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Your 80s Moment of Zen
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 the 80s [...]
New Photo Albums
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 batches [...]
MC Escher, That’s My Favorite MC
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
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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 [...]
Links for 2006-09-11 to 2006-09-17
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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 [...]
Five Thoughts on the Weekend in College Football
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). I was [...]
Weekend Pickoff
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 State, Illinois, [...]
China Trip
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 lot of shopping. [...]
Your Moment of Illini Zen
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 [...]
Links for 2006-09-04 to 2006-09-10
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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
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. Heck, even [...]
Stifler Is in the US Open Final
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
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 [...]
Budgeting and ClearCheckbook.com
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 for your [...]
Ultimate Frisbee: The Sport for Smart People
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
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 in perspective, [...]
Links for 2006-08-28 to 2006-09-03
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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 [...]