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Just a few collected ideas that jumbled around in my head this week:

• So far, President Obama has appointed political rivals to his cabinet; apologized when he screwed something up; closed a torture center; and worked major bipartisan magic with regards to the “economic stimulus package.” Is it just me, or has he accomplished more positive things in 16 days on the job than the last schmuck did in 8 years?
• Favorite Super Bowl commercial: Free Doritos!
• Speaking of the Super Bowl: why don’t the Eagles ever have Larry Fitzgerald/Santonio “San Antonio” Holmes-type receivers? The best we can come up with is a past-his-prime whiny TO for a season? Andy Reid needs to explain to me why, exactly, the Eagles run a pass-first, pass-second, pass-always offense and yet the best receiver on the team is the running back. I hate football.
• Speaking of TO: the greatest thing about him is that he will someday die, just like the rest of us. That will make the world a far better place.
• Speaking of sports: pitchers and catchers report in 10 days. Excited? You bet. I just peed a little! Okay, a lot.
• Always back up your computers. Do it. Get an external hard drive and back your stuff up. More info on this tomorrow.
• If any of you are local to northern DE, keep an eye out at the Boothwyn Farmer’s Market (aka the Bethel Mall) for when the little Cajun restaurant sells duck gumbo. It was fantastic. A little spice, mushrooms, a sauce so heavy it might have been used in early Manhattan Project experiments; I don’t think I ate for days after polishing off a quart of that bad boy. I’m pretty sure the container had an entire duck in it. I couldn’t even walk for a few hours, I just rolled myself around on an office chair and moaned occasionally.
• Had a lot of snow days lately. They are remarkably less fun if you have a job that requires you to show up anyway. I guess I’m saying, don’t grow up too fast, man. ::sob::

More tomorrow. Probably. Woo!