Sunday, January 08, 2006
7.30 Left in the 1st QTR of the 2006 Red vs. Black Game
Black is up 3 to -1. I'll have full stats posted tomorrow after the games.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Virginia Tech Kicks Marcus Vick Off Team
Forbes.com (article)
After the NFL witnessed how one player can destroy a whole team (Terrell Owens) by acting like a child. Marcus Vick may be a low round, poorly paid, "high risk" player.
I DO think it's a big deal, baby.
Marcus Vick, the younger brother of Atlanta Falcons star quarterback Michael Vick, was dismissed from the Hokies on Friday following a series of legal transgressions - including two traffic violations Dec. 17 that were revealed Friday - and his vicious stomp on an opponent's leg during the Gator Bowl.
"It's not a big deal," Vick told the newspaper. "I'll just move on to the next level, baby."
After the NFL witnessed how one player can destroy a whole team (Terrell Owens) by acting like a child. Marcus Vick may be a low round, poorly paid, "high risk" player.
I DO think it's a big deal, baby.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
2005 Freestyle Formal Dance Competition
Here are some clips from the 2005 Freestyle Formal Dance competition held in Garden City, Kansas.
First we have Chris:
He started off strong with a Kicking Squirrel, and then moved to the Boxing Nun, but his lack of conditioning showed and he ended off the routine weakly.
Overall score: 7.75
Next was my performance:
I started off with a Power Mill which I rolled into a Red Signal Call and then quickly into a Half-Moth (Memphis Style), then I improved a little and threw in a Flashing K (to the left), then on to my normal power move of the Box Shove, after that on to my crowd pleasing Flapping Amy (During which I said "crap" a 0.50 point deduction), you can see that the penalty phased me as I started with a Robot Monkey, but I stopped mid-stride and changed it to a Green Wave, and I concluded with a Superman. I lost intensity during the Green Wave which hurt me, but in the end I think I performed quite well.
Overall Score: 8.00 - 0.50(penalty) = 7.50
Next was Jenette:
Jenette traditionally goes with her Belly Dancing background and steals the show with a Reverse Pepper Grinder to start off her routines, but she surprised everyone and started off with an Angry Ape, a hard move to follow up. But showing her brilliant dancing style she moved directly into an Angry Monkey. Finally she kept the quality of her routine up with the technically difficult Turnip Picker.
Overall Score: 8.00
Next up was Nicole:
Nicole is always a crowd favorite and is regarded as the best "East Coast" Style Formal Dancer. She stared out with a New York Shimmy, which she rolled quickly into a Mexican Two-Step, she then went directly into a Canadian Two-Step and then obviously to the American Two-Step, to finish off the "North American Two-Step" a dance combo which she pioneered. She displayed a brilliant amount of Freestyle Formal Dance knowledge with the performance and the judges rewarded her for it.
Overall Score: 8.50
After Nicole was Newgen the reigning champion of Freestyle Formal Dance:
He displayed why he was the champion, starting off with a Double Bake and then a Dog Leg, and then a Robertson Slide and then another Dog Leg. Then, as to taunt the other Dancers, he goes with a Double Bake again and *ANOTHER* Dog Leg, amazing, he truly is a master of the Freestyle Formal Dance. He then finished off his dance with a Left Throwdown, which as you can hear, impressed the crowd.
Overall Score: 9.25
But not to be outdone, the new Dancer from the North, known as Pickle, went last:
He started in jaw-dropping fashion with a Minnesota Shimmy, then a Joker Wave, and then another Minnesota Shimmy, then to an Orange Toe Grab, then a Golden Reach and a Hole Sweep. But what would happen next would go down in Freestyle Formal Dance history; he does a Half Kansas Free Fall into a Minnesota Shimmy! Brilliant! I will always remember where I was when I saw that. This brought the crowd to their feet, and left no doubts in the judges mind's who was the 2005 Freestyle Formal Dance Champion; "Minnesota Shimmy" Pickle.
