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Thursday, September 26, 2002
The "Do You Know Me?" Test
This is a one question test that will allow you to determine if you truly know me, the dwinn. 1) I bought a folding chair at Sam's Club the other day. When Jules came home and saw it, she asked: Why'd you buy a folding chair? The Question: What was my reply? Monday, September 23, 2002
Yesterday was one of the first days of Fall, and the weather reflected that -- cool weather with a chill breeze, warmed by a sun plying peek-a-boo with the clouds. In other words, perfect football weather. The Lions game went almost exactly as I figured it would -- just like last Thanksgiving's game. I'm not sure what to say about the Lions. It looks like Marty Mornhinweg is not long for this season -- the Lions might be able to beat the Vikings on the road, but if they don't have a win over Dallas by the first week of November, he's gone. The Lions have a pretty tough schedule for the next-to-worse team in the league last year, but realignment is not giving creampuff schedules anymore.
Tonight's game shapes up to be good -- St. Louis v. Tampa Bay -- and I need to remember to tape CSI if the game doesn't end up a laugher early. * * * * * It's time to clean out the bookmarks again. Here's one from the work machine I'd forgotten about: Wednesday, September 18, 2002
I was reading an article in CNNSI about the new football season when I ran across this blurb:
After 32 games, 16 teams stand 1-1, while half of the remaining 16 are unbeaten (or oh-fer). Some sports prefer to call it "competitive balance." The NFL, in its expected in-your-face style, calls it like it is: parity. Now wait a minute. I'm no math major, but there are 32 teams and they've each played two games. Why is the above significant? Sure, there's parity in the league, but with only two games played, there's only 3 possible records: 2-0, 1-1, or 0-2. Now, if they've played 10 games, and there's 16 5-5 teams, that's certainly more indicative of parity. This is the most ridiculous, meaningless stat I've seen in a while. Based on the above, I have some shocking and astounding "facts" of my own -- Monday, September 16, 2002
Friday, September 13, 2002
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
On Shaving
The reason I hate shaving is that the skin on my face and neck completely flips out when it comes to oil/grease production. Every time I shave it takes about 48 hours for my skin to start producing pimples en masse, so now I look like a 16 year old pizzaface. Also, the skin on my neck is horribly sensitive, so I end up with razor burn nine times out of ten. I've always used an electric shaver. I think most guys my age do as well. I've always looked upon conventional shaving as a great way to carve cheese-like slices of face flesh off your head. I'm not convinced it'll go any easier than electric shaving, but I may give it a try, or just go back to growing a goatee -- that seems to be just enough facial hair to keep my face in balance. I wonder if any of the barbershops around here still offer Shave and a Haircut? I'd be spooked to be shaved by an old man with a straight razor, but it would also be cool in an Old West kind of way. Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Monday, September 09, 2002
FOOTBALL
I watched a lot of football this weekend, including the Thursday night game. While it was great, there was one thing that nearly spoiled the whole experience for me -- the fact that Fox is contractually obligated to show Lions games that are either on the road or sold-out at Home. The Lions were destroyed by Miami 49-21 in a horrible-to-watch game. At the same time, there were fanastic finishes in the Chicago-Vikings and Green Bay-Atlanta games, but we could not turn away from this shitty blowout to see an exciting ending. Totally bogus and ridiculous. I can't wait until we buy a house so I can get Direct TV and get the whole NFL package, and I can banish the Lions to Thanksgiving. Luckily there was a completely insane finish in the CBS game (KC-Cleveland) that brought me out of my Lions misery. Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Blogger decided to eat August's archive file as well as lose the archive template, so keep your fingers crossed that the site doesn't just go belly-up sometime in the future. Normally I'd say that's what you get for using a free product/service, but plenty of people who pay for the PRO version have similar or worse issues. Coupled with this is the dreaded error 503, which you can get past in basic posting, but you can't manually re-archive the archive files. Nice. Maybe instead of frolicking in Rio, the people who run the service can address a problem that's been around for at least two months.
Monday, September 02, 2002
Been a while since I've had a chance to collect my thoughts. Business really picked up last week at work, with students returning to town, and after leaving the office I was content to play GTA3, read, watch TV, and do various other brain-numbing things. Friday was such a disaster -- we had two people out on vacation and one who caught a mysterious illness that morning; add to that the general reluctance of anyone to come help out -- that I felt a dip at the Oasis was required. It is the cure for all that ails you, I tell you what.
Saturday we drove out to Bay City to spend some time with Julie's mom. I did get to watch all of the Wolverines' victory over Washington as well. While we didn't hit Tony's in Birch Run for GIANT BREAKFAST on the way out, we did find a Hot and Now on the way back. The rest of the weekend has been spent mostly with being lazy. A fitting way to spend Labor Day weekend, I think. |
