A few things...

Jim Carrey was on Letterman Monday night promoting his new movie "The Number 23". With his new longer hair, Jim resembles one of the Geico cavemen. Seriously!!!

Im intrigued by the movie because 23 has been a favorite number of mine since I was a kid. Mostly because it was the uniform number worn by Don Mattingly. But there are other tie ins with the number 23. For instance, if you take my full name and Rachel's maiden name and add the letters together, it adds up to 23. Dr. Pepper is my favorite beverage, it has 23 delicious flavors. My favorite talk show host is David Letterma. Mike Kraus + David Letterman=23 letters. 23 seconds is the average time it takes for me to finish a session of sweet love. I own 23 sets of golf clubs, 23 watches and 23 pairs of shoes. Scary!!!!

Would you like to live forever?

I was just reading an article about how scientists are making breakthroughs in
understandinghow the aging process in the human body works. Some say that
in as little as 20 years,science may enable us to live to be well into our 100's.
Down the line even longer. This could potentially be a disaster. As the world is
now, it's already becoming dangerously overpopulated. Imagine if everyone
started living an extra 30-40 years.

Living longer would real change everything. For starters, most people work
30-40 years and then retire. If they saved and have a pension and social
security, most people can live fairly comfortable for 20-30 after retirement.
I know I'm looking forward to the day I can retire and play golf 5 times a week.
The thought of having to work till I'm 90 so I can afford to live till I'm 125 really
bums me out.

It would also change marriage. 3 out of 4 marriage fail now, most fail in the
first 5-10 years. I don't care how much you love someone, at some point you are
going to get "sick" of them. Is it realistic to think two people could stay married for
over 100 years? Or would marriage be reduced to signing contracts of commitment
for a specified number of years, then parting ways?

It would change sports. The average football player has a career in the NFL that
spans from their early 20's to their mid to late 30's. Imagine if you could take a 25
year old Jerry Rice and a 30 year old Joe Montana and slow their aging process.
Roger Clemens could retire and change his mind 100's of times! Michael Jordan
could make a comeback with every NBA team! Jim Kelly could take the Bills to 25
Super Bowls and be 0 for 25.

I don't think I would want to live 100+ years. Certainly I would like it if science could
me more active when I'm older. Noone wants to get old. Noone wants gray hair
and wrinkles. Nobody wants arthritis and brittle bones. I'd like to think that I could
still run up stairs, play golf, swim and jog when I'm 90. But life is hard. I don't think
I want to deal with all the hardships of life for 30 or 40 more years. I don't want to
see my grandkids, become grandparents. I think this gets into that area where science
messes with the natural order of things. It creeps me out a little.

Would I like to be bulletproof like Superman? Sure! Would I like to be able to
get out of a car crash and heal myself like Claire Bennett? You bet. Do I want
to live forever? No way! I wonder if you asked people in the 1800's if they would like to
live to be 90, if they would want to, or if they were ok with dieing in their 50's. Maybe
extending our life expectancy is just part of human evolution, or maybe it will be a curse
that leads to our eventual extinction. I guess only time will tell.

Coke Zero Cherry

The new Coke Zero Cherry is pretty awesome. Coke Zero by itself is pretty good, but add the flavor of Cherry and you got yourself a winner!!!

This could very well replace Dr. Pepper in my daily soda drinking routine. Dr. Pepper has been my goto drink of choice for almost a decade now, so it pains me to replace it. We shared some good times Dr. Pepper. Remember that time I bought one of you at the golf course, and when I opened you, your frothy goodness exploded all over the golf cart? Remember that time in Mexico, where you are called Medico de Pimienta!!! Ahhh and who can forget that time when I poured you into a Big Gulp cup and didn't quite secure the lid and 72 delicious ounces of you spilled all over the floor, much to the dismay of Sajid behind the counter who had to clean it up. And lets not forget the menage et twa of flavor when I mixed you with a little Captain Morgan!!! Oh the memories!

Movies, Tv, video games & Food

Hannibal Rising was a really interesting movie. I love the whole Hannibal Lecter series. Each
of the four movies was a little bit different. This one took place in Europe during the
1940's and 50's, so if I had to compare it to another film in the series, it was probably
most like Hannibal. After seeing this movie, you can really sympathise with the character
Hannibal and see how a serial killer is "born". The young actor who played a teenage Hannibal
was amazing.

We saw the trailer for that Ghostrider movie. I like Nicholas Cage, but man this movie looks
ridiculous. We also saw a trailer for an upcoming Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double
feature. I think it's the Tarantino film that has Rose McGowan in it. She plays an
amputee who can attach automatic weapons to her thigh stump. Ya know, sorta like Heather
Mills! HEY NOW! Actually both of these movies looked pretty ridiculous as well, but it's
Tarantino so I'll have to watch.

