You remember when Pokemon or some such cartoon was causing seizures in Japan because of the rapid scene changes? I have something like that going on in my office today.

The fire alarm for the building is being tested (at least that's the story we're getting), and so the alarm keeps going off randomly. We don't get the noise, which is good (we got part of it once, actually, it's one of those voice ones that tells you to get the hell out), but we do get the high intensity light going off for 45 seconds at a time. The strobe effect gives us a club feel, but I'm waiting for my central nervous system to shut down from overstimulation. No worries about people not seeing the light, trust me.

Funny headline on Yahoo earlier. Rumsfeld: catching Osama hard. It's like something Barbie would say. It's been replaced by something more like standard English, but I had a good laugh thinking the Secretary of Defense has the verbal skills of a 7 year old.

It's warm today. October 25, and it's over 70 degrees out. I WANT MY FALL BACK! This is my favorite season, and it's being disrupted. Indian summer is fine in the first week of October (consider this: temps dropped into the 40s that week), but not the last. One of the benefits about being on a suburban campus now is getting to see leaves change. The drawback: student complaints about leaf blowers running in the morning.

I have to feel a little sorry for Trent Dilfer right about now. Wins the Super Bowl, gets cut by the Ravens, can't get a job, finally lands in Seattle, and Matt Hassleback gets every opportunity to play in front of him, even after Dilfer led the team to wins over Jacksonville and Denver. Hassleback is not that good, but was in Green Bay at the same time Mike Holmgren was. Holmgren busted a gut to get Hassleback, and seems determined to have him play so it doesn't look like a bad move. Perhaps we should reference the Chicago Bears here: QB of the future played like crap, team won when unheralded Jim Miller was at the controls. Miller kept getting jerked around, is now finally the starter again, and the Bears are 4-1 or 5-1. Granted the defense is the main factor there, but it helps to have a QB who won't lose the game for you.

Here's a Saturday twin bill for you: Oklahoma-Nebraska at high noon (fitting, go Sooners!) and World Series game 1 at 7:30, Schilling against Mussina (go Snakes!).