After hearing about the Curse on the Cubs and seeing how they played last night, I have decided that I hate goats. Or at least that loser, idiot, jerk fan who messed up Moises Alou’s catch last night. What a colossal faux-pas to make at the worst possible time. The loss of momentum cascaded into a series of setbacks for the Cubs, starting with the error by Gonzalez, then a bunch of hanging pitches from Prior leading to his being taken out of the game, ending with a score of 8 to 3, in favor of the Marlins.

Google is now showing this site as the #1 result when searching for “forkbender”. This might seem a no-brainer but until recently, the “forkbender” at the top of the list was some website related to Uri Geller, the original spoon bending freak of the 1970s.

I spent a lot of time this past weekend retooling the ForkBender site and applying a new look and feel to the site. I hope everyone likes it. It is a major departure from the old look. A list of books I’ve read in the past and movies I seen in the past is now also available. I am getting ready to create a new List content type in Narrative so that I can create Top 10 Lists of favorite books, movies, restaurants, stores, etc.

I am studying to obtain my MCSD certification. This book is for the Windows apps exam.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am not much of a sports fan. I don’t pay attention to any of the major sports teams. I don’t know the name of all the football, basketball, or baseball teams. I do know three of them, though - Bears, Bulls, and Cubs - as any kid raised in Illinois does. The Bulls were pretty cool there for awhile when Jordan played for them but just as I moved to Chicago, he quit, and now the Bulls are a nothing-special team again.

Awesome movie with Tom Hanks, Michael Duncan Clarke, Barry Pepper, and other greats.

Just started

Why is it that corporations get so nasty when the economy goes in the tank? It’s understandable that when the going gets tough, hard decisions need to be made. But those decisions should be made in an honorable fashion. Unfortunately, however, it seems that some companies can’t take this high road approach. A very good example of this has recently come to my attention. Someone I know works for a company that is “down-sizing”.

This is the best of the Jack Ryan books, in my opinion. The Bear and the Dragon was written after this one but this is still the best. A very compelling and realistic plot. Just like the plot in Debt of Honor was carried out on September 11th, I fully expect that there is some terrorist group out there looking to enact the plot in this novel. Scary stuff but written with genius.

This book was made into a movie but is still best experienced in print. It is in this book that we really start to see more of Mr. Clark, one of the most intriguing characters in this literary genre.