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Could Nintendo be pulling one over on us? I’m inclined to say no, but it’s an interesting theory. The more I think about it, if this is the name of the new console, I think I’m OK with it.

I’ve been craving Revolution news for the last few weeks and there’s been absolutely nothing. The one day I happen to be traveling and totally disconnected from the world, they announced Revolution’s real name. Yeah, that’s it up there. Revolution was such a cool name, so I’m not sure how I feel yet (I’m not the only one), but I’ll let it sink in a little before I make up my mind. The system can still kick ass even if I decide I don’t like the name. Plus, I really do like this video to introduce us to it…

We may have wireless access, but my VPN connection to Epic isn’t working. I’m not going to be able to get anything done. Dammit.

This was too good to pass up. Seven ways to use the lessons of 24 at work.

If your boss catches you shooting heroin in your office, just say its part of your cover. If he says, “What cover?” Yell “Federal Agent!” and tackle the crap out of him.

Jack Bauer is completely badass. Oh, and I think the writers are punishing President Logan’s character because he was such a douche last season. He’ll get what’s coming to him…just wait for the 24th hour.

In the state of Wisconsin, each digit of your drivers license has meaning*. Amber and I went to the comedy club downtown a few weeks ago and the woman checking IDs told us that the last two numbers represent the number of people with similar names in the DMV database. Ironically, my number is 09 while Amber’s is 01.

This had me slightly baffled, but then again I don’t really know what “similar names” means or how that relationship is calculated. So I started wondering - are there many more Carson Monroes out there? I decided to head for my usual source of information - Google.

It’s been a while since I’ve googled myself. The last time I tried it I don’t know that I really saw much except maybe some old track and field results from high school (I’m pretty sure those are still out there if you know where to look). This time, though, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the top results are for…well…me. Number one is a bid that was written for me by one of my organizations in college for a service award. The theme of the bid was pretty cheesy and they got plenty of details wrong, but I appreciated it nonetheless. Number two is my Blogger profile - it’s kind of ironic because I haven’t used blogger for quite a while now. From three on, the majority of links have nothing to do with me. However, if you dig deep enough you’ll probably find a few other references from K-State along with graduation honors and a question submitted to Ask iLounge a while back. That’s pretty much it, but I can’t complain much. The top two are decent first impressions for anyone who might happen to google me. (And we all know how likely that is to happen…)

The interesting thing is that I don’t really see other real people with a name even close to mine. There’s all kinds of results for people with the last name Carson from places with Monroe in the name, but that’s really it. I guess this means I can continue to assume I’m one of, if not the only Carson Monroe in the world. And yet…I still sign my name with my middle initial just in case. Thanks, Dad.

*I stumbled onto this site with more information on unique IDs.

Do you think Jon Stewart will use this as material for The Daily Show this week?

An embarrassed charter school has discovered it booked the wrong Jon Stewart for its annual gala. The DaVinci Academy thought it had made a deal with comedian Jon Stewart, star of The Daily Show” and host of this year’s Academy Awards, to appear next week.

It sent out 500 invitations to businesses and planned for 900 people.

But last week, it learned that it had booked Jon A. Stewart, a former motivational speaker, businessman and part-time professional wrestler from Chicago.

So apparently they don’t think a former motivational speaker and now part-time professional wrestler will be the highlight of the event as they were hoping - they cancelled him.

Session Average: 206
First Ball Average: 9.1
Open Frames: 5 (average 2 per game)
Spares: 9
Strikes: 17
Splits: 2 (1 converted)

Games: 195  211  214
Series: 620

Oh yeah…we won the championship. Thanks to Chris, Ken, Eric, Nolan, Joe, Chad, Jesse, and Matt for a great league season.

Update: Apparently my name was in the paper. They got my score wrong (625) which tied for tenth best series in our league for the night.

It’s now 01:02:03 04/05/06 - and because of the wonder that is WordPress future posting, I don’t actually have to be awake to share this momentous second with you.