Hat Fight

War of the Baseball Caps: "One can never know how delicately balanced a long-term truce is until its equilibrium is shattered by the weight of a straw. A straw that lands as if it were a ten-pound hammer.

That straw was a few kids wearing ball caps in the worship service."

I need tickets

Indiana University Athletics - Men's Basketball News Update: "– Two of college basketball’s tradition-rich programs will meet in the seventh annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge when Indiana hosts the Duke Blue Devils on Nov. 30, 2005 at 9 p.m. ET (8 p.m. CT). The game, which marks the first time the ACC powerhouse will play on Branch McCracken Court at Assembly Hall, will be televised nationally on ESPN."

stuff

Laura posted a nice recap of our trip to flordia. Check it out.

And....I started boxing.

news on the cheap?

I've been thinking lately that local news could be done a bit differently. Instead of relying on the news teams couldn't we have some citizen journalists do their own thing? I think WEVV would be prime for this because they don't have any local news right now. How expensive would it be to accept user created content for a half hour a day show on local happenings? Think of the publicity this would get early on. WKRN-TV in Nashville is making the switch. Sure there would be some rough edges and a little editing involved, but I think the cost/benefit would be worth the risk. Maybe start out with a once a week show and then move that to a daily show based on the amount of participation.

followup

Tourists Flock to Superman's Adopted Home - Yahoo! News: "METROPOLIS, Ill. - In this sleepy Ohio River town that claims Superman as its favorite son, 50-year-old Jim Hambrick has landed somewhere between reality and fantasy. All things Superman rule here, from the 15-foot bronze statue of the buff comic-book hero on Superman Square to the 'S'-emblazoned T-shirts that can be found just about everywhere."

but not stranger

but not stranger

I used to work with this person. It's his first podcast. Feel the weirdness.

file this away for future reference

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Yup, these are my readers: "6. The Cha Cha Bowls (Pac Bell Stadium)
When I went to a Giants game five years ago, my friend Mikey dragged me to a BBQ place in the center-field bleachers for Cha-Cha bowls, saying, 'It's all about the Cha-Cha bowls.' You tend to trust the opinion of someone who once owned a mammoth Traci Lords video collection. At least I do. Anyway, he wasn't kidding – it was all about the Cha Cha bowls: Caribbean jerk chicken, beans, rice, BBQ sauce, other goodies … all in a big plastic bowl for just $8.50. Best ballpark food ever."

comments

I switched the comments over to bloggers comments for this particular blog. I am seeing if that solves the slow loading problem.

If I could choose one thing to be good at

Speed Stacks, Inc., More Sport Stacking Video Clips

watch the emily fox does cycle in 7.43 seconds one

awkward

Ok, let's say you are on vacation. You get your digital camera out and take a picture of your kids and this is what it shows. Nice timing, eh? Fortunately if you bang on it and shake it, it fixes itself. 

Christians purge video game demons

BBC NEWS | World | Americas |: "The Devil, they say, has all the best tunes. Until now he has also had the video games market sewn up.

From the demonic violence of Doom to the sinister Resident Evil series, many of today's most successful titles draw inspiration from dark places.

But a growing band of Christian game developers are taking a stand.

Reverend Ralph Bagley, 41, is a man with a mission. 'I have always been a gamer since the days of Pong and Pacman,' he told BBC News.

'But as the games got nastier, I was getting pretty conflicted about coming home from church and playing things like Doom and Quake.

'I began to look for something else, but there was a gaping hole in the market.'

Earlier this year, the father of two founded the Christian Game Developers Foundation, aiming to drag Christian games from obscurity to the mainstream.

'Simply forbidding our children from playing video games is not the answer,' says Rev Bagley."

Honesty in sports?

Yahoo! Sports - MLB - Cardinals 7, Blue Jays 0: "``I was thinking about a no-hitter, no question about it. I thought I had a chance,'' Carpenter said.

The 30-year-old right-hander struck out 10 and walked one for his second shutout of the season and the seventh of his career. He threw 95 pitches, 68 for strikes."

also:

"A fan held up a sign that read: ``Thanks for four years of frustrating mediocrity Carpenter.'' Carpenter made a gesture toward the fan as he walked off the mound in the eighth and after he gave a postgame television interview.

``I tipped my hat to the guy that said 'Thanks for the four mediocre years,''' Carpenter said. ``He had a big old sign.'' "

clearly

Winsock Programmer's FAQ: The Lame List: "Calling strlen() on a hostent structure's ip address, then truncating it to four bytes, thereby overwriting part of malloc()'s heap header. In all my years of observing lameness, I have seldom seen something this lame.

Reason: This doesn't really need a reason, does it?

Alternative: Clearly, the only alternative is a brain transplant."

your mom changes her mind

I'm changing my mind on Napoleon Dynamite to recommended status. It's not a good movie, but the requoting is worth the journey. After watching it, find someone who's seen the movie and start the quoting. You will not be unentertained.

I'm tired

Maybe sleepy. Your thoughts?

BH Cop IV?

online.ie: entertainment: "Quentin Tarantino has reportedly signed up to bring Eddie Murphy back as Beverly Hills Cop legend Axel Foley."

you shot the invisible swordsman!

