Sometimes entertainment can come in the strangest of places. Anyways, I have been receiving a couple of text messages from a caller somewhere in Tucson, I don't know his/her name, but here's the conversation below. Luckily I had Dina around to help with the Arabic translations. Yes it is a small world.

2:19 AM Caller - Hey sexy you are the best sister ever
2:21 AM Caller - Hey
4:27 PM Caller - Mirna u got mail from the court about driving with out lights
4:28 PM Me - U got the wrong number
4:37 PM Caller - Hahahaha4ag
4:38 PM Caller - FulllaSHIT
4:40 PM Me - Im pregnant
5:01 PM Caller - Wat r u gunna cal him or her
5:02 PM Me - Mohamed
5:04 PM Caller - Ow his a boy waw waww ... Oh wats his dads name mustafa
5:05 PM Me - Actually its jameel
5:08 PM Caller - tab sho sar ma3l court? //Dina says they are asking about the court case
5:08 PM Caller - jamil jamil
5:10 PM Me - Khara khara //Shitty Shitty
5:11 PM Caller - SHOU KHARA KHARA
5:13 PM Caller - ???

I never expected when Dina and I were discussing baby names that we were talking to someone who knew Arabic. Crazy stuff.

-Trevor

I came across this game during my internet travels. The premise of the game is that you hit Taichi with Nanaca's bike and then try to see how far Taichi will fly through the air. You can use special combos in order to boost the distance. The game seems sort of lame and probably is, but is nonetheless addicting. Here's a post of my current high score, though I've seen screenshots as high as 11k.

-Trevor

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After Michael Vick, a quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons was indicted for dogfighting, some have begun to suggest that he should be suspended for the entire year. However, a reporter, Paul Zeise, of the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette has indicated that this would be harsher than if he raped a woman, which would likely give him only a four game suspension.

Rape is certainly no laughing matter, but this is merely a realistic comparison to the absurdity of standards in both pro sports and our justice system in general, and seems to me to be suggesting that rape is not penalized harshly in pro sports. While dog fights are certainly cruel and unnecessary, in my books it seems to be much better than sex-boat scandals or rape.

Therefore it is unfortunate that the newspaper Zeise works for distanced itself, suggesting that the comparison to rape does not represent the views of the newspaper.

Somewhere along the line, we seem to have lost our stomach for reality. Maybe he should have said that the penalty for dog fighting could potentially worse than if Vick would have had Repeated Abusive Penetrations in an Enclave (RAPE) of a woman.

-Trevor