Triathalon Anyone?

September 29, 2009

29 Sept 2009

Lake Greenwood will host the 7th annual SC Half triathlon race on Oct 4. The Race includes a 1.2 mi swim, 56 mi bike course & 13.1 mi run. via



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Clemson / TCU

September 25, 2009

25 Sept 2009

Will gets to go to the Clemson game tomorrow.

Lucky.

26 Sept 2009

I'm listening to the game, and I'm sick of hearing about toss sweeps. We need to get vastly tougher up front, put some guys in there who want to hit, and play smash-mouth football.

Has Napier never heard of a running back screen?

Battle of Antietam

September 23, 2009

23 Sept 2009

Happy Fall, y'all!

President Lincoln is a tall man. I felt out of place since I had just shaved that morning.



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Oktoberfest

September 22, 2009

ESPN360.com / Northland Cable

September 21, 2009

21 Sept 2009

I submitted a request to Northland Cable for access to ESPN360.com this morning. They just called back and said they're "sending the request to corporate" and they'll hopefully approve it.

Sure would be nice to catch the Clemson/TCU game this Saturday.

I recommend all of Northland's customers (and non-customers for that matter) to use Northland's online contact form to request ESPN360 as often as possible. On the drop-down box for "nearest local office", I would select your local office and the corporate office. Keep submitting until you get a response.

I still haven't heard from the corporate office, so I'll keep submitting every hour until I hear something. There's no good reason for them to not offer ESPN360.

UPDATE 1 OCT 2009

I finally got a response from Northland, but I had to get snarky to get it:

from Steve Tanabe
to W@gmail.com
date Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:56 AM
subject RE: Contact Us Form / Customer: W


ESPN360 is currently only provided to end users through agreements with their ISPs rather than direct to consumers.

Unfortunately we have not been able to reach a reasonable agreement with ESPN to provide the service to our customers at this time.

Thanks



Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:19 PM
To: do-not-reply-99@northlandcabletv.com
Subject: Contact Us Form

ESPN360

Comments:

Why don't your customers have access to ESPN360's streaming online content? We need access to ESPN360 immediately. I've contacted you dozens of times about this and received no response. Do you not care about customer service? There's no excuse for not responding.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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The Lost Symbol

21 Sept 2009

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol came in the mail today. I think I'll start reading it simultaneously with I Am Charlotte Simmons.

I finished Hannibal Rising last week and checked out Cold Mountain for my audio book in the car; I saw the movie a couple of times (once for free while I was in Kuwait at Camp Doha) -- the book seems femme, but worthwhile.

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Clemson vs. Boston College 2009

September 20, 2009

20 Sept 2009

Well, Clemson's offense looked bland this week, but the D was off the hook (BC had 55 yards of total offense). CJ Spiller was explosive as always.

I'm hoping Billy Napier can call plays to offset weaknesses better than Rob Spence, because with the state of Clemson's O Line and TCU's defensive end, we might see another sad offensive game Saturday. Call me crazy, but Rendrick Taylor seems capable of laying the wood; move him over to help our Tackles.

I'm continually impressed by Travis Sawchik's Clemson articles.



Also glad to see USC, BYU, and Utah go down. I was expecting Florida to hang 60 on Tennessee, though.


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Roscoe P. Coltrane

September 19, 2009

19 Sept 2009

For me, this was a big-time moment

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2nd Annual MINI Gathering at Orde's of England

The boys and I rode bikes around town a little bit this morning. We checked out the 2nd Annual MINI gathering at Orde's of England.

It began at 11:00, and here are some pictures at 11:03




Maybe more cars showed up later... we had to get home for the Clemson game.

I try to drive through here whenever I can

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Me, Dick, and Elvis

September 18, 2009

Shoot, if Forrest Gump can do it, so can I.







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Bank of America

Melissa With the Girls

GT's System is a Sham

September 17, 2009

Paul Johnson, Gimmick Tech, your system is a sham! Recruits, take note.

By the way, coaches and systems that use cut blocks as part of their standard scheme will never get any respect. Cut blocking is wussified at best.





Georgia Tech, Paul Johnson

Ali and Jordan

17 Sept 2009

I was checking out some old newspaper clippings from our scrap book, and I thought this was a good one to share:

I never actually saw Liston going down, because I had turned to Mel and asked if she wanted me to go get her a Cherry Coke since the fight had just started, then BAM, Liston was down. Maybe she remembers what happened, I don't know.

Apparently nobody else saw it either, because later, the press speculated Ali laid Liston out with a "phantom punch", which is probably why I missed it.


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Here's one I found from the 1988 Slam Dunk contest:


When Jordan took off from the foul line, I was like, "Oh no he ain't!" A lot of people don't know this, but it actually took Michael two tries to dunk from the free throw line; he missed the first one.





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Toyota Prado

September 16, 2009

16 Sept 2009

Something most people aren't aware of is that outside the U.S., there are different types of automobiles. I saw people driving those four-door Nissan pickup trucks in the Dominican Republic ten years before they were sold here.

Check out this Toyota Prado our Captain and First Sergeant had to scoot around Camp Anaconda in Iraq:

The mesh is welded over the muffler presumably to prevent someone from putting an explosive in there.

Stock Market

The Triplets

September 12, 2009

Here they are at last:

Smallpox Vaccination

Here's a before and after shot of my smallpox vaccination and resulting scar:

They vaccinated us at Fort Benning before our Iraq deployment. Also a good shot of my masonic tattoo.

The vaccination was not very painful; it looked like they dipped a small nail in the vaccine, then pierced my arm with it three times in the same spot. They told us not to touch it, and when the scab fell off, we couldn't throw them in the trash. I can't remember what we had to do with them.

Well, as you can see, it only left a small scar.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

12 Sept 2009

The right side of Clemson's offensive line is weak (I'm looking at you, Corey Lambert). Why do they almost exclusively call run plays to the right side?

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Hannibal Rising

Blind Refs

September 11, 2009

11 Sept 2009

Well, the referees saved Georgia Tech last night. Again.




So, if you're an under-recruited defensive lineman on a gimmick team, and you get tired late in the game because your team can't fill the shelves with real athletes, or the coaches are so inept, they don't condition you, just fall down and the officials will cover for you.

A blueprint for success against Gimmick Tech's defense:
Run a hurry-up offense. They are poorly conditioned (along with their offense, I might add), which, ultimately, is a failure by the coaching staff. It seems like Paul Johnson is so preoccupied with working on his stupid, gimmick scheme that he thinks nothing else matters, including conditioning. I guess you don't have to be very conditioned to dive at people's knees instead of manning up and blocking, though.

Who is Right and Who is Wrong?

September 10, 2009

Georgia Tech's High School Offense

Triplets

September 9, 2009

Paul Johnson

Bats

September 7, 2009

One more thing from the Clemson game yesterday...

About four minutes left in the fourth quarter, two bats swooped down and landed on this guy's shirt. He just sat there looking at them.

Clemson vs. Middle Tennessee

September 6, 2009

We had a good time at the Middle Tennessee game yesterday. See here for my unprofessional (and brevity-ridden) evaluation along with a few videos of the game.

Have you ever wondered what it looks like when wealthy white women go absolutely apey over college football players? Well, check these out these ladies across from us at Tiger Walk:

That was something, wasn't it?

Check out DaQuan Bowers and Ricky Sapp at practice






































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