"Is that all there is?" After the fun of watching the ALCS hurt put on my first pick, the pathetic P-stripes, the World Series, where my next pick, the Cards, were spanked, seemed boring ... no? And what do bored bloggers do? One thing is review their logs where today I noticed searches not only on "Mark Bellhorn", "Joe Castiglione", "Jerry Trupiano" but also on "Curt Schilling's ankle bluff", "hottie Bronson Arroyo pictures", and "naked pictures of Kevin Millar". Hmmmm ... what is this all about? Do I really need to know ... I think not. But after you've downloaded all the news on Curt's ankle and the pictures of Bronson and Kevin you're looking for, and after you've bought your own Red Sox World Champs hat but before you buy one for everyone else on your Christmas list maybe you could remember that baseball is just a game, visit the Jimmy Fund, ALS Association or Charity Navigator sites and consider donating the money you saved on beer because it was a short Series and then "let's keep dancing".

Now that the Sox have won the ALCS I'm thinking I know some folks who may need to start making plans for what to do if the Series doesn't play out in accordance with their wishes. Perhaps they might want to arrange an Extreme Kidnapping for themself or a friend ... else they might want to consider Whirled History where, if you act quickly, you can either have yourself committed at the Wakerich Asylum For The Criminally Insane or join the Pho Monastery.

"Buy me some peanuts and pepper spray" ... could the MLB League Championships ... with the Sox, suddenly the Yankee's daddy, being the first team to force a game 7 after trailing three games to none, and the Astros coming from nowhere in the second half and now actually leading the best-in-baseball Cardinals ... be any more exciting than what we're seeing? No, I think not. But am I the only one that is a little suspicious of a Series that may be between a team from Massachusetts and a team from Texas this election year? Maybe I was wrong with what I said about Vince McMahon in July ... maybe this whole thing is another Fox reality production ... nah, they couldn't be that clever ... but Matt Stone and Trey Parker could. Did anyone see the strings on Curt Schilling's ankle, Mark Bellhorn's bat or first base ump Randy Marsh's rule book?

Google SMS is da’ buggy whip ... oh yeah ... I’m talking the reappearance of a tool, or is it a toy, from another age. Sure, Google's latest is, just like a buggy whip, simple enough to use. Just enter your query as a text message on your phone ... try "define buggy whip" ... and send the message (in the US only) to 46645 (GOOGL on most phones). Google notes on their SMS page that you can get dictionary definitions to expand your vocabulary or prove a point, get local business listings when you're on the road and want to find a place to eat, and compare online product prices with ones you find in retail stores. Ok but, I’m just not sure I really need the information underload it currently delivers ...especially if that information is wrong. Entering and sending 02719 produces the response that this is the zipcode for Acushnet MA ... sorry not so ... 02719 is zip for Fairhaven MA, Acushnet’s zip is 02743 ... and I know this because I queried these numbers using Google Search on the web.

I’m wondering if Opportunity and Spirit have found the real Google Lab ... not the one in Mountain View ... because some of the latest offerings from Google seem like they were designed by Martians. Yes, I love the basic Google Search; AdWords, AdSense and of course Blogger are brilliant; and I suppose Froggle has it’s uses; but the awkward Gmail and the redesigned Groups, where you can find some Google SMS discussion if you're so inclined, and the failures by Google to integrate all their packages are a goke.

By the way Google SMS did get back to me quickly with the answer on buggy whip as "a horsewhip once used by a driver of a buggy; since buggies have been replaced by cars the buggy whip has become a symbol for anything that is hopelessly outmoded". Hmmmm ... does this prove a point?

I’m also wondering if those folks at Mountain View or wherever have heard of VoiceXML and if they realize we don’t need no stinking keyboards?

Jonny’s Burger Joint underneath Giovanni’s at Highway 30 and Ka’anapali Parkway where the menu choices really are "cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger", where Peter Lawford is the Rat Pack member that no one in the lunch crowd can identify, and where video Power Solitaire is a quarter per game was the place it started. Immediately upon returning home Evan stripped the Kings and Queens from a deck of Bee "Cambric Finish" playing cards he had picked up at a yard sale and was soon hopelessly lost in sessions of Power Solitaire for hours at a time. Then Mina gave him the Spider files and he was really in serious trouble. Game over? I think not.

Spent a twilight recently watching my brother Jay streaking around the kart track at F1 in East Bridgewater ... this is not golf ... and learned that Jay, known for driving like a fool when we’re late for a Pat’s game or anything else which is usually the case with him, is a pretty good kart racer ...he finished fourth, first, and third in the three races I saw. Got a couple of decent pictures with the A80 ... and lots of bad ones ... this is not shooting flowers.

Here's a decent one showing Jay coming out of the club house turn ... a spot where he spun out in practice.