I have realized as I have been labeling these old posts that there is not a whole lot I have said about Aviendha. I need to fix that. Hopefully, now that I am doing a lot more of this from my phone, which doubles as my camera and video camera, a lot more of Aviendha related stuff will creep into this space.
The political discourse has slowed to a crawl, partly because I now count myself among the disillusioned masses. And partly because I have other things on my mind.
Aviendha (whose name, if you don't know comes from "Wheel of Time" series...pick it up!) Has blossomed into a beautiful, funny, laughing, joking, playing, joy to around. This is not to say she hasn't always been, but I will always remember the year 2-3 as the year my kid became a kid.
Point of all this being, expect to see a bit more about her going on here, which may help if you are her only paternal uncle, and you and your wife live halfway across the country, but you still want to know what she is up to.
So I meant to write about this last week when I saw it, but it slipped my mind.
I think if you are reading this you know how I feel about the BCS and the B.S. that it is.
So I stumbled across this article, written by Bill Hancock who is the executive director the the BCS.
He starts his Opus by stating that: "Perhaps the best reason for supporting the BCS can be summed up in three words: every game counts."
It is at this point that I have to decide, do I label this post under "Comedy" as well as "College Football"
The best part of the article is the comments at the end (one thing I love about HuffPost). One commenter wins the prize for best comment when they said "In what week of the regular season playoff was Boise St. eliminated, Mr. Hancock?"
Then I stumbled across this... which states about as clearly as anything I have read, how a playoff would work, and why it is necessary.
Until that day, we will have to continue to watch the games that are played, at least until Colt McCoy is hurt and I fall asleep...wait, what? You mean Texas got it within 3 points in the second half? Damn you old age...
So, I am continuing to love my phone. I actually have found fewer and fewer reasons to use my computer. I bought a Netbook in the fall, and have since re gifted it to Danni as she is starting school in a few weeks and will get a lot more use out of it than I was.
The phone is basically everything I hoped it would be (I do wish the battery lasted a bit longer, but I don't mind plugging it in on my way to and from work, I even got a dashboard thing for it, which is awesome when using it for turn by turn instructions or listening to music while driving)
The one downside to the phone is that it is running Android 1.5 and not 2.0 or 2.1 that the better known Motorola Droid is running.
I have been told by the numerous Android websites that I follow, that the Droid Eris, which I own, will be getting an update to 2.0 or 2.1 on or around January 22nd.
So, this morning I wake up an Over the Air (or OTA) update waiting for me on my phone. I knew ahead of time that it was not the much anticipated 2.0, but just a bug-fixing update.
Verizon and HTC are able to push these updates out over their networks, which leads my mind, which lives in a constant state of panic about the inevitable Robot Rebellion to ask, what is stopping them from sending out an OTA signal telling my phone to kill me? Maybe they can get Sarah Marshall to star in that film...
I am in the (loooong) process of labeling all of my old posts so that they can be filtered through with ease.
First off, it is taking forever. I have to click on each old post and decide which category I would put it in. There are over 600 old posts to look through.
Secondly, I am finding it interesting to see which topics I have spent the most time typing about for the last three years. I am going to vote for "Politics", the '08 Election is going to put it over the top.
And yes for you UFC fans out there, that is Quenton "Rampage" Jackson playing the role of Sgt. Bosco 'B.A.' Baracus...Looks like a lot of fun.
I will say that I think it says a lot about the state of Hollywood that they continue to remake old movies/shows, and as it has been stated ad nausem, the highest grossing film currently, Avatar "Borrowed" most of it's material from other sources.
I agree completely with this post. As soon as I heard that Carroll was leaving USC for the Sea Hawks I knew something was up. I have no doubt that this was the reason for his hasty departure.
It's times like these that I am thrilled I cheer for Joe
There are so many problems with the current system in college football, I don't even know where to begin to fix them.
So, if you are here you will notice a few small (and some large) changes to The Head.
Out is the orange layout. I loved it in the fall, but it felt like it needed a fresh coat of paint.
If you look to your immediate left and scroll down a bit, you will see I added a "Followers" widget, which shows who is following the blog. If you come here often, or even every once in a while and have a google account (I don't know if you even have to have a google account, I think Yahoo works as well) set up a profile and Follow so I know who is out there. I think it will help with the community feel of the blog.
