Back to work this week...tough to leave Rowan and Brooke at home, but they seem to be getting along nicely. Rowan is such a joy to have around! Butsu is still trying to figure her out, which is also quite understandable. Rowan took her first walk this week with Brooke and Butsu. Butsu is a very easy walker, he doesn't pull and loves nothing more than to sniff the next light post for as long as he desires. So, it was a nice leisurely pace around the block. Good times!
Rowan will be happy to know that football season starts this weekend! I draft my fantasy football team tonight (the Sonic Death Monkey!) for the upcoming NFL season and IU kicks off their season tomorrow vs. Western Kentucky. She and I will be watching lots of football on Sundays, and I can already tell she is quite excited about it. Let's hope the Redskins can pull their heads out and have a good season. Seems NFL is alive and well in LA too, even without a team. [SpydeysWebb.com & Washington Post & LA Times]
As you've seen on the main page of SpydeysWebb, it's been a great summer for movies. As the summer season wraps up today, there's not much out there for new films. We would still like to see Pineapple Express. So far my top three from the summer were The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and WALL-E. Tropic Thunder and Forgetting Sarah Marshall were pretty good as well, and would wrap up my Top Five. Here's a scorecard for how the individual movie studios did. [LA Times & IMDb.com]
This week's News Quiz. [Chicago Tribune]
Anyone miss the Olympics this week? Some nights, I sure did. They were the most watched Games ever. The Beijing Summer Olympics Now Most-Watched Event in U.S. History. Based on the first 16 days, The 2008 Summer Olympics from Beijing has reached a record 211 million average viewers who have watched at least some portion of the games on the networks of NBC Universal. Comparably, this has now been viewed by more Americans than any event in U.S. television history. Here is the revised listing of top five most-watched events (all Olympics) in the history of television.
1. 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics: 211 million (through 16 days)
2. 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics: 209 million (17days)
3. 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics: 204 million (16 days)
4. 2004 Athens Summer Olympics: 203 million (17 days)
5. 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics: 194 million (17 days)
2. 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics: 209 million (17days)
3. 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics: 204 million (16 days)
4. 2004 Athens Summer Olympics: 203 million (17 days)
5. 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics: 194 million (17 days)
This is a pretty cool map my dad sent me showing the medals each country has won in the Games from 1896 through 2008. [NY Times]
The Michael Phelps train keeps rolling onto Saturday Night Live. [Atlanta Journal Constitution]
Election year and stem cell research. Here's an issue we should be talking more about. Seems a Harvard study has figured out how to make cells change into insulin producers. Potential major break through for diabetics like me! [LA Times]
He was a Pacer when I first started watching them in the 80's. Here's to a speedy recovery for Wayman Tisdale. [ESPN.com]
More coffee choices from Starbucks. Seems this may also effect their competitors too. [Chicago Tribune]
I'm fully aware that it's still summer, but this article Paul sent me says we should be preparing for one amazing winter! [NY Times]
Energy sources: solar power collecting satellites. [NY Times]
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