Overall Score: 9.75
First we have Chris:
He started off strong with a Kicking Squirrel, and then moved to the Boxing Nun, but his lack of conditioning showed and he ended off the routine weakly.
Overall score: 7.75
Next was my performance:
I started off with a Power Mill which I rolled into a Red Signal Call and then quickly into a Half-Moth (Memphis Style), then I improved a little and threw in a Flashing K (to the left), then on to my normal power move of the Box Shove, after that on to my crowd pleasing Flapping Amy (During which I said "crap" a 0.50 point deduction), you can see that the penalty phased me as I started with a Robot Monkey, but I stopped mid-stride and changed it to a Green Wave, and I concluded with a Superman. I lost intensity during the Green Wave which hurt me, but in the end I think I performed quite well.
Overall Score: 8.00 - 0.50(penalty) = 7.50
Next was Jenette:
Jenette traditionally goes with her Belly Dancing background and steals the show with a Reverse Pepper Grinder to start off her routines, but she surprised everyone and started off with an Angry Ape, a hard move to follow up. But showing her brilliant dancing style she moved directly into an Angry Monkey. Finally she kept the quality of her routine up with the technically difficult Turnip Picker.
Overall Score: 8.00
Next up was Nicole:
Nicole is always a crowd favorite and is regarded as the best "East Coast" Style Formal Dancer. She stared out with a New York Shimmy, which she rolled quickly into a Mexican Two-Step, she then went directly into a Canadian Two-Step and then obviously to the American Two-Step, to finish off the "North American Two-Step" a dance combo which she pioneered. She displayed a brilliant amount of Freestyle Formal Dance knowledge with the performance and the judges rewarded her for it.
Overall Score: 8.50
After Nicole was Newgen the reigning champion of Freestyle Formal Dance:
He displayed why he was the champion, starting off with a Double Bake and then a Dog Leg, and then a Robertson Slide and then another Dog Leg. Then, as to taunt the other Dancers, he goes with a Double Bake again and *ANOTHER* Dog Leg, amazing, he truly is a master of the Freestyle Formal Dance. He then finished off his dance with a Left Throwdown, which as you can hear, impressed the crowd.
Overall Score: 9.25
But not to be outdone, the new Dancer from the North, known as Pickle, went last:
He started in jaw-dropping fashion with a Minnesota Shimmy, then a Joker Wave, and then another Minnesota Shimmy, then to an Orange Toe Grab, then a Golden Reach and a Hole Sweep. But what would happen next would go down in Freestyle Formal Dance history; he does a Half Kansas Free Fall into a Minnesota Shimmy! Brilliant! I will always remember where I was when I saw that. This brought the crowd to their feet, and left no doubts in the judges mind's who was the 2005 Freestyle Formal Dance Champion; "Minnesota Shimmy" Pickle.
Overall Score: 9.75
Christmas 06
My Christmas in Garden summarized in one picture.
(I had a good time seeing family and friends, at it was nice being able to have some free time to just do whatever, despite having dial-up internet.)
Scientomogy (Scientology) Low Down
First for an introduction to Scientology you should watch this South Park. While you do keep in mind that everything they say in it is almost exactly true (besides the level advancing off of just reading the E-meter, I think there are a whole bunch of other tests they do as well).
Scared yet? Well you should be, or maybe relived since it seems that most people find this stuff to be a little to Sci-Fi for their tastes in religion.
Next watch, Special Assignment report on Scientology:
My favorite quotes are:
"... a cult implies secrecy right? Were open from 10 in the morning to 9.30 at night... it's not very secret."
Oh zing! Also McDonald's "Secret Sauce" isn't secret because they are open from 8 am to 11 pm.
"The Dunnings willingly gave up their retirement fund ...and signed up their daughter for a billion year contract."
I can't help but laughing at that. *A Billion* year contract. What kind of retirement plan comes with that?
It's like the Daily Show, but I think it was trying to be a serious report.
