November 30, 2001
Need a laugh? Check out some of Conan O’Brien’s In the Year 2000 classics. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Penguins will begin having senior proms, but will surprisingly still rent tuxes.
- Men will actually begin desiring women who have great personalities. In a related story, breasts will be renamed ‘personalities.’
- Mothers will no longer call for ‘time-outs’ when disciplining their children, but instead will use the more accurate phrase ‘Now go sit in a corner and shut your hole while Mommy has a drink.’
- The Spice Girls will once again be famous when MTV’s The Real World decides to focus on five middle aged, out of work skanky hags.
- Mormons will decide that their religion is too strict and will begin drinking coffee, the occasional beer and the blood of the elderly.
- New evidence of OJ’s guilt emerges when records show that on the day before the crime he applied at Los Angeles County Court for a murder license.
November 30, 2001
I can’t possibly be the only one that’s received the ridiculous-but-oh-so-earnest spam from the alleged Dr. Sule Ibrahim, Director of Project Implementation for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Let me know if you got it, too! We could start a little club! It would be ultra-secret, and you can only be a member if you received this piece of spam. We’ll have secret handshakes and a treehouse and oh boy!
November 30, 2001
I’m not going to Gainesville for the game. I really wish I was, but I just can’t convince myself to do it. I have enough Delta SkyMiles to swing it, but I would have to pay an additional $75 since it’s so last-minute. Monday I’m starting a new job and it just wouldn’t be cool to be bleary-eyed, hungover, and jet-lagged. This will be the first season since ‘94 that I haven’t made at least one home game. <frown>
November 30, 2001
George Harrison just died.
That sucks.
November 29, 2001
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November 29, 2001
Hmmm … My buddy Bob just called me on his cell phone from Sarejevo, Bosnia. He’s over there - I’m not kidding! - brokering an arms deal with Kuwait for his company, which sells various types of ammunitions. Bob says he has an extra ticket to the Florida - Tennessee game in Gainesville on Saturday and wanted to know if I could meet him at the stadium …
November 29, 2001
Hey! TheBrad just noticed that Amazon.com’s wishlist system is failing bloggers. If you try to click on someone else’s wishlist, Amazon displays your own wishlist instead (if you have one). That means that since I have a wishlist there, I can’t see anyone else’s! The hell? What did they change? Has anyone else found a way around this problem?
(with a <grin> and a <wink>)
Aside 1: It sure would be nice if TheBrad had a comment system.
Aside 2: It sure would be nice if TheBrad had permalinks to individual entries.
November 29, 2001
The data used in computing the BCS standings can be found by following these links:
November 29, 2001
A couple of Bucs fans in Largo, FL are seriously annoying their neighbors with the replica pirate ship and cannons they have in the front yard. The pirate ship, it seems, is just an eyesore. The neighbors are really mad about the cannon blasts after each touchdown though!
November 29, 2001
For about a year and a half … somewhere between the Atari 2600 and Super Nintendo, between grade school and high school … there was Intellivision.
My mom bought Jenny (my little sister) and I an Atari 2600 the second Christmas they were available. We lived in Holly Hill, FL - the closest thing to a suburb of Daytona Beach that existed then. At the time we thought of the gift as a tremendous extravagance, the most incredible present ever. I remember staying up to play Asteroids until 3 am the first night we had it. I got a blister on my thumb and rolled the score over to all 0s. Jenny sat there watching me the whole time. I don’t think we were able to afford River Raid until after Easter the next year. When we got that one, my mom and Jenny and I would sit and play for hours after school. Jenny and I would trade playing my mom while the other did homework. So much fun …
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November 28, 2001
The day before the world changed I mentioned a little battle waging between Oakley and Sunglass Hut. It seems that Oakley feels that they are getting the short end of the distribution stick by the super-sunglass-store. I thought that the tirade on their site was kind of a tough tactic, but that’s not all they’re doing. I just saw an ad in Maxim magazine for these killer shades and noticed a skull and crossbones emblem at the bottom with the tag line, “Not Available at Sunglass Hut”.
Yikes! Talk about guerilla marketing …
School officials have figured that it took Florida 8,227 seconds to score 56 touchdowns, an average of 2:27 on each drive.
