rob’s place

Wow. I had the feeling we wouldn’t have much trouble against Louisiana Tech, but I didn’t think we’d win 51-0.

Nice.

06 Clemson Tigers (4-1/2-1)

09-02 v Fla Atlantic : 54-6 (W)
09-09 @ Boston College : 33-34 (L-2OT)
09-16 @ Florida St : 27-20 (W)
09-23 v North Carolina : 52-7 (W)
09-30 v Louisiana Tech : 51-0 (W)

Next up: 10-07 @ Wake Forest

Wake has had our number the last few years…and they are playing great right now.

Season 3 of LOST starts Wednesday. I think I’ve mentioned this site before. If you haven’t checked out Lost…and Gone Forever and you’re a fan of LOST, you must check his blog.

To get ready for Season Three, check out his “pre-view” of the first eppy: “A Tale of Two Cities”.

Sugar Orgy, originally uploaded by Mr. Greenjeans.

Well that stinks. VT lost to GT (the Tech bowl?) 38-27.

06 Virginia Tech Hokies (4-1/2-1)

09-02 v Northeastern : 38-0 (W)
09-09 @ North Carolina : 35-10 (W)
09-16 v Duke : 36-0 (W)
09-23 v Cincinnati : 29-13 (W)
09-30 v Georgia Tech : 27-38 (L)

Next up: 10-12 @ Boston College

I started wondering the other day, “If I had to spell every letter, how would I spell it?”

So I did.

Aye
Bee
See
Dee
Ehe
Eff
Gee
Ayech
Eye
Jay
Kay
El
Em
En
Ohh
Pee
Ku
Arr
Ess
Tee
Yew
Vee
Double-u
Ehks
Wi
Zee (or Zed for you Canadians)

This is where I heard it, originally uploaded by orangejack.

For today’s Foto Friday, I wanted to use one of the photos I took of the grapes in the Okanagan vineyards in British Columbia.

The story we got on this area is that it’s a new area for producing wine and they are very good at it. A few years ago, the Mission Hill Winery entered one of their wines into an international competition and won. The judges thought it was a mistake (Canada doesn’t make wine!) so they threw out the results. But in another blind taste test the next day, the Mission Hill wine won again thus putting the Okanagan region on the wine map.

I couldn’t decide which one of my grape photos I liked the best so I went with this one for today’s foto friday. Which one do you like better?

At least according to Scott Robbin (though I’d swap his top 2).

Thanks, Sheldon.

Another press release from the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games today I found funny. I mean, who’s writing these things? Today they published Mascot Mystery – who will design the 2010 Games Mascot?

The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) passed another major milestone today as it officially launched its search for the designer of the official Olympic and Paralympic Games mascot(s).

Artists from around the world now have the opportunity of a lifetime: to design a mascot(s) that will achieve worldwide fame while also achieving a defining professional accomplishment.

Okay, so launching a search is a major milestone? Okay. I need to start congratulating myself more often. I begin looking for lots of things.

Oh, and as for what the mascot should look like? I thought they already had one. Since the logo is the Inukshuk, I think they should use this guy as the lovable, huggable mascot:

The Skype-ready keyboard. Now if it had ports for a headset/mic combo, I’d get it.

What a strange paragraph from a press release about the Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Vancouver 2010 Stays Focused on Game Plan

Vancouver — The Organizing Committee for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) responded today to the claims of anti-Games activists by re-affirming its commitment to fiscal responsibility and environmental, social and economic sustainability in planning, building and staging the 2010 Games in Vancouver and Whistler.

In other words, “we ain’t gonna hurt the environment by skiing down mountains really fast so relax you anti-gamers”.

Best title for a post I’ve read in a while: Naked man runs through Starbucks, eats pastries, gets shot by rubber bullets. That should say it all.

But don’t you want more?

At 5am this morning, a “drunken naked guy” used a sock full of rocks to shatter the glass on the front door, and stormed inside to eat “all the pastries”. Police responded and found the guy running around the store, resisting arrest. He had feathers in his hair and an American flag [...] The cops had to use rubber bullets and a beanbag shotgun to subdue him.

And how do we know he was still drunk and not hung over? He didn’t want coffee yet. {rim shot}

Now if the naked guy had a cap on and stuck the feathers in that instead of his hair, I wonder if he’d call it macaroni? {long rim shot}

I like the line about how they “found the guy running around the store, resisting arrest.” I can just hear the cops now, “Hey! Naked guy! What are you doing in that Starbucks?” to which he replied, “Why, I’m resisting arrest!”

Whoa, hold up!

Breaking News is coming out that Dallas Cowboys WR Terrell Owens attempted to kill himself last night by overdosing on pain medication.

A Dallas police report released Wednesday morning said Owens told his friend “that he was depressed.” [...] Owens was asked by rescue workers “if he was attempting to harm himself, at which time (he) stated, ‘Yes.”‘

Listen to ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning audiocast this morning.

To be perfectly blunt, I’m not shocked. And I don’t mean that as anything mean or judgemental towards TO. What I mean is that facades can be and are very strong and deceiving.

More on this as it comes…

UPDATE: In a press conference today, TO denies he attempted suicide and that he is not depressed.

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As explained by the MeeVee blog, tonight’s eppy of Lost will be:

Highlights of the series’ first two seasons, told in linear fashion; character backstories; and a look at the island and its mysteries.

There is also a promo embedded on MeeVee that looks great!