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Okay, so I went all ego and “redefined” the word “tom” tonight on The Big Word Project. You can thank @leahjones and @extraface on Twitter for me going there.

You know you want to get all wordy and buy something of interest.

MLB.com has an article on Monday about how all all Minor and Major League 1st & 3rd base coaches will wear helmets – ear flaps optional, it says – as of the 2008 season. This all went down in the wake of minor league coach Mike Coolbaugh, who was in the Colorado Rockies’ system in July when he was hit with a line drive and died from his injuries.

While it’s not fan-related, it’s the second major move by a sports league for safety of some sort, just years after the NHL added the netting above the glass in the offensive ends in the 2002 season. That time, it was after a 13-year old girl at a Columbus Blue Jackets game in March of 2002. In any case, it’s a smart move. While I was most certainly one who thought the netting was frustrating, I can also say that I’ve seen enough fans – especially those not necessarily paying attention – get whacked with pucks to see it being worthwhile. Coaches might not be happy with it for awhile – as the MLB.com article states – but I think they all get the point.

Well, Jimmy Kimmel apparently had had enough of the fun that girlfriend Sarah Silverman had pulled on him a short while ago when she announced that she was … ahem … knowing Matt Damon, so Jimmy responded in the only way he knows how – to get with Ben Affleck, of course.

Probably NSFW for most of you, but everyone’s going to be talking about it, so you should make a point to check it out later.

Late last week, Chris Thilk let me know about the latest addition to the Mighty Muggs “trendy” figures that I’ve been seeing around town – Indiana Jones. And no, ladies and gents, we’re not talking characters that are new and that you don’t care about. We’re talking about scores like Mola Ram. Delusional facial features AND flaming heart INCLUDED for no extra cost. Now that’s what I’m talking about.

Check out the staircase featured in a post over on the dwell blog. That’s a pretty fantastic way to store your books, if you’ve got the space to do this kind of thing.

I can’t decide if it’s good or bad that I’ve been sent the link to “Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle” (just click on it…) like a dozen times or not.

One of my colleagues (thanks, Bob!) sent me a link to this post from Google Blogoscoped, where they’ve got a fantastic writeup of a review of some colored pencils, done the way that the rest of us review software and tech products. It’s quite … enlightening … to say the least once you take eveything into context, frankly. It really does scare me though that someone, just a few years from now, could read it and believe that it’s 100% on the up and up.

With the (apparent) success of Kanye West’s “Graduation” album, a record whose “Stronger” track is one that umm, leans heavily on a certain Daft Punk track, I thought it worthwhile, post-Grammys, to give good ol’ Daft Punk some props. I mean, if your song is sampled THAT quickly, it’s gotta be good, right?

Enjoy the hands of the person I called “the most coordinated person I’ve ever seen” when showing this video to The Fiancee.

Okay, I’m re-stating which Twitter post I now think is the best one I’ve seen. Check out this item from Michael Allison about Uggs and sheep. That’s classic.

If you’re a car dealer that sells one make of cars, but offer quite a few other cars in the used car lot, and you sell warranties on those cars – meaning you intend to fix those cars yourselves, or have them fixed *through* your network of mechanics – and you have a car come in that you have no way of diagnosing, wouldn’t you say something about that in the first place?

Here’s the deal – a year ago I bought a previously owned Mercedes-Benz (it’s a 2002) from a car dealer a short drive away from my apartment. When purchasing said Mercedes, I knew that one of the things I most certainly wasn’t wanting to have to shell out for in the next year or so were any serious service issues (drivetrain, etc.), hence the warranty purchase. The car dealer said they’d be able to handle working on the car beforehand, so I figured that was a good deal. All that said, I’m a bit aghast at the fact that I dropped my car off on Monday in the early afternoon, was told that THEY might have to take it to a Mercedes dealer should they not be able to fix the problem or diagnose it, but that they’d take a look and do what needed to be done. The problem at hand was that I’d been having an odd transmission issue (or so it seemed) after starting the car, and my check engine light had just come on. No worries, right? Wrong. Well, they finally called me back – three days later – and nothing’s happened. Their “universal” system checker wasn’t able to figure anything out on the car, and now I’d need to make time to get a ride all the way back out to the dealer (I’ve since moved and it’s about 10 miles further away than it was), pick up my car, and find myself a Mercedes dealership that could service the vehicle, and that “hopefully” the dealer would have an ability to do a warranty transfer or something along those lines that would pay for the issue. I’m sorry, but that’s not how things work. If that’s how it’s going to work, then I’m most certainly having them pay me back the cost of the warranty that’s been paid so far and remove any further cost of it from the upcoming payments over the next few years on my financing. There’s no “maybe” it’ll get covered here, it’s just getting covered. If they weren’t capable of diagnosing the car in the first place, then why accept it when I made an appointment to drop it off, and why wait three days (wasting three days of The Fiancee and I having no car) to do so?

Ugh. What a disaster. I’m sure there will be more fun and excitement to share in this particular area.

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