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DISCLAIMER: I JUST WROTE THIS ENTIRE POST BUT BECAUSE OF MY GOD-FORSAKEN PC AND MICROSOFT WORD THE FONT, SIZE, AND LINE BREAKS GOT RUINED. SO NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THIS. SORRY.

Hello everyone, its Super Bowl Sunday! Today is a national holiday and we should all enjoy it as so. The Super Bowl is the most widely viewed television event each year and produces billions of dollars in revenue. Gather around your television sets and have your mom make you some snacks to eat while you watch the game. Mom’s, by snacks I mean: chicken Wings, chips and queso dip, chicken fingers, taquitos, etc. After doing all of this, sit down and ask yourself one question: are you ready for some football? I visited CNN.com earlier today and saw one of the greatest headlines ever: Nightclub Dispute Leads to Elevator Shaft Death. The fight took place at BED New York, a club famous for providing beds for their lounging patrons. The club also has complimentary ‘lounging socks.’ Let me interject before continuing the story: this club sounds ridiculous. The people in this story were idiots for going to this club in the first place. Apparently the club was once featured on Sex and the City. Anyway, two guys were fighting and one guy shoved the other into a pair of elevators doors. Well when the guy hit the doors, they sprung open and the dude fell into the shaft! He fell four floors until he hit the top of the actual elevator. He was pronounced dead on the scene (actually I’m not sure if he was pronounced dead on the scene but it sounds more ominous that way). I hope this guy ends up on a “Stupidest People of 2007” list somewhere. In other news there is bad news for Dell employees. Newly reinstated CEO Michael Dell has made the decision to do away with bonuses for the 2006 fiscal year. After reports of profit-losses, decreased earnings, and eroding market shares Dell decided to take back the reins of the company. Dell had decided in early 2006 to step down from his CEO role while the company was at the height of power. Since then CEO Kevin Rollins led the company into recess. The company lost its no. 1 position in the industry to Hewlett-Packard. Besides decimating bonuses Dell is also planning to reduce the number of managers, push faster product development and will not hire a COO (Chief Operating Officer).  All of this is very interesting to me. All of the PC brands are scrambling while the industry is taken over by the outcast brand: Apple. Apple is revolutionizing the way the current generation thinks, acts, and lives. Their products are using state-of-the-art technology and they are unparalleled in efficiency, usefulness, and popularity. Apple is building an empire of products that are connected and use the same interface. Let’s use the iPod as an example. The iPod is perhaps the greatest ambassador for the Apple brand. It rules the mp3 market, but more importantly both Mac and PC users can use its software: iTunes. Itunes, a free Apple.com download, came along in the aftermath of the failed Napster empire. People said that there would be no market for an online music store. They were wrong. ITunes Store has now sold over 1 Billion digital tracks.  iTunes has given PC users a dose of Apple’s trademark “ease-of-use.” The PC user that is frustrated with their crashing, slow computers can’t ignore the iBook and iMac (the laptop and desktop computers offered by Apple). These computers use the same interface as the iTunes software and also come standard with larger hard drives to support the files purchased from the iTunes Store. The current PC and iTunes user is forced to use an external hard drive to hold all of his media files. You see Apple shrewdly sent the iTunes software to the PC users as a daily advertisement for the Apple brand. ITunes and the iPod has infiltrated our minds and subconsciously converted us to Mac users! We PC users have been taught all of our lives that Apple was evil, but why? Why is something that is faster, better, and easier to use wrong? I don’t know the answers to these questions. However, I do know that my next computer will be a Mac.  All right, enough of that techno-babble. As I mentioned earlier, today is Super Bowl Sunday. And that means that today is the last day of the playoffs. Besides the Leon commercials, I am also a big fan of the NFL Playoff commercials. They did a series a couple of years ago featuring Don Cheadle, and they were simply amazing. Today I am starting another series entitled: “The Playoffs.” This will be in each of my future posts, including the Leon series and the Road Trip Journals.All right: get on the edge of your seats for today’s installment of “The Playoffs” entitled: Impossible. You know what impossible means? Don’t even try it. Impossible can’t happen. Impossible says: “What are you, crazy? That’s impossible.” But not anymore, not since the playoffs. Now impossible is just a starting point. Impossible is a negotiation. Impossible means: Tom Brady, a second string quarterback drafted in the sixth round can catapault millions into euphoria. That’s the magnitude of the playoffs. They’ve changed the English language. They’ve made impossible, possible. All right. Now it is time for part two of our Leon series. This one is short and sweet. It’s Leon’s catch phrase: “I ain’t playin, unless someone’s payin.”  That’s all for today everyone. I hope you enjoyed it. Stay tuned.