So one team is Villareal a Spanaish La Liga team (First Division) which played a preseason game against CF Navata which is part of the Tercera Territorial de Catalunya is the lowest level of the Catalan regional league system.

According to this site (The Offiside) places it a total of eight (8!) divisions below Villareal.

Ouch!

These are awesome.

My buddies over at Wizards of the Coast are running a competition for shoe designs.  The boots of speed are my favorites.  I especially like this little touch on the heel.  Notice the +1?  heh.

Go check out the designs: Sell your sole!

heh.  This is great little write up that compares the Sounders attendance to that of other soccer clubs around the world and also places them in the context of Major League Baseball.

Granted, the Mariners have played 43 home games to the Sounders 15, and therefore the statistic doesn’t mean much, but still it is a very impressive number and really puts a stamp on the top-tier professional status of the club.

How Does Seattle Attendance Stack Up?

Sad, Sad, news for the byrner community.  Monday, Roxy got into an accident.  She took a ride on a flatbed to a clinic that will run checks on her and see if she is revivable.     

First the knee, then Roxy.  If things come in three’s than what’s next?

Technology is cool.  Nowhere is this more prevalent than in medical imaging.  I’ve been dealing with knee pain for a while and finally got it checked out.  I received a MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and was amazed by the technology.  25min, listening to James Taylor and voila, a clear picture of what is inside my knee.  No knife required.  The images looked so clear even I was able to find the problem, I think.  I’m not a doctor.

An MRI takes images of “slices” as it moves deeper through the knee.  These images are of the same knee going deeper and deeper, one “slice” at a time.

The first image has the miniscus looking okay, in the above image there appears to be the beginning of the tear.

This image clearly shows a problem (in my non-medical opinion).  We’ll see what the Doc says, but either way imaging is cool.

Completely stolen from Innocent Bystanders: http://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/how-to-protest-obamas-stimulus-plan-ii/

But stealing cool ideas is the way I roll.