Picked up Three Amigos over the weekend on DVD. Walmart has it for $5, couldn't pass it up.

timing is everything

Major League Baseball : News :: "Strange place for a throwback? There's not a lot of regular-season Major League history in St. Petersburg, but the Cardinals will nonetheless wear throwback uniforms at Tropicana Field on Saturday, June 18. The Redbirds will don baby-blue outfits hearkening back to their 1982 World Series championship. After the game, they will autograph the uniforms and donate them to Tampa Bay's Rays of Hope foundation."

We will be at this game. I am a big fan of these jerseys as they have good memories attached to them.

ONE

Christian Music Central > RealMusic. RealArtists. RealLife.: "Join Rick Warren, Billy Graham and others in speaking out to President Bush regarding worldwide poverty

Pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, is joining the Rev. Billy Graham, John Stott and other evangelical leaders in writing a high profile advocacy letter to President Bush on behalf of those living in extreme poverty. "

tools

Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Sex Offender Website

Indiana Sheriff's Sex Offender Website

fantastic

conan makes popcorn - with audio

I'm not sure what to say

this is bad

S T E L L A

S T E L L A: "STELLA SERIES - June 28th

The STELLA series premieres June 28th, 10:30/9:30c on Comedy Central. The scripted half-hour series follows the absurdist adventures of Black, Showalter and Wain, who will also write, produce and direct the show."

IsraCast: Technology in Israel

IsraCast: Technology in Israel: "An Israeli Inventor has developed a breathing apparatus that will allow breathing underwater without the assistance of compressed air tanks. This new invention will use the relatively small amounts of air that already exist in water to supply oxygen to both scuba divers and submarines. The invention has already captured the interest of most major diving manufacturers as well as the Israeli Navy.
"

Best Buy Not Always Best Buy

Best Buy Not Always Best Buy : Gizmodo: "The web browsers from within the store show many prices that are $20-$50 higher than the same web page when accessed from outside of the store (like in your house). This was confirmed to me by two store managers. If you ask for the lower price, they’ll honor it. So, you see a low price on the website (even when you select “in-store pickup”) and when you get to the store, the actual price is much higher.

Here’s an example.

Notice the “On Sale Now” yellow box on this web page. This camera sells for $359.99 on the web site (even when you choose “in-store pickup), but sells for $399.99 in store. The yellow box on the web page does not appear when using a web browser within any Best Buy store."

$299

Analyst: Xbox 360 to Retail for $299, Microsoft to Lose $75 per Console - Xbox: "According to analysts at UBS Securities LLC, Microsoft will pay as much as $375 per Xbox 360 to its manufacturing partners and sell the units to consumers for $299. This represents an improvement over the last generation, in which Microsoft was rumored to lose approximately $100 per Xbox sold. "

What Happened When?

STAR WARS: The Novels--What Happened When? A timeline with all the books. Part of me wants to read all these. The extreme nerdy part of me.

Anakin Dynamite

AtomFilms : "An awkward apprentice struggles with older Jedis, school elections and idiots!"

whoops

I'm wearing a shirt that says Colossians 3:23 on the front of it. Someone stopped me and asked what that said. Um, I don't know. Embarrassing, no? Fortunately it was on the back of my shirt... I probably should know what I'm advertising.

Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men

I feel like I missed my calling

CNN.com - Dukes of Hazzard Institute VP named - Jun 2, 2005: "Country Music Television has selected its first 'vice president' for the Dukes of Hazzard Institute. The first task for the New York-based executive: Upgrade the Institute's new facilities.

In other words, get cable and a new TV set for his apartment.

Yes, Christopher Nelson's new job, which comes with a $100,000 salary and a one-year contract, will be to watch reruns of 'The Dukes of Hazzard' weeknights on the Country Music Television cable channel and write blog postings for the network's Web site.

The contract does not include vacation time.

'For $100,000 he'd better watch that show every night,' said James Hitchcock, CMT's vice president for marketing."

Seriously

Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Rambo coming out of retirement: "The red bandanna and the hunter's knife are back: Sylvester Stallone is set to reprise his role as Vietnam vet John Rambo, 17 years after his last outing.

Miramax/Dimension Films have sold Rambo IV's movie rights to a different production company, clearing the way for filming to start next January in Bulgaria, India and the US.

Stallone, now 58, will don combat trousers for a fourth time, this time to slug it out against American white supremacists bent on killing his wife and daughter. In the new film, the grunting killing machine has turned middle-class family man and has 'assimilated into the tapestry of America,' according Stallone, who is also the movie's scriptwriter. "

grub alert

CourierPress: Business: "The long-awaited Panera Bread Co. bakery-cafe is expected to open this fall on Evansville's East Side.

Archie Karel, a joint venture partner with Panera's regional office in Louisville, Ky., said Wednesday the local store may open by late October, if not sooner."

St. Louis Bread Company is owned by this place. This is grub.

June 3 is Free Doughnut Day

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
Krispy Kreme will supply a free doughnut of your choice.

yeah

Lack of posts lately. It's not my fault. Really. I don't have much to say I guess. I've been working on another site in my spare time and that's been pretty much it as far as blogging goes. The site is www.evansvillestores.com. It's a directory (or will be) of stores in evansville that have websites. It's a rough draft right now but you'll get the drift of what's going on I think. Let me know what you think.