I noticed two things this December vacationing in Florida.

1. Americans don't walk anywhere. They don't walk across the street; they drive. Sidewalks are very rare. You often have to walk 2 miles to go 1 mile because you have to walk out-of-your way to get anywhere.
   A fellow Canadian turned American told me that people took their cars across the street from work to get coffee. There was only three people that walked; all Canadians.
2. Americans are getting bigger. I visit the U.S. 1-2-3 times per year. This isn't something I should be noticing. Glutony is one of seven deadly sins. By deadly, they mean you might just die. Really!

These things may be related. Go for a walk!

Roger Clemens to inject steroids into Mike Wallace. It didn't take long for the dudes of the Internet to turn Roger Clemens' I don't do Roids YouTube into something very entertaining.

More and more I find that some 12-volt power adapters don't work in every 12-volt socket. Currently, my supposedly universal car adapter for my phone only works in one of my three cars. Today, some friends realized their GPS mapping system didn't work in their rented car. The problem? Proprietary crap.  Car manufacturers don't use a standard 12-volt socket and device manufacturers don't use a standard 12-volt adapter. As more cars sockets and device adapters are brought to market, more of them become incompatible. That's the problem with proprietary crap. The device manufacturers can't test their proprietary adapters with every car and the car manufacturers can't test their sockets with every device. I'm sure the device manufacturer believes his adapter is superior in some way and I'm sure it is. But it doesn't work at all in my car.

This is suppose to be a JibJab video with my family, but it doesn't appear to load or it takes forever. If it doesn't load, then try this link.

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Here's some real pics of me during my December Disney vacation. Note, the I <3 FeedBurner shirt at the Applebees south-west of Orlando. I was trying to bring RSS to Disney ;-) Hopefully, one of my fans can make some more interesting mock-ups of me.

The best new show at DisneyWorld this year was the Jedi Training Academy. The Jedi master selects and trains 15 kids, who then get to fight Darth Vader.

At Disney's Fort Wilderness campground, you always see some cleverly decorated golf carts. This year, I saw two of the best ever, both Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars. The first is a nice paintjob. The second is the best custom job I've seen in a golf cart.

One of my countless anti-fans was kind enough to create a photoset of my best pics. Thanks and much appreciated!

Very early this morning, after my son's hockey game, we stayed to watch the game following his. One team was a particularly dirty team that my son's team played a couple weeks earlier. When we had last played this dirty team, I wasn't very happy when I saw one of their players intentionally tripping, body checking, holding, etc. These are 7 year olds. Who would teach their kid those tricks at that age?

Today while watching this team, I noticed the same player was still body checking. I also noticed a new thing, he was running the goalie. Every time the puck went to the net, he would intentionally fall and propel himself into the goalie. There's no way a 7 year old was doing this without instruction from a elder (most likely his dad).

Worse, I noticed that one of the parents on that same team was yelling at his kid (the goalie) constantly throughout the game.  I can't imagine the kid was having any fun. Every time the puck came into his team's zone, the parent would yell at the kid to do this and that. It was apparent the kid was very nervous. On one occasion he almost shot the puck in his own net (hitting the post) and on another he accidentally passed the puck in front of his own net where an opposing player easily scored into the empty net.

Now, don't get me wrong. There's plenty of bad hockey parents, not just this one team. In fact, at the first practice for my son's team, a father said to the rest of us fathers that his son was intentionally trying to embarrass him. Then, he pulled his kid off the ice to get his kid's skates sharpened in the middle of the practice.

I sometimes want to tell these parent that their kids are just fine and would likely do better if they backed off. But I know they won't take it as constructive advice, but rather they'll turn it into a fight. This is the core of the issue. If you tell someone why they are wrong, they almost never get it. Instead, they justify the entire situation in their mind and attack you for opening your mouth. Deep down, I'm sure they realize they are wrong. At least I hope.