O'Reilly presents a pretty even case here:
I don't think that anyone will say that some of the programs that they put on are good, such as Narconon, but there is way more to the religion than these beneficial programs.
To get more information about Scientology you can visit these web sites:
Pro-Scientology: The Chruch of Scientology's Website
Pro-Sanity: Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets Of Scientology
Scared yet? Well you should be, or maybe relived since it seems that most people find this stuff to be a little to Sci-Fi for their tastes in religion.
Next watch, Special Assignment report on Scientology:
My favorite quotes are:
"... a cult implies secrecy right? Were open from 10 in the morning to 9.30 at night... it's not very secret."
Oh zing! Also McDonald's "Secret Sauce" isn't secret because they are open from 8 am to 11 pm.
"The Dunnings willingly gave up their retirement fund ...and signed up their daughter for a billion year contract."
I can't help but laughing at that. *A Billion* year contract. What kind of retirement plan comes with that?
It's like the Daily Show, but I think it was trying to be a serious report.
O'Reilly presents a pretty even case here:
I don't think that anyone will say that some of the programs that they put on are good, such as Narconon, but there is way more to the religion than these beneficial programs.
To get more information about Scientology you can visit these web sites:
Pro-Scientology: The Chruch of Scientology's Website
Pro-Sanity: Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets Of Scientology
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Paving the way for Best Buy
The Manhattan Mercury (article)
I heard on the news that they plan to have the Best Buy open by the fall of 2006.
Rock on!
City commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance rezoning 6 acres of the former Steel and Pipe warehouse site on 3rd Street so that Best Buy can be built. Along with it, developers plan three more buildings that can each house up to four tenants and possibly a drive-through restaurant or bank.
I heard on the news that they plan to have the Best Buy open by the fall of 2006.
Rock on!
Texas Wins National Title!
That was the most I have ever gone for, and probably ever will go for, Texas.
2006 Red vs. Black Game
Even though the 2005 PIFF season is over, there is no reason to forget about fantasy football during the playoffs.
I present the first ever 'Red vs. Black Game'. I somewhat randomly divided the PIFF teams into two divisions. The Black division is teams that are currently located in the Central Pirate Islands Region (Eastern Kansas), the Red division is the rest of the teams. So division alignments go like this:
Red Division:
Harbor Coast Red Burns
Pirataly Vampirates
Scotslandi Kilters
Svinksland Pillagers
Tsukestan Picklers
Black Division:
Ambersandia &'s
Futontopia Eldars
Kreplachistan Rebels
Snotvia Snotknockers
Tea Republic Steepers
The way the Red vs. Black game will work is as follows:
Each round of the playoffs corresponds to one quarter in the game. For each playoff round the best players from each division during the 2005 season will be the roster for the quarter. Only players that are playing in that round of the playoffs will be fielded for the fantasy game. After each round of playoffs the teams will be changed to keep the best active players playing in the fantasy game. The division with the highest total score after the four quarters is the winner.
Other rules:
It is possible that a division will not be able to field a player for a position, that position will be left empty.
If one division can not field a DEF, then the other division does not need to field one.
The "Coach" spot is just ornamental, and just is a reflection of who has the most players in the game at that time, the Coach does not need change the line-up from week to week, or at all, since the lineup is pre-determined.
So without further delay here are the lineups for the 1st quarter of the Red vs. Black game.
