Well, we’re off to Minnesota & Wisconsin for a week. We’ll be visiting some family, going to Michelle’s niece’s graduation party, and then I’ll be off to Wisconsin for the rest of the week to help my parents out at their farm. We’ll be operating heavy machinery and riding our bikes. I’m going to consider it a success if I don’t get disemboweled by the saw in the lumber mill or get a backhoe bucket to the head.
There is nothing I can say to prepare you for this video except that this is more proof that the only relevant content at Gawker lies in the comments.
Brilliant. “Planet Unicorn, HEYY.”
A few days ago, I was chatting with Michelle, and telling her about how I tragically missed an opportunity to use our new 
dogg raincoats that morning. It was raining and it totally escaped me to put the new coats on them for their walk. I’m a complete git when it comes to remembering irregular things, especially in the morning. I usually remember things like putting on pants, but anything more out of the ordinary is completely lost on me until it becomes ordinary. Vicious cycle.
So, I said to Michelle:
I totally forgot to put the rain coats on the doggs this morning. We were almost all the way back home before I realized what a donut I am.
My use of the word “donut” sparked my curiosity. I figured I should hit the Internets and look up some pictures of donuts on the Google. It might be funny, for example, to find an absurdly large donut. Enter: Google Images. This is what I found:
I totally outdid myself this time. This is positively the most intensely boring post I’ve written so far. It’s so boring that 
I’d be tempted to bet that I’ll never write a more boring post as long as I blog. I specifically use the word “tempted” here because I secretly know I’m really not giving myself the credit I deserve. I know that at some point I’ll write something even more boring.
I would delete this post if it hadn’t taken me so much time to write. I wrote this a few days ago when Safari for Windows was released, and I’ve been sitting on it since, knowing it was enough to make even a highly caffeinated reader pass out cold. I’ve quite honestly even bored my self to the degree that I, the author, can’t really get through it without falling into a few narcoleptic fits.
What I decided to do is summarize it here, and then, if you’re feeling particularly masochistic, you can read the unabridged version after the jump.
Summary: Safari doesn’t quite make the bar as far as adhering to standards goes. Safari for Apple is borderline sucky, but at least it integrates nicely with OS X. Safari for Windows simply sucks. I don’t know why we need another sucky browser since the dozen sucky browsers we already have to choose from provide plenty of headaches for users and developers alike. The iPhone is going to rule, but is probably the culprit behind Apple’s release of Safari for Windows.
That’s amazing. These five sentences faithfully sum up the gist of what I was getting at and it’s still boring.
The UCI is meeting Wednesday with the 20 Pro Tour cycling teams to discuss and release the names of the riders it 
considers implicated in Operation Puerto. In other words, Wednesday will be the day we find out who is and who is not allowed to start the Tour de France. The list is rumored to contain over 50 names. It is also being speculated that they will take the unprecedented step of not allowing Erik Zabel to start nor to allow Rolf Aldag or Bjarne Riis to act as Director Sportif based on their admissions to have used drugs in the 90’s.
The fight against doping in cycling has recently seemed to be a little more level-headed, but at the same time, it continues to be very odd who is and who is not considered to be implicated in the case. It will be very interesting to see what comes out of the meeting and which names are released.
My big question is whether Valverde or Vino will be on the list. They strike me as obvious candidates, but they have so far been almost entirely ignored. We’ll see.
Correction: It appears the UCI is not meeting with the Pro Tour Teams until Tuesday, June 19; the June 13th meeting seems to have been between the teams themselves. They decided that any team not upholding the Pro Tour Ethics Code (i.e. suspend and not associated with any rider involved in a doping investigation, in particular Operation Puerto) will be excluded from the Pro Tour Team’s Association. This could spell trouble for Caisse d’Epargne, Saunier Duval and Discovery Channel.
Second Correction: It appears the UCI did not provide any information regarding Puerto and no new riders will be implicated. In fact, they say they only received 1,000 of the 6,000 pages from Spain and they did not contain any new information. However, Discovery Chanel did resign from the Pro Tour Team’s Association. Apparently, Johan Bruyneel did storm out of the meeting in a style modeled after the Bush Administration. Nice to see the influence that working for an American company is having on Bruyneel.
More of an Overcast-with-Chances-of-Rain-Wednesday than a Black Wednesday, then.
