August 2010
1 post
Counting down the days
Football season is almost here and I’m moving back to Tuscaloosa. Fall camp starts on Wednesday. I move into my new apartment on Saturday. Sounds great, right? The only problem is that I almost feel like a bad luck charm for the Alabama football program. My four years in college were an overall disappointment. Of course, it has more to do with Shula’s ineptitude than my presence in the...
July 2010
1 post
Coyote Tracks: The Emperor's New Antenna →
So I’ve been thinking about “Antennagate.” First thought: stop fucking calling every scandal “-gate,” for Christ’s sake. Next thought: so what’s the scoop here? Biggest problem in the history of all of mobile phones, or minor issue blown way out of proportion by the tech media? Neither, of…
June 2010
4 posts
Shit My Kid Ruined →
Marketed as “the strongest visual birth control.” I agree.
Some people are addicted to sex or drugs
I’m addicted to buying Apple gadgets and supporting accessories. For example, my newest desire is the updated Mac Mini to go with my new HDTV monitor. Sure hooking my old trusty Macbook up to the display is more than adequate but it doesn’t have such a small footprint. I need it like a sinner needs Jesus.
Also, I think that if Ikea’s online store actually shipped to home 90% of...
nikf.org: On this Safari 5 Reader Hysteria →
There’s a tonne of posts today about the slick new Safari Reader feature I linked to yesterday. As someone who enjoys reading decent content online, I totally welcome it. I’ve used readability / Instapaper bookmarklets for some time - both on my Mac and iPhone - and, if I’m honest, I’m surprised…
April 2010
3 posts
Teabonics →
March 2010
1 post
David Foster Wallace on Life and Work →
Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much...
January 2010
8 posts
We've seen the future but not quite
Yesterday Apple introduced their newest creation the iPad. Admittedly I was underwhelmed at first and the general response from many people on the internet seems to be the same. When you watched Steve Jobs demo the iPhone for the first time in January 2007, you were wowed. On that day there was no mention of an open software development kit for developers, some key features like multimedia...
Realism in UI Design →
Interesting concept about how the mind works through design.
Defining Alabama's season
In the days and weeks following a championship, all fans try to find the context or meaning of the season. On the surface it is simple: Alabama, 2009 College Football National Champions. It’s never that simple though. We like to ponder the questions like “was this the greatest season in school history” or “where does this team ranks amongst the other great teams” or...
The fall of Troy
Seemingly lost in the national title game and the start of the NFL playoffs is perhaps one of the biggest “landscape changing” moments of the new decade. In a little over a two day period both Joe McKnight then his head coach, Pete Carroll, have decided to jump to the pros. Joe McKnight is replaceable considering Southern California’s abundance of riches at tailback and across...
Getting down to brass tacks on McCoy
The popular cry from Longhorn and Auburn fans alike is that Texas would have won if McCoy hadn’t been injured on their first possession. Having your star quarterback go down for the game during a national championship is undeniably the last thing any team wants to happen. It’s also undeniable that things were adjusted in the Longhorn’s gameplan after the injury.
Still, to say...
Ricky Stanzi, Winning QB and Great American →
This is not a surprise, all men named Ricky are great Americans and love freedom.
The 00's were a pretty terrible decade
This was the decade where I became a teen and grew into an adult, it also happened to be one of the worst decades in a long while. Let’s review (kinda just “STREAM OF CONSCIOUS OMG” so bear with me) :
The decade opens with the GOP stealing an election which resulted in the worst President of the United States since the 1850s. America is so dumb that they actually elected...
lol facebook
I remember when I first joined thefacebook.com, it was so selective that my hometown community college buddies couldn’t even join. The site was so limited that you had nothing but your interests, hobbies, a short about me, a picture, your college courses, and one big wall o’ text for buddies to leave messages.
The feature bloat of facebook has slowly but surely turned me off to the...
December 2009
6 posts
lol christmas
that is all.
Potential Pet Names
If I had a dog I think I’d name him Karl Barx. If I had another cat I think I’d name him Chairman Meow. That is all.
Intimidating woman with MD 20/20 demands 3-some →
Oh. god. no.
The best reviews of sci-fi movies ever →
I’m like Sinead O’Connor and you’re a picture of the Pope, prepare to get torn up.
Start with the Phantom Menace review. I’ve always wondered what alien abducted George Lucas and got the bright idea of making 3 shitty prequels.
Gator stomp
Well that turned out like few expected. Most Alabama fans were confident. I’d say all Florida fans felt like they would win. The general consensus amongst the media was that this game was going to be decided in the fourth quarter with Florida having the slight edge because of Tebow’s “clutchness”. I don’t think anyone was calling a blowout except for those who always...
the wayback machine: welcome to November 20, 2004
The Crimson Tide just took our biggest rival’s “best team ever” to the wire in a 21-13 defeat. There are no such thing as moral victories but Coach Mike Shula served notice today that the Tide is rising. We were down to our 3rd string quaterback, 2nd string fullback, and 4th string tailback yet had a halftime lead against a squad that could finish the season undefeated with a...
November 2009
7 posts
A battle of wills
Probably one of Coach Saban’s most quotable press conference statements this season came in the aftermath of the win over Auburn: “Only the strong survive but the strong still get their ass whipped.” For 49 minutes and 13 seconds Auburn whipped Alabama. They had a 21-20 lead with the ball at the Alabama 44 to start a drive. Then things changed. The Alabama defense shifted the...
An Iron fist, velvet glove
The Iron Bowl has changed a lot in my lifetime. In fact, you could say that the Iron Bowl isn’t even the Iron Bowl anymore since it is not played in Birmingham, a city known for it’s roots in the iron and steel industry. That changed in 1989 when Auburn hosted the first Alabama-Auburn game in Auburn, Alabama.
I’ve always liked the idea of neutral field rivalries like the old...
PETA: Georgia's next Uga should be a robot →
I love me some PETA. They’re occasionally good for a laugh. Needless to say, each Uga is likely the most humanely treated bulldog on the face of the earth. So I don’t know where they’re coming from honestly. Obviously, the world that PETA envisions is one where little chocolate labs and little humans can grow up side by side and be given equal opportunity in education, housing,...
On a distant moon or a silver screen
Currently, I’m downloading Moon which I’ve heard is a pretty interesting flick. I guess I’ll find out soon. Between District 9, Inglorious Basterds, and Star Trek, I believe that Star Trek is my personal favorite so far from this month. Inglorious Basterds is a typical Tarantino film: a healthy heaping of gratuitous violence and cool music with quotable dialogue in between....
yarg yarg yarg football
For the state of Alabama, this is the most boring week of the college football season. Alabama is playing Tennessee-Chattanooga who they should beat by [pick any number] and Auburn is on bye week. So far, Auburn is losing the bye week with a lawsuit being announced against a member of the SWAG team at Auburn, Eric Smith. The only way Alabama can lose anything this week is if a key player gets...
Picking football games with haiku →
Vandy has nearly Perfect scoring strategy If football were golf.
going blog
No, not nearly as interesting of a title as, say, a Sarah Palin biography…but it’s how I’ll start this whole thing. Also, doesn’t it figure that the people who bought Palin’s book off Amazon also purchased books by Glenn Beck (crazy white guy conservative voice) and Michelle Malkin (crazy but hot minority conservative voice…Alan Keyes just wasn’t cutting...