As I was mentioning to Keith this morning after I got up, I’m at about 90% “ready to dominate the world” stage. I feel fully recovered from the stupid cold that’s been bugging me, my throat feels fine and toke-ready, and I finally shaved. The only thing that’s nagging me is this pain I have in my upper back that the gods of irony must have given me for finally relenting and getting a body massage last week in Beijing. Other than that, the 90% was enough to get me pumped up last night about coming to work, and this morning I woke up before dawn just to make sure that I could ride Julie to the shuttle stop and make it on time without being drenched in another virus-inducing flop-sweat. Instead of calling for a cab, this would allow me to ride to the gym after work and start me on the path of dropping the flab and being the next Chinese pop idol.

Funnily enough, everything went according to plan, and here I am at the office refreshed and ready to be productive…but not actually productive. Well, that’s if you consider reading non work-related drivel to be unproductive. A few things I’ve come across today that are worth a read, on this, the day after the worst Super Bowl I’ve ever watched.

- ESPN’s Sports Guy has a hilarious running-diary of the game. I’m a big fan of the Sports Guy, and this piece has got to be one of the funniest things he has ever written. Example:

9:32 — Tafoya tells us that Randle El warned her this week that the Steelers would try that reverse pass play. That’s right, Michelle Tafoya just became the first woman in the history of mankind to successfully keep a secret. I’m just glad we were here to see it.
Slightly un-PC, not really related to sports in any way…classic Sports Guy stuff, though I’m sure all you true devotees have probably read this already and don’t need me to point the way.
- We drink nothing here in China but bottled water; never really thought about how potentially crappy that was until I came across this piece from Oneworld. Would it be better if everyone in the world just started to drink beer instead?
- Justin Timberlake makes his second appearance on Sushipanda by projecting “doltish asswipe” with this, from his new movie “Alpha Dog,” in which he plays a drug-dealer. I’ve watched the Justin Timberlake episode of “Before They Were Stars” on VH-1 several times, and after seeing little Justin on Star Search in his little white cowboy uni, the only drugs I can imagine him dealing would be of the Flintstone vitamin variety. I guess it’s kinda fitting that he’s so hard-core into ice-skating to have it tattooed onto his arm.