Posts from — September 2003

CNN.com - You are spending more time in traffic, study finds

Well thank goodness for studies. I'll sleep easier tonight.

Time spent in traffic increases, study finds

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A great article just came out at Forbes.com ranking the sports blogs. Our little project, Fanblogs.com, came in at a most respectable Third Best Sports Blog. Very cool indeed. My favorite quote from the story:

Fanblogs.com is probably the best blog dedicated to a single sport–college football.

Yeah, that kicks so much ass. Now, I could really, really use your help. First, give Fanblogs.com a try and (hopefully) maybe even link us. Second, there's a poll here. Take a look at the other blogs and then go vote for Fanblogs anyway!
Congrats to all the blogs that made the top five (in order): badjocks.com, Off Wing Opinion, Fanblogs.com, www.&^%!edsports.com, and Replacement Level Yankees.

Thank you so much to all those who have helped and supported and the awesome authors over at Fanblogs.com. In just a couple of months we went from no hits to thousands a day. Just unbelievable. Thank you readers, authors, and Forbes.com!

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I am so happy. I'm so excited. I'm just bursting. Camille and Josh are announcing that Cooper² is going to be Cooper³!

I'm so, so happy for you guys. You're going to be great parents! Congrats!

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I've been wondering why the red fury hasn't been blogging recently. Well, I think I've figured it out. She's had some pretty lame excuses (out of town, blah, blah, blah) but the real truth is…

Camille is redesigning her blog!

I managed to download and archive a copy. Check it out!

It looks like it's pretty much finished, so I guess we'll be seeing her blogging again shortly, don't ya think?

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Merrin and I had a pretty busy day today. Yeah, it turns out we did have enough time for everything.

I cut the grass this morning - more to announce the new day to my neighbors than to actually shorten the blade length, but I digress. Afterwards, Merrin needed a couple of things and the grocery was calling our name so we loaded up & headed out.

We got Merrin some shoes. Apparently the 84 black pairs were not appropriate for her current needs, so we've added an 85th black pair to the wardrobe.

We had breakfast at IHOP, which we rarely do because a) breakfast is generally a little early in the day for us, and b) we really don't do IHOP all that often. It was pretty good, but I'm almost certain that our waitress, "Dallas", was the stunt double for Large Marge in that Pee-Wee movie. Hard to eat with her around, but I guess we were fortunate in that she rarely came around.

Next was Home Depot. I wanted to get some flowers for the plant stand by the front door (it was looking a little silly just sitting there all empty!) and I had designs on an even bigger project. Merrin consented and I picked up several Blue Point Junipers to use along the fence line. Guess the neighbors will be upset.

We got home and Merrin planted the mums for the plant stand. She picked up a couple garnets and a gold. Hmm, that sounds familiar. I planted all the junipers and we both got that Genesis sensation thinking, "and it was good." We kinda talked about laying out some kidney shaped plant beds, but that is going to have to wait until it's a better season for it. I need to research it a little because it might be good to get the beds started in the fall and then do the planting in the spring. We'll see.

Anyway, Merrin has a VIP dinner with her boss, boss' boss, and other bigwigs tonight, so I'm just catching up on all the ballgames and laughing at the irony of Kid Rock doing Coor's Light commercials.

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Inknoise has put together Layout-o-matic, in the spirit of List-o-matic to make CSS layouts easier for all of us. So, if I ever get around to that much rumored redesign, this should be helpful.

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I'm looking forward to this game, but I gotta warn ya - this one could get ugly in a hurry. After this week's game, we all have to start watching the weather channel because there's a Hurricane watch on the horizon! Go 'Noles!

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It's time! It's time! It's time! Corny dogs all around!

The State Fair of Texas starts today. Click here for something to get ya in the mood!

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Dell announced today that they are expanding their product line. Dell will add a new line of flat screen TVs, a new Axim X3 handheld (including a wireless version), and a new music device and online service (similar to the iPod & iTunes).

In loosely related news, Apple's iTunes will be available for Windows users in October.

And Apple, NEWSWEEK learned, quietly informed some music insiders that it’s moved up the date for expanding its current Mac-only iTunes for the vast universe of Windows-based PCs to mid-October.

In completely unrelated news, I'm exhausted and it's still not Friday. WTF with this week taking all week?!

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Four University at Buffalo students have injured themselves falling or jumping out of bunk beds in the first month of school, an unusually high total that concerns school officials.

In response, UB administrators are warning students to be careful when using the beds, and the school is ordering guard rails to install on all beds that don't already have them.

Guard rails on dorm beds?! I'm just curious to find out if University at Buffalo students will get blankies and night lights, too!

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Why is it that Allen is in London, and Cher is in Fort Worth?! Isn't there something cosmically twisted about that?

Anyway, thanks for the email, Allen.

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Well, it's official. You can now buy a Nintendo GameCube for less than $100.

Also, Amazon has Memorex DVD+R 25 Packs for under $30…shipped free. Or pick up a 10 pack of DVD +RWs from Amazon for under $35.
Refurbished iPod with a 1 year warranty from Apple? $169.

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Politcal Babble. Please ignore. Just more ranting from a madman. [Read more →]

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Last night was "take all your co-workers to the Stars game" night. All in all, it went pretty well. I got the pleasure of trying to explain to just about everybody else what was going on. It was somewhat akin to explaining anything to a 3 year old. Every answer was followed with the mandatory, "Why?"

Good game - Stars rolled the Blues. I do have one conclusion about the American Airlines Center, though. As nice as it is (and it is really nice), that place isn't half as loud as Reunion. Granted - Dallas fans are notorious hand sitters and it was just pre-season, but even after the goals the arena wasn't nearly as loud as Reunion. Oh, well.

Craig, Andrew, & Andrew's son Nicholas got to be on the jumbo tron. Nice work, gents.

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Several things have me thinking today. I'm tired of reading so much utter crap-o-la in the news. It led me to this from Glenn Reynolds: "MEDIA LIES, AND THE LYING MEDIA LIARS WHO TELL THEM"

It also led me to this, which I implore you to read (but you probably won't). Start at "Okay. Now comes…". It's amazing. A lot of references to this (which is -in & of itself - pretty well done). But truly, truly amazing writing. It also asks one of the questions I would love to ask the editors of America's papers:

“Families of terrorists who blow up men, women and children, some of whom are Americans, no longer receive money from Saddam, because Saddam no longer rules Iraq. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Explain.”

I know you probably won't read all these things, and that's OK by me…I guess. If you don't have a moment to read any of the above, at least go here and read the text of the speech given by Judge Don Walters. Just in case it disappears soon, I'll throw the abridged version it in the "more" section below.

There is so much we're not being told. So much of it is really good news. I know why it's being overlooked and I suspect you do too: it doesn't fit the agendas. First and foremost - the media believes tragedy (more specifically: hyping tragedy) sells. Maybe it does, but ratings are down so maybe it doesn't. Second, I think a very large contigent of the media would love to see this country, it's military and it's President fail. Not just trip, but out & out fail.

That, of course, brings me full circle to the first paragraph above and the article by Glenn - "MEDIA LIES, AND THE LYING MEDIA LIARS WHO TELL THEM". It's just slightly ironic that it appears on the MSNBC site.

Anyway, that's where my head's at today. Have a great day and –if you get a chance– read on:
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