Some lists

5 Living People I would most like to meet
• Bill Watterson
• J. D. Salinger
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Bill Belicek
• Bill Clinton

Runners-Up
Darby Conley
Sacha Baron-Cohen

5 Deceased people I would most like to meet
• Edward Hardy (my grandfather)
• Jesus Christ
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Albert Einstein
• Buddha

Runners-Up
Mohammed
Dwight Eisenhower

Person I would most like to play a game of fooseball against:
Living: Steve Nash
Deceased: Ted Williams
Runners-up: Willie Mays, Teddy Roosevelt, Brad Pitt

Person I'd most like to watch a game with:
Living: Tom Brady
Deceased: Jackie Robinson
Runners-up: Bill Simmons, Matt Damon, Yogi Berra

Person I'd most like to cross-examine:
Living: Jerry Falwell
Deceased: Pope Urban VII
Runners-up: Joe McCarthy, Bill O'Reilly, Joseph Smith

Person I'd most like to buy a beer:
Living: John Cleese
Deceased: Charles Darwin
Runners-up: Douglas Adams, Oscar Wilde, Gary Trudeau

Person I'd most like to ask a single question:
Living: Barack Obama (What are you willing to ask of the country and world to deal with climate change?)
Deceased: William Shakespeare (Did you really write it all?)
Runners-up: Amerlia Earhart (How'd you disappear?), Karl Marx (Knowing what you do now, how would your philosophy have changed?), John McCain (If you really believe that more bombing would have won Vietnam, do you believe that we could have killed enough Viet Cong to stabilize the country and that a military engagement with Russia was a viable strategy?)

Person I'd appoint King of the World:
Living: Nelson Mandela
Deceased: Thomas Jefferson
Runners-up: Mahatma Ghandi, Abe Lincoln, Al Gore

Person whose brain I'd most like to pick:
Living: Richard Dawkins
Deceased: Isaac Newton
Runners-up: Guy Pierce, Jason Varitek, Herman Melville, James Joyce

Person I'd choose as my chief of staff
Living: John Stewart
Deceased: Bobby Kennedy
Runners-up: Theo Epstein, Bill Maher, Catullus

Fictional character I'd most like to meet
Andy Dufrane
Runners-up: Rob Wilco, Yossarian, Tyler Durden

Note: after completing these lists, I realized that there are an inordinate ammount of "William"s on this list:
7 total Williams, not counting Willie Mays. 6 go by "Bill", however...

Why Dilbert creator Scott Adams might enjoy this blog

There is one major reason Scott Adams, creator of the syndicated comic strip "Dilbert", would probably like this blog: it now mentions him by name. Just a few weeks ago, this might have been an irrelevant point: there is no way Adams would ever have come acros the blog, and if he had, he certainly would not have continued to read it long enough to spot this post (unless, of course, he's a closet ultimate frisbee/fantasy sports junkee). However, all this has changed in the last week.

What's Changed
What has changed, as Adams recently chortled on his blog, is that Google has released a feature called Google Alerts. This program can be set to scan for specified words, and upon finding a new example, it will alert the customer. In Adams' case, every time a blog mentions "Scott Adams", and "Dilbert", a alert is sent to his Blackberry (I join you in thinking that's pretty neat, Scott).

So finally the perfect union of narcissists has been realized. Its constituents:
-Adams, who wants the selfish pleasure of seeing his name in print,
and,
-The blogger, even more desperate to be read.

So I hope you got a kick out of this little meeting, Scott. I know I did. If you're really interested, you can read on a little and find out how to name a fantasy team or test yourself to see if you're a liberal or a conservative. However, I have to be honest with you: your name will not appear again, so you would probably be better off clicking your Blackberry over to the next blogger craving famous eyes. It's sad to see you go, but I know it would be selfish to hoard you to myself while there are other narcissists out there. Take care Scott, and know that it was good for me, too.