T - 26 hours…

It’s almost gameday, at long last.  26 hours from now a young and unproven Irish squad will walk out of the tunnel at Notre Dame Stadium.  Seasons like these are fun because no one knows what to expect.  Here’s what I expect:

- Armando Allen and/or Golden Tate will make someone look stupid on a kickoff return

- Demetrius Jones will be the starting quarterback and do something Vick-esque with his feet (no, not stomping on the throat of a pit bull or opposing player)

- Sam Young will be ridiculous at RT

- Tommy Zbikowski will eat the boogers out of a dead man’s nose and ask for seconds

- Charlie Weis will consume poor officials with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lighting from his arse.

- Jimmy Clausen will not play

- A commentator or analyst will make an asinine comment about how Jimmy Clausen didn’t play and is therefore a disappointment

- A commentator or analyst will make an asinine comment about how Ty Willingham was fired after his third year and Charlie Weis is now entering his third year and has something to prove

- A sideline reporter with large breasts will ask Charlie Weis at least one asinine question on his way to the locker room at half time, to which he will reply, “There are no ovaries allowed on this field on Saturdays.  Get lost.”

- I will have fun watching the game in STUNNING HIGH DEFINITION win, lose, or draw

On a side note, despite the fact that it will annoy my wife to no end, I’m planning on Twittering my thoughts on the game on Saturday.  If you’re sitting around watching with a computer, go here and it will be just like you’re sitting there with me, which is really one of the best experiences in life.

GO IRISH!

New Flickr RSS Feeds

I just noticed that Flickr now has KML feeds for each user.  Very cool!  This should play nice with Google Earth, no?  That’s fantastic.  I’ll get back to you on that!

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year

Just a quick note to everyone: the “official” Notre Dame depth chart is available on UND.com.  Couple of quick items of note:

- Freshman Matt Romine is listed ahead of Barley Webb at LT
- Sophomore K Ryan Burkhart is nowhere to be found on the chart
- Darrin Walls is listed ahead of Ambrose Wooden at CB
- Lacrosse superstar Will Yeatman won the 2nd TE spot ahead of former 5-star recruit Konrad Reuland
- James Aldridge has bulked up to 222
- Looks like D.J. Hord has really made a come back at WR.  Look for him to get significant minutes behind George West and David Grimes
- Don’t be at all shocked to see Duval Kamara get some PT
- Two freshmen, Golden Tate and Armando Allen, are listed as our KR’s.  That’s some crazy speed.

I’m so excited for the season I can barely contain myself.  Obviously we’re a young team, but in 3 years it will be fun to say we watched National Champions when they were mere freshmen.  It’s going to be even more exciting seeing next year’s class come in.  Man, we’re going to be good.

Armando Allen is scary fast

Bartender, we’re going to need another round of Kool-Aid over here!

HBO Comedies Keep on Truckin’

Last week HBO decided to renew two of my favorite shows for new seasons.  Entourage and Flight of the Conchords will be back for their 5th and 2nd seasons, respectively, next year.  Fantastic news for yours truly.

Additionally, one of my other favorite shows, Curb Your Enthusiasm, will start its 6th season on September 9th according to the most trusted source of information in the known universe, Wikipedia.

I’m loving it!

Ari’s back for more, baby!

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Google Maps Now Feature Embeddable Content…doesn’t work on WordPress.com!

Google Maps is now offering a new feature that missed: embeddable maps. They do it with an iFrame so you can embed a map on your webpage or blog. Pretty slick. Best of all, it’s still drag-able just like normal. What’ll they think of next?

What’s the problem?  Evidently WordPress doesn’t allow iFrames on its blogs.  For those of you who don’t know, WordPress is very strict about what they will allow you to embed on your blog (unlike Blogger).  They have developed systems to allow you to post YouTube video and a few other things, but there is generally no Java or Flash embedding allowed for security reasons.

So when I try and post a Google Map of my office, all you get is the link below.  I imagine WordPress will eventually develop some way to embed maps on your blog like they did with YouTube, but it’s a bummer that you can’t just do stuff like this out of the box.

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One of the many reasons Facebook is better than MySpace

I hate MySpace.  Absolutely hate it.  It’s nothing but a spam-invested, pre-teen, time vacuum of a website.  Facebook is much more mature, in my opinion.  A nice, clean interface that isn’t hideous, but is informative.  I have never had a spam message or friend request on Facebook.  Never!  With MySpace, I get about 4 bogus friend requests and/or messages a day.  It’s ridiculous.  That’s why I almost never go on MySpace.  Here’s a screen capture of my friend requests.  Ridiculous!

It never ceases to amaze me how many scantily-clad women want to be friends with me.

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More Flight of the Conchords Info

Let’s say you’re a person who happens to read this blog.  That narrows the universe down to about 10 people max.

Next, let’s assume you’re in the business of heeding my advice.  Now we’re down to maybe 3 on a good day.

Finally, let’s assume you don’t have HBO.  We’re probably at still at 3 people because everyone hates paying for HBO.

What could you do in this situation?  Well, you could heed my advice and check out Flight of the Conchords by going here.  Enjoy it while it lasts, because I’m sure this site will be taken down before too long.  In the meantime, watch this for a primer:

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Are you ready?

The day is finally here, everyone.  We’ve waited for this day since January, and finally we can get the bitter Sugar Bowl taste out of our mouths and focus on a new season.  That’s right, it’s the first day of fall practice!  Lots of question marks and low expectations this year, but that will make it all the more fun.  It should be entertaining to watch all these young, talented guys this season and see what we have in store when we make our championship run in 2009.

Be sure to check out www.und.com today for post-practice press conferences with Coach Weis.  Those are always entertaining.

Go Irish!

WordPress Facebook App

Thanks to Robert Scoble, I just discovered that there is now a WordPress Facebook app.  That means I can show all my blog posts on my Facebook page as well.  Previously I had been using the Notes app to pull my blog’s RSS feed into Facebook, but this is a bit nicer.  Sweetness!