Another good thing…

…about my new job: it’s 4 and everyone just left for the day.  I am outta here!

This is classic

Courtesy of The House that Rock Built, you have to listen to this Michigan radio host losing his cool after our amazing comeback last Saturday night.  This makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.  If you’re able to listen to this and not laugh out loud, you have no soul.  The topper is when he declares his desire to hire H.R. Puff-n-Stuff as defensive coordinator with Teddy Ruxpin as assistant.  Holy crap.

UPDATE: This is just too good for anyone to miss.  I think I’ll probably throw it into a podcast tonight.  Haven’t done one of those in far too long.

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News from La Seleccion

Spain coach Luis Aragones has decided not to include star striker Raul in upcoming games against Sweden and Argentina.  This is big news in Spain because he’s sort of a national hero.  It’d be kind of like leaving Lebron James off of a U.S. Olympic Basketball team.  It should be noted that Raul has been plagued by injuries of late, however his two goal performance in Champions League qualifying vs. Dinamo Kiev have not been a factor in the coach’s decision.  This month is the 10 year anniversary of Raul’s coming out party vs. the Czech Repubic in 1996.  Since then he has scored 44 goals in 102 games.  Pretty impressive.

It will be interesting to see how the Spanish respond to this news.

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Google Reader is official!

There is a brand new version on Google Reader out for all you RSS users out there.  Techcrunch likes it a lot, which is saying something.  Maybe I’ll try it out so I have an internet-based location for all of my feeds.  According to Techcrunch, Google has tried to expain the use of RSS in its simplest terms (they even released a video on how to use it).  So if you’re still wondering what RSS is and how to use it, maybe this is a good place to start.

I couldn’t live without it.

UPDATE: I just imported my feeds to check it out.  One major annoyance: it doesn’t allow for subfolders like Sage does, so my feed list isn’t organized like I want it to be.  GreatNews does the same thing.  Why can’t these things import the folder hierarchy as it is shown in the OPML file?  That is annoying.

UPDATE 2: I have about 550 feeds, and it’s really slow.  This may be due to it catching up the first time I load all those feeds into the reader, but it made Firefox crash.  Maybe it’s not quite ready for primetime, but the features are kind of cool.  It works like Gmail for feeds, which is sort of need.  Just not robust enough, it appears.

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Bill screwed up again

Well, here’s some bad news.  The Xbox360’s new HD-DVD addon will NOT have an HDMI output.  This essentially means that 1080P will not be a possibility on the machine.  When will Microsoft learn that increased connectivity options will actually help sell their units?

For instance, why did you have to buy a special dongle for component and digital audio output on the original Xbox?  The answer is simple: so Microsoft and other 3rd parties could make huge margins on proprietary cables.  How did it work?  Well, in this case, I chose never to buy the cables just because I was pissed off about it.  So I didn’t receive the gaming experience that I could have, and wound up with a chip on my shoulder towards Microsoft (not that that isn’t uncommon).

Bill, options and choice are good things.

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For all my college friends…

Go here to find a map of America’s Drunkest Cities, replete with surrounding bars/pubs.

Talk opens up

Up to this point only Gmail users have been able to sign up for Google talk (something I never realized).  Well, now Google has opened it up for everyone.  Do people actually use Google talk?  If you use it, leave a comment and let me know what you like about it relative to AIM, Yahoo, and all the rest.  I’ve never used it personally.  In the late 90’s I started using AIM in high school and used it all through college.  Once I started work, everyone in my company used Yahoo, so I had to use that as well.  Now I use GAIM, so I can do it all from one place.  GAIM, by the way, is awesome.  Much better than the AIM client, and it’s portable!

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Eto’o Down!

According to Notas de fútbol, Samuel Eto’o, the Barcelona striker, has torn the meniscus in his right knee and the doctors say he’ll be out 5 months! Unfortunately, Lionel Messi is waiting in the wings to take over, and he’s not exactly chop liver.  However, let’s hope this bodes well for Real Madrid, who have recently changed their formation under new coach Fabio Capello.

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