The whole purpose of this space, at its inception and as it continues today, is to give me a place to empty my head of all the thoughts that are floating in there, freeing me up to be a bit more sane on a day to day basis (I picture some like a digital version of Dumbledore and his Pensive)
And I continue to be pleased with how it has worked for the space it has created in my head.
It is definately more fun when we get some back and forth going. I love hearing what people feel about what I am writing. In an effort to please the masses...I added a One Click option at the bottom of each post so I know what people are thinking.
I also took Danielle's advice and added Labels to each post. Now on the Left Sidebar you will see a list of labels that will help with sorting through what ever the hell I am typing about. I am in the process of going through my posts and labeling all 604 of them. (Check out D's blog, she is mucho excited)
Student Teaching starts in a few weeks, and as always, the unknown is causing slight to major anxiety. I don't know how the new schedule will effect (you know, I never know whether to type 'effect' or 'affect', I just guess) on my ability to spill my brain's contents here.
Trying out a few Blogger apps from my phone. So far, I would be lying if o said I loved any of them.
I was pumping gas this morning with Avi in the car on my way to mom and dad's and a thought occurred to me... We live in a world where we replace anything that is broken or worn out. If my jacket wears a hole through the elbow, I just replace it. How, in this world, do we ever learn to value anything? It is moments like this one this morning that I realize that the hard part of parenting is not changing a two year old at 7 am because her Nana gave her too much to drink at night and she soaked through her PJs. The hard part of parenting is figuring out how to teach a child the value of things in a world that tells her everything can be replaced.
College Football needs a playoff and everyone knows it.
I have boiled the arguments down to this point. BCS defenders, those who cling to an antiquated bowl system state that if a playoff were put into place that it would diminish the importance of the most exciting regular season in sports.
In response to that line of thinking I say only this:
The current system, while creating an "exciting" regular season (a point I would and have argued) creates a meaningless post-season for anyone who is not SELECTED (these teams are picked based on money, make no mistake about it) to play in the National Championship game.
If you were not a fan of TCU or Boise State, or Iowa or Georgia Tech, or Penn State or LSU, none of these games MEANT ANYTHING. They may have been fun to watch, if you are simply a football fan, but there was literally nothing on the line aside from a corporate sponsored glass statue and a MEGA BONUS for both teams athletic departments.
The post season in college football is meaningless, regardless of how "exciting" the regular season is.
I am a change guy. I think, like the Baboon in the Lion King, that change is good, but it isn't easy.
In a universe where I was god, there would be a massive realignment of conferences, schedules, rankings and the post season.
The symmetry of the NFL is one of it's best characteristics. 32 teams, 2 conferences, 8 divisions.
Break up the conferences and realign them so they are balanced. Each conference (Big East, ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, and two smaller conferences such as Mountain West or MAC) consists of 12 teams, two divisions, with a championship game in November. 8 automatic bids into a playoff, allow for some at-large bids for surprise teams. That we are arguing over who the 9th, 10th, 11th or 12th best teams in the country are, not 1 or 2.
Force teams to play better competition out of conference. Penn State has no business playing Temple, Akron, Coastal Carolina ect. Or at least no more than one of these types of teams.
This system is so broken that the fixes would have to be monumental to fix what is wrong.
And with that being said, enough of the "Big Ten sux" talk.
Ohio State over Oregon Penn State over LSU Iowa over Georgia Tech Wisconsin over Miami Northwestern ALMOST beat Auburn
That means wins (and almost wins) over very good teams from the Pac-10, SEC, and ACC.
Has the Big Ten gotten embarrassed in recent years? (and yes, that includes Penn State getting stomped in last year's Rose Bowl)...Absolutely.
Are we as a conference as bad as the national media would make us out to be? No nearly.
Keep in mind this was a down year for Ohio State, whose defense was almost completely rebuilt this year, as well as Penn State who had five new starters on the O-line, and Michigan who is still getting used to Rich-Rod's system.
Very exciting stuff for Big Ten football fans...now if only we can add that 12th team, and a championship game...
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