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What I am listening to as I type this: Audioslave - Like A Stone
Most Recent DVD Burned: Teen Wolf

February 28, 2006

Finally that cold spree is over and we're back in the 70's. Ahhhhhhhh.

That was a fast month, wow. I've been sitting here thinking of my finances and I think I've got it figured out. I'm going to be broke until mid-June, after that, I'll be in incredible shape. But when I say broke, I mean broke. My check I got today is already gone, and my check I'll get on March 15 is already gone (Along with April 15 and April 30 and May 15), and I don't mean "room for a nice dinner" here or an "end-of-the-year sale pair of snowboard pants" there ... I mean gone. I really can't complain, though. So far in 2006, I've taken trips to Minneapolis, Aspen, a bachelor party weekend in Breckenridge, I have 2 weeks off in March and am going to Disney World with Jessica (then I have a work conference in Orlando, so that counts for 1 of the 2 weeks off), and I'm going to Vegas in late April as there was somehow room for me to squeeze into that. On top of this, I've gone snowboarding 8 times in 2006 (mind you I had a broken fibula, or that number would be doubled) so far with many more days planned, and I'm buying a Denon AVR-3806 receiver in May. So it's not like I'm living broke, it's just that I'm spending too much f**king money enjoying my life! Point of all this: I'm flat-broke right now. Period. Guess I'll just have to win big in Vegas, right?

Last night was a good one, went to the gym forever. Ran 5K last night, rode the bike for 25 minutes, then got about 6 lifts in. Pretty decent workout. Went grocery shopping, had to stock up on my Arizona Diet Green Tea (Ginseng fortified) 42oz's that were on sale for $1 this week. Got home, ate a bag of chips & salsa (that's why I can't get back in shape, chips & salsa are my weakness), talked to Jessie for awhile, watched some SNL, and went to bed. Tonight I will go run another 5K and use the elliptical for 1/2 hour, then it's over to Jessie's place.

Do you like what I replaced my "current addiction" above with? It's now "Most Recent DVD Burned" ... I figure you can all get a kick out of the garbage I seem to burn. I mean seriously, just look at my Blockbuster Online list of movies I've had them mail me since mid-January:

Teen Wolf/Teen Wolf Too (2002)     (yes, they put both movies on the same dvd. At least "Too" has Arrested Development's own Jason Baetman in it)
Point Break (1991)     (I hate Keanu Reeves, but for some reason I like this movie)
Pink Floyd: The Wall [Special Edition] (1982)     (I can't be embarassed for this one, but I don't do drugs, so I'm shocked I enjoy this)
Toy (1982)     (I remember watching this one when I was very little, and I remember Richard Pryor on the Wonder Wheel - haven't watched this since I was 7 or so)
WWE Vol. 2 Wrestlemania 7 (2005)     (I've already talked about this thing's awesome-ness)
Police Academy 3 (1986)     (No clue why I burned this)
Boyz 'N the Hood [Anniversary Edition] (1991)     (No clue why I burned this)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)     (Ok, again, this one is justified. Austrialian people living on an island while being attacked by pirates. And they catch tigers. Kickass)
Rain Man [Special Edition] (1988)     (I have a huge crush on Tom Cruie's gf in this movie, it's the same chick from Hot Shots)
Police Academy 4 (1987)     (I didn't catch that, was that "The Dim Shoe Da Snare Off?)
Pete's Dragon [Gold Collection] (1977)     (wow, I'm baffled.)
Resident Evil (2002)     (never seen it)
Goodfellas [Special Edition] (1990)   (wonderful movie)
Menace II Society (1993)     (too $hort is in it, so it's cool ... "I GOT THESE CHEESEBURGERS, MAN!")
Lonely Guy (1984)     (i remember this being kinda funny, no reason why i got this, i'll never watch it)
Mars Attacks! (1996)     (terrible, terrible movie that i will never watch)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)     (i think Sienna Guillory is way hot)
Brewster's Millions [WS] (1985) (i'll never watch this)
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) (proud of this one, this movie rules)
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)     (one of the worst movies EVER made, I'll watch it 300 times in the next 3 years)
Too $hort: Born to Mack - Most Dangerous Videos     (dumbest thing I've seen in my entire life, but Too $hort rules)
Jerk [26th Anniversary Edition] (1979)     (here's my astronaut application form)
Fugitive (1993)   (solid movie)

And you don't even want to see the movies that are on their way. Maybe someday soon I'll post my excel file of my 400+ DVD's I have burned. It's insane. I have 2 coupons to go to Blockbuster store with, I think those'll be used to get A Clockwork Orange and New Jack City. Yeah, those sound like good choices.

