Sunday, December 28, 2003
I visited my mom in Gainesville, FL for the holidays. While I was there I looked through some of the boxes of “stuff” that I’d left when I moved to California. This took some time, because I left tons of “stuff”.
Here’s an example of something I decided to put into the “don’t need to save” pile: A copy of the 1989 Who’s Who in Foreign Languages in Georgia & Florida High Schools, published by the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Valdosta State College in Valdosta, GA. If you have your own copy and are wondering, I’m listed on page 27 as a member of the Father Lopez High School French Club.
Yeah. Uhm. Don’t really need to save that one …
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
US President George W. Bush has been Google bombed. A search for “miserable failure” on the popular search engine Google brings up, as the first link, the official biography of Bush provided by the White House.
This can be done because Google does not only search the contents of web pages, it also counts how often a site is linked to, and the words which are used.
Hence it possible for a group of net-savvy individuals to influence the result of a Google search - a process called “Google bombing” - by linking any number of sites to a chosen one.
Monday, December 8, 2003
A short list of groups who should be upset with the ACC officiating crew from the Nov. 29, 2003 University of Florida / Florida State University game:
- Florida fans
- USC fans
- Kansas State fans
- ABC
- CBS
- the BCS cabal
- the AP voters
- fans of college football
If the refs - Samples, Childress, Roden, Jackson, Foley, McGee, and Key - had gotten even ONE of the SIX blown fumble calls correct, Florida would have easily won the game. If Florida had won that game, they would have vaulted at least four spots in the polls. That would have set up a Florida/LSU rematch for the SEC Championship game instead of the UGA/LSU joke. It doesn’t take much to think that Florida would have won that game, too (view Saban’s and LSU’s pitiful record against Florida in crunch games). That would mean that LSU would not have been able to leapfrog USC in the polls, and - with K. State beating Oklahoma - likely would have set up a #1 USC vs #4 Florida game for the National Championship instead of the hilarious #2 LSU vs #3 Oklahoma game.
Yes, if its and buts were fruits and nuts and all that … but really, even if you ignore all the potential UF scenarios, the BCS would not be in the silly situation it finds itself if it wasn’t for SIX blown calls by SEVEN bad refs.
Monday, December 8, 2003
How’s this for serendiptious alliteration? Last night after seeing a television commercial for Cingular cellular I said:
I would switch to Cingular but Sarah said their service sucks.
