one:

the moment you’ve all been waiting for:

the number of days I have left at my job.

some of my plastic still say kane

I have Kanye West lyrics on the brain:

I’m Kan, the Louis Vuitton Don
Bought my mom a purse now she Louis Vuitton Mom
Still might throw on a little low arm they want me to stop go on go on
They don’t want me to shop and me spending that hard
Oh my God is that a black card?
I turned around and replied why yes,
But I prefer the term African American Express

Last Call by Kanye West

Yeah, you know what this is
It’s a celebration, bitches!
Grab a drink, grab a glass
After that, I grab yo ass

Celebration by Kanye

two:

the number of days I have left at my job.

you heard it here first

The Indiana Pacers are the future of the NBA. A combo of Danny Granger and Shawne Williams is the future of the SF/PF combination in the NBA. In three to five years, you put those two guys on the court together with a strong supporting cast (i.e., decent PG and C, 3 point shooting SG), that’s about as devastating as it gets.

By the way, some other players who do, or might, fit the bill of that 3/4 combo star:
Currently in the NBA: Shawn Marion (probably the prototype for the position) and Carmelo Anthony. [Also, David West.]
In this draft: Rudy Gay and Ty Thomas.

Some are more 3s (Gay, Melo, Williams), some are more 4s (Thomas, maybe), some are more combo players (Granger & Marion). But the point is that all of them are mid-range, face the basket offensive stars (or potential stars), who also have the ability to post up and go outside, and generally are pogo sticks, which tends to make them good rebounders. (And, yes, I’m sure I’m leaving out many excellent examples.)

This is partly why I think Phoenix would be crazy to trade Matrix. A frontline with an 4/5 center (Amare), the best 3/4 combo in the league (Matrix), and two solid 3/4 combos (Diaw and TimThom [ed: TimThom to the Clips]) just seems so devastating. Especially playing with Steve Nash. Stupid cheap owners.

Now if one of my teams could get just ONE player like that…

theme from the top

Pleasantly, this is the my first meta post in a while. I’ve been futzing with different themes. I think it’s time for a change, but I’m not sure what I’m comfortable with yet. Mainly, I’d like to use a theme that uses more of the screen and maybe is a bit more flexible than WordPress Classic, which I am currently using.

It’s also really time for a link update. Soon, I guess. Once I’m done with my job, it seems more realistic.

Pantomime mixtures of heaven and earth
Jumbled events that have less than no worth
Time in the forest to dig under rocks
Or float in the ocean asleep in a box

Theme from the Bottom by Phish

Three:

the number of days I have left at my job.

Four:

the number of days I have left at my job.

thinking about drafting

So, one of the greatest sporting events of the year is coming up on Wednesday: the NBA draft. I unfortunately will not be able to watch it this year and, thus, will only be able to see the super-amazing-crazy clothing on TV. I’ll survive with the photos.

The NBA is my favorite sport. Okay, well, basketball is my favorite sport, but the NBA is my favorite basketball. Selfish players, big egos, whatever. Nowhere else do you see the amazing feats of athleticism than you do in the NBA.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about who my two favorite teams should draft and here are my thoughts.

anti-anti-Kelo

Personally, I wouldn’t “reform” eminent domain at all, but the New York Times offers typically moderate and sensible principles on which to base a statute limiting the eminent domain power, the key of which is a broad exception for blight.

Read today’s editorial.

Five:

the number of days I have left at my job.

Other things about the #5 (for the Sesame Street crowd, perhaps):
1. It’s a prime number (the only one ending in five)
2. It’s the fifth Fibonacci number (1, 1, 2, 3, 5)
3. Pentagonal bolts are used on fire plugs because normal bolt spanners are hexagonal and that keeps people from opening fire plugs a la 1955.
4. In binary, five is written 101. It’s Hebrew letter is heh (almost: “hey”), Greek it’s epsilon.
5. Things that come in fives: sense, digits on each hand and foot, English vowels, the Chinese and Japanese elements, rings on that Olympic logo thingy, pillars of Islam, books in the Torah, Platonic solids, oceans, number of feet per line in Shakespeare, the federal highway from Mexico to Canada, items in this list.

Wow, that was really stupid.