Ok, back to work. Have a good one, toodaloo. Pretend like I didn't just say "toodaloo".

What I am listening to as I type this: Trapt - Stand Up
What I am currently addicted to: trying to find money

February 24, 2006

On Billy Madison when Ms. Vaughn is at his house, she picks up some book (I don't remember which one) and says that it still might be above his reading level. Billy responds by saying, "I can understand 9 words in that book now." This is how I feel with Oracle DBA magazine. I've been getting it for a couple years, and after all this recent stuff at work, I'm up to the point where I can at least understand some of it. Amazing!!

Fast week, glad the weekend is here! Agenda for the weekend = Jessica and snowboarding.

I lost one of my $80 gloves last weekend ... some Burton Gore-Tex beasts of gloves I splured on last pre-season. So last night I went to buy some new ones, expecting to pay $70-80 ... Gart's, however, was having a sale. All snowboarding gera is 30% off. I found a pair of Burton Gore-Tex gloves literally hidden, I think someone hid them and was coming back to get them. They were $75 marked down to $65 marked down to $50 and then 30% off that ... so basically, I got a pair of $75 gloves for $35. Only pair they had left, and they were mediums, luckily I have small hands. I am now happy.

I get so many damn magazines since I discovered the low prices of them on ebay a few years back, and every once in awhile it does me good. In this case, the good was a easy and fast recipe I've used for my dinner all week, and will have for lunch today. I will share this recipe with you.

Brown 1/2lb of extra-lean hamburger ... add tabasco, chili powder, and black pepper while browning. Put lettuce, 1 chopped tomato, 2tbsp of shredded cheese, and the hamburger in a bowl. Mix. Top with salsa.

Yummy. Healthy. Yummy. I wish it was lunch time.

I don't know what's up with google, I have robots.txt and the meta tags included on pages EXACTLY like they tell me to and it still picks my stuff up, and I know they've re-crawled the site. Never used to have this problem and am stumped with what to do with it. it's working for every other browser, so I'm blaming it on google. But I'm much more concerned with my TNS listener Oracle error I'm dealing with, so I'm going to go work on that right now.

Have a good weekend. Oh, in case you missed the announcement yesterday, new pictures are up.

What I am listening to as I type this: Janet Jackson - Black Cat
What I am currently addicted to: trying to find money

February 23, 2006

Was very busy and out of it yesterday, forgot to wish my brother a happy birthday, so, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRENT!! (to my credit, I called him last night ... voice mail, but it's not like I forgot!)

I finally put up pictures from the Super Bowl and from the Ski trip weekend in Breckenridge. I realized after looking at my pictures that I'm getting really bad at taking pictures. I only got pictures of about 1/2 of the people on the trip! If anyone has any good pictures, email them to me and I'll post them.

Last night a thought came to me as I was lying in my Queen size bed. Why do I sleep 1/2 an inch from the edge of it and never use about 60% of the bed? It baffles me, if I even try to sleep in the middle of this bed, I'm highly uncomfortable. Guess I need to sleep next to my water bottle/alarm clock/gun, eh?

Now let's talk TV for a quick minute. I'm still stewing about Arrested Development being cancelled. This morning only heightened my disgust for this fact. On Opie & Anthony they were playing scenes from various "comedy" shows on TV these days and trying to analyze how they could possibly be considered humorous. They were dealing with that Freddy Prinze show this morning, but it got me to thinking - wow, how easily-amused are you people? Can you not grasp the witty and intelligent humor in Arrested Development (which won, by the way, the Emmy for best comedy)? Are you too busy watching stellar shows such as:

House, M.D.
Stacked
Bones
The War At Home
American Idol
Free Ride
Skating With Celebrities

