I'm a meat and brocolli(???) kind of guy.

Yesterday Michael Vick was released from prison. Vick was the the former number one pick, quarterback, who could causally run 40 yards in 4.5 seconds. Vick had an inconsistent but budding football career with the Atlanta Falcons that was interrupted because of being caught participating and funding dog fighting (earlier in the year he was arrested for marijuana possession). Vick served almost two years in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. My question now is does he deserve another chance in the NFL? Should the NFL suspend him further. What would be your reaction if your team signed him? I am kind of split. On the one hand, he has served his prison sentence with no problems and he seems legitimately apologetic. Plus, fans are hypocritical. There are Vikings players who have been arrested for assaults, spousal battery, and multiple DUI's and these are some of the most cheered for Vikings. I am a dog person and what he did was reprehensible. I think at this point, I could entertain the idea of the Vikings signing him again. However, the media circus would be outrageous and maybe for that reason alone I might pass.

1. We are less than two weeks away from the new Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. To wet your appetite, Conan is giving an online backstage tour of his new set. It's only like ninety seconds long and pretty funny: http://www.thetonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/new-tonight-show-set-sneak-peek/1106823/

2. I was reading Men's Health magazine about the new diet fad that is poised to become huge. It is based on research that diabetics have known for decades. Certain foods affect the body in different ways. This book, (and pardon my spelling), called the Glycemic Diet or the Glycemic Revolution, something like that, basically ranks all foods on how the body reacts to it - specifically at the how body digests it. They refer to a system of ranking carbohydrate foods according to how much a certain amount of each food raises a person's blood sugar levels. What its point is that food A might have 30 carbs, and food B might have 30 carbs but our bodies digest the two foods very differently and one might be healthy and one might be unhealthy. I think this is really interesting. For instance, let's say you want to be healthy and you want to get some vegetables for tonight's dinner. Foods that most people might have thought are healthy, like potatoes, got terrible reviews. Basically, they are white, starchy carbs which your body hates. Who ever thought potatoes would be considered unhealthy?! I plan on buying this book the next time I am at Barnes and Noble.

3. Nimit and I, bating in our own hubris, were playing catch yesterday and decided to challenge each other to some sort of Decathlon of sorts. We want to come up with a day full of athletic events to decide who is the most athletic. A few of the ideas we have thrown around include:

A) 40 yard dash
B) 5k
C) Most push-ups in three minutes
D) Most sit-ups in three minutes

Can you think of any others that would be good?