You probably know that "alot" is not a real word, but did you know that it was under consideration by the folks at the American Heritage Dictionary to become a real word? I use it all the time. I call it vocabulary activism.

Anyway, thanks for all the comments. Maybe we can do something fun like a birth-date pool or a design-the-first-shirt contest or something. Stay tuned....

Secondly, tonight marks the return of the Last Mondays Film Festival. I was torn over what to do about tonight because I didn't get any of the desired documentaries on Netflix (forgot to reorder my queue), and I really wanted to see Michelle Obama speak tonight. So, I'm going to rent a documentary from whatever is available at Bockbusted, and we'll have a vote over whether to watch the film or the DNC. If the film wins, I'll tape Michelle.

By the way, did you see that my two-time Portland roadtrip host, Don Miller, is giving the benediction at the end of the DNC proceedings tonight? I think that's the same Don Miller, although I just saw his name on the schedule and haven't confirmed.

I've had some folks ask me what I thought of Biden. I'll give him a VP report card like I did the presidential hopefuls, but I'll go ahead and say that I understand the pick, but that it's late in the game and Obama could have swung to hit one out of the park, but instead he merely kept the ball in play. He can win with the strategy, but its not going to inspire anyone. I'd be willing to guess that 75 years from now, high school history students will only remember Biden if Obama loses.

Finally, it is less than a week until UNC kicks off another football season, so that means in the next couple days I will post my yearly prediction for the season. Last year, I gave my prediction based on the result of the first game (see the original guidelines here, and the revised guidelines here). Not to toot my own horn, but last year's revised ruberic predicted 4 wins, and 4 wins was what we got. So, start making your own picks because I'd like to hear your predictions in the comments.