Holy fucking shit people, the world just let the funniest show since Seinfeld go away for 1 reason ... you don't have someone telling you it's funny!! (or in the case of House, wow - "It's hilarious! He's so outrageous and sarcastic, yet he's so smart he always figures it out! I just love how he makes fun of people and they doubt him even though he's eventually right! House rules" ... blah, fuck off, that show is ridiculous. period.) You have laugh tracks in the "comedy" shows. You have judges telling you who is good and who isn't on other shows. Why wouldn't people just take a chance and watch a show that they can judge for themselves and find out how completely hysterical it is?! I am pissed off at every single one of you who didn't regularly watch A.D. Ok, that's not true - if you never watch TV, fine. But if you ever bitch about nothing funny being on TV and you didn't even attempt at watching Arrested Development before it was cancelled, just shut up. I will give American Idol one credit for coolness ... they produced William Hung, who is an idiot, but that resulted in the "Hung Jury" band for the "Judge Reinhold" show on A.D., which had me in tears, literally. I haven't laughed that hard since the first time I saw Anchorman.

What I am listening to as I type this: John Fogerty - Searchlight
What I am currently addicted to: trying to find money

February 22, 2006

Very busy, I have pictures from Super Bowl and Ski Trip that really need to go up, give me time.

We're giving control of our ports to the UAE, so a bunch of Arabs in Abu Dhabi can be in control of them. Yes, you should re-read that sentence. Congress (led by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (both Republicans ... they even disagree on this one)) is trying to block Bush from doing this, but Bush said he'd veto anything they give to him. Bush hasn't vetoed ANYTHING (literally) since he started his presidency 5+ years ago!! So the first thing he picks to veto will be something that prevents Arabs from taking control of U.S. ports. What?! Would the U.S. have put Emperor Hirohito in charge of Pearl Harbor after WWII was over? Can't say this surprises me in the least. The countdown continues at 1062 days.

And for the simple fact that I want it in writing so I can prove myself in a few years:
Reggie Bush won't do shit in the NFL
Vince Young will be like Mike Vick - not dominant, but a solid player
All teams will STRONGLY regret not drafting Lendale White as the first overall pick in the draft.

What I am listening to as I type this: Opie & Anthony
What I am currently addicted to: burning dvds

February 17, 2006

To clear up any and all misconceptions over my thoughts on Valentine's Day as many of you misinterpreted me, let me phrase it this way:
when I wrote “Thank God Jess is in CO Springs so we don’t have to celebrate Valentine’s Day” … what it meant to me is, “Thank God I don’t have to go further in debt to celebrate this dumb holiday as my loving girlfriend realizes her gifts from me are vacations in which I will make her dreams come true and she doesn’t require a stupid “holiday” to make her feel special.”

I express myself differently.

Went down to the Wynkoop last night as Nic was in town, good times all around. Up bright and early this morning as I delivered breakfast in bed to Jessica ... kinda ... picked up some McDonalds and some Peaberry Coffee for her and brought it to her door ... close enough to "breakfast in bed", right?

Leaving today sometime as soon as the caravan gets in town, will be in Breckenridge until Monday morning, hoping for excellent times.

What's on my mind today? The "reply to all" email and Verizon radio commercials. I will discuss both ...

I used to be the king of the "reply to all" email, whenever I'd get a forward I really enjoyed, I felt the need to reply-to-all so everyone could know I enjoyed the forward, or I would attempt at being witty for some reason. I can't believe I was that damn stupid. I can't stand it when people reply-to-all from a forward. Don't get me wrong, when everyone does a reply-to-all when organizing a trip (such as Vegas and Breckenridge situations), that's fine as we're making jokes and plans. But when someone sends a forwarded joke that everyone in the world has seen 8 times, I hate it when someone replies to all to tell me their opinion of it. I dunno, just annoying. ALMOST as annoying as when somebody sends an email to me to 2 or more of my email accounts, that bugs the living shit out of me. I WILL GET THE EMAIL!! JUST PICK ONE EMAIL ADDRESS AND SEND IT THERE!!!

Verizon commercials on the radio start out with an annoying voice saying "You're you and...." NO SHIT?! I'm me, you say? Shut the fuck up Verizon man, I know I'm me. What crazed lunatic came up with this marketing strategy? "Hey, I know, let's start our commercials by telling people they are themself." GENIUS!!

