2009

No long list of "Best Ofs"

No funny film clips today.

2009 was a weird, wonderful, awful, blur in a lot of ways.

It say Avi go from phone calls to "Head Start" to find out if her language was delayed, to her running through May's house Christmas Eve singing "Jingle Bells"...the whole song...at the top of her voice. She has begun spontaneously saying and doing things that I did not expect she would be doing at this point.

Part of me wishes I could bottle up 2009's version of Avi and keep it for ever. The other part of me cannot wait to see what 2010 hold for her.

2009 started with me single, weird, still married and confused. 2009 started with me really focusing on school and getting my first 4.0 of my academic career.

2009 ends with me sharing my house, my daughter and my life with a woman who I am going to spend the rest of my life with.

It has been a weird year.

2009 started with the innauguration of Barack Obama. 2009 ends with major questions about the direction of this country.

2009 has been a weird year.

I guess this is also the end of the decade, and it has been weird too. In 2000 I was still in High School.

In 2009 I am finishing up my Masters degree, I own my home, I have a 2 and 1/2 year old daughter, I am divorced.

It has been a weird decade.

I lead a wonderful life, one I would not change for anything. The bad times (and they were REAL BAD) are made infinately worth it by the good.

I am excited and a little scared for all that 2010 holds.

Rachel Takes on the Right

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Worth the 9 minutes. Happy New Year

Never Again...

Will I ever doubt Pixar.

I thought when I saw the trailers for Up I thought it looked kind of stupid. I don't really like old people, or fat little kids. So seeing a film that focused on an old guy, and a fat little kid was not something I was terribly keen to do.

Then people started seeing it, and loving it, and I said, I get to it when I get to it.

Well, Christmas night, The Girl and I decided to watch it after opening our (awesome) gifts to each other.

And this is me saying, I will never again doubt the awesome power of Pixar when it comes to telling a story.

They knocked it out of the park again. Up is awesome.

Bucs Win/Bucs Lose

So the Bucs win, finally. And the Bucs lose. This season is no longer about wins and loses. There is no such thing as a moral victory in a 2-14 season.

What would be a moral victory? Packing it in and playing for as high of a draft pick as possible...

So we can draft Suh.

I am glad Josh Freeman kept the Picks in the single digits this week? Sure. Do I need him to play so good that we win, by three scores? Nope and Nope.

Mark Wahlberg Talks to Christmas Animals

Hilarious

Milton Bradley/Carlos Sliva

This made me laugh out loud:

Jonah Keri again: "Jack Z is Seattle's most fruitful commodity since Shawn Kemp."

Which is made in reference to This...

Jack Zduriencik is absolutely wiping the floor with the opposition. Omar, are you talking notes?

Twitter?

So although I think that it is borderline pointless, I am officially on The Twitter now...@In_Terrys_Head

I am unsure how I feel about this still. But my sweet new phone (see below) makes it so easy to use that I thought I would give it a shot. I can easily follow of few of the baseball writers I like, a few blogs, and news outlets.

We will see how this goes. I was very Anti-Facebook for the longest time, and look where coming around on it got me (Hi Danielle).

This is an experiment, and like anything could blow up in my face. We will have to see.

I. Cannot. Wait

I thought the first one was brilliant. RDII has to be considered one of the best actors going.

Terrence Howard may regret the fact that he was a dick and didn't sign on for part two.

iPhone Syndrome?

If you know me at all, you know how I feel about the iPhone, and more importantly how I feel about iPhone users. It is a wonderful device that has completely revolutionized what we use our phones for and how we live our lives.

I don't think we have even begun to scratch the surface of what a "phone" will be able to do for us in the future.

Actually, as someone who lives in a pretty constant state of panic about the inevitable robot revolution, this thought is causing a fairly severe anxiety attack as I type this...but I digress.

I write this because I stumbled upon this... which references this and I found it interesting, and probably true to a degree.

Seeing as I live with someone who suffers greatly from iPhone Syndrome, I have first hand experience dealing with this.

The fact is, iPhone users tend to be snobby and irrational when presented with reasons why their phone does not represent the absolute pinnacle of what a phone can and will be.

I often wonder, what they hell is someone supposed to do with 100,000 apps? How much time would someone have to spend on their phone in a day to be able to appreciate all the apps they have available. They may "Have an app for that", but when are iPhone-ers supposed to use them?

The most common refrain among iPhone users is that it is not their phone, but the network that is the problem. It turns out that may not be the case.

I hate iPhone users (except the one that I live with)but I love what the iPhone has done to the market place for phones.

I quit on my Blackberry Curve last week, which was a slightly traumatic experience, and purchased an HTC Droid Eris. I preferred this phone over the much hyped Motorola Droid for a number of reasons.

I could not be happier with this phone. It is basically a slimmer, sleaker iPhone available on the superior Verizon network.

The only thing my phone doesn't do that iPhone does is support iTunes, and with Pandora, and access to my music library at the touch of my finger, I think I will get over it.

If there is one good thing I can say about the iPhone, it is that they have set the bar high, and the competition is rising to the challenge.

Peter Says Goodbye

Peter Gammons officially said goodbye to ESPN.

I see this only as a positive. With the introduction of the MLB Network last year, the only reason I watch ESPN now is for the actual games.

I have no use for a network that is so hungry for ratings and total market domination that they have forgone sports journalism for TMZ.com and Entertainment Tonight.

I don't care about breaking developments in the Tiger Woods Saga. I want highlights, and injury news, and information related to what happens on the field.

I am not dumb enough to not know that this crap gets ratings, otherwise they wouldn't do it.

But I don't have to watch it.

So good for you Peter.

I was in Fenway days after his life threatening anurism. The place went crazy when they announced he was going to be ok.

Peter has been the reason I have watched Baseball Tonight for going on 10 years. I am excited to see what he choses to do in his life after ESPN.