After the most interesting off-season in Vikings history, training camp in Mankato, the O.J.-esque coverage of Favre driving to Winter Park (with Chili acting as Al Cowlings no less), and 4 preseason games… the regular season for the 2009 Minnesota Vikings starts this Sunday.

Expectations in Minnesota are as high as they’ve been in 10 years. I’m already waiting for Will Smith’s “Miami” to start playing on KFAN. However our optimism isn’t shared by the “geniuses” over at ESPN. Their Power Rankings have the Vikings at number 9. Which is surely higher than they would have been without Favre, but only number 9?
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Today is the traditional day for classes to begin at schools around the country. One of my favorite days of the year now that I am no longer attending school. Sixteen years ago (gasp!) I started my freshman year of college. I had never had an email address before arriving on campus, and I had never surfed the internet.

Freshman starting college this year not only have email and the internet, there is a whole other host of things that make them unique. I found a site today from Beloit College called the Beloit College Mindset List.
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Those of you who know me, know that I’m a big fan of movie director Christopher Nolan. The Prestige is one of the first two or three movies that come to mind when people ask me What’s your favorite movie?, and both Memento and even The Dark Knight would come close to placing Top 10. So the fact that Nolan is now working on a new sci-fi mind bender of a movie is big big news to me. Read on past the break for the first trailer.
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Granted, you’re not all Apple fanboys like me, but you might have noticed that they shipped their latest operating system (10.6, aka ‘Snow Leopard’) on Friday. Naturally, I’ve been running it on a non-essential system (my work laptop, ha) since then. I’ll post a little nutshell review below the link, but for those of you unafraid of a completely insane amount of detail that delves deep into the realm of nerdery, click away on what’s always the gold-standard review: Ars Technica’s.

The Ars Snow Leopard Review.

Now for the much less involved review – mine. Oddly enough it’s web browsing that’s buggy – had a few crashes so far, but I expect that will be cleared up with a point (or app) upgrade sooner than later, and everything else is as zippy as advertised. And of course the big win – Exchange support – so I can tie in Mail/Calendar with all my other mail and calendars. It’s very nice.