Guess what DVD I'm burning this very second ... Wrestlemania VII. I can't f'n believe I rented this garbage, but back in the day I was into it, and I remember Wrestlmania VII like no other. The blindfold match between Jake the Snake and Rick "the Model" Martel. You see, Rick the Model Martel had this cologne called "Arrogance" and he sprayed Jake the Snake in the eye with it, causing him to go blind - so they evened out the handicap and had a blindfold match. Awesome. America vs. Iraq as Hulk Hogan takes on Sgt. Slaughter (aka, Bill Cowher). The Ultimate Warrior vs. Macho Man Randy Savage .... Hell, Marty Jannety and Shaun Michaels were still the Rockers (tag team) back then! Wrestlmania ruled. If you ever want to watch it, you now know who has a copy!

Picture of the day is up. I wish you a most wonderful weekned. Stay cold ... back to Oracle.

What I am listening to as I type this: Ron & Fez
What I am currently addicted to: burning dvds again

February 15, 2006

After careful consideration, I've decided to take down the MP3 of the Day page, hope you got some good music from it over the past 4 1/2 years. I have a feeling that piece-by-piece, this is how I will eliminate this site from my life.

What I am listening to as I type this: Pat Green - Wave on Wave
What I am currently addicted to: burning dvds again

February 14, 2006

Off the top of my head, here's a very short list of things I can't stand that every women absolutely adores for some reason. I will never understand why they love these things:

Puppies
Chocolate
Oprah
Jack Johnson/Dave Matthews/Coldplay/John Mayer/Gwen Stefani

and last, but not least, Valentine's Day. I hate this day, it's ridiculously stupid. Luckily Jessica is in the Springs this week launching Cricket's stuff so I don't have to go out for it. Thank God.

What I am listening to as I type this: Ron and Fez
What I am currently addicted to: burning dvds again

February 13, 2006

Had a really good weekend ... Friday & Saturday Jessica and I hung out. Sunday I went snowboarding and had a great day up there, spent a lot of time in the mini-parks at Breck building my confidence on rails, not doing too bad ... definitely an improvement from this! No pix yet, but I will get some eventually, I promise. Last night I rebulit Bob's computer and went to bed around 9er. Have a busy work week ahead of me, then everyone's coming here and going into the mountains for the 3-day weekend. Good times are in the near future!

You may have noticed on the main page there is a link to something called "Valid Robots.txt". This is a tool I placed on the main page for your viewing pleasure. In the past, when I've needed/wanted to block pages from Google (ex: the Wil$on pages and certain pages I've received by request), I've placed a simple NOROBOTS, NO FOLLOW meta tag in the HTML of that page. This proved to be somewhat effective as it did fully block Google from viewing that page; it sucked because I had to edit each individual page, and it was still searchable via Yahoo or other search engines. Then I discovered "robots.txt". It's a universal system in which you place a file, obviously one named robots.txt, in the root of your website, and every search engine searches for this file initially. The engine then scans "robots.txt" and interprets it.

What is "Robots.txt" as a file? Simply stated, I "code" the pages in this one file (one place) that I don't want engines to see ... thus, they are unsearchable. On my main page, if you click the "validate robots.txt" file, it will show you which pages and directories are blocked from Search engines. If it's indicated by a directory and not file name (ex: /wilson/ instead of /wilson/index.htm) ... it blocks everything in the directory ... in the parentheses-example, everything in the "wilson" directory is blcoked.

Point: If you find your name on this website and want it blocked ... send me the page you want blocked and I will either edit that page to remove your name, or add that page to robots.txt. It doesn't take effect immediately, only after each search engine re-crawls my site, which happens approximately once every 3 weeks.

Ok, back to work - new MP3 and pic of the day are up, enjoy! Please pray for Mr. Sexton's family and friends, his funeral is today.

February 10, 2006

Rest In Peace, Mr. Sexton, the greatest teacher/coach ever. Thanks for everything. I think my tribute to him I wrote last summer sums up my feelings on this. You will be greatly missed.

Here is his obituary from the Carroll Daily Times Herald

Here is his obituary from the Des Moines Register.

