I recently started working out in the mornings. Good times. I figure that’s the best time to do it since I usually am pretty wiped out by the time I get done working in the evenings.

Anyways, here’s the situation.

I live in a small apartment, and therefore I don’t exactly have a lot of room to do a workout at home. In the living room is my best option. To do this, I need to move out coffee table.

Well, dammit, the coffee table is heavy and awkward. It’s not going to be fun moving it every single morning before and after my workout.

I went with the option of just dead lifting the coffee table and moving it to the other side of the room this morning.

Bad idea.

I got a good workout in, but now as I sit here at my desk, my back is feeling weird, and I’m pretty sure it’s from lifting that table.

Next strength goal for me: Get strong enough to dead lift this coffee table, or put wheels on it. One of the two.

This is an interesting view of the planet Mars:

“We’ve gone from seeing [Mars] as a dead planet for three-plus billion years to one that has been alive in recent times,” said Jay Dickson, a research analyst in the Department of Geological Sciences at Brown and lead author. “[The finding] has changed our perspective from a planet that has been dry and dead to one that is icy and active.”

Read the rest of the article here.

I follow the Minnesota Twins. Let’s start this post out with that fact. I’m not bragging or anything, I respect any person’s allegiance to any team. But, this story casually includes that fact a few times and it needs to be known up front.

I feel a certain allegiance to the Twins, to the point where it’s blasphemous for me to wear a White Sox jersey. For the record, as much as I respect the White Sox I do not like them and I hope they end up at 3rd place behind the Detroit Tigers by the time that the 2008 MLB season arrives at completion.

Now… I have recently begun to like wearing mlb jerseys just ’cause it’s better than t-shirts. Ebay is amazing, as far as finding cheap jerseys goes, so I’m on a roll.

But… there is always the issues of buying or wearing a jersey which conflicts with my support of the Minnesota Twins.

So.

How should this be handled?

I present these rules, which should be followed by sports fans who are allegiant to their teams, yet like to wear league gear in general. This could apply to MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL or whatever.

The Rules For Wearing “Other Teams” Jerseys

1. Wear a generic team jersey, a jersey with no player number or name. This will make it appear as though you don’t have a favorite player, and you’ll have no logo or recognizable information on the back of the jersey.
2. Wear the jersey of the player that plays the worst against your favorite team. In my case, I would want to wear the jersey of a White Sox player who always gets schooled when playing the Minnesota Twins.
3. Degrade the opposing teams jersey in some manner. In my case, I’m going to have a graphic designer that I work with design the word “Sucks” using the same lettering and look of the White Sox logo. I will then take this logo and have it embroidered underneath the Sox logo that is on the front of a White Sox jersey that I bought off of Ebay for $12.80.
4. Wear the jersey of a player who has played in the past and has no general effect on the team and players that you actively have followed in your lifetime. For example, I was born in 1979, so I figure that I can get by with wearing any team gear from any MLB baseball team or player from before the year 1979 without having a fan conflict situation.

Yeah.

If you have some more ideas for rules, feel free to post a comment to this rant.

This is a great addition to a prison security scheme.

The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security.

More prisons should adopt a policy such as this. Why not?

Just bring in all the animals that need to be removed from city limits for whatever reasons. There are always bears, wolves and other potentially dangerous wild animals being found within city limits. They need somewhere to be removed to.

This guy feels the city needs to be prepared. For space aliens. The story doesn’t get horribly specific, but I assume this is mostly a “what would we do if they showed up?” type of commission.

A Denver man who wants the city to be prepared for space aliens is proposing a commission to deal with the matter.

Read the rest here.

Cripes.

It must be a good game.

Maybe I should have reserved a copy at a local game store.

If it’s scarce, it’ll cost $100 on Ebay.

I should maybe buy it and play it, it looks fun.

IGN, I guess, rarely gives perfect 10 ratings. This must be a pretty good game. At least, GTA IV must be great enough to generate the most excitement of any recent game for the people over at IGN.

Even after all this, I really am not that surprised at the fact that IGN just gave GTA IV a perfect ten rating. I don’t expect any less from Rockstar.