Inspired by this collection of Star Wars Valentines.

Which, of course, raises an interesting question regarding the nature of time and space that might be beyond the capacity of the world's top scientists to answer, namely, how Beau Bridges could have been tapped to play me in a TV show that aired nearly ten years before I was born.

Were I, say, Chuck Norris, I might have an answer, and I might solve several oustanding questions of time and relativity in the process. Alas. Only one man can be he.

I am GOING, BABY!

If Roger's healthy, it very well may be his LAST GAME EVER. Sad thing. But it could be a game that puts the Astros up 3-2. We've come really close in the last two games, so I still have high hopes.

Oh, yes, I will be posting pictures at some point.

Chris Muir, author of Day by Day, has asked his readers to click on a link to support a cancer research facility. He's asked his readers -- and there are a lot of them -- to do so, so that the site might improve its Yahoo ranking and raise its visibility.

I'm afraid, though, that merely clicking on this link will do nothing for the site's Yahoo ranking or its Google ranking, or any ranking in a major modern search engine.

Modern search engines don't calculate its search results based on traffic anymore. At one time, traffic figured into the algorithms. Now it's based more on who links to who. Long story short: if your site is linked by a lot of other sites, with the right words in the link, your site will be associated with those words much more strongly in the search engines.

If someone is searching for a cancer research center, and he types in "cancer treatment" into Yahoo or MSN or Google, if there are a lot of sites that link to the American Cancer Ablation Center with the words "cancer treatment", then that site will pop up high in the search rankings.

Thus:

If you own a blog, and you want to help out Chris Muir's sister, then post a link to the ACAC on your webpage. That will do FAR more good, across ALL the search engines.

Just cut and paste the following code into your blog:

<a href="http://www.cancerablation.com/">Cancer treatment</a>

Links:

The American Cancer Ablation Center

Chris Muir's Day by Day

Having knocked out his opponent, Khan dedicated his victory to the victims of the London attack. He is the anti-thesis of the four suicide bombers, a role model for the Muslim (and non-Muslim) youth, showing them the right alternative to the cult of death.

That's part of the solution: prominent role models who make young Muslims feel proud to be who they are instead of feeling like a disaffected minority with no recourse but to give their life in the fight against the evil American "empire".

Note: not to be confused with this Khan.

Acura MDX, weight: 5,732 lbs

If the car's battery is dead and will not start, do not sit behind the wheel with your left leg out the driver's side door and push with the ball of your foot so that you may reposition the vehicle into an open parking spot 80 feet away, in spite of the apparent logic of making it more accessible so as to facilitate jumping the battery. Whereas you may successfully move the vehicle into position, the jump may not, in fact, be successful (whereas a call to your auto club will bring a man with a portable battery charger), and instead you may end up with quite the injury to your thigh, calf, lower back, and general groinal area.

Ow.

It's really the only viable option.

It's not that I'm uptight. I'm just one of those crazy cats that prefers smooth skin, and all those metal doodads don't make for happy fingers.

Say what you want about the hair. Laugh about the sensitive shots on the beach. Chuckle it up when you see those firefighters and police officers in the clouds. Poke fun at the freaky animated bird-ghost-souls flitting about and flying into the dude's chest.

This, my friends, is patriotism you will never yourselves surpass, should you live a hundred years.

I felt the love
I breathed the air
I touched the rain
I wiped the tear
I saw the moon
I heard the wind
Now my new life will soon begin
I had to go
But it's okay,
You see I'm with you in a different way

USA! America, we stand as one
USA! America, we stand as one

And you must carry on!
Carry on, carry on my love.

When lunch hour is taken, makes an afternoon of drudgery an order of magnitude more bearable.

"Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. People are told in telephone calls that if you've ever had a parking ticket, you're not allowed to vote," he said.

You know, because he's all about solutions.

This is a good thing. Not only because I like to see the sun for longer when I leave the office, but because it will also reduce national energy use. Most electricity is used in the evenings, after work. (Think about it: ovens, TVs, computers -- all are used much more in the evenings than in the mornings.) Decrease usage and energy prices could fall, which is good for the economy and all of us. Even if it's only by 10,000 barrels a day, as the article suggests, any improvement is a good thing.