Archive for December 2005

One thing became abundently clear to me while I was using my parents’ computer over this vacation: far too many of the places I visit online each day require me to log in. My typical internet routine includes bloglines, digg, my personal webmail, my work webmail, and two different logins on my own personal site. [...]

This past weekend was the final week of my fantasy football league. I made it all the way to the super bowl, but unfortunately I got beat pretty bad in that game. It’s ok though; second place is better than nothing. In the end, I think I had a better team for the overall season, [...]

A few nights ago, my brother gave me and a couple of our friends some NFL jerseys. He knew that I’m a Patriots fan, and that Tony is a Texans fan, and that John is a Bears fan, so he got us each a jersey from that team. The funny part is that there just [...]

I am going to be in Virginia for the next two and a half weeks, but I plan on updating my site a few times while I’m here. So far, things in VA have been pretty slow. It’s always a little hard when I come back home, but this time seems especially so, mostly because [...]

A few times in the past year or so, I’ve mentioned something about the Hair Bear Bunch to my friends. Mostly, I will make some kind of joke around their whole, “Help Help… Here Come The Bears” slogan, and somebody will inevitably ask me what the hell I’m talking about. Then I’ll try to [...]

I was driving home today, and traffic was especially bad, so I decided to take a shortcut. This particular shortcut was basically me getting off of the backed up highway, taking side-streets through residential neighborhoods for a while, and then getting back on the crowded highway. I’ve taken this particular shortcut before, and it’s a [...]

I’m changing hosting providers for this website (again), so things may be a little messy for a few days. I’ve also moved my blog back to WordPress, which, in hindsight, I should have never gone away from. I’ve also upgraded to Gallery version 2, and I’m looking forward to figuring out all the new things [...]

In college, my creative writing professor explained to us that not all fictional characters can be fully-developed people. When you write, he said, you’ll often need to include secondary characters that, while far from the focus of the story, should still be interesting, and more important, believable to the reader. As an example (this is [...]

I read something interesting today in Ivan Meisel’s 3-Point Stance over at ESPN.com. He talked about the new rule for college football where a conference that has an automatic BCS entry for its champion will lose that right if their champion doesn’t average out to being in the BCS top 12 over a four year [...]

I just finished installing a patch for Civilization IV, and it included an option that really annoyed me. After it had finished updating the game, it offered to install something called XFire for me. I’d never heard of it, but I later looked it up and it seems to be an instant messaging programm aimed [...]