Friday, January 02, 2009
Cotton on Jan 2?
Not much today. After returning from work, were I had to go for a couple of hours, I took great pleasure in watching a couple of upsets. With the Cotton & Sugar today it felt more like New Year's Day than yesterday did.
Very happy that Texas Tech lost. Always a great day when they lose, especially since everyone was giving them the victory.
Was also happy to see Utah win. Not that I'm that against Bama but I do enjoy rooting for the Utes.
Also updated my Guardian 1000 list. My number is 677 seen & 322 to go. The only film that needed to be updated was Borat. I think I watched this off cable a few months ago. Never been a big fan of his show and the movie was just more of the same fairly unfunny stuff.
Very happy that Texas Tech lost. Always a great day when they lose, especially since everyone was giving them the victory.
Was also happy to see Utah win. Not that I'm that against Bama but I do enjoy rooting for the Utes.
Also updated my Guardian 1000 list. My number is 677 seen & 322 to go. The only film that needed to be updated was Borat. I think I watched this off cable a few months ago. Never been a big fan of his show and the movie was just more of the same fairly unfunny stuff.
Labels: Guardian1000, Sports
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Spus Win League Cup
What a difference a day makes. While yesterday was a terrible day in sports, today might be one of the all-time recent high points. I’m just pissed that I had so little faith that I didn’t wake up early to make it to Trinity Hall to see the game at 9:00am.
Today in their first trip to new Wembley Spurs beat Chel$ki 2-1 in extra time. From all accounts Spurs dominated the game but Chelsea had a 1-0 HT lead with a goal at the 38 minute mark. Spur came back in the second with a Berbatov shot at 69 minutes. The took the lead for good 2 minutes into ET with a Woodgate header off a Jenas free kick.
Is this the beginning for greater things? Since hiring Ramos the team has won 15 games with only 5 losses and 8 draws. Oddly Romos has never lost in a Cup final. This is the first major trophy since winning the League Cup in 1999 and guarantees a third straight trip to Europe. But that is next year, we are still alive in Europe being part of the round of 16 in the UEFA Cup. Net up is a tie with Dutch powerhouse PSV Eindhoven in March.
Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur
Today in their first trip to new Wembley Spurs beat Chel$ki 2-1 in extra time. From all accounts Spurs dominated the game but Chelsea had a 1-0 HT lead with a goal at the 38 minute mark. Spur came back in the second with a Berbatov shot at 69 minutes. The took the lead for good 2 minutes into ET with a Woodgate header off a Jenas free kick.
Is this the beginning for greater things? Since hiring Ramos the team has won 15 games with only 5 losses and 8 draws. Oddly Romos has never lost in a Cup final. This is the first major trophy since winning the League Cup in 1999 and guarantees a third straight trip to Europe. But that is next year, we are still alive in Europe being part of the round of 16 in the UEFA Cup. Net up is a tie with Dutch powerhouse PSV Eindhoven in March.
Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur
Labels: Sports
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Super Bowl
Today I spent doing basically two things.
One was watching the Super Bowl. I really didn't care anything about the two teams but I was rooting against New England to have a perfect season. So at least I was happy about that. For the most part the game was boring as hell until the last half of the last quarter then it had one of the greatest finishes in Super Bowl history. Also the commercials were pretty boring. I didn’t find any particularly funny and the only one that was interesting was the Godfather inspired Audi ad, mainly due to that being a bad-ass looking car.
The second thing I did was spend way too much time dealing with the Guardian 1,000 list. Part of the reason is that I have too many lists to work off of and need to consolidate. I have an Excel spreadsheet that I used to create the initial list. This was updated but I wanted to move away from this. I added a field to my Access database that indicates if a film is a Guardian entry. This all went fine.
This I decided to update my list on List of Bests. Here is where I wanted to kill myself. There were only 997 entries on the list. While the List of Bests is an interesting social network you have to deal with idiots screwing things up and different versions of the film on different lists. So for some reason I took it upon myself to QC the entire list and found two films that should not have been on the list and added the missing four films. At least in the process I was able to bring current the films that I can check off. So according to the list, I’m 66% complete.
One was watching the Super Bowl. I really didn't care anything about the two teams but I was rooting against New England to have a perfect season. So at least I was happy about that. For the most part the game was boring as hell until the last half of the last quarter then it had one of the greatest finishes in Super Bowl history. Also the commercials were pretty boring. I didn’t find any particularly funny and the only one that was interesting was the Godfather inspired Audi ad, mainly due to that being a bad-ass looking car.
The second thing I did was spend way too much time dealing with the Guardian 1,000 list. Part of the reason is that I have too many lists to work off of and need to consolidate. I have an Excel spreadsheet that I used to create the initial list. This was updated but I wanted to move away from this. I added a field to my Access database that indicates if a film is a Guardian entry. This all went fine.
This I decided to update my list on List of Bests. Here is where I wanted to kill myself. There were only 997 entries on the list. While the List of Bests is an interesting social network you have to deal with idiots screwing things up and different versions of the film on different lists. So for some reason I took it upon myself to QC the entire list and found two films that should not have been on the list and added the missing four films. At least in the process I was able to bring current the films that I can check off. So according to the list, I’m 66% complete.
Labels: Sports
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The World Has Come To an End...
at least for many people in Dallas. I thought both games today were prime for upsets but watching the Cowboys in the first half I thought they would pull it out. But with less than a minute to go in the half, the game, and the dream season, turned.
So now Cowboy fans have 7 months to pass out blame until next season. So which will be the reason:
Hot Chicks Born Today
Nicole Eggert, 36, she looks amazing in Blown Away, one of my guilty pleasures, but you have to get past the creepy two Coreys
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 47, looks great for her age, heck, looks great for any age
So now Cowboy fans have 7 months to pass out blame until next season. So which will be the reason:
- Wade Phillips - he chokes and can't win a playoff game and he didn't get the team prepared as they committed 11 penalties, many of them stupid
- Tony Romo - also chokes and can't win a playoff game. Threw only 50% with not a single pass over 20 yards
- Jessica Simpson - the Yoko of football. She appeared only a couple of weeks before the downfall and she dragged Tony off to Mexico when he should have been concentrating on football.
- Patrick Crayton - needs to stop running his mouth and learn to catch, his pulling up on a go route resulted in another incomplete pass but it should have been a long gain, maybe even a touchdown
- Jason Garrett - the boy genius is finally showing his true level as teams have been able to stop the Cowboy offense the last few weeks after seeing more of his coaching style
- Jerry Jones - he still hasn't done anything as a GM. The last Cowboy playoff win was in 1996 when they were still playing with Jimmy Johnson's players, who, as everyone knows, was the true GM when he was around
Hot Chicks Born Today
Nicole Eggert, 36, she looks amazing in Blown Away, one of my guilty pleasures, but you have to get past the creepy two Coreys
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 47, looks great for her age, heck, looks great for any age
Labels: Sports
