September 2001

Fresno State (5-0, 2-0 WAC) rolled up 568 total yards while earning its 17th straight home victory — the third-longest streak in the nation.

The Bulldogs, who came into the game ranked first in the nation in pass defense, allowed 507 yards through the air.
“When you play a team that blitzes like that, and you get in the shotgun, you can have a chance to score a lot,” Spurrier said. “We scored a lot. We left some out there, too. It’s not like we were hitting on all cylinders.”
That’s the scary part.
With 640 yards in offense, the Gators have surpassed 500 yards in all four games this season.
Grossman, who also ran for a touchdown, has been brilliant through the stretch.
Soon — probably this week — he will start drawing comparisons to Danny Wuerffel. The sophomore completed 22 of 31 passes, and has 1,401 yards and 15 touchdown passes on the year. After four games in 1996, Wuerffel had thrown for 925 yards and 10 scores on his way to the Heisman Trophy.

I have to be honest with you. I really, really like a tall Bloody Mary.

• Salt and Pepper, please.
• Lot of ice.
• One shot of Tabasco.
• Celery.
• Green olive.

Thanks.

The University of Sydney’s Department of Civil Engineering has a detailed and informative account of why the World Trade Center collapsed.

So Much to Say - Dave Matthews Band

A University at Buffalo researcher hopes this week to put into place the final piece of the puzzle for a never-before-quantified phenomenon in football.
After spending the past six years probing the physics of how a football travels during flight using computer simulations and the videotape of a single forward pass from a 1976 professional football game, the researcher is about to put the last piece into the puzzle.

People keep searching this site for the word frog.
I don’t know why.
If you come here looking for frogs, please leave a note and tell me what you hoped to find.
My mind wobbles.

Shut Up - Blink 182

Gator Expo 2001. I wanna go!

Note: I can’t believe how silly the web site is! Who made it? It looks like “HTML for Dummies” …

And now two.

The Blog Twinning Project is kind of interesting. I’m wondering who is going to the site and assigning - for lack of a better term - twins to blogs. I suspect there is a significant number of bloggers who are pairing themselves with others, but to what end I cannot imagine. Not only do I not have a twin, according to the site, but I wasn’t even listed. (I added myself just now.) What does this mean? Not much, really. I don’t think that I have a twin. There’s that bastard hubris again. My blog is different. My life is unique. I am not like anyone else. But of course … you knew this already, right? … my blog is essentially just like everyone else’s. Or is it? Oh good grief!

Kiss off.

Alcohol - Barenaked Ladies

When I visited New England last month, I got to spend some time with my little sister, Michelle. She’s my dad’s daughter from his second marriage, so she’s my half-sister. I was surprised to learn that she thinks that she will be married more than once. It’s a given. She’ll get married, she thinks, one day. And then she’ll get a divorce. And then, presumably, she’ll get married again.

This seems completely mind-boggling to me. How can you even conceive of getting married if you think - if you assume - that it will not work? I felt like I was communicating with someone from another planet. She told me that most of her peers feel the same way: You get married to the wrong person, get a divorce, and then find the right person.

When I was her age - granted: over a decade ago - I never would have imagined that. When I was a little kid, when I was younger, when I was anything before now, I thought for sure that what happened was that you got old, met someone you liked, got married, and lived happily ever after.

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The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center and now it’s gone. They attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can’t beat that.