While Lebron was announcing his decision to go to Miami, Dan Gilbert, the Cavs owner, was busy drafting a caps lock, quote mark, riddled diatribe against the man whose butt he had been kissing right up until 8:21 CDT yesterday.  It is true insanity.  Read for yourself, but I personally am having a hard time figuring out what was the most ludicrous part of the letter?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5365704

a.  The part where he announces that Cleveland will win a title before Lebron (notice that he insinuates that Lebron will eventually when one by his wording)

b. The part where he refers to a Christian tenet that has taught him that you must die in order to go to heaven (what the hell does this even have to do with anything?  Does he want Lebron to die?  Does he want him to go to hell?  Does he think Lebron is going to hell when he dies?  I’m baffled…)

c. The part where he describes the assortment of bad karmic, widju board inspired black magic that he has cast upon Lebron for leaving.

I can’t even believe this was real.  In fact, my first thought was, “man… who found Dan Gilbert’s computer unlocked, opened Outlook, and went to town?”

Perhaps the most shocking fact of all this, is that this same man somehow acquired enough wealth to purchase a professional sports franchise?!?  How?!?  It is impossible that this mystic garbage he touts ever led to good decision making in business.  It must have been some sort of inheritance/nepotism.

Hey Dan, it’s OK to be disappointed.  We’ve all been there- just be honest and say so instead of acting like a religious three year old.  If  I was a Cavs fan I would indeed be livid… @ Dan Gilbert.  Y’all really think any free agents are interested in going there lest they get a better offer down the road an be subjected to the “Insane Dan” treatment?  You should all boycott lest the Cavs become the official team of CrazyTown.

Edit: OK, so according to Wikipedia, the Quicken Loans label on the arena is because he owns the company.  Neat.  I’m never using TurboTax again.

Hard to believe that this is the heart of a once great American city.  Objectivists will surely understand my reference of similarities to Starnesville and the 20th Century Motor Company.  Are Detroit and GM the 21st century corollaries?  Is this a sign of things to come?

Ah yes, THC.com has returned. After a long hiatus of disinterest by yours truly, I intend to re-launch THC.com with personal wisdom and insights in my journey that is my life.  Historically, (when I utilized the blog), it conveyed items of humor, often satirical, which then later evolved into simply a platform for communicating to friends and family during periods of unique interest (or perhaps meteorological distress).  I would like for THC.com to continue to provide the occasional tongue in cheek, amusing item, but moreover, I would like this to be a rather frank and semi-personal journal of sorts. 2009 has without a doubt been the most educational of my life thus far. In an effort to bring clarity to myself, I would like to attempt to capture and verbalize what I perceive to have been a great deal of wisdom that can be applied toward acquiring and maintaining happiness in life.

Now for the technical details.  You will probably notice a new look and feel to the website, hopefully you will find it improved over the original incarnation.  I have a new provider with a much more appropriate cost model with a slew of server side support that will provide me with a sandbox for toying around with new dynamic web technologies.  I’ve upgraded the blog itself from an ancient MovableType version to WordPress which greatly enhances the accessibility and maintainability of the blog.  I hope to continue to launch features on this, my personal site, as a launch pad and test bed toward technologies that will be applied elsewhere. I thought about changing the domain name given that it is, uh, setting specific, and may not be appropriate as time goes on, but more on that as time progresses and certainly a topic for future posts.  I would like the accessibility of the site to be enhanced and tied to my various social networking platforms, but upgrading the layout of the site is on the back burner and something that I will delve into as time permits.  Suffice it to say, that the social networking links will at some point in the future actually go someplace meaningful, but for the time being are simply placeholders.

So as the end of the decade approaches (I like the term “noughts” for the 00’s, let’s start a trend), I am looking forward to new chapters all around, and THC.com is no different.  For those that are reading- old friends, new friends, and potentially future friends alike, I look forward to discussion and interaction that will hopefully be fruitful and beneficial to each one of us individually.

Now, without further ado…