What I am listening to as I type this: The Locker Room on 'BPI
What I am currently addicted to: burning dvds again

February 09, 2006

Finally .... Respect. Slipknot is officially a Grammy winning band. The song that won them the Grammy is the MP3 of the day, enjoy!

What I am listening to as I type this: Danzig - Mother
What I am currently addicted to: burning dvds again

February 08, 2006

After well over 4 years, the novelty of having my own website has officially worn off. There is never a time any more when I look forward to updating this site. When I first got it, I had about 3 friends who had websites, now everyone and their dog use these stupid user-friendly blogger tools and shit that makes all the hard work of actually having your own website seem like a waste of time. Since everyone has some "blog" or "live journal" or whatever, I don't think anyone appreciates just how much work it is doing a lot of this shit manually. Especially all the database shit I run/update/maintain to run my forums (which I hardly use any more) and guestbook. My shit is ad-free, fast to load, and I can do whatever I want to it as I know how to program computers in countless ways. I know I've said this before just to try to get some sort of reaction, but I'm just flat-out sick of having this damn thing and don't see it lasting past my domain renewal which is due in August.

What's new in my life, other than frustration, you might ask? I want to buy a house, badly. I've decided this very recently. I'm no GZA with my $$ by any means, but I'm definitely in the top 1% of the country when it comes to money management. And I realized I'm just being ridiculously stupid for not buying a house. I was trying to save $25K as a down payment, but what's the point? I am just throwing my money away by renting a place, I could/should have 3 years worth of equity built up by now. I was convinced I should buy a house around three years ago, but I was talked out of it. Now, I don't think I can be talked out of it. I was saving up with hopes of buying a $300K house to start with, but why not just buy a cheaper one to start with? I hate townhomes, but I'm spending RENT living in that same kind of environment, so why not build up the equity? I think I need to do this, I really really think I need to. If I'm able to throw 18% of my salary into my 403(b) and max out my Roth every year, I think I can find the self-discipline to save a bit more for house expenses, can't I? Anyways, time to start researching the house buying process, I really really want this.

I can't wait until next weekend when the guys come out to go to Breck for Pete's bachelor party. Schmirgan-Flagen, OGC, and Yort Diggidy have never visited this lovely state to party it up since I've been here, and Jeremy is coming with, along wiht many others ... so I'm ultra excited for this.

Back to work, I hate our tech support guy in Cambridge, MA, he set me back so far it's ridiculous...

What I am listening to as I type this: KBPI Locker Room
What I am currently addicted to: burning dvds again

February 07, 2006

Before I get to the inevitable rant here, let me tell you that I cannot disrespect the Steelers at all or take anything away from them. That Randle El pass to Hines Ward was brilliant (not to mention it was exactly what I wanted Seneca Wallace to get the opportunity to do). Willie Parker's 76 yard run was perfection. Cowher called an awesome game. Hats off to the Steelers for winning the game. With that out of the way .....

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This article and this article are perfect summaries of my feelings.

What in the fuck happened on Sunday?! That was downright unbelievable. I had a feeling of emptyness and disbelief after watching the game, but I had to hold on to the popular statement of, "We just didn't do enough to get it done." I truly thought that. I still do, we are capable of so much more, but that game was just taken from us. After reading article after article by neutral parties AND Steelers fans AND talking to several Steelers fans, AND rewatching the contraversal calls, I feel we were robbed.

We had more yards. (396 to 339)
We won the turnover battle. (2 to 1)
We won the time-of possession. (33mins to 27mins)

No team has ever lost a game while winning all 3 of these stats. Never in 40 years has this happened. Let me give you a list of plays, and before you read them don't assume I think any one of them in particular would have won us the game. I'm well aware that different plays would have been called for each play that was called differently by the refs, but I just want to discuss a few plays, and trust me, there are many more I could leave out. I will say the play, and what it cost us.

