Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The US military has provided soldiers with chewing gum since WWI and now they are looking at gum that would not only help keep the teeth clean in the field but would also be caffinated (one stick would be equal to one cup of coffee). If you add vitamins to that mix - you'd have a gum that I think would be a big seller commercially... More proof that Hollywood is indeed out of ideas - a movie based on the cartoon The Jetsons is in development and scheduled for release in 2009... I had always thought of Nintendo as a modern company but they have been in business since 1889... Today is Marty Schottenheimer's 63rd birthday. He'll never win the big game.... This is pretty funny (although the girl does look a bit chunky)... Twenty-eight years ago today - Lyman Bostock was shot and killed. Bostock was a rising star in baseball and was well respected as one of the most charitable players in MLB. The guy who shot and killed Bostock didn't even know him but was trying to kill a woman who was also in the car. Incredibly the guy who shot Bostock spent only 21 months in custody for the murder. You would be hard pressed to say that justice was served in this case...