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Your 80s Moment of Zen

Posted on 30 September 2006
( Entertainment and Humor and Matt's Posts and Sports )

As we were watching the Ohio State-Iowa game, it came to the mine and a friend’s attention that Leigh Ann didn’t know who Jim McMahon was. As one might expect, the conversation quickly digressed to the Bears’ Super Bowl Shuffle.
That led us to this gem on YouTube. Wow. All the cheesiness of [...]

New Photo Albums

Posted on 27 September 2006
( Matt's Posts and Our Life and Photos )

We just got back from a trip to North Carolina for my cousin Jacob’s wedding and a couple days in South Carolina with Leigh Ann’s family. Hopefully we’ll have time to write more about the trip in the near future, but for now, I wanted to let you know that we uploaded several new [...]

MC Escher, That’s My Favorite MC

Posted on 26 September 2006
( Entertainment and Humor and Matt's Posts )

You can say this about Weird Al Yankovic, for over 20 years he’s done a masterful job of capturing the zeitgeist. Now he’s put his latest videos on YouTube from his album Straight Outta Lynwood. These two are hilarious. The lyrics follow below the fold.

Links for 2006-09-18 to 2006-09-24

Posted on 25 September 2006
( Cool Sites )

Wireless Phone Service – Find the Cell Phone and Calling Plan for Your Needs
(del.icio.us tags: comparison cellphone)

All about Linux: A visual walk through of a couple of the new features in Vim 7.0
On the fly spellchecking, tabs…who knew?
(del.icio.us tags: linux reference)

How To: keep your iTunes library on an external hard drive
(del.icio.us tags: ipod itunes music [...]

Links for 2006-09-11 to 2006-09-17

Posted on 18 September 2006
( Cool Sites )

AMD LIVE! Media Vault
25GB of free online storage.
(del.icio.us tags: free backup storage)

Stormtrooper effect – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(del.icio.us tags: fun humor movies)

Linux.com | Making wireless work in Ubuntu
(del.icio.us tags: howto article wireless wpa ubuntu toread linux)

Free Secure Online Storage—Xdrive
5 GB of free storage.
(del.icio.us tags: backup free online storage)

Peekvid: Watch Videos Online
Links to TV shows on [...]

Five Thoughts on the Weekend in College Football

Posted on 17 September 2006
( Clemson and Illinois and Matt's Posts and Ohio State and Sports )

I’m Slightly Better than Random in Picking Games: How’d my picks do? I went 6-4…slightly better than the 5-5 you would expect if you just picked a winner at random.

OSU did about as I predicted against Cincy even if they were a little sluggish (and, surprisingly, they did when by exactly 30). [...]

Weekend Pickoff

Posted on 15 September 2006
( Clemson and Illinois and Matt's Posts and Ohio State and Sports )

So, tomorrow’s college football brings us seven games between Top 25 teams, which is the most in one day since like 1993. I’m going to try my hand at picking the games so everyone can tell me how dumb my picks were after the fact. I’ll do those seven games along with Ohio [...]

China Trip

Posted on 14 September 2006
( Matt's Posts and Our Life )

So far I’m having a good trip! Yesterday the wife of one of our alumni (Michelle) took me out. She met me at the hotel and then we took a taxi to a nearby temple and market. We went in the temple briefly (it was pretty small) and then we did a [...]

Your Moment of Illini Zen

Posted on 11 September 2006
( Illinois and Matt's Posts and Sports )

The Illini never even crossed midfield in their loss to Rutgers and their only highlight was a punt by their backup punter.
It’s time to come to grips with the fact that they’re going to lose to my mother and brother’s alma mater, Ohio University (note the conspicuous lack of the word “State” in between “Ohio” [...]

Links for 2006-09-04 to 2006-09-10

Posted on 11 September 2006
( Cool Sites )

Five Worlds – Joel on Software
(del.icio.us tags: article software programming business)

ClearCheckbook.com – Totally Free Online Checkbook Balancing
(del.icio.us tags: finance free online)

Six Thoughts from This Week in College Football

Posted on 10 September 2006
( Illinois and Matt's Posts and Ohio State and Sports )

Ohio State is clearly number one: Their defense is still suspect, but the national champ now seems poised to be one of these five: OSU, USC, Notre Dame (though, I still think they’re over-hyped), West Virginia, and Auburn. There’s definitely no team as strong as 2004 USC or 2002 Miami in the bunch. [...]

Stifler Is in the US Open Final

Posted on 9 September 2006
( Matt's Posts and Sports )

Roddick’s in the US Open final against (gulp!) Roger Federer. Separated at birth?
Andy Roddick

Stifler from American Pie

 

Concealed Weapon Permits and the Impending Apocalypse

Posted on 9 September 2006
( Matt's Posts and News and Politics )

I’m no lover of the NRA (I think they could do more to blacklist dealers known to be selling illegally), but the opposition is just clueless if this NY Times article is representative of their argument.

Sure enough, a year ago the State Legislature passed a “concealed carry” law, which means that it’s legal to carry [...]

Budgeting and ClearCheckbook.com

Posted on 9 September 2006
( Matt's Posts and Our Life )

Several people have asked us for a template of the Excel spreadsheet that we use for our personal budget. So, I posted the file so anyone can download it if they’re interested. It’s probably a little overly complex, but I tried to add plenty of comments to help you understand and adjust it [...]

Ultimate Frisbee: The Sport for Smart People

Posted on 9 September 2006
( Matt's Posts and Sports )

Don’t you love it when you find that something you do anyway has some previously unknown positive aspects? Like when you start eating carrots and strawberries when your little and then find out later in life that these foods that you liked for taste are actually good for you.
Well, a new scientific study claims [...]

Five Thoughts on the Weekend in College Football

Posted on 4 September 2006
( Matt's Posts and Ohio State and Sports )

Biggest Shock: The trendy pick is Division I-AA Montana State beating Colorado 19-10 in Dan Hawkins coaching debut (how the value of the domain FireDanHawkins.com just increased). But, I have to go with Kansas State beating Division I-AA Illinois State by one (24-23) when they stopped a two point conversion! To put this [...]

Links for 2006-08-28 to 2006-09-03

Posted on 4 September 2006
( Cool Sites )

Google Image Labeler
A game to help Google better label their images for searching.
(del.icio.us tags: games google photos search images)

Linux.com | Personal wikis: Three small, simple alternatives
(del.icio.us tags: comparison software wiki)

GigaSize
Allows up to 1GB files to be uploaded for 45 days.
(del.icio.us tags: storage online free)

ViewScore.com – Product Ranking – All Reviews Combined
Aggregates reviews for products from [...]

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