1) Darrell Jackson's "offensive pass interference" ... (cost us a TD and we settled for a field goal)
2) Ben Rothleisberger's rushing TD ... (gave them a TD on 3rd down, they would have likely settled for a field goal)
3) Holding on Sean Locklear (took us to the 30-ish yard line instead of the 2)..
4) Hasselbeck's penalty for tackling a guy after he threw an interception ... (15 yards)

Those are the only ones I'd like to discuss now. Who cares that Big Ben was granted a time out over a second after the play clock got to zero. We'll leave alone the fact that all calls were originally placed in the Steelers' favor, and then reviewed, and only if undisputable would they overturn them. I realize that's the rule, but if you're not sure -- then don't make the incorrect call right off the bat (ex: Big Ben's TD and Hasselbeck's fumble), make the correct call and then overturn it to the incorrect one if it's undisputable. Ridiculous. It's exactly what they did to us in the Giants game this year, luckily we had enough karma to get us through that one, though. (And I'll still say the officiating in that Giants/Seahawks game was worse than Super Bowl XL, but they were pretty damn close).

Now I'll talk about the above mentioned 4 plays:

1) Not clear at all, we saw it from behind (as did the ref) and we never saw if Jackson touched him or not. He was clearly open and didn't take away any chance the Steelers had at possibly intercepting that pass. Some say the ref wasn't late throwing the flag because he grabbed something else on his pants. I went back to replay this as I taped the game. Bullshit. While it is true that he didn't throw the flag as early as he'd liked, it was WAY after the alleged "push off".

2) Don't call it a TD if you have no idea and then reverse it if you can't prove you're right. What you should do is not call it if you don't know and then if you discover you're wrong in the review, then you can change it to a TD. Mind-boggling how this happened. How could that ref possibly know that was a TD with his naked eyes.

3) New H.O.F. inductee (I say that to establish him as a credible source) John Madden called the holding call "a terrible call". The replay (that the NFL didn't show during the game) as seen on SportsCenter shows that (I'm plagerizing here from one of the above articles I have linked) Locklear used a clever technique called "blocking" on this play. And, again plagerizing and as I stated before the call was even made, the Steelers were blatently offsides on the play. Offsetting penalties should have had us on the 2 yard line.

4) As a result of play #3, we throw an interception. Hasselbeck tackles the guy. Penalty flag goes up. HUH?!?! Shaun Alexander was fucking horse-collar tackeled by Joey Porter and didn't get called for it, but Hasselbeck simply tackles a guy and gets a 15 yard penalty? I'm baffeled by this one and would love to hear the league's explaination. As writer (and Steelers fan) Kevin Hench best put it:
After a sack, Hasselbeck threw a pick and then was penalized 15 yards for making the tackle. I'm not kidding ..... The call was that Hasselbeck had thrown an illegal block below the waist on the return. Never mind that Hasselbeck wasn't trying to block anybody and did, in fact, make the tackle. Just another terrible call that cannot be reviewed in Paul Tagliabue's NFL.

Will I criticize my team? Of course I will. Josh Brown was born to ruin my life. Any damn Nebraska player will only do good to harm Iowa State, when you need them to do well on your team, they miss 2 field goals. (We'll just not discuss Grant Wistrom's sack, as that'll prove my point wrong.)

What in the hell was Holmgren doing on that drive inside of 2 minutes in both halves?! Terrible play calling and clock management.

Jerramy Stevens couldn't have proven Joey Porter any more right. He dropped 4 passes (I'll only count 3 though, as on the 2nd one, he was just clocked, and I'm surprised he didn't get hurt. Can't blame him for that one).

We made mistakes, but when you win the yards, Turnovers, play clock, and every questionable call goes against you -- EVERY ONE -- while Jerome Bettis, the hero of the NFL, is trying to make the ultimate Cinderella story -- you can't help but to think something incredibly fucked up is going on. I mean seriously, did the NFL want us to see Darrell Jackson and Matt Hasselbeck on the winning end, or did they want the Bus and the youngest QB to win a Super Bowl? I'll let you decide for yourself. I'm just happy that, with stats as my witness, we played the better game.

What I am listening to as I type this: The Dream Syndicate - Bullet With My Name On It
What I am currently addicted to: running paired with the elliptical machine

February 03, 2006

First thing's first: had my final doctor's appointment/X-Rays this morning. I'm cleared to do anything and everything I want. I'm officially 100% with regards to the bone.

Now let's talk Super Bowl. Do I think the Seahawks are going to win? Yes. Do I expect them to? No. There is a difference. They are perfectly capable of taking this game, and being my team who I know everything about, I think they will win. It won't shock me if they lose by any means, and I'll only be out $100, but I do honestly think they will win.

