorite show on TV)
2. Post Secret - An interesting, disturbing, funny and cathartic site. This site was built for people to send in postcards with secrets on them and they will post the images on the site anonymously. I feel a little bit voyeuristic viewing the updates once a week when the new postcards are shown, but it seems to be very therapeutic for the mailers. Great idea.
   WARNING: Occasionally there are nude people or sexual references in the cards...

The West Wing Season Premiere

Another season of The West Wing (TWW) starts this Sunday and I'm geekily excited. I've talked to a few of my friends who are also TWW geeks, and they are as psyched as I am. Here's the nbc.com blurb about the season premiere:

THE TICKET - Season Premiere
8pm 2005-09-25 ALL NEW!

THE WHITE HOUSE LEAK INVESTIGATION PICKS UP SPEED - Josh (Brad Whitford) is caught off guard when political commentators are critical of Leo (John Spencer) as a running mate for Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits). White House Counsel Babbish (Oliver Platt) sits with CJ (Allison Janney) about the leak investigation. Donna (Janel Moloney) approaches Josh for a job. Also starring Martin Sheen, Richard Schiff, Mary McCormack, Dule Hill. TV-PG

After Aaron Sorkin left the show (or was he forced out, I don't remember), it took a while for the show to regain it's steam and direction, but IMHO they have found it and it's taking off again.

I was looking for some spoilers (like I said, I'm a geek) on the season premier and found this page over at westwing.bewarne.com. Bewarned (alright, bad pun), that this gives away a few things. Including something about Toby. To the two of you I have talked to about this, I'm right, but I don't want to give any more away. I'm tired of Toby, he is so freaking pessimistic and groucy that I can't wait till he's gone.

New Church Website

Tonight I launched my church's new site: www.reachstl.org. I've been working on this new look a few hours here, a few there for over a month. I think it's a marked improvement over the last design (it's okay to be biased, I designed the last look also).

Let me know what you think of the look, positive or negative. Negative feedback won't hurt my feelings... I'm not a designer, although I occasionally play one on TV.

Golf Woes

In honor of my round of 53 yesterday (yes, on 9 holes) that was caused by me having triple bogeys on 7, 8 and 9, here is a great quote from Bob Hope about golf, enjoy:

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
--Bob Hope

McAfee Sucks...

I used a trial version of McAfee's Spam killer and it worked just fine and dandy. Trial expires... that's when all hell broke loose. (I'm going to do this in numbers just for sake of my own sanity):

1. I suspect my spam keeps getting killed, because I'm not seeing as much spam as before I tried the software.
2. Sudden realization that I used to have to allow certain messages that spam killer thought were spam, that actually weren't.
   
3. I can't get into Spam Killer to "allow" them, much less see them... This is a little scary.
4. I don't uninstall the software for fear of loosing messages that are in the killing zone (bad pun).
5. I try to update the software from the link they give me in the verify window...
6. Here is where it starts getting really aggravating: I get a message from my browser (Firefox) that I have to use IE. Stupid me, I thought IE was a less-secure browser.
7. I keep trying and trying to get from IE to where I am supposed to be in McAfee's site and it prevents me from purchasing after my trial.
8. I finally buy the whole blown thing (for more than I was supposed to from the free trial I believe).
9. I keep getting this message from their site when trying to install.... (see second picture)... Notice how I don't have an information bar banning the active x control from running.... Second thing here, ActiveX is unsecure (I know this, I am a former developer)... This sucks that a "security company" requires both IE and Active X controls in order to buy and install their software...


10. I've tried to install several times from both IE and Firefox, to no avail, I've looked in support and have found nothing to help me... I need to call technical support and complaing and maybe they can help me...

Shouldn't stuff just work? Does it have to be this freaking complicated? Why can it just allow me to download a freaking EXE and install it myself? Believe me it will be the last time I buy McAfee.

Pujols is "the" MVP, Carp should win Cy Young

If you don't believe me... just read Bernie Misklaz's column today at stltoday.com (online version of the St. Louis Post Dispatch).

Below are the relevant stats (other than slugging percentage, which for some reason wasn't inlcuded on the place I got these stats from) for Pujols and Jones. I've highlighted which categories each player has a lead in. The stats I find the most interesting are the SB, Doubles, CS. Considering Jones is faster than Pujols (keeping in mind that Jones hurt his leg earlier this year, however, Pujols is having a unbelievable year in stolen bases).

Player	GM	AB	H	AVG	OBP	HR	RBI	SB	R	CS	2B	3B	BB	K	E	A
Pujols	133	497	165	0.332	0.426	35	100	13	109	2	33	2	76	58	11	80
Jones	132	486	133	0.274	0.358	43	108	2	79	3	20	3	56	93	2	7