Damn that didn't take long

On Sunday I asked the rhetorical question of who would go first Skiles or Pax. I guess we found out today with the dismissal of Skiles. I think the finger should be pointed at Pax he assembled this shit stick Skiles did the best with what he was handed. Pax went out and overpaid for Wallace, drafted poorly, didn't address any of the holes on this team and fell in love with his draft picks and refused to part with any of them to improve this team. I don't see how any of that was Skiles fault.

An Old School Merry Christmas from TD

The Bulls

As much as I love the Bulls I am disappointed beyond words with their performance this year. While I was watching the game last night I began thinking about the assembly of this team it is basically a bunch of lottery picks and role players. Hinrich 7th, Gordon 3rd, Deng 7th, Thomas 4th, Noah 9th. Hinrich is an average NBA player, Thomas and Noah do the same thing as Wallace however I think that Thomas has a huge upside, Deng is a sidekick on a good team and Gordon is the only one who demands a double team. This being said we still lack a post presence. I am proposing a trade for Pau Gasol, we send Noce, Noah and if we need another body to make salaries match Duhon or Thabo. Our starting five would be Gasol, Wallace, Deng, Gordon and Hinrich when we go to the post and Gasol gets double teamed he can dish to an open Gordon or a slashing Deng. This would leave Smith, Thomas and Gray off the bench.

I've heard that Sam Smith at the Chicago Tribune is proposing a trade for Tracy McGrady and I say no. He is only twenty eight but has a ton of miles and a bad back and we would probably overpay to get him. I think that Houston is going in a different direction and would love to unload him. I do think it will be interesting to see what happens as we near the trade wire. And finally Bulls fans who should go Pax or Skiles? Let me know what you think

Merry Christmas

I found this on the internet and I thought as someone who grew up playing Pac Man I thought that this was cool. Merry Christmas

Lynne Spears is the last person I need advice from

I read yesterday that on top of her younger daughter being pregnant her parenting book has been put on indefinite hold. Seeing Britney go from pop queen to gutter tramp to rehab to where ever she is now was evidence enough I didn't need her help. But now that her sixteen year old daughter is pregnant just reinforces my inkling. In Jamie Lynn's statement she said it was with her longtime boyfriend so it is okay. WTF? You're sixteen how longtime is your longtime boyfriend? I have had one longtime girlfriend and I am married to her! I hope that they pull her crappy show off of Nick not because she is pregnant but because it is horribly bad. My younger daughter watches it and whenever it starts my eyes begin to bleed but I digress. The report on the book is that it was going to have strong elements of faith in it. I can only guess she is praying to a different God than I am unless her prayer was something like "Dear God give me one daughter who will deliver me from my trailer park existence and a second who will follow my footsteps into teen pregnancy, Amen"

IT rant of the week

I've not had one of these in a while so here it goes. The past week we've had e-mail problems at our HQ. The problem is with the bridgehead server. What is a bridgehead server you ask? This server basically transfer mail from our agency to the outside world. We have no redundancy built into the system. This is what we call in my country stupid! Well when the server shits the bed what do they do to notify us? Drum roll please! Send us an e-mail! Survey says stupid! I believe it was 1876 when Alexander Graham Bell invented something called the telephone which is still in use today. Why not call us! Because it makes too much sense to keep us in the loop! All we hear from our upper management is service your customers at your site. How can we do this if we have no idea what is going on? I think that we have seagull management. What is that you ask? Someone who swoops in shits all over the place then flies away. These are the same people who frustrate anyone who has any technical expertice and when they leave hire people who have no clue what they are doing to replace them and work to death the people who chose to stay with their unrealistic expectations.

For some reason I attract these people

I originally was going to title this post "We grow them stupid here in Iowa" however when I reflected on this I remembered when I lived in Illinois and Indiana I had nut job neighbors who believed this crap as well. So I am wondering if this is a Midwestern problem? What is this crap you ask? Let me take you back to Tuesday night. I went to the mailbox and I noticed an envelope with a return address that I did not recognize and I decided to open it, in retrospect I should have tossed it. I pull out the papers and It is a photocopy of an article about why the media is ignoring Ron Paul. The reason according to them is that he opposes the "New World Order" and one world government and supports evicting the UN from US soil. I am not a huge fan of the UN but I don't buy into any of these conspiracy theories. The next page is an introductory letter from a guy from a town North of me. He tells me he was born on the "day the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki". It must have been a long labor because Hiroshima was bombed on August 6th and Nagasaki three days later on the 9th. He then goes on to enlighten me about how the American Civil War was fought because of the Pope's hatred of our Constitution. No mention of states rights or slavery Pius IX hated our freedom of religion and our ability to choose something other than Roman Catholicism. Interesting. The Papacy is currently waging war against Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians. I thought Catholics are Christians? After this diatribe he goes on to try to sell me a fireplace! Why do I seem to attract these people? Everywhere I have lived these people find me I wish the would loose me.