Red Team (1st Qtr.):
Pos Player Pts NFL Team
QB E. Manning - NYG Picklers
RB T. Barber - NYG Red Burns
WR1 H. Ward - Pit Vampirates
WR2 P. Burress - NYG Red Burns
WR3 A. Randle El - Pit Pillagers
TE C. Cooley - Was Vampirates
K J. Feely - NYG Kilters
DEF Carolina - Car Red Burns
DB R. Mathis - Jax Red Burns
DL1 S. Rice - TB Pillagers
DL2 M. Strahan - NYG Vampirates
Coach Lance Red Burns
Black Team (1st Qtr.):
Pos Player Pts NFL Team
QB C. Palmer - Cin Rebels
RB C. Dillon - NE Eldars
WR1 S. Smith - Car Snotknockers
WR2 C. Johnson - Cin &'s
WR3 J. Galloway - TB Snotknockers
TE J. Shockey - NYG Snotknockers
K J. Kasay - Car &'s
DEF Washington - Was &'s
DB T. Polamalu - Pit Rebels
DL1 O. Umenyiora - NYG Steepers
DL2 J. Peppers - Car &'s
Coach Amber &'s
I'll keep you updated on the scores as they come in this weekend.
Surprise secret to soccer appeal
BBC NEWS (article)
This just in: The sport of coin flipping is just declared the most exciting sport in the world. Scientists say it is because even underdogs in the sport can win 50% of the time.
What happens when scientists want to prove something? They make up ways to measure excitement, where how random a game winner is, is the scale.
How very, very stupid. (I hope these guys weren't statisticians...)
American football, basketball and baseball have millions of followers, but they can't match soccer for sheer excitement, says a team of scientists.
The team decided to make unpredictability - how often a leading team is overcome by an opponent with a worse record - the best measure of how exciting a league is.
This just in: The sport of coin flipping is just declared the most exciting sport in the world. Scientists say it is because even underdogs in the sport can win 50% of the time.
What happens when scientists want to prove something? They make up ways to measure excitement, where how random a game winner is, is the scale.
How very, very stupid. (I hope these guys weren't statisticians...)
Swoop to Nuts
Swoop-to-Nuts by Fusionary Media (game)
Swoop to Nuts is a game where you guide a flying squirrel through the air to gather nuts and stars. It is a somewhat addictive game, where I kept on saying: "Well let me try this, and this I'll post about it."
It took me awhile to get used to the controls. They are basically: move the mouse left to slow down/ go up, move you mouse right to speed up/go down, and get acorns to stay aloft.
If you need some work-ignoring fun, this is a good option.
Sony Bravia Ad (The Bouncy Ball Ad)
250,000 bouncy balls + 1 good song = 1 very cool ad.
(Yes, I know this is very old, but as the Sweetish Swedish saying goes; "Better late than never".)
"Hey, let's go watch the Orange Bowl at BW3's!"
I said in my innocence, unaware of the futility the teams would display on the field. Unaware of the futility of trying to get home at a reasonable time it would be. Unaware of the futility that filed goal kicking really is.
"Hey, it sounds like something fun to do, right?"
Not right, it was not even close to right. Close to right would be a score, three points, game over, you can go home. Far off from right would be wide left, field goal no good, sit, stay, cheer, sneer; "Sorry, let's try to get a win next hour."
"It'll be an enjoyable evening of light football fun." I say. Fun, like watching a bunch of inept people trying to write a paper.
"And done." They would say after making the title, forgetting that they would actually have to write the paper to be done. Then they would write the paper for 5 long hours, but not only that, just before anyone could say "done" the paper would be erased, three times, because they pressed "Ctrl-A" then Delete. They would have all of the control in the world, and then delete all that progress with one fell swoop, or should I say kick. "We'll get 'em next time!" they would say. As they sit down to attempt to finish the paper again, trying a new way of hitting delete, just before the paper is complete
"Hey, let's go watch the Orange Bowl at BW3's!" I say in my innocence. Unaware of what was ahead for me.
"Hey, it sounds like something fun to do, right?"
Not right, it was not even close to right. Close to right would be a score, three points, game over, you can go home. Far off from right would be wide left, field goal no good, sit, stay, cheer, sneer; "Sorry, let's try to get a win next hour."
"It'll be an enjoyable evening of light football fun." I say. Fun, like watching a bunch of inept people trying to write a paper.
