Flash - Magnetism (game)

Here is a great game that is kinda like gravity type games, but with magnets. Very addictive. ^_^"

Today was the third week for the Warhammer campaign at Patch and Crows (thus mission 23 from Project: BSE will be completed no matter how it goes from here on). Today Nicole and I played a scenario where we tried to poison a water well. We accomplished our objective quick enough, but when we tried to get off the board we got blasted by magic and we were barely able to pull out a draw in the battle. It was a fun game, and Tomas (sp?) is a fun person to play against.
After playing at Patch and Crows, Nicole and I came home to eat lunch, but our power was out, so we went to Panera. At Panera I tried to get onto the internet there, but to no avail. So after lunch I went over to Chris' to use his spiffy new internet, but there too I could not get on the internet. So my attempts at getting on the wireless internet with my 'new' lappy will stop, it is just too frustrating.
After playing around at Chris' I just came home a played a little bit of the Sims.
It�s been a fun day so far. (In general)

Miracle Finish Puts Crush in ArenaBowl

OurSports Central (article)

Andy McCullough's leaping, 22-yard touchdown grab in double coverage 9:44 into overtime sent the Colorado Crush to ArenaBowl XIX via a 49-43 win over the Chicago Rush and capped one of the wildest, emotional games in Arena Football League history.

I'm glad Colorado made it to the ArenaBowl, it gives me a team to go for in the game. Who is gonna watch the championship game down at BW3 with me? (It's worth BSE points.)

Yesterday we headed south of town to watch the storms roll in. Nicole has a pretty good account of the whole thing. Other than that I really didn�t do too much yesterday, I guess I ended up eating a lot.
The only thing that I know I am going to do today is to go play in the campaign down at Patch and Crow�s. I think I want to start working on something, I�m not sure what, but we will see when I get home around 5 this evening.

This guy is incredible!

Eric Grohe (site)

This guy paints on buildings and makes them go from this:


To this:


Check out the site, there are pictures of more buildings that this guy has done. Very cool.

A BLT and a Route 44 drink (Limeade Slush) from Sonic.

Summer rocks.

Eleven Teams To Compete in 2006 NLL Season

NLL.com (article)

Even though now is the time that the NLL should be making strides in popularity they have announced that they will only be up one more team for next year.

The National Lacrosse League has announced the league will consist of eleven teams for the 2006 season. The eleven-team league will include expansion teams in Edmonton, Alberta and Portland, Oregon. The Anaheim Storm lacrosse club has suspended operations, and will not play during the 2006 season. Applications for expansion teams in the New York and New England markets will remain under consideration as expansion candidates for the 2007 season.

I would think that they would like to stick around at least one more year to see if they can capitalize on the follies of the NHL, so there must be some real fanatical trouble at Anaheim.

I donno, maybe soccer will be the fourth sport...

Pirate Islands Fantasy Football

Pirate Islands Fantasy Football (blog)

I have set up a blog for PIFF, mainly for the draft, but I will try to keep updating it throughout the season as well. I have sent out an email about starting the draft to everybody who is in the league, so if you didn't get it you should give me an email addy that you want me to send it to (or if you would rather me send emails to you at a different addy give me that as well). I am looking forward to this year’s league, and I have my eyes set firmly on the little championship trophy, this year it is mine.

Aggieville business owners oppose cell tower

The Manhattan Mercury (article)

Aggieville property and business owners say they've spent good money building up their properties, and they can't believe that anyone is even considering putting a 120-foot-tall cell phone tower behind Gambino's Pizza. From their standpoint, the bottom line is that the thing is ugly.

I agree with the business owners that putting a cell tower down in Aggieville is a bad idea. And I also agree with them that it would just make the traffic situation worse. I don't really know what a good solution would be (since there are some gaps in cell phone coverage), but a tower in Aggieville is not acceptable.

Capture Videos

BaitCar.com (site)

The Canadian police have set up a website showing the footage of people stealing bait cars. It looks like the program is pretty effective since a lot of the people stealing the cars know what bait cars are. The videos are pretty good, and some of the cops have pretty heavy accents, so they are fun videos to watch.

"People do stupid things" Commercials.

Vonage (site)

Just incase you wanted them, here are all the Vonage commercials. If you haven’t seen them, they are clips of people doing stupid things, funny^max.

Enough already with kid gloves

USATODAY.com (article)

It seems that many adults today regard the children in their care as fragile hothouse flowers who require protection from even the remote possibility of frustration, disappointment or failure. The new solicitude goes far beyond blacklisting red pens. Many schools now discourage or prohibit competitive games such as tag or dodge ball. The rationale: too many hurt feelings. In May 2002, for example, the principal of Franklin Elementary School in Santa Monica, Calif., sent a newsletter to parents informing them that children could no longer play tag during the lunch recess. As she explained, "In this game, there is a 'victim' or 'It,' which creates a self-esteem issue."

and

Anthony Pellegrini, a professor of early childhood education at the University of Minnesota, has done careful studies on playground dynamics. I asked him what he thought of the national movement against games such as tag and dodge ball: "It is ridiculous. Even squirrels play chase."

This is a bit of a follow up to the red pen story that was discussed a bit back. Really, kids need to learn how to cope with failure, be it doing bad on school work, or getting hit in dodgeball. If we never let our kids fail then when they do in real life they will not have developed the proper response to it. It is stupid to not allow children to play competitive games. In Nicole's class when a competitive game was played the kids preformed better than when they were just learning the material for themselves. I think that a kid that is sheltered from competition will be woefully unprepared for life.

I mean I am still disappointed that the little league never kept track of win and losses in Garden when I played. (While playing soccer in Arizona we had a playoff system and even an All-Star game. I was 7 at the time and loved striving for a goal.)

Giuliani to create new hockey league?

ESPN.com (article)

The Toronto Star reported Wednesday that former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and leading Canadian diplomat Maurice Strong may join forces to create a new hockey league if the NHL continues its lockout, which wiped out the entire 2004-05 season.
According to a 71-page business plan reviewed by the newspaper and circulated to prospective Wall Street investors, the new league -- tentatively called the International Hockey Association -- would rely on Giuliani's New York consulting company to help raise as much as $5 billion in seed money.

This got a short mention on ESPN today and is quite interesting. I hope there is some hockey played next year, be it NHL, IHA, or WHA. By the way the WHA is not updating their site, which probably means it is dead.

This is my desktop from May. Just incase you were wondering what I have been looking at for the last month. And I know all you have been wondering that...

The only thing of note that I have done today is play disc golf on campus. No really, that is what we are doing here. Actually we are tiring to get Chris' disc out of the very very spiky bushes that they have on campus. It kinda sucked, but I bet it sucked even more for Chris. ^_^

Project BSE points over the last couple days:
Saw Star Wars Ep. III again: +150
Visited a friend more that 50 miles away: +500
Eat at Runza: +50
Eat at Qdoba: +50
Eat at Free State: +100
BSE point total so far: 3450