Happy Friday everybody, welcome to the blog.  Just a few random thoughts for tonight.

Is Rick Majerus regretting his decision to come out of coaching retirement for the job at the St. Louis University?  I think there is a good chance he might be especially after last night.  Who's Rick Majerus?  He is a well-respected and successful college basketball coach (career record of 422-147 before this year).  He coached 20 years at Marquette, Ball State and Utah and has NEVER had a losing season.  He thought about coming out of retirement in 2004 accepting a job at USC, but then retired again after just 3 days.  Last year, Majerus signed a 6-year contract to come to St. Louis.  The team (made up of all players recruited by the previous coach) came into last night's game with a record of 9-5.  That gets you up to speed with the story.  Last night, St. Louis set the modern day Division I record for scoring futility when they only scored 20 points as an entire team in a loss to George Washington.  George Washington came into the game with just a 4-6 record, so they are not a power house by any means.  St. Louis missed 23 consecutive shots at one point in the game and trailed 25-7 at halftime.  The previous record was 21 points and was shared by Georgia Southern (1997) and Princeton (2005).  The modern day is considered only since the shot clock was introduced to college basketball in 1985.  Prior to that, the record low was actually 6 points shared by Temple (1973) and Arkansas State (1945).  Not the kind of record you go to a basketball game hoping to see, but pretty interesting nonetheless.  Back to Majerus, he has to be thinking twice about whether he made the right decision.  Rick Majerus seems to be a good guy and I wish all the best to him.  I hope he finds success and happiness again.

I really enjoy cartoons.  I love Bugs Bunny, Disney, Tom & Jerry, Hannah Barbera and those classic cartoons.  I also enjoy the Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and some of the newer breed.  I am sure many of you know about it already, but there is even a cable channel called Cartoon Network.  During the day, the program schedule is more directed at kids, but at night they have a block of shows they call "Adult Swim" catering to more adult subject matters.  I really enjoyed the cartoons that were featured in the "Adult Swim" time block.  There were entertaining shows which really appealed to my type of humor, but that probably would not be recognized by the average person.  My favorites included "Family Guy," "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," "Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law" and Robot Chicken.   I looked forward to seeing these shows each night whenever I had the chance.  Gradually, the network began to tweak the program line-up and some shows changed times or were replaced.  There was always enough good shows to satisfy me, but recently that has changed.  Almost all of my favorites are nowhere to be found anymore.  I still see some "Family Guy" and the occasional "Robot Chicken" but the others seem to be gone.  This would not be so bad if they were replaced by new cartoons that were similar or equally entertaining.  Unfortunately, that is not the case.  Now there seems to be WAY too much "Futurama" shown, a lot of anime and several really bad cartoons.  It really has saddened me because something I felt was special ("Adult Swim") seems to be catering to a different audience, leaving me out in the cold.  Too bad they are catering to the shallow end of the pool and not to us swimming over on the deep end.  I hope and pray my favorites find their way back onto the regular rotation.

Those are my topics for tonight.  Thanks for reading.  I try to have a posting everyday, so if you missed one, be sure to find them below or in my archives.  Please come back often and let others know.  TGIF.

Check this out:  OPTICAL ILLUSION - If you take a look at the following picture, let me tell you ... It is not animated.  Your eyes are making it move.  To test this, stare at one spot for a couple seconds and everything will stop moving.  Or look at the black center of each circle and it will stop moving.  But move your eyes to the next black center and the previous will move after you take your eyes away from it....  Weird 

Quote of the day:  "People never change their lives.  Lives only change people." -Albert Camus

Download this:  "Don't Wait Too Long" by Madeleine Peyroux.  You might recognize this jazzy song heard in a particular Dockers commercial.  I love it.