Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Well, at least that Galveston sea wall will finally be put to good use
• Baylor was to have a rare televised football game tomorrow, but it's been moved to tonight. According to the Waco Tribune, the Bear's opponent from Washington State will make the "1,490-mile flight to Waco before playing later Friday night."
• Isn't the "Obammy" reference just a tad bit racist?
• Other football note: The Houston Cougars moved their home game against Air Force to SMU for tomorrow at 2:30. It won't exactly be a hurricane at that time, but that wasn't exactly moving the game out of the path of the storm either.
• I actually watched a full episode of Hannity and Colmes two days ago. How you guys can stand that nonsense is beyond me. And that Colmes guy is the equivalent of a battered spouse in a room full of guys wearing wife beater T-shirts.
• Watched the oddest movie the other Day: Sex and Death 101. Two of the main stars were the even odder combination of Winona Ryder (who was smoking hot) and Mindy Cohn (Natalie from The Facts of Life.)
• Someone said to me yesterday, "It's kind of hard to judge how popular Obama is nationwide when living around here, isn't it?" True that.
• Two TV shows I liked that no one has ever heard of: Dream On and Herman's Head.
• Remember to "get behind" the Barnett Shale.
• Saw a couple of people using this cool site to track Hurricane Ike yesterday
• I wouldn't mind living in a high rise condo in Houston this weekend.
• Caught most of Sarah Palin with Charlie Gibson last night. Some of her answers were wheels off, but she held up pretty well. And what else could she have said when asked if she was ready to be President of the United States?
• I don't think I've ever used the acronyms POTUS or SCOTUS. Seems a little pretentious.
• I really don't know how strong Hurricane Ike will be, but I have to admit the thing is big.
• Gas prices have risen in the metroplex by 15 cents in one day. I heard it on two radio stations and then witnessed it late yesterday with my own pair of eyeballs in my own head.
• Of all the pictures taken these days, I wonder how many actually end up getting printed?
• The 9/11 conspiracy nuts, some who apparently post here, are . . . well . . . nuts. And they all worship the documentary Loose Change (which I learned through that Wikipedia entry has been "re- released" in an "installment [which] is a completely new film; using almost none of the same content appearing in the previous Loose Change versions." I watched the first one.
• I still can't say enough about the iPhone
• The "garage door" comment from yesterday was a repeat. That's a bad sign.
• I used to use "[sic]" in some of my entries when I quoted material that had an inaccuracy. It, in essence, means "the error you see appeared in the original text and I'm smart enough to know it's an error." I actually saw the Messenger use it a couple of times but not lately.
• Based upon the courthouse and visitor center American flags being at half staff this morning, September 12th must be a day that will live in infamy that I was not aware of.