I'm not a big fan of mushrooms, but I added some shitakis' to my chicken marsala last
night and damn they were tasty. I think if I had enough mushrooms, I could make a meal out
of just those.

6 more weeks till opening day!!! It will be weird seeing a Yankees team with out Bernie
Williams on it. I sympathize with Bernie, but at the same time I can see why the Yankees did
what they did. I think using Melke Cabrera as a platoon outfielder will yield them much
better results. In fact, I wish they would convert Melke to a 3rd baseman and get that
headcase A-Rod out of the Bronx.

We picked up Warioware Smooth Moves and a Memory Foam pillow on Saturday. Warioware is
pretty interesting, but a little too elementary. Some of the stuff is challenging like the
challenge with the ping pong paddle and the one with the dinner plate balanced on a stick.
But then there are others where you have to go into the "Samurai" position and slice
something with your Wiimote that is just way too simple. The Memory Foam pillow is awesome.
I must be very hard on pillows because Rachel and I both got our pillows at the same time
and Rachel's is still all fluffy while my old pillow was like sleeping on a deflated
marshmallow. The Memory Foam pillow (flat, not the head contour one) is really nice. It's
pretty firm, so your head is supported nicely. I've tried other pillows like the Kabasawa
ones with the buckwheat hulls inside and those just didn't do it for me. It was like
sleeping on a bag of uncooked popcorn kernels. The Memory Foam pillow gets the Squilky seal
of approval.

Wow,Lost was great last week. It didn't quite makeup for a 3 months break with no new
episodes, but it was very intense. We're finally starting to see why the island is there.

Heroes really threw me a curve last week when Mr. Sulu shows up and plays Hiro's dad. It's
funny because I don't like Star Trek, but I know George Takei from the Howard Stern show and
he's pretty flamboyant and openly gay on the Stern show. He seemed so authoritative and
manly when he was yelling at Hiro and his sister. But I kept asking myself, I wonder if he
sounds effeminate when he speaks Japanese. I'm also curious about Peter's powers. He almost
seems like the equivalent of Sylar (SP?) where he can absorb people's powers. He met the
invisible guy and he turned invisible. He fell off a building and didn't die because he was
thinking about the Cheerleader (can you blame him? Am I right people?). So does everyone
have this ability to absorb special powers from others? Or just Sylar and Peter? And is
this leading up to a battle between Peter and Sylar? Good vs Evil?

I hope they don't introduce too many new characters. Because as it is now, they are already
spreading some of the stories out pretty thin. And I don't want it to get to a point where
they run out of ideas for cool super powers. I thought Claire's mom being able to make fire
was pretty lame already. I don't want it to get to a point where they have some guy who's
super power is that he emits noxious gas from his butt. He can clear a room with a single
toot, he is Flatulance Man!!!

A T-Shirt for the year 2007

I actually saw a guy wearing this shirt the other day. So I did a search to see if it actually existed and it did. To purchase this shirt and many other great ones like an Elephant pissing on the word Liberals, visit Here

The shirt will make you think. If anyone would like to purchase this shirt for me, I'm a Large :-)

Another feather in the cap of Boston!!!

I had to laugh when I heard the story about advertisements for the Cartoon Network being mistaken for bombs. Of course it happened in Boston. I have a few things to say...

1) From the pictures I've seen, these LED signs look kind of like the old characters from Space Invaders. How does that in any way resemble a bomb?

2) How arrogant of Bostonians to think terrorists would want to blow up anything in their 3rd rate city. No no, terrorists hijack planes in Boston then crash them into real cities like NY and DC. There's been no proof of this, but Im gonna say that the 9/11 hijackers made it through airport security because the TSA agents were reading about Manny Ramirez and Big Poppy in the newspaper.

3) This seems pretty intentional on the part of the Cartoon Network. In this age of media driven paranoia, where they make you think that your neighbor are assembling a bomb in their kitchen, and where an 'abandoned' shopping bag is a dirty bomb, it seems very irresponsible to place mysterious objects around Fenway Park and near metro stops.

4) According to Anderson Cooper, when police in Boston figured out that the "bombs" were just advertisements for the Cartoon Network, they contacted the network to ask where all the ads were. Cartoon Network had no idea where they were or how many were out there.

5) Who do they think planted these "devices"? Unless there's some evil Batman villain running around your city, I think your ok. ONly the Riddler or the Joker would make a bomb that lit up like these things.