International volleyball - On one side stands the Americans, kicking back there with their freedom, and on the other, the Mexicans, obviously wondering if there’s any way to spike themselves to horribly paying jobs.
Monthly Archive for September, 2006
If you hate bugs, this will definetly make you cringe. A beetle in the ear?!? Ayyyeeee!
Ahhh the South. Here is a funny post on The 5 most Retarted Football traditions in the SEC. Good stuff.
Cruel 2 B Kind - This is an interesting twist on the group game “Assassin”. I can see it being quite fun in a city like NYC.
Figures I’d find this out just after making a post. Turns out Gameday is going to be in Columbus this weekend for our game against Penn State. This will make yet another year that ESPN’s gameday comes to Cbus twice in one year. (I’m assuming they’ll come for the OSU/M*ch*gan game). To go along with that, our students are going to try and do something similar to what Penn State did and all wear scarlet. I hope this turns out to look really cool, but with no solid student section and the likelyhood that many people will wear mostly scarlet shirts, I expect this won’t be quite as awesome as Penn State’s showing. Still should look sweet none the less.
The combination of Gameday, Scarlet out Penn State, and a 3:30 start, this weekend’s game should be a rowdy one.
That’s how I’d summarize this weekend’s football games. On a day when Ohio State has a less than stellar opponent, the rest of the country provided one of the best days of college football that I can remember.
As all fan’s know by now, OSU’s start was a little lacking, but I was glad that we came out with a 37-7 victory and still plenty to work on for this week. During the first half I knew we would end up with a W, but I really didn’t want the ESPN bottom line to peak anyone’s interest at how we played poorly; which in the end, we didn’t. After some very successful panoramic shots from the Texas game, I decided to try it at The Shoe. I must, there are quite a few sexy ones in there. Click on the sample below for the full gallery (panoramics are at the end).
Also in case it gets missed. I snapped a great shot of Pittman’s touchdown run just as it was developing. Check that one out here:
For those of you that don’t realize, on all of my pictures you can get various sizes, including the original rez, by clicking on the “available sizes” buttons at the bottom of the picture page. Just as an FYI.
Anyway, the rest of the day was spent watching football and every single game gave me great satisfaction. The games I cared about (OhioState, USC and Notre Dame) all turned out the way I wanted. OSU and USC walked away with a dominant win, and Notre Dame got smacked back to suckland where they came from. The rest of the games I really didn’t care who won or lost, and almost all of them came down to the last play to determine the winner. Overall an A+ day of college football. And to top it all off, Sunday the Bengals handled the Browns 34-17.
I’ve made a few small changes to the site that you may or not notice. For one, I’ve upped the security for posting comments. I’d love it if more people posted comments on this site, but so far for every one comment posted there are at least 3 spam comments that I have to manually delete. So now you’ll have to provide a name and email address in order to post. I’ll probably also be installing a plugin that has one of those random word generators for verification. Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of crap that gets posted.
Secondly, I’ve changed the way permalinks are handled. Now instead of every page and article being assigned a number, they’ll be associated with the title of the page. I should have done this a long time ago, but just now have gotten around to realizing my mistake. Shouldn’t really effect much but it’s just a nice esthetic change. All the old links will still work FYI.
US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Apparently Kazakhstan doesn’t like how Ali G is portraying their country. Personally, I’m excitied for the movie. Is Niiice!
ESPN.com posted a new single day traffic record. On Sept 10th the day after a big College saturday and the first weekend of NFL, ESPN had 95.3 million page views. That’s insane.
According to my site stats, some of you are still going to www.timjanderson.com/Pictures to check out my photos. I don’t know if they are coming from outside links or just don’t go anywhere else but that one particular location on my site, but that is old news people. Maybe they like that layout better or something. But it is time for the evil TimJAnderson.com corporation to do away with the old ways. Now when you navigate to that location it will automatically redirect you. Mwahahaha. So, update your bookmarks if you’re stuck in the past.
Oh, and if you were knew about the new photos section but were still going to the old link, please do tell why? Are there Flickr haters amongst us?
Holy crap what an awesome game. I have been very fortunate to have the opportunity to be at two of the biggest Ohio State games in the past year and it has spoiled me. I’m all ready to make National Championship trip plans.
The game itself was amazing. This was my second regular season away game, and it’s always a completely different experience when you’re cheering for the team that is outnumbered 10:1 in fan attendance (even though OSU did an amazing job showing up in numbers). It’s funny; whenever I try to get into an OSU game that I’m not 100% legitimately supposed to be allowed into, I feel like a complete nervous wreck. I’m normally not one to get worked up or overly anxious in situations, but there is something with the amount of desire I have to be in the game combined with the risk of cheating working the student ticket system that just about drives me insane. But once I have the ticket in hand, there is no great feeling (except for a Buckeye victory of course). In case you haven’t noticed, I uploaded my pictures from the game to Flickr. Check them out below.
You may notice in some of the pictures Texas’ monster scoreboard that I mentioned in a previous post. After viewing it in person, I can attest to it’s monstrosity, but they rarely use it fully. Most of the game a large portion of the screen is filled with Ads around the border which make it look about as big as the average video scoreboard (average for a school of Ohio State’s or Texas’ size). But when one image fills the whole thing… Holy Crap!
A final note on the game, something I didn’t see beforehand but wish I did was the never failing douche Matthew McConaughey’s “speech” to the Texas players prior to gameday:
A very good team is coming to our house and wants to steal something that we own . . . a national championship . . . when the University of Texas Longhorns play for the love of his brother lining up next to him, for the pride of giving his personal best every down, for the honor of every grandparent that could AND could not be at the game, the final whistle will blow and we will be victorious . . . the wannabe thieves will be sent home hurting, humbled, and with a respect for our character.
Nice St. Crispen’s Day speech Matt, but I think we went down to your house, took what was ours and left you hurting, humbled and with respect for our character.
This weekend should be a cake game against Cincinnati. I’m anticipating that we’ll keep the score somewhat reasonable (against former Defensive Coordinator Mark Dantonio) and in doing so we’ll probably see a lot of Zwick, Boeckman and C. Wells. But part of me is liking the new offensive aggression that Tressel has found within and wouldn’t doubt it if he tries to make as much of a statement for Smith’s Heisman candidacy as possible. My prediction? 41:10 Hopefully we’ll see a large amount of rushing to speed up the game. There are 4 other HUGE games going on that I’ll rush over to Nick and Newbs right after our Victory Carmen Ohio celebration. Michigan/Notre Dame and LSU/Auburn play right after us and then Tennessee/Florida and USC/Nebraska play at 8:00. It’s going a long full day of glorious HD college football.
