It’s been almost a year since I upgraded Wordpress’ back-end.  I haven’t modified my custom theme since my blog uses the same theme as the rest of my site.  I’ll probably make a new theme this summer.

In the coming week I’ll do some short reviews of my recently-viewed Netflix movies.  Over the last few months I’ve seen 19 movies on DVD.  Some were repeats, some were inspired by Oscar nominations and some were older movies I found through Netflix’s suggestion service.

The fantasy baseball season began last week with a live draft through Yahoo’s Fantasy Sports site.  I think I ended up with a pretty solid team.  I consciously took some risks with younger players (James Shields, Evan Longoria, Jeff Francoeur) that have well-projected upsides combined with veteran keepers (Magglio Ordonez, Derrek Lee, Carlos Beltran).  I’ve also done a lot more research/fun reading over the past year on baseball statistics.  That includes reading some baseball analysis blogs: FJM, McCovey Chronicles and Sabernomics, reading Baseball Prospectus (subscriber for 1 year) and listening to ESPN podcasts.  I even did some analysis of the fantasy league I’m in with Helpdeskers using Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA statistics.  My pre-season team looks to be middle of the pack and Mahrens is my first week opponent.  My PECOTA analysis projects me to win 9-1, but you know statistics, “throw ‘em out the window” paraphrasing Joe Morgan.

I have a lot of catching up to do readers (passive post recipients).

I’ve been doing a lot more blog reading since Google Reader came into being. I definitely read more since I’ve been in college, is that wrong? Blog posts are hardly as well thought out as novels, or even short stories, but my attention span is short, hence my love of short stories, articles, blogs and foreign-language films.

Blogs I’ve been reading more since Google Reader:

Fire Joe Morgan: I first heard of this site about 2 years ago, but I only took a fleeting interest in it. Now that I consistently watch Sunday Night baseball with Joe Morgan and Jon Miller, I have a new appreciation for Ken Tremendous’ posts.

The Dilbert Blog: Scott Adams’ Dilbert comic has been my favorite comic for a long time. I’ve never felt a true understanding of the “truth” of Dilbert-like scenarios, even know that I work in an office. That’s definitely a credit to Adams’ humor and that’s why I read his personal ramblings at the Dilbert Blog. Topics include global warming, Iraq, your optimal age, happiness formulas, etc.

Dead Air Space: Radiohead’s new album is being mixed as we speak and you can keep track of all the studio details via this blog. DAS is the official Radiohead blog for LP7 and is usually updated twice a week. Nigel Godrich just posted a sample of the new album’s songs in mashup, mix format. Any reader of dsjoo knows that Radiohead is my favorite band, followed closely by Arcade Fire.

The concert:

Over Memorial Day weekend I went to the Arcade Fire concert in downtown Portland. My third time seeing Arcade Fire was on that Sunday night at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. The concert hall was great and the opening act was pretty good too, Electrelane. The acoustics, the lighting, the stage and, not the least of all, the performance. The set mostly came from Neon Bible, but there were plenty of Funeral holdovers.

I’ll continue to update you all my super interesting life during the week.