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In the back of the UT locker room, 4 guys sit at a table with Cheetohs and most are drinking water. One is drinking Sunny D.

Vondrell McGee: “Ok, one more game, then I really want to go lift.”

Colt McCoy: “Wussy. You’re just mad because I have a better understanding of the game than you.”

Foswhitt Whittaker: “Dude, we’re playing –”

McCoy: “I’m the STARTING QUARTERBACK of TEXAS. I’m practically Heisman gold, so don’t feel bad. There’s a lot of work that goes into all of this.”

Chris Ogbonnaya: “We know, Colt. We know.”

McCoy: “Look, you guys shouldn’t even pretend that you’re letting me … Continue Reading

Note that craziness doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll be permanently changing the way titles are capitalized. I just thought it was appropriate in this case to capitalize every word.

So with that said, I think I’m going to be focusing more on troll-ish (though not hateful) posts. Satire, humor, etc a little more, and a little less ranting. Mostly because it’s a lot more fun to write, and I need practice because I’m not funny*.

So good luck with that. We’ll see what comes out of here. I’d also like to introduce at least once a week a tech post, because, you know, … Continue Reading

So a few folks I follow got an urge to write 100-random-things blog posts. More specifically, @stinkle and @vanweezy. While entertaining, thinking about 100 things to write about me would be painful. Instead, I’m offering lucky readers 9 absolute truths.

Questioning these is along the same lines of questioning the sum of 2 and 2, in base 10 (technically the base shouldn’t make a difference, but just to make sure everybody’s talking about the same thing, I thought I’d throw that in.) Without further adieu, here are 9 absolute truths that you can bet your car or … Continue Reading

I decided to re-style the blog real quick, because the dark background had been causing lots of problems. It was also fixed-width, which was annoying when pasting big chunks of code.

Anyways, it’s prettier now. Even though Sara says “it looks like a 5th grader did it.”

So, while every week I want to see Crabtree and company pwn their opponents, there’s usually some other games that I’m excited about watching. To be honest, I’m just stoked that football is going to be back on TV and I don’t have to settle for basketball (ugh) or stories about Farve.

That said, here’s the games I’m excited about in week 1:

USC @ UVA - This one will be good for a few reasons. We’ll get to see if UVA can get anywhere near its last season form (where it choked against Tech in the Gator Bowl) without Chris Long. … Continue Reading

I generally set one of these up every year.

I used to run my own pickem site, but it turns out choosing the games and making sure everything is screen scraped off Yahoo got a little tedious, so now I just use Yahoo’s.

If you’re interested, shoot me an email or leave a comment and I’ll see that you’re invited.

Wreck ‘em Tech!

The line of reasoning and questioning goes something like this:

Moore’s law doesn’t show any sign of failing, causing computer power to double every 18 months.
This is exponential growth.
With that in mind, it’s entirely feasible that within the next few decades we have machines that think.
Thinking could lead to emotions.
If a robot thinks and has emotions, what happens when you pull the plug?

It’s a question that people can dismiss pretty easily right now, but what separates us from machines right now? The will to live? An ability to reproduce? Thinking? Emotions?

What if we made a robot that could do all of … Continue Reading

There’s examples all over the place of isolationism running rampant. From Lou Dobbs whining about illegal immigrants taking jobs to fellow parents talking about homeschooling their kids to religious people getting visibly annoyed when they’re questioned. While the actors in those examples are different, the central tenet is the same: new ideas are scary.

This is a terrible approach, and in my experience leads to slower development. America seemed to develop quickly (relatively) among other countries in the world. This can be attributed to a few things, each of which helps ideas mature and develop faster, like the first amendment and … Continue Reading

Probably. At least that’s the early line.

She’s pregnant, and married to me, and usually thinks coherently, so go check it out.

It was interesting reading a book where the character being discussed on almost every page is a douchebag. The author tries to shine him in a happy, helpful, good character light, but every time I read something that Chris McCandless (the guy who starved to death, probably from mold poisoning, in Alaska) himself wrote, I’d find myself reeling in disgust.

The guy’s got a sense of self righteousness derived from his abstinence in all things we pride in regular society. Family, career, money, relationships, he avoids or lashes at all of them. In doing so he thinks that he’s exploring his … Continue Reading