Major League Baseball

I'm no MLB fan, but this Oakland pitcher, Dallas Braden, who pitched a perfect game the other day is my kind of guy. He is a blue-collar journeyman player who throws in the low 80's and calls it a fast ball. I love it when a regular guy does something huge. You can have your Tiger & Michael Jordan and all the other superstars who deliver awesome performances. Give me Dallas Braden, who gets it done with limited tools in his toolbox...with no warning it was coming. To top it all off and seal the deal with me, Dallas yelled at A-Rod the other day to get off his blankety-blank mound when A made the mistake of jogging over it. You gotta love it.

Octopi

Saw the coolest thing on TV. This guy put a freshly captured octopus (A) in a tank with a crab in a clear plastic box. The octopus didn't even try to get at the tasty morsel. Then, the guy put the crab-in-a-box in an adjacent water tank with an octopus who had figured out how to open the plastic box, which he did immediately, and happily crunched on the little crab. Octopus A jumped to the side of his tank with a WTH look in his bulbous eyes. When the guy gave him another chance at the crab-in-a-box, Octopus A was on it like he had seen Octopus B do...and was able to pop a cover and get at the crab. Amazing.
I can't look at octopi on a Chinese buffet without thinking that maybe we shouldn't be eating something that teachable.