Jan 17, 2007
After a weekend of watching NFL playoffs and then one of the most watched shows on TV (24) I think I’ve seen that damn Chevy ad about 13,722 times now. Anyway, I think I’ve finally recovered from the grief that was the National Championship game. The trip itself was a blast and I ended up getting to watch the game in the stadium thanks to my awesome Uncle Rob who just happened to be down for the game and just happened to have an extra ticket and just happened to call me up about 24 hours before kickoff. Everything was awesome except for the outcome. There is a lot of analyzing you can do looking at why we lost, but I’ve decided to sum it up as follows. Florida played their best game that they had all year and we played our worst. A lot of other factors might contribute to why we played so poorly but thats the simplest way to put it. Thank goodness on Saturday I got to witness a true Ohio State win as the Men’s basketball team put away Tennessee in the last few seconds. I don’t know if I could have taken another loss.
So the 6th season of 24 has started and I’ve now come to the conclusion that 24 is one of the biggest junk food shows ever. And its awesome! There is so much poor writing and plot twists, but that just makes it all the better. Let me go through a few of my observations from the first two episodes for all you 24 fans. (Just a note, at the time of this writing I have not seen any further episodes than the first two).
- Who knew Tiki Barber was some uber terrorist?
If it comes to it, when Jack Bauer is tied up, with no weapons, and about to get his finger cut off. He will eat you. Eat you right in the neck.
Times CTU has failed to set up a perimeter? 531 and counting
If you ever find yourself on a train without a ticket, just say the following line. “My name is Jack Bauer, I’m a federal agent, that man over there has explosives strapped to his chest, if he suspects that anything unusual is going on he’ll set them off, keep walking”. Works every time.
Kicking someone off a moving train who then explodes is probably one of the best ways to kill someone ever. Other than eating them that is.
If Prison Break is of any precedent, shouldn’t Jack be like the most recognized man in the US if not the world? He’s now single handedly saved us 5 times, 2 of which were very much viewed by the public. Shouldn’t someone at least recognize him as the man who was thought to have killed the President? Or maybe as the same man who later that day arrested the President? I know I would.
Remind me never to allow myself to be tortured by the Chinese. It does horrible things to your skin and sense of wanting to kill people.
Kumar will get very upset if you pronounce his name wrong.
Now that David Palmer is in AllState heaven, his brother has taken over the White House and apparently been inflicted with the whispering disease.
It’s OK for the government to call a cobra strike on a house in the middle of the neighborhood on US soil. As long as that neighborhood is the ghetto. Like Inglewood.
Those are just a few of the reasons why 24 rocks so hard. If you don’t watch this show you are truly missing out on some of the best and at the same time worst television of the 00’s.
Oct 17, 2006
Here is just a taste of what HD College Football has to offer. Keep in mind this is compressed to where it’s not full quality (but I’m a great video encoder now so it’s pretty darn good).
You’ll need an xvid codec. If you don’t know what that is then why are you here? No seriously just ask in the comments. If you have the guts!
Right-Click > Save-As
gonzo_catch_HD.avi (13 megs)
Oct 17, 2006
My two favorite sports are Baseball and College Football.
For baseball, the greatest two points of the season are the two weeks leading up to the playoffs, and the playoffs themselves. What’s funny is, for the rest of the country, if two specific teams aren’t playing in Post-Season, no one watches. With both the Yankee’s and Red Sox being out, viewership for the post-games this year is way down. I still love watching no matter who plays.
The greatest points of a college football season can happen almost every weekend. The reason I think college football has become so much more popular over the past few years is because with the way the BCS system works, every game matters. Even if your team isn’t playing, you’ll watch two teams because if one of them loses and is ahead of you, all the better ranking for your team. It’s an interesting situation that I don’t think happens in any other sport. Besides the fact that this past weekend’s Auburn/Florida game was a great game of football, the fact that Florida lost a) helps USC in the rankings and b) helps M*ch*gan in the rankings which in turn helps Ohio State in the rankings because those two teams will play each other.
Speaking of the Buckeyes, last week I finally got around to purchasing an HD Capture card for my PC. Now I’ve been enjoying the greatness that is HD Television for over a year now via my Costco Purchased Vizio 50″ Plasma Monitor, but I’ve never been able to recording anything of my choosing (usually I’ll just download aquire from alternative sources). Now that I have this capture card I can record all the Buckeye games in wonderful 720p. This week I’ve really gotten into video editing and encoding and have been able to put together some awesome looking clips from the Michigan State/OSU game. If I get a chance I’ll post some links later.
Sep 18, 2006
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.
Aug 29, 2006
This will be interesting to see when we go down to the Texas OSU game. World’s Largest HDTV. That thing is freaking huge. 134×55 FEET! I’ll get a suntan during the night just by sitting underneath it. Now everyone in the stadium will get to see a 50 foot tall Troy Smith throw all over those damn Longhorns in superb high definition clarity.
Palmer and the Bengals looked absolutely wonderful last night. He got hit every which way and had some great scrambles and passes. My faith is fully restored in Carson’s knee. Almost enough for me to forget about the Reds losing 4 in a row.
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