Star Wars Mail, April Fool's

Intel announced that they are on track to release their next generation of pc chips next year. I am still using the 'outdated' Pentium 4 chips and have been thinking about getting a dual or even the new quad core chips. With this news, I am thinking I should try and wait just a bit longer for the prices of all these pc's to really start dropping when the new chips hit the market. But of course a person could wait forever because a new chip is released about twice a year now-a-days.

I what I think will be pretty neat... the Postal Service is releasing Star Wars stamps and also putting out R2-D2 looking mailboxes. This of course is all to honor the 30th anniversary of the movie Star Wars.

April Fool's day is coming up and the Museum of Hoaxes has released it's ten best April Fool's day hoaxes. The older the hoax the more unlikely it seems that people would fall for the prank...but it is tough to say. Like putting a nylon over your black and white tv to get a color picture...doesn't even seem logical at any time.

The NFL has left the rules for overtime as is. It seemed as if there was a push to move the kickoff spot up 5 yards to somewhat hinder the receiving team - 66% of the time winners in overtime. I don't see a reason why any team should be handcuffed merely because the game has gone into overtime. As the article points out, the NFL has the perspective that the focus of a game should be to win it in regulation.

One cheater's honors will continue to be kept out of the public eye for now. A sculpture of Mark McGwire, which was commissioned in 1998. But with his subsequent all-but-admitting of using steroids and lack of making it into the hall of fame has kept the sculpture under wraps. I am happy to hear that people continue to realize that the accomplishments of the steroid players are not that impressive and don't deserve any recognition or continued accolades.