Quickies

• When Joanne tells people we're having a boy, people are excited and congratulatory. Then she's "so we're getting a little Keith." The tendency has been for the listener to pause and then say "oh... uh... that's great." What does that mean?
  

• Re my wrongness. Jot made several valid points in the comments, though I feel the "massive readership" comment is a bit sarcastic. Just a bit. Anywho, we'll be retaining LBA. The "G" confusion did occur to me after posting as well. Not sure what I was thinking about re guy v boy.

• Re name. We already have one, though I'm still willing to ponder others; Joanne less so. The longer it's the only one on the list, the more likely it will stick.

• I came across this Money piece on the subprime fallout which notes Merril Lynch's subprime exposure ($41 billion in subprime collateralized debt obligations and subprime mortgage bonds, as of June) is greater than its current market capitalization. I had a draft post on this, but realized I had nothing of merit to include beyond the article.

• How do become president for life? Offer the masses a shorter work! Brilliant move!

• We (royally) hooked up the HD-DVD player last name and popped in the Bourne Identity and did comparisons to the regular DVD. The HD was noticeably better in an A-B freeze frame comparison visually, about the same sonically (I did have an audio setting wrong though). However, in motion the difference was there, but less of a big deal. I've seen varying opinions on whether BI is a good test of the format--but that begs the question how useful the tech is on our setup (viewing distance greater than what is considered optimal).
  

• I'm trying to convince Joanne to do a guess post for her thoughts on my recent HT splurging--the last one for a very long time methinks. Not for a critique on the expenditure, but the experience.
  

• A confession: I am still a Knicks fan. Is that a sign of loyalty or stupidity?

• I got an new spoof email (a spoof being an email from a seemingly legitimate site (such as eBay, Amazon or your bank) that link to something more unsavory). The one I got was from Yahoo's Greeting Card service. I actually clicked on it at first, thinking it might be from someone sending in a New Year Fest bid, but I came to my senses and closed the page before it loaded. The actual text link was to a Thanksgiving card. The embedded link not to a card (I'm guessing).