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Archive for December, 2008

17 Dec

Movie Opinions: Dark Knight, Wanted, Quantum of Solace

I picked up “The Dark Knight” when it was released on DVD. Based on the rave reviews and ticket sales and everything else I was prepared to be blown away. Over the past few weeks I have also picked up “Hancock” and “Wanted” as well, neither of which got written up like Batman did.
On a [...]

13 Dec

Round Robin for College Football

I heard an interesting comment on ESPN the other day. They were interviewing Graham Harrell from Texas Tech, and trying like crazy to get him to admit that he was disappointed that he wasn’t going to NY for the Heisman ceremony. He would not give it to them.
But that wasn’t the [...]

10 Dec

Woah, XBox goes Wii

I lost my wireless network access point a few months ago, so my XBox 360 has not been calling home to the “mother ship” for quite a while. I got a new access point almost immediately (it’s my cable router too) but didn’t get around to reconfiguring the wireless access for the game console. I [...]

08 Dec

BCS Bowl Game Announced

I’ll be quite honest, I think the BCS game is okay this year. I believe that Florida is a more complete team than Alabama this year (maybe not next year) and that Oklahoma is the best representative from the Big 12. It’s hard to argue with Oklahoma’s offensive production and it will be interesting to [...]

03 Dec

What Price For Top Speed?

The Corvette has long been the “value leader” for fast cars in the USA. Their primary competition is the Dodge Viper. I paid between $40,000 and $50,000 for my car several years ago and it has been worth every penny. With the upcoming release of the ZR-1 at an expected price point somewhere north of [...]

02 Dec

Big 12 South Fiasco

So of course I am not the only one writing about this. In case you’ve been hiding out somewhere and don’t know, Oklahoma has been picked to go to the Big 12 championship game, leaving Texas to sit on the sidelines. Why? Because they were ranked higher.
One of the biggest flaws in the poll system [...]