Hasselbeck is better than Rothleisburger, hands down. People seem to forget that Big Ben has a bum thumb, also he only passes in the first half. People also forget that the Seahawks led the NFL in sacks this season. Look for our D-Line to come out firing on all cylinders, and the only half Big Ben throws in (the first half), will be irrelevant. Notice that the Bus is only used on goalline situations, or when the Steelers have a big lead? We've taken him out of the equation. In fact, I have the utmost confidence that our defense is good enough to take the entire Pittsburgh offense out of the picture.

Now let's talk about Seattle's offense. We're #2 in the NFL in offense. We have 5 of our offensive players starting in the Pro Bowl (Hasselbeck, Alexander, Strong, Jones, Hutchinson). Our Center (Tobeck) is also going to the Pro Bowl. We have receiving weapons galoroe ... Bobby Engram, Darrell Jackson, Joe Jurivicius, D.J. Hackett, Peter Warrick, Jerramy Stevens, and our secret weapon -- Seneca Wallace. Prediction: Look for a lateral pass to Seneca Wallace in this game, after which he will throw deep to D.J. Hackett or Peter Warrick! You heard it here first! Also - have you heard of a man named Shaun Alexander? The man who rushed for 27 TD's this year (all time record)... the league MVP ... the man who rushed for well over 1800 yards this year (well over 100 yards/game) and won the rushing title. The man who missed the rushing title by 1 yard last year. The only player in the history of the NFL with 5 consecutive seasons of 15 TD's or more. The man who rushsed for 140 yards and 2 TD's just days after a concussion. The man who has never missed a game in his NFL career. Have you heard of him? Well, add him to our list of offensive weapons.

What worries me about this game? 1 man -- Troy Polamalu. Have you actually watched this man play football? He's so good, just crushing. He's Lofa Tatupu (who is a savior to our defense, by the way) amplified 20 times. This man just takes off ... so fast ... and watch - he's in on 95% of all the tackles in the game. Don't get me wrong, Hasselbeck is a top-notch Pro Bowl quarterback, but with a man like Polamalu threatening him and his passes, we could be in danger. That man catches the ball, nobody will catch him. And the fact stands that in the Super Bowl, for some ridiculous reason, they use a new ball for every single play. This doesn't help the QB much (but this is true for both teams, so it can't be a bias), especially when you're throwing a slick ball in the vicinity of Mr. Polamalu. If we can shut down Troy Polamalu, we win the game.

Prediction: Seahawks 31, Steelers 23. GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, I took Monday off work already, so we'll chat come Tuesday... Tonight = Gov's Park. Tomorrow = Snowboarding and out with Jessie Sunday = the day Bryan dies from too much happiness.

What I am listening to as I type this: Opie & Anthony
What I am currently addicted to: running paired with the elliptical machine

February 02, 2006

Not a lot of time, so today's news will be the below picture. Enjoy!

What I am listening to as I type this: nothing
What I am currently addicted to: running paired with the elliptical machine

February 01, 2006

Beacuse I majored in computers, and work with computers, people think I must like computers. Wrong. I fucking hate computers. It just turns out I'm intelligent and can figure them out, can program them, and can use them in ways you'd never think to use them. I like MY computer because it's a music machine, picture machine, and a dvd burning machine .... it does easy shit. I don't need, have, or have the desire to ever have it connected to the internet again. You'd be amazed at the things I plan on using my computer for in the near future, and I bet you couldn't figure out how to do these things on your own. Your computer, on the other hand, sucks. You use it for email, your user-friendly Ipod which you probably still break, and for downloading cool new emoticons and graphic-things ... and games. These things all suck. I don't want to fix your computer for you unless you make my time valuable and/or can do a favor for me in return. What favors do I want? HOUSEHOLD CHORES!! If it takes me 3 hours for me to fix your computer and you're watching over my back the whole time, just think that I saved you $50/hr on a tech support guy -- and in those 3 hours you could clean my entire house top to bottom. Thank you, Dilbert, for telling the world this today. I will now be living by this comic strip's lesson it teaches the layperson with a worthless college degree who can't figure out a computer: