12:55 AM
I just got an IM from Kevin S., believe it or not. He's not back, but was able to get online somewhere in Afghanistan. I only got to chat with him for about 5 minutes, but I gather that things have apparantly gone well over there and he's liking it so far.
Anyway, just really wanted to post this ASAP to tell everyone to keep him in your thoughts this weekend as he's apparantly going to be in a convoy to Kabul.
Friday, August 29, 2003
11:30 AM
Hey Matt S. just posted this gem of a post on the Tiger's Lair and I had to share it on this Eve of College football.
Finally!! College football is back! We can once again enjoy tailgating and the Sudler Trophy winning Golden Band from Tigerland. Saturday night in Death Valley. Chanting new phrases like "It's rollin', baby, it's rollin'" and classics like "War Chicken" and "Go to HELL Ole Miss, go to HELL"...
Wait--"Go to Hell Ole Miss". I just got to thinking: What am I really saying when I yell that? I wanted to find out, but there's a little rule against a living person being allowed to see Heaven or Hell. Then I remembered there's a precedent for making an exception. Several centuries ago, Dante Aligheri was permitted to tour the great beyond at the request of a girlfriend who was concerned about the fate of his soul. As a result, I was permitted to take a similar tour.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S INFERNO:
THE DIVINE COMEDY
Purgatory (10-12 West Junction)
The 10-12 Junction is a huge, nightmarish traffic jam. But don’t worry—this torment, awful as it is, is temporary. Soon those trapped in the morass of construction will enter Paradise, where the sun will set over a grand banquet of the finest foods and libations. After darkness falls, all of their enemies will be vanquished.
1. Nashville (Freeloaders)
Located along the edge of Hell, a place of sorrow without torment. Although they can enjoy decent food and weather and good music, those in Nashville are doomed to suffer constant defeat.
2. Starkvegas(Loud Obnoxious Cousin-Dating Yahoos)
Those trapped in Starkvegas are damned to wallow in darkness, filth, and mud, due to the absence of the three virtues of civilization (electricity, plumbing, and paved roads). They must constantly run from the ruling beast, a clown with a surgical knife. The upside is that because they endured a lifetime of losing on Earth, they are able to ring their cowbells.
3. Knoxville (Hypocrites and Gluttons)
Those who ratted on and condemned others for cheating--when they were cheaters themselves--are sentenced to spend eternity in a nauseating sea of road crew orange. Rocky Top is played incessantly, which residents would enjoy except it’s off-key. Krispy Kremes appear to float through the air in abundance, but they are simply cruel mirages. Knoxville shakes violently at all times, a new hellquake occurring each time ruling beast Phat Phil jumps at another Krispy Kreme illusion.
4. Athens (Mercenaries and Exploiters)
Those who betray the spirit of sports for money, as well as those who allow illiterate felons to masquerade as students, are doomed to spend eternity in Athens, where they choke often and suffer from a warped sense of time.
5. Gainesville and the River Pryx (Bandwagoners, Revisionists, Arrogant Jackasses)
A sharp drop-off leads into Gainesville. Those who insist that college football was invented in 1990, as well as those whose loyalties last only as long as winning, and those who have grossly inflated opinions of themselves or run up the score, are cast into the river. They are in over their heads and sinking slowly to the bottom. The few with their heads above water are repeatedly struck by flying visors.
6. Fayetteville (Felons)
The violent and the drug dealers are doomed to Fayetteville, a glorified prison facility. The smell of pig manure is overwhelming, and the damned are eternally tormented by the shrill, shrieking, delusional cries of underlord Crazy Nolan.
7. Oxford (Narcissists, Unreconstructed Confederates, Pretty Boys)
Those banished to Oxford are forced to endure a never-ending cycle of false hope followed by crushing disappointment. This level of Hell repeatedly appears to rise toward Paradise, only to melt down and crash back to its usual spot near the bottom of the pit when its latest savior is exposed as an overrated pretender.
8. Tuscaloser (Cheaters, Idolators, Philanderers)
The desolate abyss is just “down the road” from this concentric circle, which is trapped in absolute darkness by the shadow of a strange, mythical figure known as “THE BEAR”. The damned are tormented by the sound of the NCAA hammer falling, again and again and again and again…
9. The Plains (Traitors, Slanderers, Classless Thugs)
The home of the devil himself, a smarmy weasel with two faces, one smirking and one howling in outrage, His giant ears flap constantly, whipping up a tornado from which none can escape. The wind stirs up debris such as urine, whiskey bottles, footballs, and tubas, which pelt the damned with stinging force. The damned can hear nothing over the wind and cannot keep their eyes open due to its force. Thus, they fall into hallucination, and envision themselves being chewed and stomped by tigers.
Sunday, August 24, 2003
4:42 AM
OK time for my first (of hopefully weekly) Saturday/Sunday college football updates. Didn't get to see much of the two games today. K-State beat Cal and when I left San Jose State was beating Grambling only 10-0 at the half (I'm guessing SJSU won).
Anyway, not much to review, so onto games this week. First the SEC:
Alabama vs. USF: Poor, poor Bama. They've only had the summer practices to learn a whole new system and they start out with one of the up and coming teams in recent years. Bama may walk away with a victory, but it wouldn't suprise me to see USF beat Bama in Tuscaloosa. If a loss to USF is tough for Bama fans, they might want to stay home the week after when Oklahoma comes to town. That's not going to be pretty!
Arkansas vs. Tulsa: Arkansas should win this, even with a few first-game jitters.
Southern California @ Auburn: Auburn is over-rated, but I think they will win this one in a close game.
Florida vs. San Jose State: SJSU struggled against Grambling (in the first half at least). This was a nominee for Sean's Bitchslap Game of the Week.
UGA @ Clemson: Georgia's got problems. Injuries and academic inelligibilities are piling up. Besides having that against them, they'll be listening to the Clemson band playing Tiger Rag over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again until they start trying to jam things into their ears. Clemson wins this one.
Kentucky vs. Louisville: PIE! I don't think there will be anything to prematurely celebrate here. Louisville beats Kentucky and gets some momentum in its move to a new conference.
UL-Monroe @ LSU: Another candidate for Sean's Bitchslap Game of the Week. This is probably the biggest pushover game in the SEC Week 1. This was supposed to be someone else originally that pulled out (I'm not sure if Marshall was this game or the Western Illinois game, but both of those were last minute replacements). LSU wins. The score depends on how many drives Saban decides to get out of the first team.
Ole Miss @ Vandy: A conference game this early, wow. Anyway, I will pick Ole Miss to win this one, but Vandy always plays them close, I think. Eli's Heisman non-hype could come to a quick halt here, though.
Oregon @ MSU: I can't claim to know much about Oregon coming in this year besides their horrid uniforms. I do know what MSU was like last year, though. Oregon wins this one.
USL @ South Carolina: I will be extremely disappointed if Lou Holtz lets his team lose to USL.
Fresno State @ Tennessee: Fresno State's been decent, but they won't be good enough to win in Knoxville.
Now onto other games of interest:
Washington @ Ohio State: No prediction, but will be interesting to see what life without Maurice Clarette is like.
TCU @ Tulane: This was all the way at the bottom of the ESPN Schedule. That wasn't a slight of them or anything, they're there because they're playing this on a Monday night. Now I'm all for Monday night football when its Monday Night Football. What the hell is college football doing on TV on a MONDAY NIGHT? and at 7 PM on Labor Day, when people will be ready to get some sleep after a long weekend to work on Tuesday. That's a great way to get asses in the seats. TCU wins the game
North Texas @ Oklahoma: This came in second place in Sean's Bitchslap Game of the Week polling. OU wins big.
Now for what you've all been waiting for: Sean's Bitchslap Game of the Week!
This is awarded to the game that I think will most be one team slapping the other around for four quarters at will (of games I have some interest in, at least). The winner this week:
Miami @ Louisiana Tech: This will be in Shreveport (Miami and ESPN probably wanted to go nowhere near Ruston) as a nationally televised game on ESPN. Tech's had some good games against better opponents, but I don't see this being one of those games. Miami wins big.
Anyway, leave comments (and I'm sure something in here will piss all of you off!)
Friday, August 22, 2003
9:37 PM
Well what a week. One cmputer my computer died. It went to get worked on. The tech guy said it was the video card. We got it back to the office and it still didn't work. Then I got my boss's old computer. It died. I stayed till 11 working on our student worker's computer.
Thursday we got the boss's computer back up and it became my new one.
Today, we found out the hard drive was bad, which is funny because it worked when we took it out and put it in another computer on Wednesday.
Now with my harddrive dead, I've lost everything I've done so far. I was given the impression there was a backing up program they still needed to show me. Turns out there wasn;t, I was just supposed to copy and paste to the server.
I thought I'd have mroe to say about all this but I just don't.
I bought a collapsable grill for tailgating. I'm home in New Orleans dogsitting this weekend (my mom is off on the northshore for something) and plan to test it out tomorrow. Send me an e-mail or call my cell (225-505-6690) if you want to help me test it out.
You're Isaac Yankem DDS. Oxymoronically you're a dentist with bad teeth. You're ruthless, menacing, and you bring out most people's fear of going to the dentist's office. Most people don't even remember you at all, but those who do laugh every time they hear your name. These days, you're big bad blond mullet is gone, you wear a mask and people often refer to you as "The Big Red Machine"...or retard...
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
4:49 PM
And you were wondering why LSU laughs at Tulane so much...
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With or without tailgaters, grills will be at the dome
By The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS -- Both the Saints and Tulane have long bemoaned the fact that the Louisiana Superdome _ with its surroundings of concrete, multilevel parking garages and downtown office high-rises _ is not as conducive to pre-game tailgate parties as they would like.
So Tulane athletic officials, who have been working desperately to improve attendance for a program that was nearly eliminated last spring, have a new concept aimed at boosting tailgating.
The university is going to set up 25 grills on the roof level of one of the four parking garages attached to the dome. Access to the grills will cost $50 per party. The price includes a reserved party plot that includes tables and chairs. Fans will be expected to bring their own food and drink and no personal grills will be permitted.
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I can't believe Tulane is doing this. While their president complains about the big boys in college athletics having advantages over the little fish, big groups will have the advantage here. A group of 50 will be paying the same for use of a grill as a group of 3. Those big groups will obviously be better funded than the smaller groups. Someone should form a comission and get a petition signed!
This is a great move for the gameday experience at the dome, I guess, but what are they going to do with the 15 grills that don't get used?
Monday, August 11, 2003
6:34 PM
Stolen from Rhonda who stole from Amy and Emily:
Three Things That Scare Me
1. Never getting out of debt
2. Working myself to death
3. Four words: President Hillary Rodham Clinton
Three People Who Make Me Laugh
1. Will Ferrel
2. Everyone in Animal House
3. Tulane/USL/Ole Miss fans
Three Things I Love
1. Family
2. Friends
3. LSU
Three Things I Don't Like
1. Two-faced people
2. Waiting
3. Everyone else in the SEC
Three Things I Don't Understand
1. Women
2. Women
3. Women
Three Things On My Desk
1. Speakers
2. Checkbook
3. Change
Three Things I'm Doing Right Now
1. Updating my website
2. Glad the week from hell is over
3. Getting Hungry
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. Find someone I love
2. Be in the stands when LSU wins a national championship
3. Hold up a "Don't let the doorknob hit ya where the good lord split ya" sign as the Saints load up their equipment and move to San Antonio
Three Things I Can Do
1. Play fiddle/violin/viola
2. Appraise commercial properties (kind of)
3. Work 14 hour days
Three Things I Can't Do
1. Play piano
2. Call people up to do stuff
3. say "no" to work
Three Ways To Describe My Personality
1. Quiet
2. Caring
3. Intelligent
Three Things I Think You Should Listen To
1. Fox News
2. Whatever music I have on my site at the given time
3. Anything that's not Top 40 or Rap
Three Things I Don't Think You Should Listen To Ever
1. the ACLU
2. Left-wing Liberals
3. Richard Condon
Three Things I Say The Most
1. *sigh* OK
2. Ummmm
3. #$!@
Three Of My Absolute Favorite Foods
1. Pizza
2. Ice Cream
3. Subway
Three Things I'd Like To Learn
1. USPAP (so I can sign my appraisals)
2. Why?
3. how to play trumpet
Three Beverages I Drink Regularly
1. Water
2. Sprite
3. Kool Aid
Three Shows I Watched When I Was A Kid
1. Thundercats
2. Silverhawks
3. M.A.S.K.
I'm coming off a very hectic week that saw me putting out in a period from last Tueasdy till today what I was told I should be doing during a month on average.
I worked about 70 hours over this past week (not counting today) including about 25 hours AFTER 5 PM on Friday (worked a 13 hour day Friday, 14 on Sat, and 6 or 7 on Sunday)
The three reports that kept me so busy are all completed and sitting waiting to be printed and bound. Once the boss gets back to sign something for the last one, it'll be ready for me to sign in about 20 minutes and I will be out of here.
Thinking about going to Chimes or something tonight. Will call people whenever I get home or you can give me a call to see if I've figured things out yet.
The load is very much lighter now and my stress is gone (for now).
I know I've been a miserable SOB to some people recently and hope that the elimination of this stress helps me correct that.
I'm disapoointed too, but I never hung around the lakes enough to get run over by Joe Dean and I wasn't in BR in the dark days of Archer/Hallman, so no going to their restaurants for me. When I did get to BR, Dinardo was 4-7 and 3-8. If his food was anything like his coaching I'd have gotten ecoli bacteria or something.
I've been feeling very down lately, telling myself its been for various reasons. Then today it hit me about when I started feeling so down.
When I started on my diet.
I've been doing pretty well with it the last two weeks, lost a few pounds.
I think I was doing too well.
Got back to thinking about my PSYC 1001 class about how depression is caused by slowed synapses. Then I realized that synapses, like everything else, needs energy to fire, and energy comes from food going in the mouth.
So fixed that problem and am feeling better. No I don't have an eating disorder or anything, just realized I mis-calculated how much I should be eating daily. I'll adjust and move on, wiser. So maybe a few slices of pizza are what was needed tonight (after two weeks of mostly lettuce), but happy Sean's back for at least a little while tonight.
So say goodbye to the Crow Sting music and hello to the Golden Band from Tigerland. (BTW, I've moved the music to a "lower" place in the page code to allow for faster loading of the text of this page, the most important part of it, for me at least.)
Only 4 weeks till we have our way with UL-Monroe, throw them their money and start the season 1-0.
Friday, August 01, 2003
12:25 AM
I've decided to add music more appropriate for me lately.
"If we must take this war into their homes and burn them to the ground, we will do so."
-Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
President, Louisiana State University
