Random Notes on the Week

[dlgood]

1. Expect my new computer to be shipped in, any day now. My current PC has served me very well over the last 6 years, when it went from Super-Awesome to Mostly Adequate, before eventually becoming Old Weak and Feeble. Am very excited to have a machine that does not seize up when playing anything newer than three years old.



2. This week marks the 20th Anniversary of the release of GNR's Appetite for Destruction - which was just about my favorite album during my teenage years. I think enough of it holds up. This makes me old.



3. Courtesy of Perez Hilton, I see Eliza Dusku is dating Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny. Which, is swell for her because he's an awesome pitcher who makes a lot of money.
   
   That said... if you're going to date an Alyssa Milano cast-off, I'd have recommended Barry Zito who is way cooler, much better looking, and has the most obscenely ridiculous pitching contract (7 years $126 million in San Francisco) in baseball history. Even if he's one of those archetypal weirdo left-handers.

Comments

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Brad Penny? He started out pitching here for the D'backs. They traded him for Matt Mantei, I think, who gave them a number of decent years as a closer. Over all not the best trade ever, though.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Not a great trade, given that starters are worth far more than relievers, and that they won the World Series with Matt Mantei on the DL and Byung Hyung Kim closing. Sort of.