"And done." They would say after making the title, forgetting that they would actually have to write the paper to be done. Then they would write the paper for 5 long hours, but not only that, just before anyone could say "done" the paper would be erased, three times, because they pressed "Ctrl-A" then Delete. They would have all of the control in the world, and then delete all that progress with one fell swoop, or should I say kick. "We'll get 'em next time!" they would say. As they sit down to attempt to finish the paper again, trying a new way of hitting delete, just before the paper is complete
"Hey, let's go watch the Orange Bowl at BW3's!" I say in my innocence. Unaware of what was ahead for me.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Ambersandia &'s Win 2005 PIFF Championship
The Ambersandia &'s (Amber) were able to knock off the defending Champion Kreplachistan Rebels (Aaron) to become the new PIFF Champions. Good job Amber.
I have made a couple of T-shirts on CafePress to mark the occasion. I will buy Amber and my self one. If anybody else wants anything off of CafePress let me know by mid week and I'll order all the stuff together.
The PIFF CafePress Store.
PIFF 2005 All-Stars
Here are the All-Star teams for the 2005 Pirate Island Fantasy Football season.
First Team:
Second Team:
Worst Team:
The First and Second teams are based off the scores of the best player a team has in that position. The Worst team is still the best player a team has in that position, but the worst at it in the league. The Coaches we picked by the number of players they had on the first and second teams, and not on the worst team (with some weighting added in).
2004 All-Stars
First Team:
Pos Player Pts Team
QB C. Palmer 164 Rebels
RB S. Alexander 280 &'s
WR1 S. Smith 90 Snotknockers
WR2 D. Hall 72 Pillagers
WR3 L. Fitzgerald71 Rebels
TE A. Gates 59 Kilters
K N. Rackers 113 Picklers
DEF Chicago -42 Rebels
DB T. McGee 58 &'s
DL1 Ja. Taylor 38 Red Burns
DL2 D. Burgess 37 &'s
Coach Amber &'s
Second Team:
Pos Player Pts Team
QB P. Manning 149 Steepers
RB L. Johnson 224 Picklers
WR1 M. Harrison 68 Snotknockers
WR2 J. Galloway 66 Snotknockers
WR3 C. Johnson 67 &'s
TE J. Shockey 45 Snotknockers
K J. Feely 74 Kilters
DEF Carolina -77 Red Burns
DB C. Carr 49 Steepers
DL1 S. Rice 35 Pillagers
DL2 O. Umenyiora 35 Steepers
Coach Aaron Rebels
Worst Team:
Pos Player Pts Team
QB D. Bledsoe 73 Red Burns
RB R. Droughns 92 Vampirates
WR1 I. Bruce 24 Eldars
WR2 M. Muhammad 29 Red Burns
WR3 W. Pounder 30 Kilters
TE B. Franks 7 Eldars
K P. Edinger 36 Red Burns
DEF Cincinnati -216 &'s
DB R. Mathis 13 Red Burns
DL1 Do. Edwards 10 Eldars
DL2 W. McGinest 13 Eldars
Coach Newgen Eldars
The First and Second teams are based off the scores of the best player a team has in that position. The Worst team is still the best player a team has in that position, but the worst at it in the league. The Coaches we picked by the number of players they had on the first and second teams, and not on the worst team (with some weighting added in).
2004 All-Stars
PIFF Week 17 All-Stars
Pos Player Pts Team
QB K. Collins 17 &'s
RB L. Johnson 28 Picklers
WR1 R. Moss 9 &'s
WR2 S. Smith 7 Snotknockers
WR3 J. Galloway 7 Snotknockers
TE J. Witten 4 Steepers
K J. Feely 9 Kilters
DEF Indianapolis -2 Kilters
DB C. Carr 5 Steepers
DL1 O. Umenyion..5 Steepers
DL2 S. Rice 4 Pillagers
Coach Pickle 89% Picklers
Total All-Stars so far:
&'s 26
Steepers 26
Snotknockers 23
Rebels 20
Pillagers 21
Picklers 21
Kilters 19
RedBurns 18
Vampirates 18
Eldars 11
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)